‘Uncle Jeffrey’: Top Goldman Lawyer Features in Epstein Docs (1)

Jan. 31, 2026, 2:49 AM UTC

Kathy Ruemmler, a legal star on her way to becoming Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s top lawyer, had a nickname for Jeffrey Epstein: “Uncle Jeffrey.”

That’s what she called the convicted sex offender in a 2016 email about a meeting, in an October 2018 note about a “lovely and thoughtful” gift and in another message in 2019: “Am totally tricked out by Uncle Jeffrey today! Jeffrey boots, handbag, and w=tch!”

On Halloween in 2018, after she told him that she’d contacted the chair of her law firm about a financial matter, Epstein wrote back: “good girl.” The ...

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