Who is Kate L. Doniger in the Epstein files?

Doniger is an attorney at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, a New York firm with offices at 350 Fifth Avenue. In the files, Doniger appears in professional emails from late 2019 through mid-2020 with the firm's Roberta Kaplan and Alexandra Conlon. Those emails involve a USANYS contact asking for information relating to Jeffrey Epstein, and they also cover the Epstein estate. Twelve of the 15 documents have Doniger in the email header.

Did Kate L. Doniger have a personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?

The files give no sign of one. Every appearance is a legal or professional email about requests for information, the Epstein estate or related court developments. Epstein's name is attached to each document only because it is the topic. The documents do not show Doniger communicating with Epstein.

What was the "Request for Information Relating to Jeffrey Epstein"?

It is the subject line of an email thread that begins with a January 6, 2020 message from USANYS to Roberta Kaplan, with Doniger and Alex Conlon copied. The message says a letter regarding the request is attached. Later replies, through April 2020, show back-and-forth between the government contact and the Kaplan Hecker & Fink lawyers. One attachment is named like a request to the Department of Labor for a "Doe" matter. The files shown here do not spell out whom the firm represented or what information was sought, so that should not be assumed.

Does Doniger appear in flight logs, financial records or court filings?

Not in these files. All 15 documents are emails or an email-style item, and none are flight logs, financial records or travel records. The count of substantive non-email records is zero.

Who is Kate L. Doniger in the Epstein files?

Doniger is an attorney at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP, a New York firm with offices at 350 Fifth Avenue. In the files, Doniger appears in professional emails from late 2019 through mid-2020 with the firm's Roberta Kaplan and Alexandra Conlon. Those emails involve a USANYS contact asking for information relating to Jeffrey Epstein, and they also cover the Epstein estate. Twelve of the 15 documents have Doniger in the email header.

Did Kate L. Doniger have a personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?

The files give no sign of one. Every appearance is a legal or professional email about requests for information, the Epstein estate or related court developments. Epstein's name is attached to each document only because it is the topic. The documents do not show Doniger communicating with Epstein.

What was the "Request for Information Relating to Jeffrey Epstein"?

It is the subject line of an email thread that begins with a January 6, 2020 message from USANYS to Roberta Kaplan, with Doniger and Alex Conlon copied. The message says a letter regarding the request is attached. Later replies, through April 2020, show back-and-forth between the government contact and the Kaplan Hecker & Fink lawyers. One attachment is named like a request to the Department of Labor for a "Doe" matter. The files shown here do not spell out whom the firm represented or what information was sought, so that should not be assumed.

Does Doniger appear in flight logs, financial records or court filings?

Not in these files. All 15 documents are emails or an email-style item, and none are flight logs, financial records or travel records. The count of substantive non-email records is zero.

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Kate L. Doniger is a lawyer at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP who appears in the archive as a direct participant in 2019–2020 email correspondence about Jeffrey Epstein. The emails include exchanges with a U.S. Attorney's Office (USANYS) contact about a "Request for Information Relating to Jeffrey Epstein" and group emails about the Epstein estate.

All 15 documents are emails or email-style records, and 12 have Doniger in the From, To or Cc header. Most are replies in a thread titled "Request for Information Relating to Jeffrey Epstein" between a USANYS contact and the Kaplan Hecker & Fink team of Roberta Kaplan, Alexandra (Alex) Conlon and Doniger, dated from January to April 2020. Others are December 2019 emails about the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein, including a letter from estate counsel Bennet Moskowitz sent to a group of lawyers that included Doniger. The files show Doniger as a working attorney in these exchanges. They do not show any personal or social tie to Epstein.

Key Highlights

•Doniger corresponds directly with a USANYS contact in the thread "Request for Information Relating to Jeffrey Epstein." The files include replies dated 15 April, 22 April and 30 April 2020, and others in the same thread. Doniger is the sender in some and the recipient in others.
•A January 6, 2020 email from USANYS to Roberta Kaplan opens the thread, with Doniger and Alex Conlon copied. It says a letter regarding the request is attached.
•A February 27, 2020 USANYS email addresses "Alexandra and Robbie" and thanks them for material they sent. Doniger is copied.
•In a May 21, 2020 email on "quick call re: Epstein investigation?", Roberta Kaplan writes that she is "on a call with Kate right now." Doniger is copied.
•Doniger is also on December 2019 emails about the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein. These include a December 3, 2019 letter from Bennet J. Moskowitz to counsel, with Roberta Kaplan, Sigrid McCawley and Brad Edwards among those on the thread. They also include a December 13, 2019 thread titled "Transcript from yesterday's conference." In it Alex Conlon writes that Epstein is "the beneficiary of the estate."
•A February 4, 2020 item titled "Estate of J. Epstein" carries the heading "Judge Grants USVI Intervener Status" and copies Doniger.
•Doniger's most frequent co-appearances are Jeffrey Epstein (15 documents), Roberta Kaplan (14), "Robbie" (11), Kaplan (9) and Alex Conlon (9). Epstein's name appears because he is the subject of the correspondence, not because the two were in contact.

