"Simonsen" does not appear to be a real person in the Epstein files. The seven documents that match are fragments of other names, such as "Simon," "Mr. Simons" and "Gregory Simon," plus a court case citation.

None of the seven documents contains the name "Simonsen" in the text we reviewed. The matches are a first name "Simon" in two copies of a passage about the Oscars and a dinner at Mr. Chow's, "Mr. Simons" in two copies of an email about a public-school leadership organization, and "Gregory Simon," listed as President of the Biden Cancer Initiative. The last match is the case name "Simon v. Philip Morris" in an email titled "FedMap." No emails are to or from anyone named Simonsen, and none of the records are legal, financial, travel or government documents about this name.

Key Highlights

• •Zero of the 7 documents are direct correspondence, and none is a legal, government, financial or travel record. Four are classed as "Other" and three as emails.
• •The matches are different people or things that share a spelling: a "Simon" at the Oscars, a "Mr. Simons" who co-founded an education organization, Gregory Simon of the Biden Cancer Initiative, and the case Simon v. Philip Morris.
• •The two Oscars passages (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013442 and 013450) are near-duplicates, as are the two "Mr. Simons" emails (019412 and 028621). That makes the 7 documents closer to 5 distinct passages.
• •The listed connections to Marc Rich, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Russell Simmons are probably co-occurrence in long documents. They are not evidence that Simonsen knew any of them.

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