Jeffrey Epstein paid tuition for the children of the U.S. Virgin Islands’ governor and first lady, including at New York’s Skidmore College, JPMorgan Chase & Co. said in court filings.
Cecile de Jongh, wife of then-USVI Governor John de Jongh Jr., sent Epstein an August 2011 email with the subject line “Please Approve,” attaching a $25,000 tuition bill for Skidmore, a private liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York. The email is among dozens of previously sealed documents the bank filed late Wednesday in Manhattan federal court.
JPMorgan is fighting a lawsuit by the USVI, accusing it of facilitating Epstein’s sex trafficking. The bank is defending itself in part by alleging the USVI government did far more itself to aid the crimes of Epstein, who had a private island retreat, Little Saint James, there.
