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\n When billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein needed legal advice, help responding to negative press, or just moral support, he often turned to an unexpected confidante \u2013 Kathy Ruemmler, an elite attorney who served two US presidents and was once a top candidate for US attorney general.\n <\/p>

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\n As thousands of new documents tied to Epstein have been released, many of those closest to him have paid a steep price for their friendship by forfeiting influential jobs and weathering fierce public blowback. Yet Ruemmler, a former White House counsel for Barack Obama, has maintained a prestigious post as chief legal officer for Goldman Sachs.\n <\/p>\n

\n The bank has continued to stand by her \u2014 even as emails show Epstein calling her \u201cmy great defender\u201d and seeking her help pushing back on reports detailing his abuse of underage girls.\n <\/p>\n

\n A CNN KFile review of Epstein\u2019s emails and travel schedules sheds new light on his relationship with the power-broking lawyer and shows that their ties went far beyond professional advice and into the realm of a friendship.\n <\/p>\n

\n Among the many high-profile and notable names that appear in the Epstein messages, Ruemmler is one of the most frequently referenced, with more than 100 exchanges between her and Epstein over several years. Epstein\u2019s schedule reveals that he was set to meet with Ruemmler more than 50 times between July 2014 and May 2019, including for lunches and dinners with celebrities, apartment hunting, and personal beauty appointments.\n <\/p>\n

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\n As early as 2014, the year that Ruemmler left the Obama White House, the pair already appeared close, with Ruemmler telling Epstein in one email, \u201cI\u2019ll be here all week \u2014 you may get sick of me.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n In a statement to CNN, Ruemmler said, \u201cIn 2014, I barely knew Jeffrey Epstein. My remark was a throwaway line in response to his invitation to attend multiple meetings with business contacts.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Across the many messages, Ruemmler emerges as a confidant and advocate for Epstein, at times helping him manage his public reputation following his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.\n <\/p>\n

\n Epstein\u2019s estate is fighting to keep hundreds of additional emails between Ruemmler and Epstein private, arguing that they are protected by attorney-client privilege. The privilege log shows that Ruemmler continued to communicate with Epstein through at least June 2019 and suggests she was more involved with Epstein\u2019s legal affairs than previously known.\n <\/p>\n

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\n In 2023, Ruemmler told the Wall Street Journal, \u201cI regret ever knowing Jeffrey Epstein.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n In a statement to CNN, Ruemmler referred to Epstein as a \u201cbusiness referral source\u201d when she was at the law firm Latham & Watkins and that she knew him in a \u201cprofessional capacity\u201d when she served as head of the white collar defense group at the firm. But she said she \u201cdid not represent him and was not compensated by him.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN sent a series of questions to Ruemmler and Goldman Sachs prior to publication. Ruemmler provided answers to several of them, but others she declined to directly answer \u2014 including whether she was involved with drafting a public relations statement for Epstein or took part in discussions to help him respond to media inquiries about his sexual abuse.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI was one of a number of lawyers Epstein informally reached out to for advice,\u201d Ruemmler said in her statement to CNN. \u201cI had no knowledge of any new or ongoing unlawful activity on his part.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2018This is what Kathy suggests\u2019\n<\/h2>\n

\n In one email between Epstein and Ruemmler from June 2018 released by the House Oversight Committee, Ruemmler dismissed reporting on Epstein\u2019s abuse of underage girls as \u201ca novella of rehashed crap,\u201d sending a follow-up email that just said \u201cugh.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Ruemmler in a statement to CNN said she was referring to the article as crap but not the allegations.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe article struck me at the time as largely a compilation of prior reporting. I was obviously referring to the reporting, not the allegations of any victims,\u201d Ruemmler said. \u201cI have deep sympathy for anyone victimized by Epstein, and as I have said many times, I regret ever knowing him.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n In 2019, as major outlets reexamined Epstein\u2019s long history of sexually abusing minors, he invoked her advice directly. In a text message from that year, Epstein said Ruemmler helped him craft a public-relations statement in response to a forthcoming Washington Post editorial calling for Congress to investigate him.\n <\/p>\n

