{"id":228572,"date":"2026-10-24T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/why-did-an-epstein-linked-billionaire-step-down-from-one-of-americas-most-famous-hospitals-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T15:44:07","slug":"why-did-an-epstein-linked-billionaire-step-down-from-one-of-americas-most-famous-hospitals-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/why-did-an-epstein-linked-billionaire-step-down-from-one-of-americas-most-famous-hospitals-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did an Epstein-linked billionaire step down from one of America\u2019s most famous hospitals? – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The board change is the latest development for Mount Sinai hospital which features prominently in the Epstein files
The hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin, one of several Wall Street figures whose relationship with Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> is facing scrutiny, has stepped down from the board of Mount Sinai hospital, according to sources close to the renowned New York institution.
The revelation follows news earlier this year that Mount Sinai, which has long ranked as a top medical provider in New York<\/a> City, had reportedly formed a committee to review its longstanding ties to the late accused sex trafficker. The hospital features prominently in the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice, including an incident in which a Mount Sinai doctor appears to have operated on a young Russian woman inside Epstein\u2019s Upper East Side townhouse after she got hurt during a stay on his Caribbean island.
Dubin, a founder of Highbridge Capital Management, who had financial connections to Epstein and previously referred to Epstein as a friend, served on Mount Sinai\u2019s board of trustees since 2007 and was a vice-chair. His wife, Dr Eva Andersson-Dubin, who had once dated Epstein before her marriage, also stepped down earlier this year from the board of Mount Sinai\u2019s Icahn School of Medicine.
The circumstances surrounding the Dubins\u2019 departure from these Mount Sinai boards are not clear.
In a statement, Mount Sinai said: \u201cThe Dubins\u2019 terms on the board of trustees ended this past spring, and they did not seek re-election.\u201d
The hospital did not respond to questions about whether it had concluded its Epstein-related review or about the findings of the review, or about whether there was a link between the review and the Dubins\u2019 decision.
A spokesperson for the Dubins did not respond to questions about their departure from the boards. In a statement, their spokesperson said: \u201cHad they been aware of Epstein\u2019s vile and unspeakable conduct, they would have cut off all ties long ago and certainly never allowed him to be in the presence of their children.\u201d
The couple were still listed as members of the hospital\u2019s \u201cboards of trustees\u201d in May 2025, in a journal marking the hospital\u2019s 40th anniversary Crystal Party, a major fundraiser. In the journal marking the 41st annual Crystal Party, held this past May, neither of the Dubins\u2019 names appeared on the \u201cboards of trustees\u201d list, which included those who were members as of 31 March 2026.
A 2019 report in the New York Times, published after Epstein\u2019s arrest on sex-trafficking charges but before his death, said Dubin first met Epstein through his wife and had provided Epstein with financial advice earlier in their decades-long relationship. The newspaper also reported that Epstein had invested $10m in Dubin\u2019s hedge fund, and that the two men continued to socialize in Palm Beach<\/a> even after they \u201cparted professional ways\u201d.
At the time, a spokesperson for the Dubins said that they were \u201chorrified\u201d by allegations of Epstein\u2019s sex trafficking. \u201cThe Dubins were loyal friends and mistakenly believed Mr Epstein, a person they had known for decades, had rehabilitated himself after his 2008 plea and deserved a second chance,\u201d the spokesperson told the newspaper in July 2019.
Last month, Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman from Kentucky, alleged on the floor of the House of Representatives that Glenn Dubin was one of 14 \u201cEpstein co-conspirators\u201d who ought to face investigation and possible prosecution. A spokesperson for Glenn Dubin did not respond to the Guardian\u2019s request for comment about Massie\u2019s statement.
Massie also named Leon Black, another Wall Street billionaire tied to Epstein who also served on the board of Mount Sinai hospital.
