Major NYU donor and Stern board member John Paulson was named “one of the billionaires” in Jeffrey Epstein’s contact list last week by Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, who is spearheading a bill to release all files related to the convicted sex offender.
Paulson, who funds a super PAC “running $2 million of ads” against Massie amid his push to release the Epstein files, is listed in Epstein’s second “black book” that was published by Business Insider in 2021. The full undisclosed list contains names, contact information and addresses of 349 people with suspected affiliation with Epstein — who dropped out of NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1974 — dating back to 1997.
Paulson’s name was also publicly listed in the first “black book,” published by former blog site Gawker in 2015 and containing 1,748 other names dating back to 2004. Being listed in the books does not directly indicate criminal activity…