Overview
- The School of Visual Arts said it accepted Ross’s resignation effective immediately after his correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein became public.
- The Justice Department’s January 30 release added roughly three million pages, including a 2015 email in which Ross wrote he was “still proud to call you a friend.”
- Emails from 2009 show Epstein proposing an exhibition titled “Statutory” about images of minors, to which Ross replied that it would be a powerful and “freaky” project.
- Records indicate Ross communicated with Epstein during and after his 2008 conviction, with ties tracing to the 1990s, including a flight log naming Ross.
- Students and alumni had urged SVA to sever ties, and Ross later told ARTnews he once believed Epstein’s claims and now says he is ashamed he “fell for his lies.”