Jeffrey Epstein was not the first wealthy person to use philanthropy to win over powerful friends. | Martin Bureau/AFP
Not everybody acquiesced when Jeffrey Epstein came bearing gifts.
Harvard University barred Epstein’s donations after he pleaded guilty to solicitation of a minor in 2008, a development that frustrated his friends on the faculty, according to an internal review. One physicist, a woman whom Epstein had bragged about and racially misprofiled in an interview that Science published after his death, had pointedly refused a donation just months before his second arrest in 2...
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