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When she reached out to Jeffrey Epstein in 2013, Dite\u0300 Anata knew the Manhattan wealth manager could easily help a Juilliard student cover her housing costs. Anata, an international model with a top agency, also apparently knew Epstein well enough to implore him to avoid any less-than-professional dealings.
She told Epstein she had mentioned to the student\u2019s \u201cmum\u201d how generous Epstein was with artists and how he played the piano.
\u201cI skipped all my experiences that shocked me so please,” she wrote on Aug. 20, 2013, “be nice and behave your best \ud83d\ude42 If you feel like you can’t be official I would rather you not help her.\u201d
Anata did not know the student at the prestigious performing arts college in New York City, but she told USA TODAY she knew Epstein was a philanthropist who supported \u201ctalented individuals and artists.\u201d
She also knew Epstein had been incarcerated for a criminal act involving a minor. He was sentenced to 18 months in custody after pleading guilty to solicitation of prostitution and hiring minors to engage in prostitution. But Anata explained to USA TODAY that Epstein told her the investigation was \u201cpolitically motivated and set up by his adversaries.\u201d
That same day, a person whose name is redacted wrote to Epstein that a family friend had come through with New York accommodations and she would not need to contact “Juilliard’s Residence Hall.” The email does not explicitly link the housing solution to the Juilliard student, but it references a conversation with someone named Dite\u0300.
\u201cIt is wonderful to know, that there are still such kind and generous people in the world like you, who value and support Arts and Science\u201d the Aug. 20, 2013, email read. \u201cI was delighted to hear from Dite, that you yourself love playing the piano!\u201d
Epstein kept the correspondence going,<\/strong> inviting his correspondent to dinner with a famous movie director and a prominent composer. The email correspondent replied that it would be a \u201cgreat honor for me to participate.\u201d
USA TODAY reached out to the former student discussed in Anata and Epstein’s email exchange, whose name surfaced in the final batch of court documents released by the Justice Department in January.
The former student’s attorney, Brittany Henderson, declined to answer questions about the housing situation but said her client \u201cendured substantial abuse at the hands of Epstein.\u201d Henderson requested anonymity for the former student, which USA TODAY granted, as it does not identify people who report sexual abuse.
Anata told USA TODAY she did not have any information about what transpired after she had asked Epstein for help. Juilliard said it did not receive payment from Epstein, and the student never lived in campus housing.
Among the millions of pages from the Epstein files the Justice Department released after a mandate from Congress<\/a>, the email exchange between Anata, Epstein and the Juilliard student illustrates how the now-globally notorious sex offender served as an opportunity broker for powerful people. Emails show he arranged to help the relatives of celebrities like Woody Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, or politicians like Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to the United States. They also came from lower-profile people hoping to change their circumstances.
In exchange, the people asking favors told Epstein they felt they owed him and promised to reward him in various ways for his largesse.In the messages reviewed by USA TODAY, none of the people who appear to be currying favor with Epstein are connected to allegations of Epstein’s illegal acts, including sexual misconduct, and they have not been accused of any wrongdoing.
A USA TODAY review of hundreds of files shows Epstein or entities tied to him paid at least $840,000 to cover students\u2019 costs at 28 different schools.
Jamie Raskin, a constitutional law scholar and Democratic Maryland congressman, has been pushing the administration for more transparency about Epstein\u2019s ties to America\u2019s elite universities. In January, he requested documents be released showing how Epstein and potential coconspirators arranged for women to attend Columbia and New York University and paid their tuition after they were accepted.
\u201cBy doing so, Mr. Epstein not only lured young women who he and his co-conspirators would come to sexually abuse and rape, he also ensured his victims were indebted to him and less likely to come forward to report crimes to law enforcement,\u201d Raskin wrote in a letter<\/a> to NYU President Linda G. Mills.
The trove of documents released in January revealed Epstein\u2019s largesse extended beyond these New York colleges. A USA TODAY review of hundreds of files shows Epstein or entities tied to him paid at least $840,000 to cover students\u2019 costs at 28 different schools, according to a Deutsche Bank document in the Justice Department files. In addition,<\/strong> USA TODAY found Epstein arranged for tuition payments for dozens of people at other schools across the country, including large public universities, for-profit art colleges and elite private universities.
Sometimes Epstein covered school costs for his staffers or the children of his friends. In other cases, the Deutsche Bank report described the recipients as \u201cRussian\u201d or \u201cSwedish\u201d models. Their names were redacted. The newly released files also show that additional payments, beyond those shared by Deutsche Bank in September 2019, were made a few months after Epstein died in federal custody<\/a>.
Epstein, for example, arranged to pay 10,000 pounds for Reinaldo Avila da Silva, the husband of British politician Peter Mandelson, to attend an osteopathic program.
\u201cIt feels so right to be doing this,\u201d da Silva wrote Epstein after he had begun his studies, in an email message on Sept. 28, 2009. \u201cIt has increased my understanding of the body in every aspect already.\u201d
The Health Sciences University, which houses the Uco School of Osteopathy, the former British School of Osteopathy, told USA TODAY the institution did not receive money directly, \u201cfrom Epstein, his businesses, or any of his known business associates.\u201d
The General Osteopathic Council, a regulatory body in Britain, issued a news release Feb. 2<\/a> saying it was “aware of media reports that the husband of Peter Mandelson, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, was in receipt of funds from Jeffrey Epstein to fund an osteopathy course in the UK in 2009.\u201d
The organization went on to say that da Silva did not graduate and was ineligible to practice osteopathy in the United Kingdom. Mandelson was fired from his role as the British ambassador to the United States in 2025 after his ties to Epstein became apparent.
