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highplainsdem

(60,988 posts)
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 03:37 PM 10 hrs ago

Columbia removes staff who gave place to Epstein's girlfriend

Source: The Times (UK)

Columbia University has cut ties with administrators they say helped admit Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend to its dental school through “an irregular process”.

Documents released by the US Justice Department as part of the Epstein files appear to show that Karyna Shuliak had initially applied to attend the Ivy League college’s dental school in 2012 but was rejected.

A few weeks later, according to emails, there appeared to be plans for Shuliak, a Belarusian national who had been studying at the Belarusian State Medical University, to enroll as a “transfer student”.

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After Shuliak, then aged 22, was admitted, Epstein gave $100,000 to a public-health project run by Lamster, the dean of the dental college. Then in 2014, he gave $50,000 to the dental school’s annual fund.

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Read more: https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/columbia-university-epstein-girlfriend-dentist-rt7ph5fp7

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Columbia removes staff who gave place to Epstein's girlfriend (Original Post) highplainsdem 10 hrs ago OP
150K? progressoid 10 hrs ago #1
I'm guessing she's a Pediatric Dentist? Captain Zero 10 hrs ago #2
... progressoid 9 hrs ago #7
So, Melania got her citizenship in a squirrely way. Baitball Blogger 10 hrs ago #3
So all this happened more than 10 years ago, and she's still in dental school? FakeNoose 9 hrs ago #4
Article says she graduated. Igel 9 hrs ago #5
She's the last person to talk to Epstein before he died. progressoid 9 hrs ago #6
Epstein left her with $100MIllion.......... riversedge 9 hrs ago #8
"Columbia removes staff who gave place to Epstein's girlfriend" OldBaldy1701E 8 hrs ago #9
If you can't trust your dentist _______________!!!--- you fill in the blank twodogsbarking 8 hrs ago #10
$150,000 bribe to a university official AverageOldGuy 7 hrs ago #11
Wasn't there a dental chair in some pics of Epsteins mansion? BattleRow 7 hrs ago #12

progressoid

(52,844 posts)
7. ...
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 04:30 PM
9 hrs ago
A CV for Shuliak released in the files stated her address was 6100 Red Hook Quarter in the Virgin Islands, which was the headquarters of the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation.

It stated that she studied at the Belarusian State Medical University from 2006 to 2010 before enrolling at Columbia University’s College of Dental Medicine in New York, where she graduated in 2015. A separate email from the dean of Columbia indicates that she did not finish her studies in Minsk, but had sought to do so in New York in 2012.

She later worked as a dentist at a practice she owned on St Thomas in the Virgin Islands, according to her CV. St Thomas is adjacent to Little St James, the private island owned by Epstein. She also worked as an executive assistant for Southern Trust Company, which has been identified as Epstein’s “main money-making company”.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/jeffrey-epstein-girlfriend-belarusian-dentist-karyna-shuliak-pkttn9lnf

Baitball Blogger

(51,938 posts)
3. So, Melania got her citizenship in a squirrely way.
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 04:00 PM
10 hrs ago

Shouldn't that also be investigated since the theory is that she was introduced to Trump through Epstein?

FakeNoose

(40,849 posts)
4. So all this happened more than 10 years ago, and she's still in dental school?
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 04:04 PM
9 hrs ago

When does this woman plan to graduate?

Apparently when she does, it won't be from Columbia Dental School ....

Igel

(37,448 posts)
5. Article says she graduated.
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 04:16 PM
9 hrs ago

And Epstein helped fast-track her dentistry license. Since he died in 2019, I'm guessing that licensure happened a while back.

Also says she returned to Columbia for some dentistry-related education courses but left Columbia last year. Whether that resulted in another degree or certification or not, the article doesn't say.

riversedge

(80,130 posts)
8. Epstein left her with $100MIllion..........
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 04:51 PM
9 hrs ago



Shuliak, now 36, who was the last person to speak to Epstein on the phone before his suicide in a prison cell in 2019, was left $100 million — making her the top beneficiary of the estate.
#trumpEpsteinfiles

Shuliak, now 36, who was the last person to speak to Epstein on the phone before his suicide in a prison cell in 2019, was left 0 million — making her the top beneficiary of the estate.
#trumpEpsteinfiles

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OldBaldy1701E

(10,734 posts)
9. "Columbia removes staff who gave place to Epstein's girlfriend"
Fri Feb 13, 2026, 05:37 PM
8 hrs ago
After they started really getting shit about the whole thing.

Never underestimate the survival maneuvers of a corporate entity, even one that hides behind a smartboarad.
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