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Top US arts camp and boarding school to demolish Jeffrey Epstein lodge

Top US arts camp and boarding school to demolish Jeffrey Epstein lodge

Summary

A Michigan arts camp and boarding school, Interlochen Center for the Arts, will tear down a lodge once named after Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein had donated money to the school and attended as a teenager but has been accused of meeting victims there in the 1990s.

Key Facts

  • Interlochen Center for the Arts will demolish the Green Lake Lodge, formerly called the Jeffrey E Epstein Scholarship Lodge.
  • Epstein attended Interlochen in 1967 and donated over $400,000 to the school between 1990 and 2003.
  • Epstein’s name was removed from the lodge after his first conviction in 2008.
  • At least two of Epstein’s accusers said they met him at Interlochen in the 1990s.
  • The school is conducting an external investigation into historical misconduct claims involving Epstein.
  • Internal reviews found no records of Epstein-related misconduct at Interlochen.
  • Epstein regularly visited the school, sometimes with Ghislaine Maxwell, and used the lodge.
  • Epstein died by suicide in jail in 2019 while facing sex trafficking charges; Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking.
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