'Summer Camps for Girls': Inside Epstein's 1,000+ DOJ Files Linked to Rothschild Bank CEO Ariane de Rothschild

Between 2013 and 2019, Jeffrey Epstein — a registered sex offender who had pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor in 2008 — maintained a direct email channel with Ariane de Rothschild, the CEO of Edmond de Rothschild Group, one of Europe's oldest and most prestigious private banks. The DOJ File Transparency Act corpus contains over 1,000 documents linking the two [1]. Not casual social correspondence. Not polite dinner invitations. Epstein was sending the CEO numbered action items directing the bank's corporate strategy, personnel decisions, legal exposure management, and DOJ tactics [2][3].

In a December 11, 2015 email, Epstein sent Rothschild a seven-point directive: '1. lets get this closed. 2. have kathy meet with david and his people. 3. review rockefeller. 4. hire asset woman. 5. do we use doj and its harsh language to remove benjamin. 6. begin family plan. susswein. 7. look for partners.' Rothschild responded: '45 mio?' — a reference to a deal worth tens of millions [2]. This was not a social relationship. This was a convicted sex offender functioning as a shadow consultant to the leader of a banking dynasty — directing everything from regulatory pressure to succession planning.

The 'Kathy' referenced repeatedly across these emails is Kathy Ruemmler, former White House Counsel under President Obama, who later served as general counsel at Goldman Sachs. She appears throughout the correspondence as a key operational figure Epstein deployed on Rothschild's behalf [3][4]. In a March 2015 email, Epstein advised Rothschild to 'play the war game out with Kathy' regarding a legal dispute [3]. In a July 2015 strategy session, he listed 'DOJ, review legal vetting' as an agenda item, with Rothschild asking whether Kathy would 'come to Paris for the weekend' [4]. The former White House Counsel was being directed by a sex offender to manage a European bank's legal exposure.

On May 21, 2016, Epstein sent Ariane de Rothschild a one-line email: 'lets talk summer camps for girls!' Two days later, on May 23, he followed up with a subject list: 'lux. rockefeller. cs. henri. ny trip. camp.' Rothschild replied from Luxembourg: 'Sorry, had my phone turned off the w-end. I'm in Luxembourg 2 days. Can we speak tonight?' [5]

The phrase is ambiguous. Ariane de Rothschild is known for philanthropic work, including the Ariane de Rothschild Women's Initiative. The reference could relate to legitimate educational programming. But the email was sent by a man who had pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor and whose documented method of operation — as established in federal court proceedings — involved recruiting young women through seemingly benign activities. The documents do not resolve this ambiguity. They preserve it.

What the documents do establish, unambiguously, is that a convicted sex offender was discussing programs involving girls with the CEO of a private bank — and the conversation sat alongside agenda items about Rockefeller deals, Luxembourg operations, and a New York trip [5]. The email is dated May 2016 — eight years after Epstein's guilty plea, three years before his arrest on federal charges.

The December 2015 email is the most explicit evidence of Epstein's operational role. The seven numbered items read like a CEO's action list — except they were written by someone with no formal position at the bank [2].

Item 1: 'lets get this closed' — referring to an ongoing deal or dispute. Item 2: 'have kathy meet with david and his people' — deploying Kathy Ruemmler to negotiate with someone named David, likely a reference to the Rothschild family's internal disputes. Item 3: 'review rockefeller' — a review of Rockefeller-linked financial arrangements. Item 4: 'hire asset woman' — a personnel directive for the asset management division. Item 5: 'do we use doj and its harsh language to remove benjamin' — suggesting the use of Department of Justice regulatory pressure to remove an individual named Benjamin from a position. Item 6: 'begin family plan. susswein' — initiating succession or estate planning. Item 7: 'look for partners' — a strategic directive to seek external partnerships.

Rothschild's response — '45 mio?' — suggests the discussion involved a transaction worth approximately 45 million euros or dollars. She also wrote: 'Yes... And deep thks for your amazing help' [2].

This is not advisory in the informal sense. This is a registered sex offender directing a bank CEO to deploy a former White House Counsel, leverage DOJ authority to remove a person from their position, and restructure deals worth tens of millions — and the CEO responding with gratitude [2].

On July 1, 2015, Epstein sent Rothschild a comprehensive strategy email laying out what appears to be a full corporate restructuring plan for the bank. The email reads: 'this weekend I think we should map out a coherent strategy for dealing with the various issues. first strategy and then tactics. I fear that tactics have moved to the fore front' [4].

What follows is an extraordinary agenda covering nearly every aspect of the bank's operations. 'People needs — IT, HR, CEO team, advisory board, Asset mgmt, paris head, shrink london, hong kong, nassau.' Then: 'look closely at Luxembourg.' Then: 'DOJ, review legal vetting — bermuda.' Then: 'deal with brand, wine, buy back, cousins.' Then: 'keep shlomo on mission.' And finally: 'setvine, new york, girls. Board' [4].

The word 'girls' appears on the same line as 'setvine' (likely Rue de Sévigné in Paris, where Edmond de Rothschild has offices) and 'new york.' In the broader context of the email — which is entirely about bank operations — the reference is unclear. It could refer to Rothschild's daughters or other family members who had a stake in the bank's future. It could refer to something else entirely. The documents do not explain the term. They embed it in a corporate strategy document written by a convicted sex offender.

Rothschild's response was about logistics: 'Quite an irony with humans! I hear Kathy is coming Monday to Geneva? Do you think she would come to Paris for the weekend?' [4]

On March 30, 2015, Ariane de Rothschild informed Epstein that Swiss bank BSI had paid a 211 million settlement [3]. The exchange that followed reveals Epstein's level of involvement in the bank's legal exposure.

