Jaquelin Robertson

Jaquelin Taylor "Jaque" Robertson (March 20, 1933 – May 9, 2020) was a Virginia-born American architect and urban planner, co-founder with Alexander Cooper of Cooper, Robertson & Partners (1988, New York City). He earned a B.A. from Yale University (1954), was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and returned to earn his M.Arch from Yale (1961). He trained under Philip Johnson early in his career and later served as Dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture. He received the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture (1998) and the Driehaus Prize (2007), among numerous other distinctions, and co-designed the master plan for Disney's Celebration, FL.

His connection to the Jeffrey Epstein case is via his firm. Cooper, Robertson & Partners is reported by The New Republic and by independent investigative journalist Alisa Vinogradova (Substack, May 2026) to have designed the main hacienda house at Epstein's Zorro Ranch in New Mexico — an approximately 28,636 square-foot structure with original drawings dated October 17, 1997, completed circa 1999. Bradbury Stamm Construction (a firm with extensive classified-work history at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Kirtland Air Force Base) executed the build. Notably, Cooper, Robertson had been working since 1989 for Leslie Wexner's New Albany Company in Ohio when Epstein acquired the New Mexico land in 1993 — the same year Epstein took control of the New Albany Ohio estate from Wexner.

The DOJ-released FBI 302 EFTA01246225 references an unidentified "Jack Robertson" described by the witness as an architect in New Mexico. The most plausible interpretation, given the firm-level attribution to Cooper, Robertson and Robertson's nickname "Jaque" (which can readily be misheard or transcribed as "Jack"), is that the 302 refers to Jaquelin Robertson. Identity match is journalistic inference rather than documentary proof — individual-architect attribution to Robertson (vs. Alexander Cooper or another firm architect) has not been confirmed by Cooper, Robertson itself. Robertson died May 9, 2020 at age 87.