\n At 4 a.m. on March 7, 2019, Epstein texted a draft statement to a contact redacted by House investigators, calling it a \u201cRuemmler proposal\u201d and writing, \u201cthis is what Kathy suggests we tell Waco,\u201d correcting the typo seconds later to \u201cWapo.\u201d The statement \u2014 which Epstein said Ruemmler provided \u2014 rejected claims he received a \u201csweetheart deal\u201d in his 2008 conviction and argued prosecutors had pursued him too aggressively.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe criticism is wrong and reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of both [the] facts underlying Mr. Epstein\u2019s case and how it was prosecuted by both local and federal authorities. Far from a receiving a sweetheart deal, Mr. Epstein was subjected to a lengthy, aggressive, and highly unusual federal investigation for what were, in essence, local offenses of sexual solicitation. He accepted responsibility, served time and prison, and paid significant monetary settlements to the victims involved,\u201d said the statement.\n <\/p>\n

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\n An editorial from the Washington Post\u2019s editorial board later that day read, \u201cHow did Jeffrey Epstein get away with it? Congress should inquire,\u201d but included no statement from Epstein.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Epstein estate\u2019s privilege log shows that Ruemmler emailed Epstein about the Washington Post editorial the day it was published in March 2019.\n <\/p>\n

\n Another exchange from a few months earlier in December 2018 suggests that Ruemmler may also have been involved in discussions about how to respond to a Miami Herald 2018 investigation into Epstein\u2019s abuse of underage girls. In a series of messages with journalist Michael Wolff, Epstein refers to someone named \u201cKathy\u201d while weighing whether to push back on the reporting.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cKathy thought the piece is being lauded as great investigative journalism so does your suggested PR group have the better contacts to place a story on why it is not,\u201d Epstein wrote. Wolff appeared to invoke Ruemmler as well, replying that any response \u201chas to be war gamed out,\u201d adding, \u201cObviously I can contribute, Kathy can.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n As the fallout from the Epstein files continues, many of those revealed to be his close associates in his web of power are facing blowback. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, was stripped of his royal titles. Former Treasury secretary and Harvard University president Larry Summers stepped aside from teaching and was banned for life from a prestigious economic association.\n <\/p>\n

\n But Ruemmler has managed to fly under the radar despite working as the top lawyer for one of the world\u2019s largest banks, where she made $22.5 million last year.\n <\/p>\n

\n Goldman Sachs has stood by Ruemmler, with their CEO David Solomon telling CNBC in mid-November that Ruemmler is \u201can excellent lawyer, and the organization relies on her guidance every single day.\u201d The bank has said her relationship with Epstein was purely professional.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAs we\u2019ve said before, and has been repeatedly reported, Ms. Ruemmler had a professional relationship with Mr. Epstein when she was at Latham & Watkins,\u201d the company told the Washington Post.\n <\/p>\n

\n In a statement to CNN, Goldman Sachs said, \u201cEpstein referred business to Kathy, including a European bank he advised that became a client at Latham & Watkins. This naturally involved meetings and gatherings, including with other prospective clients, as occurred with other business associates.\u201d\n <\/p>

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\n Ruemmler, 54, has enjoyed a sterling legal career. After graduating from Georgetown Law and serving as an associate counsel to President Bill Clinton, she cut her teeth as a young federal prosecutor in the US Attorney\u2019s Office in DC. She joined the Justice Department\u2019s Enron Task Force, which successfully prosecuted top executives of the energy trading company for fraud.\n <\/p>\n

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\n She then worked in private practice before joining the Obama administration as White House counsel. Ruemmler emerged as one of Obama\u2019s legal defenders of his signature policy, the Affordable Care Act.\n <\/p>\n

\n After leaving the White House in mid-2014, Ruemmler returned to private practice at Latham & Watkins. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2020 where she is now the co-vice chair of the firm\u2019s reputational risk committee \u2013 which determines which clients the bank should and shouldn\u2019t work with.\n <\/p>\n

\n A spokesperson for Goldman Sachs said she met Epstein through her work in private practice at Latham & Watkins. The law firm said Epstein was never a client.\n <\/p>\n

\n Epstein appears to have trusted Ruemmler so much that he relied on her as a character witness.\n <\/p>\n

\n In 2017, Epstein invoked Ruemmler in his efforts to connect with tech billionaire Bill Gates, whose then-wife, Melinda Gates, wouldn\u2019t allow it given Epstein\u2019s reputation as a convicted sex offender.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHe wants to talk to you but his wife won\u2019t let him,\u201d read a text message to Epstein from a redacted user in late January 2017.\n <\/p>\n

