Associate Professor and Director of Digital Entertainment and Game Development at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). BS and PhD from UC Berkeley (1987, 1993). Research interests include consciousness studies, VR, and creativity. Maintained a documented relationship with Jeffrey Epstein spanning approximately eight years (2011-2019), appearing in 1,234 EFTA documents. Gino Yu arranged Robot Heart Halloween party admission codes for women referred to by Epstein as "the girls" and by Lesley Groff as "4 of Jeffrey's assistants" (EFTA00438155, EFTA02191693).
He provided personalized registration codes and asked for "their names and emails" to register them. A collaborator, James Tagg, offered to "help chaperone" the women at the party. In the same week as the Robot Heart arrangement (October 2016), Gino installed an HTC Vive virtual reality system in "the small room off the library" at Epstein's 9 East 71st Street residence. In January 2018, Gino emailed Epstein (EFTA00907010) describing a woman he characterized as a "classic stage 3" in his consciousness model: someone "intelligent, was traumatised when she was young (sexual abuse), and now gradually coming into her own." He offered to introduce her to Epstein: "Incidentally, she is based in NYC.
Can set up a meeting if you have interest." This offer to connect a sexual abuse survivor with a convicted sex offender drew significant media attention. Gino consistently referred to Epstein as his "benefactor" and "sponsor" when introducing scientists and researchers. Documented funding through this channel includes $20K to OpenCog Hong Kong (Ben Goertzel), $25K for a Cuba conference on creativity and neuroscience, $50K to Stuart Hameroff's consciousness conference, and up to $100K in research funds. He served as Epstein's primary pipeline to the consciousness research community, bringing Stuart Hameroff, Joscha Bach, Peter Fenwick, Ben Goertzel, Giuseppe Bersani, and Nouriel Roubini to meetings at 71st Street.
In January 2019, six months before Epstein's arrest, Gino organized travel with women to Davos, Zurich, and Marrakech, writing: "I will also have a shaman with me as well as a psychonaut that grows his own mushrooms." Epstein himself expressed private skepticism about Gino, telling Masha Drokova: "careful, he is a bit of a huckster" (EFTA02570560). Despite this assessment, the relationship continued until months before Epstein's arrest.
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About Gino Yu
Who is Gino Yu?
Associate Professor and Director of Digital Entertainment and Game Development at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). BS and PhD from UC Berkeley (1987, 1993). Research interests include consciousness studies, VR, and creativity. Maintained a documented relationship with Jeffrey Epstein spanning approximately eight years (2011-2019), appearing in 1,234 EFTA documents. Gino Yu arranged Robot Heart Halloween party admission codes for women referred to by Epstein as "the girls" and by Lesley Groff as "4 of Jeffrey's assistants" (EFTA00438155, EFTA02191693). He provided personalized registration codes and asked for "their names and emails" to register them. A collaborator, James Tagg, offered to "help chaperone" the women at the party. In the same week as the Robot Heart arrangement (October 2016), Gino installed an HTC Vive virtual reality system in "the small room off the library" at Epstein's 9 East 71st Street residence. In January 2018, Gino emailed Epstein (EFTA00907010) describing a woman he characterized as a "classic stage 3" in his consciousness model: someone "intelligent, was traumatised when she was young (sexual abuse), and now gradually coming into her own." He offered to introduce her to Epstein: "Incidentally, she is based in NYC. Can set up a meeting if you have interest." This offer to connect a sexual abuse survivor with a convicted sex offender drew significant media attention. Gino consistently referred to Epstein as his "benefactor" and "sponsor" when introducing scientists and researchers. Documented funding through this channel includes $20K to OpenCog Hong Kong (Ben Goertzel), $25K for a Cuba conference on creativity and neuroscience, $50K to Stuart Hameroff's consciousness conference, and up to $100K in research funds. He served as Epstein's primary pipeline to the consciousness research community, bringing Stuart Hameroff, Joscha Bach, Peter Fenwick, Ben Goertzel, Giuseppe Bersani, and Nouriel Roubini to meetings at 71st Street. In January 2019, six months before Epstein's arrest, Gino organized travel with women to Davos, Zurich, and Marrakech, writing: "I will also have a shaman with me as well as a psychonaut that grows his own mushrooms." Epstein himself expressed private skepticism about Gino, telling Masha Drokova: "careful, he is a bit of a huckster" (EFTA02570560). Despite this assessment, the relationship continued until months before Epstein's arrest.
What is Gino Yu's connection to Jeffrey Epstein?
Gino Yu appears in 1,234 case documents, 0 flight logs, and 0 emails from the Epstein investigation files.
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