An internal DOJ email from July 2021 sharing a Daily Mail article about Jeffrey Epstein's first known victim, a 13-year-old girl he and Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly befriended at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan.

This document is a forwarded news article email circulated within the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (USANYS) dated July 19, 2021. The email shares a Daily Mail story about claims made in Julie K. Brown's book 'Perversion of Justice' revealing that Epstein and Maxwell first targeted a 13-year-old camper at Interlochen Center for the Arts in 1994. While this is a news clipping rather than primary evidence, it documents internal government awareness of the Interlochen connection that would later be confirmed in DOJ file releases.

Key Highlights

• •Documents DOJ personnel circulating media coverage about Epstein's first known victim
• •References claims from Julie K. Brown's 2021 book 'Perversion of Justice'
• •Identifies Interlochen Center for the Arts as the location where Epstein and Maxwell first met a 13-year-old victim in 1994
• •Epstein was a former Interlochen camper (1967) and donor ($200,000-$500,000) who had a lodge named after him on campus

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