\u201cPerhaps hearing these names,\u201d said Massie, \u201cwill shame the Department of Justice into delivering justice.\u201d
Black has said he is the target of a political witch-hunt. Last month, Congress voted unanimously to hold Black in contempt for refusing to comply with subpoenas issued by the House committee on oversight, which demanded that he appear for a deposition and provide the committee with all his nondisclosure agreements. Black, who has denied having any knowledge of Epstein\u2019s alleged crimes and has sued the House committee for allegedly overstepping its authority, served on Mount Sinai\u2019s board of trustees from 2001 to 2012. He also served on the board of its Icahn School of Medicine through 2024. In 2000 Black and his wife endowed the Debra and Leon Black professor of pediatrics chair at Icahn; in 2005, they established Mount Sinai\u2019s Black Family Stem Cell Institute.
Attorney Brad Karp has served on the Mount Sinai board since 2019. He was the longtime chairman of the Paul, Weiss law firm until he resigned from that position earlier this year after emails released in the Epstein files revealed extensive personal and business communications with Epstein. Paul, Weiss has said that Karp \u201cregrets\u201d his interactions with Epstein. Karp remains on Mount Sinai\u2019s board.
According to the justice department files released in January, Epstein donated hundreds of thousands of dollars<\/a> to Mount Sinai and its medical school in the years following his 2008 conviction on state charges. In 2019, in the wake of Epstein\u2019s death in jail by suicide, the hospital said it was \u201ccontributing a sum equal to the donations we received from Mr Epstein and his foundation to a charity focused on preventing human trafficking and exploitation\u201d.
Mount Sinai declined to answer questions about how much money it donated, and to whom.
The Epstein files indicate that Epstein\u2019s donations to Mount Sinai gave him \u201cVIP\u201d status at the hospital. According to a report in the New York Times, Dr Jess Ting, an assistant professor of surgery at Mount Sinai, sewed 35 stitches into the forehead of a young Russian woman inside Epstein\u2019s townhouse on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side after the woman injured herself, in October 2012, while riding an ATV on Epstein\u2019s private island in the Caribbean. Alongside its article, the New York Times published an undated color photograph that appeared to show the surgeon performing the procedure in Epstein\u2019s dining room.
In February 2013, four months after the procedure in his dining room, Epstein directed his accountant, Richard Kahn, to make out a check to Mount Sinai for $50,000 which, according to an email written by Ting, was \u201cearmarked\u201d for his research. When, four years later, Ting co-authored an article about an experiment related to \u201caggressive sporadic breast cancer\u201d in Clinical Cancer Research, a peer-reviewed medical journal, the article\u2019s acknowledgments noted that the research was supported by donations from, among others, \u201cJeffrey Epstein to JT\u201d.
Tax records for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai<\/a> show Ting received $4.6m<\/a> in compensation in 2019.
Mount Sinai did not respond to questions about whether Ting faced any consequences from the hospital for having apparently performed the procedure in Epstein\u2019s home. Ting did not respond to questions from the Guardian.
The New York state department of health was asked to comment about the medical procedure apparently being performed in Epstein\u2019s dining room and whether it was investigating the matter. In a statement, the department of health said:\u201cWhile the department cannot discuss or provide details pertaining to active investigations, the allegations in recent media reports are deeply troubling and clearly warrant review. As regulator of New York state hospitals and diagnostic and treatment centers, the Department of Health holds all facilities accountable for the quality of care they provide to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all patients. The New York State Department of Health condemns any abuse that undermines patient trust and safety, including any predatory or unlawful behavior, and takes its responsibility to investigate allegations like this very seriously. We extend our support to all victims and survivors of medical misconduct, physical abuse, or sexual abuse and encourage any patient who believes they are a victim of misconduct to file a complaint.\u201d
Mount Sinai declined to comment.
In 2010, the Dubins established Mount Sinai\u2019s Dubin Breast Center, which is now a 15,000 sq ft facility inside Mount Sinai\u2019s main campus on the Upper East Side. The center\u2019s entrance on Fifth Avenue is marked by a large hot-pink awning with the words \u201cDubin Breast Center\u201d imprinted on it in white.
