Overview
- Newly released Justice Department emails show Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly sought meetings with Dumas in 2013 and 2014, including a directive to “Track down Axel Dumas in hermes headquarters paris.”
- Dumas told reporters he refused multiple meeting requests, describing Epstein as a “financial predator” who targeted him when he was a young CEO.
- The files and receipts show Epstein also asked Hermès to design the interior of his private jet, a request the company declined.
- Dumas said he encountered Epstein only once, in March 2013 at a Hermès workshop visit where Epstein was not on the guest list and joined a group that included Woody Allen.
- Dumas added that Hermès had already rebuffed a 2012 inquiry to decorate Epstein’s jet, and no new materials allege wrongdoing by Hermès or its leadership.