Lawrence Krauss email expressing skepticism of Jeffrey Epstein abuse claims

From: Lawrence Krauss a Sent: 4/7/2011 4:12:11 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Subject: Re: Statement in the Daily Beast? Importance: — High I know.. it is one of the reasons I respect you. btw.. this was the last note I sent out to the blogs... after that I gave up.. "I will add one remark here, as most people have not read my full set of comments, posted after the post appeared.. I am myself rather disappointed by the lack of skepticality of this community. As I said, I have read numerous reports of orgies on Jeffrey’s island involving me and other scientists during our meetings.. Orgies that never happened. I am VERY skeptical of other claims on his behavior. I am defending Jeffrey for 2 reasons: (1) Based on my knowledge and experience I am skeptical of the claims in the media and of those who have settled claims for money... namely I don’t believe the published details just like I tend to be skeptical of many published details on the internet.. I don’t believe Jeffrey did what has been claimed, and unless I see hard evidence, I will trust my own judgement here, and (2) Jeffrey went to prison, and I happen to believe that having served time, even those who questioned his behavior should be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, again until proved otherwise, that he is working hard to live a good life and do good things. I for one am disgusted that people eat up the salacious nonsense they read on the web and then jump to conclusions about things and people they do not know.. I do not jump to condemn people, especially when it concerns their sexual preferences. [DO NOT CONDONE sex with young girls, or young boys for that matter.. because there are real victims there.. Until I know all the facts however, I do not jump to conclusions, and I am sorry, having seen the media frenzy around Jeffrey, and having seen the shoddy behavior of those who have attacked him, I remain skeptical, and I support a man whose character I believe I know.. If you want to condemn me for that, so be it." On Apr 6, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote: so would i On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Lawrence Krauss (EE wrote: ps. I have decided that Feynman would have done what I did.. and Iam therefore content.. no matter what.. :) On Apr 6, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote: what evidence? no real sex.. where is she getting her so called facts On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Lawrence Krauss EE wrote: Beyond anything else, you are my friend. I hope we can both always remember that, no matter what. Are you coming this weekend at all? Lawrence Krauss Foundation Professor School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Dept. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030920