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Emails released by the US Department of Justice as part of the Epstein files reveal the convicted sex offender was contacted by a female friend – whose name was redacted – in March 2012, seemingly while she was studying in Sydney.
“jeffrey have you seen photos I sent you ? I think that those are the most sensual and ‘im not a girl not yet a woman’ style photos I have ever had,” she wrote to Epstein.
“I am still loving sydney so much.. can’t believe your friend Katherine left Syd for NY. hope you are great, having a holiday every day ;)”
That was an apparent reference to Katherine Keating, daughter of former prime minister Paul Keating, who had moved to New York and became part of Epstein’s circle there in 2011.
Epstein responded that he had seen the photos, calling them “really terrific”, and asking: “have you made any mew [sic] girlfriends?”
Months later, in October 2012, Epstein corresponded with another person who appeared to be, or have been, in Sydney, but the tone had soured. It was not evident whether it was the same person as the March email chain.
“Do you want to see me or you are interested in me only because I found pretty girls for you?” the emailer asked Epstein.
He replied: “your job in Sydney, has as i warned, made you hard . you are behaving in a very cheap, vulgar, manner. If it is irreparable, we can no longer have contact.”
The person told Epstein that she wished their relationship could return to how it was the previous year, and worried that he had grown bored with their “Nabokov-Lolita relations”, referring to the famous novel about lust for an under-age girl by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.
Source: Epstein files reveal Sydney connections with ‘not a girl not yet a woman’ photos from friend