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2020HARVARD, MAY 2020INSTITUTIONAL REPORT · 2020Harvard University

Institutional report · Harvard University · 2020-05-01

Diane E. Lopez, Vice President and General Counsel, to President Lawrence S. Bacow

Report Concerning Jeffrey E. Epstein's Connections to Harvard University

HARVARD, MAY 2020

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What the document is

Harvard's own review of its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, released May 1, 2020. It documents gifts totaling roughly 9.1 million dollars between 1998 and 2008, with the largest share directed to the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, a visiting fellow appointment granted in 2005, and more than forty visits to that program's offices between 2010 and 2018, well after the 2008 conviction. The review drew on interviews with more than forty people and searches across more than 250,000 pages of records.

Why it is in the report

This is the university speaking about itself, in its own report, which makes it the strongest kind of source there is. Read it beside the genome engineering patent in this same library, which Harvard College holds as assignee.

What this document does not say. Harvard's own 2020 report is a primary source, and it has since been publicly contested. Harvard opened a further review in November 2025 after new Epstein documents were released, expanded it in February 2026, and in 2026 members of the Harvard community published an open letter arguing the 2020 report left significant relationships out. Cite the 2020 report for what it documents, and say plainly that the record is still being amended.
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Pull it yourself

  1. Open the president's office page for the 2020 report and download the general counsel letter.
  2. Read the sections listing gifts by recipient and by year.
  3. Check for the newer review opened in November 2025 before citing the 2020 report as final.

Cite this record

Harvard University. Report Concerning Jeffrey E. Epstein's Connections to Harvard University. Institutional report, 2020-05-01. https://www.harvard.edu/president/news-and-statements-by-president-bacow/2020/report-regarding-jeffrey-epstein-s-connections-to-harvard/

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