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Epstein Email: “outing” New York Times publisher Sulzberger will see “the end of the establishment.”
One month before the abrupt departure of Arthur Ochs ‘Pinch’ Sulzberger Jr as publisher of the New York Times, Epstein wrote to attorney Brad Karp: “How about Sulzberger would that be funny”--to which Karp replied: “That would be pretty ironic and give whole new meaning to his nickname ‘pinch’.”
One day after the exchange between Karp and Epstein, Epstein and journalist Michael Wolff discussed a sex scandal that would be “the end the establishment as we know it”:
Epstein: “if Bannon outed Charlie and Pinch Sulzberger, then what?” Wolff: “the end of the establishment as we know it.” Epstein: “that’s the way I see it. ‘Pinch’ =sulz your silver bullet.”
Charlie Rose was fired from CBS three weeks later over sexual misconduct allegations.
“Bannon was working with Jeffrey to try to help Jeffrey rehabilitate his reputation,” Mark Epstein told Business Insider in 2023.
In a later exchange on 11 December 2017, Wolff and Epstein discussed high-profile candidates for the next round of sexual abuse scandals. Wolff wrote: “Big names on the horizon… my favorite: Arthur Sulzberger.” Epstein replied: “you and I are old news? :)”
On 13 December 2017, the NY Times announced 66-year-old Pinch’s retirement as publisher of the NY Times. His retirement took effect two weeks later.
One day after the announcement Epstein, emailed his long-standing contact Landon Thomas Jr., then a journalist at the New York Times, writing “Sulzberger - told you”, to which Thomas Jr. asked for proof “that was driving this”. Epstein replied: “wait”.
Epstein's relationship with the Sulzberger family dated back to the 1970s, when he spent time at the Sulzberger family's country estate, according to a draft Epstein profile written by Landon Thomas Jr. for NY Magazine in 2015, which was never published.
The NY Times has downplayed the latest Epstein release, writing the documents “reveal a bygone elite”, and are “steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone”.
The NY Times is now run by ‘Pinch’’s son, A.G. Sulzberger--the fifth generation Sulzberger to run the paper. The family has run the New York Times since 1896.