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From: ' (USANYS)" < To: "'Kate L. Doniger"' Cc: ' llaM)" < 1.111 "Alexandra Conlon" , Roberta Kaplan Subject: RE: Request for Information Relating to Jeffrey Epstein Date: Wed, 15 Apr

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From: ' (USANYS)" ctl To: "'Kate L. Doniger"' Cc: ' llaM)" "Alexandra Conlon" , Roberta Kaplan Subject: RE: Request for Information Relating to Jeffrey Epstein Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 02:5

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From: "Kate L. Doniger" To: (USANYS)" ctl Cc: ' " Alexandra Conlon , Roberta Kaplan Subject: RE: Request for Information Relating to Jeffrey Epstein Date: Tue, 14

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Relating_to Jeffrey_Epstei n.pdf; Dal_001-091_Doe_Touhy_Request_to_DOL(encrypted).pdf From: (USANYS) Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:55 PM To: 'Kate L. Doniger' Cc: Roberta Kaplan Subject: RE: Request for Information Relating to Jeffrey Epstein > Kate, Alexandra Conlon Per our conversation earlier tod

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Best Regards, Robbie Alexandra Conlon I Kaplan Ilecker & Fink LLP From: (USANYS) Sent: Monday, January 6, 2020 6:59 PM To: Roberta Kaplan Cc: Kate L. Doniger .; Alex Conlon < Subject: Request for Information Relating to Jeffrey Epstein Dear Ms. Kaplan, Please find attached a letter regarding the reques

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Epstein is the beneficiary of the estate. Thanks, Alex Alex Conlon I Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP From: Sent: Friday, December 13, 2019 5:53 PM To: Kate L. Doniger Cc: Alex Conlon Roberta Kaplan Subject: RE: Transcript from yesterday's conference Received, thanks. And Alex, if you have the transcript from th

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rk, New York 10118 From: Moskowitz, Bennet J. 4 Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 9:36:45 PM To: Andrew Villacastin >; Sigrid McCawley Cc: >; >; Kate L. Doniger Brad Edwards < S; Roberta Kaplan >; Sabina Mariella ; Josh Schiller < ; Laura Starr 4 >; Mariann Wang <-> Subject: RE: The Estate of Jeffrey

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From: Roberta Kaplan To: '1 1" Cc: "Kate L. Doniger" Subject: RE: quick call re: Epstein investigation? Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 21:35:52 +0000 Of course; on a call with Kate right now; we will call y

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0 Thank you. Roberta Kaplan Ka Ian Hecker & Fink LLP From: (USANYS) Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2020 7:22:32 PM To: Alexandra Conlon .ca Cc: Kate L. Doniger Subject: RE: Request for Information Relating to Jeffrey Epstein Alexandra and Robbie, Thank you for this. I will contact you regarding the reques

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From: ' (USANYS)" < To: "'Kate L. Doniger"' Cc: ' llaM)" "Alexandra Conlon" , Roberta Kaplan Subject: RE: Request for Information Relating to Jeffrey Epstein Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:2

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From: "Kate L. Doniger" To: I° (USANYS)" Cc: ' " , Alexandra Conlon , Roberta Kaplan Subject: RE: Request for Information Relating to Jeffrey Epstein Date: Thu, 3

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From: "Kate L. Doniger" •Tcl To: ''' (USANYS)" Cc: ' " , Alexandra Conlon , Roberta Kaplan Subject: RE: Request for Information Relating to Jeffrey Epstein Date: T

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ew York 10118 From: Moskowitz, Bennet J. Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 9:36:45 PM To: Andrew Villacastin Cc: Roberta Kaplan Sigrid McCawley ; Kate L. Doniger >; Josh Schiller < Laura Starr Subject: RE: The Estate of Jeffrey Epstein Counsel: Please see the attached letter. Thank you, Bennet Bennet J

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Happy to discuss. Best, Kate Kate L. Doniger I Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP 35o Fifth Avenue I Suite 7110 New York, New York ions (W) I(M) From: Kate L. Doniger Sent: Monday, December 9, 2019 4:47 PM To: lardy Feldman < > Cc: cz ; Julie Fink Alex Conlon Rachel Harris <[email protected]>; Subject: RE: Ep

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Frot To: )11' Cc: "Kate L. Doniger" Subject: Estate ofJ. Epstein Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 15:57:57 +0000 Inline-Images: image003.png; image004.png Judge Grants USVI Intervener Status

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