Epstein wrote: 'yes, and if it were a paper case, where he could read and sign we might be ok, might however a real case. NO WAY. I would suggest playing the war game out with Kathy, have her tell you what it might lead to? you have many decisions to make and actions to take. as I have always said the first second and third priority is protection! protection for you, the girls the bank, the family' [3].

In this context, 'the girls' appears alongside 'the bank' and 'the family' — likely referring to Ariane's daughters as stakeholders in the Rothschild banking structure. The email concerns whether an unidentified male could withstand a hostile deposition 'where all questions about the bank and his knowledge will be on the table' [3].

What is not ambiguous is the role: a convicted sex offender was advising the CEO of a private bank on how to manage depositions, deploy former White House Counsel for legal war games, and structure protection around the bank's operations [3]. The phrase 'as I have always said' indicates this was not a one-off conversation — it was a sustained advisory relationship.

On September 19, 2016, Ariane de Rothschild emailed Epstein: 'good that you are Ok and had been on the island.' Epstein replied: 'landed new york. wild. traffic. between UN and bomb. many interesting people at the house. finance ministers, foreign ministers. cyber experts. weird and wild' [6]. The 'island' reference — contextually tied to Epstein's private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands — places the bank CEO in casual correspondence about a location that federal prosecutors would later describe as a site of sex trafficking.

Seven months earlier, on January 23, 2015, Rothschild was at the World Economic Forum in Davos. She reported back to Epstein: 'U would hate it here! 100s of power people. Jamie Dimon telling us: we should do practical things for the economy and create jobs. Yes, yes... from him. Keep failing to see Larry in these human masses' [7]. The 'Larry' reference aligns with Lawrence Summers, who appears separately in 15 documents alongside Epstein in the DOJ corpus.

A convicted sex offender was receiving real-time intelligence from Davos — commentary on JPMorgan's CEO and efforts to connect with a former Treasury Secretary — from the head of a private bank. This was not a social relationship that happened to involve a banker. This was a private intelligence channel operating at the highest levels of global finance [7].

The relationship had a formal financial dimension. Publicly available records, confirmed by prior reporting from Anadolu Agency, show that on October 5, 2015, Epstein's Southern Trust Company Inc. entered into a $25 million agreement with Edmond de Rothschild Group covering 'risk analysis and algorithm-related services' [8]. Epstein — who had no publicly known credentials in risk analysis or algorithmic finance — was listed as president of Southern Trust, a U.S. Virgin Islands entity.

On June 30, 2016, the depth of Epstein's involvement in the bank's crisis management became explicit. Rothschild emailed him: 'Issue is prosecutor. Can I call you later?' Epstein responded with a strategic assessment: 'Im told that CSFS does not want scandal. they see a big future ahead for them as institutions move from london. they want continuity. though they also want to be seen as dealing very harshly with wrongdoing. It will be a very delicate balancing act. Adults needed. interim group CEO? you move to chairman?' [9]

Epstein was advising on a leadership restructuring at the CEO level — suggesting Rothschild move from CEO to chairman while an 'interim group CEO' was installed. He was managing the bank's relationship with Swiss financial regulators ('CSFS' likely refers to the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority or its predecessors). He was coaching the CEO on how to appear to deal harshly with wrongdoing while maintaining continuity. A man who had evaded serious federal prosecution through his own deal was now advising a bank CEO on how to navigate a regulator's demand for accountability [9].

In the currently processed corpus, no evidence was found that the bank's board or shareholders were aware of Epstein's advisory role. Additional unprocessed documents may add context or contradiction.

The Epstein connection extends into the political sphere through a separate set of House Oversight Committee documents. A February 8, 2017 email — released as part of the oversight corpus — discusses leveraging Edmond de Rothschild's 'large cash reserves' for U.S. infrastructure public-private partnerships, noting that 'Trump will want to do private public partnerships' and that 'Donald loves the Rothschild name' [10].

The email discusses senior and mezzanine debt structures yielding 8-10% with Edmond de Rothschild's infrastructure funds (TIIC and BRIDGE). This document establishes that conversations about deploying Rothschild capital into Trump-era infrastructure projects were occurring just weeks after inauguration — and within a network that Epstein had been advising for years.

The documents do not establish that Epstein brokered or participated in these infrastructure discussions. They do establish that the bank he was advising — and being paid $25 million by — was simultaneously exploring financial partnerships with the incoming administration [10]. Whether these threads connect requires further investigation.

In February 2026, after the scope of the correspondence became public, Edmond de Rothschild Group stated that Ariane de Rothschild had met Epstein 'several times between 2013 and 2019 in the course of her normal activities within the group' and had 'no knowledge of Epstein's personal behaviour' [11]. The bank said its board was 'monitoring the situation' [12].

The DOJ documents tell a different story about the nature of the relationship, if not its criminal dimensions. A CEO who receives seven-point operational directives, who turns to a man for advice on deposition strategy and regulatory crisis management, who exchanges real-time Davos intelligence, who discusses 'summer camps for girls' and has a $25 million contract — that is not someone meeting a person 'several times in the course of normal activities.' Over 1,000 documents in the DOJ corpus describe a relationship in which a convicted sex offender was embedded in the strategic operations of a European banking dynasty [1].

No criminal charges have been brought against Ariane de Rothschild in connection with her relationship to Epstein. The documents do not establish that she was aware of or participated in Epstein's sexual offenses. They do establish that she maintained an extensive professional and personal relationship with him for years after his conviction — a relationship far deeper than any public statement has acknowledged.

These files are the government's own records. The over 1,000 documents linked below span five years of correspondence between a convicted sex offender and the CEO of a private bank managing billions in assets. Additional unprocessed volumes may contain further correspondence. Read them.