DETROIT (AP) — Two people who attended a prestigious Michigan fine arts school reported conduct of a **** ual nature by Jeffrey Epstein, a major donor, according to an investigation that also uncovered dozens of allegations spanning decades against nearly 50 other people.
Interlochen Center for the Arts operates a summer camp and performing arts school that draws students from around the world. It hired a law firm in 2024 to investigate reports of **** ual abuse by faculty and staff. Subsequently, it expanded the work to include information about Epstein, the 66-year-old financier who killed himself in jail in 2019.
Interlochen removed Epstein's name from a lodge after he was convicted of **** offenses in Florida in 2008. The building, renamed the Green Lake Lodge, was recently demolished after the U.S. Justice Department released millions of pages about him that had been compiled over the years.
Sanghavi Law Office says it collected 70 accounts from alumni alleging "physical conduct of a **** ual nature" by 47 faculty and staff members affiliated with Interlochen from the 1950s through the 2010s, most before 2000.
"The information gathered during this investigation is, simply, devastating," the 97-page report says, noting that alumni reported grooming, flirting, **** ual touching and **** .
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Interlochen Center for the Arts operates a summer camp and performing arts school that draws students from around the world. It hired a law firm in 2024 to investigate reports of **** ual abuse by faculty and staff. Subsequently, it expanded the work to include information about Epstein, the 66-year-old financier who killed himself in jail in 2019.
Interlochen removed Epstein's name from a lodge after he was convicted of **** offenses in Florida in 2008. The building, renamed the Green Lake Lodge, was recently demolished after the U.S. Justice Department released millions of pages about him that had been compiled over the years.
Sanghavi Law Office says it collected 70 accounts from alumni alleging "physical conduct of a **** ual nature" by 47 faculty and staff members affiliated with Interlochen from the 1950s through the 2010s, most before 2000.
"The information gathered during this investigation is, simply, devastating," the 97-page report says, noting that alumni reported grooming, flirting, **** ual touching and **** .
#sexual #arts #school
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