The Epstein files reveal that Andersson-Dubin and Epstein communicated frequently about many topics, and that she reportedly served as Epstein\u2019s \u201cconduit\u201d to Mount Sinai. In April 2012, according to emails released by the justice department, Andersson-Dubin, at Epstein\u2019s request, sought to help a young Russian woman obtain a volunteer position at the Dubin Breast Center.
When Mount Sinai\u2019s director of international personnel stated that the \u201cvolunteer tasks\u201d that the \u201cforeign national\u201d was seeking to perform \u201cpotentially conflict with the duties designated for the union\u201d, Andersson-Dubin wrote to Epstein that the young woman could \u201csit there and just look pretty \u2026 if that makes it better!! This woman \u2026 has something against Russian girls I think \u2026 ,\u201d to which Epstein replied simply: \u201csocialism.\u201d Ultimately, after Andersson-Dubin made an appeal to the hospital, the volunteer position was approved.
A spokesperson for the Dubins did not respond to questions about the alleged incident. Mount Sinai declined to comment.
Celina Dubin, the Dubins\u2019 daughter, was a student at the Icahn School of Medicine and is now an assistant professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai.
The daughters of two other billionaires linked to Epstein, both of whom have testified in Congress about their relationships with him, have also attended Mount Sinai\u2019s medical school: Bill Gates\u2019s daughter, who graduated in 2024 and is now a pediatric resident at the hospital, and US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick\u2019s daughter, who is currently enrolled there.
Last month, the US district judge Jed Rakoff, who has presided over all the Epstein-victim class-action lawsuits filed against banking institutions \u2013 suits which, to date, have yielded $438m in settlements \u2013 ruled that the newest of these, brought against FirstBank Puerto Rico by Boies Schiller Flexner and Edwards Henderson, could proceed.
According to that lawsuit, Epstein\u2019s donations to Mount Sinai, which included at least $50,000 drawn from his Enhanced Education account at FirstBank Puerto Rico in June 2014, were \u201cdirectly used to fund\u201d his illegal activities. In addition, the lawsuit alleges, Mount Sinai was \u201clinked to individuals known to have recruited for him\u201d. The lawsuit does not specify the names of those linked to Mount Sinai who it alleges \u201crecruited\u201d for Epstein.
Mount Sinai declined to comment on the lawsuit.
FirstBank said in a legal filing that while it provided \u201croutine banking services\u201d to Epstein, it did not violate anti-trafficking laws or knowingly facilitate his alleged crimes. The bank also said it filed a suspicious activity report (SAR) shortly after Epstein\u2019s 2019 arrest.
A group of Mount Sinai employees, including female doctors, filed a separate federal employment discrimination lawsuit against Mount Sinai Health System, its Icahn School of Medicine, and various current and former male Mount Sinai officials in April 2019.
The lawsuit alleges, among other things, that one of the defendants, a Mount Sinai employee, \u201cregularly called women \u2018bitches\u2019 and \u2018cunts\u2019\u201d. The case now awaits a ruling on a motion for summary judgment brought by Mount Sinai before the US district judge Vernon Broderick.
In a legal filing, Mount Sinai called the complaint \u201cnothing less than a malicious instrument of character assassination\u201d that was \u201crife with allegations that are immaterial and\/or scandalous\u201d.
\u201cThe Epstein connection is what gets attention, but that kind of culture never has just one victim or kind of victim. When powerful institutions let their men mistreat women, it\u2019s usually a feature, not a bug,\u201d said Ann Olivarius, head of the McAllister Olivarius law firm, which filed the 2019 suit against Mount Sinai.
Mount Sinai did not respond to the Guardian\u2019s questions about the lawsuit.
This past summer, outside Mount Sinai\u2019s annual Crystal Party fundraiser held at Chelsea Piers downtown, volunteers supporting Equity Now, an organization formed by the former Mount Sinai employees who sued the hospital, handed out flyers that featured photographs of its current and former Epstein-linked board members: Glenn Dubin, Brad Karp and Leon Black.
\u201cWOULD YOU LET THESE MEN RUN YOUR PTA?\u201d asked the text above the pictures. \u201cSO WHY WERE THEY RUNNING MOUNT SINAI?\u201d<\/p>\n

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