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disciplined in business and conscientious. A man always quick to help someone who is down, or to offer an opportunity to someone to pursue a dream or a goal. Generosity to Educational. Wellness, Civic and Scientific Organizations. Jeffrey has been extraordinarily generous to a host of educational, wellness, civic, and scientific organizations. Between 2000 and 2006 he donated personally, through his business and interests, and through foundations he had established,” a total exceeding $16,000,000. The good generated by his largesse is suggested in the following examples. Jeffrey has been a benefactor to a number of educational institutions, but perhaps none more so than Harvard University. One example arose out of a need of the Jewish community at Harvard to have a new Hillel Center built to foster Jewish social and religious life at the university. The fundraising campaign was having difficulties when Henry Rosovsky, then Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, decided to approach Jeffrey. Rosovsky wrote: At this point I approached Jeffrey and suggested that a $2 million gift would allow him to have his name on the building. It seemed to me a tempting proposition. To get your name on a Harvard building is a rarity and the cause was worthy. I do not remember all the subsequent details, but in essence this is what happened. Jeffrey told me that he would raise the naming gift and that he certainly did not want his name on the building. Leslie Wexner would also participate and he did not want his name on the building. Indeed, he had decided — by himself or jointly with Wexner — that my name should be on the building because I had been associated with the institution for such a long time. I fully recognized the generosity and modesty of this suggestion and greeted it with mixed feelings. I did not feel deserving of this honor but without the Epstein-Wexner participation there would have been no building. In truth, without Jeffrey's intervention there would have been no new building and that would have been an enormous loss to the community. The building that now stands on the Harvard campus is the Riesman Center for Harvard- Radcliffe Hille! at Rosovsky Hall. This example is instructive because it also suggests a noteworthy aspect of Jeffrey’s giving: to the extent that it is possible, Jeffrey wants his 2 The Jeffrey Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation, Inc. and the C.0.U.Q. Foundation. Public Records Request No. 19-372 DOJ-OGR- 00033228