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Emails Show Jeffrey Epstein Leveraged International Peace Institute and Gates Foundation Ties
Emails released by the Department of Justice earlier this year detail how Jeffrey Epstein used connections to the International Peace Institute and the Gates Foundation to offer jobs and visa recommendations to women in his orbit. One former assistant described being presented with a coordination role at a 2015 pandemic preparedness conference in Geneva that she said never materialized.
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Emails released by the Department of Justice earlier this year show how Jeffrey Epstein used relationships with the International Peace Institute and the Gates Foundation after his 2008 conviction as a registered sex offender. The documents, along with accounts from two women who worked as his assistants, describe a pattern in which Epstein offered career opportunities at respected institutions to young women from Russia and Eastern Europe.
On September 12, 2015, more than three dozen health experts and diplomats gathered at the Palais des Nations in Geneva for a conference on pandemic preparedness hosted by the International Peace Institute.
The attendee list included the director-general of the World Health Organization, the president of the National Academy of Medicine, an associate director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a senior executive from the Gates Foundation.
Svetlana Pozhidaeva, then 31 and a former Russian model who had worked as Epstein’s assistant for about five years, attended the event. Pozhidaeva told Fortune that Epstein had informed her she would coordinate the event with the International Peace Institute and the Gates Foundation.
She wore a dress he had purchased for her in Paris and instructed her to wear. ” Pozhidaeva said she was kept at arm’s length from actual planning and was given nothing to do. She recalled feeling out of place at the conference, with attendees asking why she was present.
She also said she accompanied Epstein on a visit to the Gates Foundation during the same period but was not allowed into the meeting. Epstein had introduced the International Peace Institute to the Gates Foundation in 2013. He advised institute employees on communications and worked with an adviser to then-Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates to secure an initial $5 million donation.
