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While he was imprisoned, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein sent a letter to Larry Nassar, the former Olympic doctor who sexually abused girls for decades, new documents reveal.
The Associated Press first reported the discovery, which was found in the midst of over 4,000 pages of documents the news agency obtained nearly four years after Epstein, who was accused of child sex trafficking, died of an apparent suicide in a New York City jail cell while awaiting trial. The new documents offer additional insight into what documents previously released by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in 2021 revealed about Epstein’s suicide.
The documents were acquired from the BOP under the Freedom of Information Act and shed light on Epstein’s death and his behavior during his 36 days at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), including his attempt to connect with Nassar, according to the AP.
An investigator discovered Epstein’s letter to Nassar in the jail mail room weeks after Epstein was found dead, according to the documents. The letter was not part of the documents obtained by either the AP or CNN, but the documents reference that the letter was returned to the jail in September 2019, weeks after Epstein’s death.
“It appeared he mailed it out and it was returned back to him,” the investigator told a prison official in an email included in the documents. “I am not sure if I should open it or should we hand it over to anyone?”
The copy of the email exchange obtained by CNN is redacted and does not reference Nassar by name. But in their reply, an MCC staff attorney described the original addressee of Epstein’s letter as “the former doctor for the U.S. Female Gymnastics Team that was convicted of molesting a bunch of girls…under the guide of “medical procedures/examinations.” The attorney added, “some of the victim accounts are pretty horrific.”
It is unclear if the two men had any relationship.
The State Appellate Defender Office “is not aware of any relationship between Mr. Nassar and Jeffrey Epstein,” Jonathan Sacks, director of the State Appellate Defender Office where Nassar’s court-appointed attorney, Jacqueline McCann, works, told CNN.
