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11 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18 19. . Mr. Epstein threw parties at his house in New York. He would often invite scientists, whose company he enjoyed. Mr. Epstein also had an interest in Harvard. In 1990, he and Mr. Wexner had helped to fund the construction of a new building at Harvard Hillel, named after Henry Rosovsky, then the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Dershowitz began introducing Mr. Epstein around the college. Mr. Epstein subsequently began funding research into psychology and the history of science, and he became a member of the advisory board of the Harvard Society of Mind, Brain, and Behavior, and a Harvard fellow. Mr. Epstein also established an office in Brattle Square, where he held seminars on contemporary academic ideas, in which Mr. Dershowitz sometimes participated. In an article in the Harvard Crimson, Mr. Dershowitz said that he would debate mathematics, genetics, law, and psychology with Mr. Epstein and professor Steven Kosslyn, and that in these discussions, they would all cut each other off all the time “because we just get it.” Mr. Epstein would evaluate drafts of Mr. Dershowitz’s books. Mr. Dershowitz has said that Mr. Epstein was the only person outside his family whom he trusted to do this. After Lawrence Summers became president of Harvard in 2001, he flew to Palm Beach on Mr. Epstein’s plane and stayed at his mansion. In 2003, Mr. Epstein pledged thirty million dollars to Harvard to create the Epstein Program for Mathematical Biology and Evolutionary Dynamics. To lead it, he recruited Martin Nowak, a biologist from Princeton University. Mr. Dershowitz became a Faculty Affiliate of the program. In January 2007, the evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers was scheduled to receive the Crafoord Prize in biosciences. Mr. Nowak invited him to give a talk at the Epstein Center, followed by dinner. That April, Mr. Trivers sent Mr. Dershowitz a letter that criticized him for what Mr. Trivers viewed as an attack on Norman Finkelstein, and also said that Mr. Dershowitz was a Nazi or Nazi-apologist for his stance on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. . On May 25, the day of his talk, Mr. Nowak, having arrived at Harvard, told Mr. Trivers that he was cancelling the talk a planned celebration, under orders from someone he would not identify. The reason given was that Mr. Trivers had called a Harvard professor a Nazi. Mr. Trivers said that he later learned that the order came from Mr. Epstein, under pressure from Mr. Dershowitz. (Mr. Dershowitz has denied this.) Mr. Trivers said that Mr. Epstein later apologized for having stopped the talk, using the word “apology,” and Mr. Trivers now described them as friendly. In the summer of 2000, according to a deposition by Juan Alessi, who managed Mr. Epstein’s house in Palm Beach, Alessi was driving Ghislaine Maxwell, Mr. Epstein’s HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022238