‘Hello Girls!’: Epstein Donated to Harvard Student Group for Years After Sex Conviction

Long after Jeffrey Epstein was known as a convicted sex offender, he was also a top contributor to an elite cluster of groups founded by Harvard University students. For years, he was able to fill a table with “girls” at an annual gala that featured celebrities, billionaires and cultural luminaries.

Annual donations of at least $50,000 to the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 — a nonprofit umbrella for a social club, theater troupe and a cappella singers — qualified him as a “Guardian of the Sphinx” at Order of the Golden Sphinx galas in New York from at least 2013 to 2019. His final invitation came just months before he was charged with federal sex-trafficking crimes and then hanged himself in a Manhattan jail.