Mandelson\u2019s attorney did not respond to a request for comment.
Epstein made similar overtures to Hollywood titans.
In 2018, he wowed Caroline Lang, then a Warner Bros. executive based in France, when he appeared to promise he would cover tuition for a person with the same name as her daughter.
Epstein writes: “to confirm her tuition is my treat.”
\u201cWaouh!!! I am spoiled!!!!! Great!!!!\u201d Lang wrote back.
It\u2019s unclear based on the emails whether Epstein paid the tuition. USA TODAY attempted to contact Lang but did not receive a response.
Epstein wielded not only his checkbook in service of his charges but also his Rolodex.
In 2016, Epstein personally appealed to the president of Bard College, Leon Botstein, to help secure admission for Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn’s daughter.
David Wade, a spokesperson for Botstein, provided a statement saying, \u201cJeffrey Epstein was a serial liar who apparently took credit for the sun rising each day.\u201d
The statement went on to say Allen and Previn\u2019s daughter was \u201caccepted on the merits of her own qualifications for admission.\u201d
As for the university president\u2019s connection to Epstein, Wade said Botstein \u201cregrets enormously pursuing this fundraising connection,\u201d but \u201cseeking more philanthropy was the only reason that their paths crossed.\u201d
Botstein has since faced calls to resign<\/a>, according to Mid Hudson News.
Allen\u2019s manager did not respond to USA TODAY\u2019s request for comment.
Epstein was also known to broker openings for academics and their children. For example, Joscha Bach, a former MIT professor who now works as an AI researcher, asked Epstein repeatedly to finance his children\u2019s private education at schools including Alef-Bet Child Care Inc., a “play-based day care\u201d in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the German International School Boston, \u201ca bilingual independent school serving students from preschool \u2013 grade 12.\u201d The newly released emails show Bach received at least $48,000 to cover education expenses.
Bach told USA TODAY scientists he knew had introduced him to Epstein. He said that he was aware of Epstein\u2019s past convictions, but fellow academics told him the financier had changed.
When he accepted Epstein\u2019s help, Bach was studying artificial generative intelligence, a topic for which he told USA TODAY he struggled to find research funding. He was \u201cconfronted with the choice of accepting Epstein’s offer to fund the stay of me and my family in the U.S., or to leave academic research behind.\u201d
\u201cI decided to take his offer; I would not have been able to support the move, cost of living, day care or cost of the German school from my postdoctoral salary,\u201d Bach told USA TODAY.
He added that Epstein \u201cnever expected anything in return\u201d other than access to the “minds of individuals he found interesting.\u201d He said he had never observed Epstein commit illegal activity or sexual crimes. Bach said Epstein\u2019s second arrest \u201ccame as a shock.\u201d
Had he been aware of that activity, Bach said, “I would have ceased all interactions.\u201d
The Deutsche Bank document in the Epstein files provides a concise accounting of the range of schools at which Epstein covered tuition.
They include many payments for Epstein\u2019s staff members\u2019 relatives: roughly $19,900 for one employee\u2019s relative to attend Fairleigh Dickinson University, a private college in New Jersey; and $10,000 for another person\u2019s relative to attend Mississippi College, a private Christian institution in a suburb of Jackson.
Dina Schipper, a spokesperson for Fairleigh Dickinson, said that the university was aware these expenses were reflected in the files and that it had records of three tuition payments from a Jeffrey Epstein account in 2015. She said the university had no records or knowledge of any connection to Epstein in any other capacity.
Beyond the Deutsche Bank report, USA TODAY\u2019s review uncovered documents showing Epstein paid tuition at primary schools, private universities, for-profit colleges and a coding boot camp.
A correspondent whose name was redacted by the DOJ sought help in covering the tuition for massage school. The student had nowhere else to turn, the message said.
\u201cI am of course more than happy to do anything for you in return. miss you a lot. Xo,\u201d the aspiring student wrote in a 2009 message, written a year after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution and hiring a minor to engage in sex.
Another correspondent, whose name was also redacted, sought Epstein\u2019s help paying for an education at Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York, a for-profit college, in 2019. In an email, Lesley Groff, identified as Epstein\u2019s assistant, communicated with Sotheby\u2019s about the student\u2019s tuition payment.
Amanda M.F. Bakale, general counsel of Edconic, said the company that runs the institute had not been aware Epstein had sent the payment, but she subsequently confirmed its veracity.
\u201cIt is not uncommon for individuals other than the student to complete the payment form (employers, parents, etc.),\u201d Bakale wrote.
The attorney said the school hadn\u2019t received any inquiries from law enforcement tied to the payment.
In dozens of exchanges where power brokering like this played out, Epstein\u2019s motivations occasionally showed through. In some cases, he laid out explicit conditions for what he wanted in exchange for fronting tuition money. In April 2017, he wrote in an email to a person whose name was redacted that he would provide $30,000 for tuition, but it came with a caveat.
\u201cYou will need to provide three assistants. 10k per. If you don’t you will have to repay,\u201d he wrote.
Even with this explicit condition, the person asking the favor seemed eager to push forward with the deal. The email correspondent said he or she was \u201ccrossing my fingers for\u201d the student whose name was redacted. Separately, the correspondent noted that he or she was planning an ad campaign and would be hiring \u201cfemales under 24 based in NY\/Paris.\u201d
It\u2019s unclear whether the campaign ever ran.
This article has been updated to clarify that Dite\u0300 Anata knew Jeffrey Epstein had been incarcerated for a criminal act involving a minor.<\/em>
Chris Quintana is an investigative reporter at USA TODAY. He can be reached at cquintana@usatoday.com or via Signal at 202-308-9021. He is on X at @CQuintanaDC<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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