\n Epstein then suggested Melinda connect with Ruemmler to assuage her.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cBill met my friend Kathy ruemmler, Obama counsel for 5 yrs. She would love to sit with Melinda and give her the other side of jeffrey,\u201d Epstein wrote, adding, \u201cshe is an arch feminist who is my great defender.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Ruemmler in a statement said she never met with Melinda Gates.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI have no control over how Epstein characterized me or our interactions. I was not his defender. I never advocated on his behalf with any third party \u2013 not Melinda Gates, not the press, not a court, not a government official,\u201d Ruemmler said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Representatives of both Bill and Melinda Gates did not respond to requests for comment. But the exchange offers a revealing window into Epstein\u2019s relationship with Ruemmler and how he discussed her with others.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ruemmler was listed as a backup executor of a January 2019 version of Epstein\u2019s will, according to a disclosure from Congress first reported by the Wall Street Journal. \u201cI have nothing to do with the estate and have never served in any capacity relating to the estate,\u201d Ruemmler said at the time.\n <\/p>\n

\n She was reportedly also seen in the courtroom for Epstein\u2019s arraignment hearing after his July 2019 arrest, sitting behind his legal team.\n <\/p>\n

\n The correspondence between Epstein and Ruemmler suggests a relationship far more intertwined than previously known.\n <\/p>\n

\n Emails and schedules show Ruemmler discussing articles, career advice, political developments, travel, dinners, and logistics with Epstein; being invited to \u2014 and in some instances scheduled for \u2014 dozens of meetings; and even having personal beauty appointments, including facials and a \u201cGlam Squad\u201d session, noted in Epstein\u2019s calendars.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cReminder: Kathy Ruemmler to see [redacted] today for a facial at 1pm,\u201d read one entry from March 2016. Another entry read, \u201cReminder: Kathy Ruemmler to have the Glam Squad to her NY apt at 9am!\u201d from February 2018.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The exchanges between Epstein and Ruemmler frequently drifted far beyond anything resembling a conventional, transactional attorney\u2013client relationship. They demonstrate a friendly, at times playful, rapport that is remarkably casual and frank given Epstein\u2019s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.\n <\/p>\n

\n According to at least one former high ranking official at Goldman Sachs, the firm was aware of Ruemmler\u2019s relationship with Epstein when she was hired, pointing to an article that ran in the Daily Beast in 2020 detailing her appearance at his arraignment in 2019 for sex charges related to his repeated abuse and trafficking of minors.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cShe clearly was friends with him,\u201d the source said, adding explanations that she gave for her ties to him no longer made sense with the new revelations. \u201cI would feel burned if I was them.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n In one exchange with Ruemmler, Epstein appeared to make light of his 2008 conviction.\n <\/p>\n

\n In a 2014 thread that appeared to discuss Ruemmler as a possible nominee for attorney general, she wrote to him, \u201cMost girls do not have to worry about this crap.\u201d Epstein replied: \u201c\u2018girls?\u2019 careful i will renew an old habit.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Ruemmler did not appear to respond directly to that remark.\n <\/p>\n

\n In another email, Ruemmler wrote about a road trip on the New Jersey Turnpike when driving to New York.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cGoing up to NY Friday morning,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThink I am going to drive. I will then stop to pee and get gas at a rest stop on the New Jersey turnpike, will observe all of the people there who are at least 100 pounds overweight, will have a mild panic attack as a result of the observation, and will then decide that I am not eating another bite of food for the rest of my life out of fear that I will end up like one of these people.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cOk, anytime you like, you can drive right to me and i will feed you,\u201d Epstein replied, adding a smiley face.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cGreat,\u201d responded Ruemmler.\n <\/p>\n

\n Many of the entries in his schedule mentioning Ruemmler were labeled as \u201cappointments\u201d; others noted \u201clunch\u201d or \u201cdinner\u201d with Ruemmler and sometimes with other figures such as Peter Thiel, Woody Allen, Steve Bannon and Bill Gates.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019m sitting here with Kathy Rummer,\u201d Epstein said in one text message, misspelling her surname. \u201cIf you have any questions.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI did not travel with him, go out to dinner with him, or spend time with him one-on-one except in a professional setting. As has been well established, Epstein\u2019s calendars and schedules often do not reflect reality,\u201d said Ruemmler in her statement to CNN.\n <\/p>

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\nCNN\u2019s Isa Mudannayake contributed to this report. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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