The corkboard
The Board
Each red thread connects two of the 38 people the benchmark
tracks through the Epstein Files, weighted by the number of documents that
name both. The heaviest thread on the board connects two of its least
famous names.
A thread is a count, not a claim: how many of the corpus’s 84,000
documents mention both people, using the same alias index the benchmark
uses to build its tasks. Threads representing fewer than three shared
documents are not drawn.
Hover a name to pull their threads. Click to pin, Esc to let go.
LESLEY GROFF and EHUD BARAK: 3 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and BROCK PIERCE: 3 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and PETER MANDELSON: 3 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and REID WEINGARTEN: 3 shared documents EHUD BARAK and JOICHI ITO: 3 shared documents NATHAN MYHRVOLD and LUCIANO FONTANILLA: 3 shared documents NATHAN MYHRVOLD and ADAM BLY: 3 shared documents BILL GATES and LUCIANO FONTANILLA: 3 shared documents BILL GATES and DARREN INDYKE: 3 shared documents ROY HODGES and GEORGE CHURCH: 3 shared documents ROY HODGES and BARRY JOSEPHSON: 3 shared documents BROCK PIERCE and JOHN CHRISTENSEN: 3 shared documents ANTHONY BARRETT and NILI PRIELL BARAK: 3 shared documents CRAIG MARTIN and ADAM BLY: 3 shared documents CRAIG MARTIN and DARREN INDYKE: 3 shared documents MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN and JENNIE SAUNDERS: 3 shared documents MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN and DARREN INDYKE: 3 shared documents DANNY HILLIS and JUSTIN NELSON: 3 shared documents DANNY HILLIS and JOHN CHRISTENSEN: 3 shared documents ADAM BLY and BARRY JOSEPHSON: 3 shared documents JOHN CHRISTENSEN and DARREN INDYKE: 3 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and TODD MEISTER: 4 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and ROY HODGES: 4 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and JUSTIN NELSON: 4 shared documents NATHAN MYHRVOLD and TODD MEISTER: 4 shared documents BILL GATES and STEVE BANNON: 4 shared documents BILL GATES and JENNIE SAUNDERS: 4 shared documents BILL GATES and ADAM BLY: 4 shared documents BROCK PIERCE and CRAIG MARTIN: 4 shared documents LARRY COHEN and GEORGE CHURCH: 4 shared documents LARRY COHEN and STEVEN SINOFSKY: 4 shared documents ANTHONY BARRETT and JUSTIN NELSON: 4 shared documents ALIREZA ITTIHADIEH and DARREN INDYKE: 4 shared documents GEORGE CHURCH and LUCIANO FONTANILLA: 4 shared documents GEORGE CHURCH and BARRY JOSEPHSON: 4 shared documents JOICHI ITO and ADAM BLY: 4 shared documents JOICHI ITO and STEPHANIE HODGES: 4 shared documents JOICHI ITO and STEVEN SINOFSKY: 4 shared documents STEPHANIE REMINGTON and DARREN INDYKE: 4 shared documents DANNY HILLIS and BARRY JOSEPHSON: 4 shared documents REID WEINGARTEN and JOHN CHRISTENSEN: 4 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and PETER ATTIA: 5 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and ANTHONY BARRETT: 5 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and STEPHANIE HODGES: 5 shared documents TODD MEISTER and ANTHONY BARRETT: 5 shared documents BILL GATES and MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN: 5 shared documents BROCK PIERCE and PRINCE ANDREW: 5 shared documents PETER MANDELSON and GEORGE CHURCH: 5 shared documents STEVE BANNON and PRINCE ANDREW: 5 shared documents ANTHONY BARRETT and ADAM BLY: 5 shared documents PRINCE ANDREW and GEORGE CHURCH: 5 shared documents GEORGE CHURCH and ADAM BLY: 5 shared documents DANNY HILLIS and ADAM BLY: 5 shared documents ARIANE DWYER and DARREN INDYKE: 5 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and NATHAN MYHRVOLD: 6 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and BILL GATES: 6 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and GEORGE CHURCH: 6 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and DANNY HILLIS: 6 shared documents EHUD BARAK and LUCIANO FONTANILLA: 6 shared documents EHUD BARAK and DANNY HILLIS: 6 shared documents BILL GATES and STEVEN SINOFSKY: 6 shared documents BROCK PIERCE and BARRY JOSEPHSON: 6 shared documents PETER ATTIA and STEVE BANNON: 6 shared documents PETER ATTIA and GEORGE CHURCH: 6 shared documents PETER ATTIA and DANNY HILLIS: 6 shared documents PETER ATTIA and JUSTIN NELSON: 6 shared documents ANTHONY BARRETT and GEORGE CHURCH: 6 shared documents PRINCE ANDREW and DARREN INDYKE: 6 shared documents GEORGE CHURCH and JUSTIN NELSON: 6 shared documents JENNIE SAUNDERS and ADAM BLY: 6 shared documents LUCIANO FONTANILLA and JUSTIN NELSON: 6 shared documents BILL GATES and BROCK PIERCE: 7 shared documents BROCK PIERCE and JOICHI ITO: 7 shared documents STEVE BANNON and GEORGE CHURCH: 7 shared documents PRINCE ANDREW and DANNY HILLIS: 7 shared documents GEORGE CHURCH and JENNIE SAUNDERS: 7 shared documents JOICHI ITO and MASHA DROKOVA: 7 shared documents MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN and MARTIN ZEMAN: 7 shared documents EHUD BARAK and PETER ATTIA: 8 shared documents NATHAN MYHRVOLD and BROCK PIERCE: 8 shared documents BROCK PIERCE and GEORGE CHURCH: 8 shared documents PETER MANDELSON and JENNIE SAUNDERS: 8 shared documents JENNIE SAUNDERS and REID WEINGARTEN: 8 shared documents EHUD BARAK and ADAM BLY: 9 shared documents TODD MEISTER and BROCK PIERCE: 9 shared documents ROY HODGES and DARREN INDYKE: 9 shared documents EHUD BARAK and GEORGE CHURCH: 10 shared documents NATHAN MYHRVOLD and LARRY COHEN: 10 shared documents NATHAN MYHRVOLD and BARRY JOSEPHSON: 10 shared documents BILL GATES and JOICHI ITO: 10 shared documents ANTHONY BARRETT and REID WEINGARTEN: 10 shared documents CRAIG MARTIN and DANNY HILLIS: 10 shared documents ADAM BLY and JUSTIN NELSON: 10 shared documents STEPHANIE HODGES and DARREN INDYKE: 10 shared documents TODD MEISTER and GEORGE CHURCH: 11 shared documents PETER MANDELSON and ADAM BLY: 11 shared documents STEVE BANNON and REID WEINGARTEN: 11 shared documents LUCIANO FONTANILLA and REID WEINGARTEN: 11 shared documents EHUD BARAK and JOHN CHRISTENSEN: 12 shared documents ADAM BLY and REID WEINGARTEN: 12 shared documents BILL GATES and JUSTIN NELSON: 13 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and LUCIANO FONTANILLA: 14 shared documents EHUD BARAK and ANTHONY BARRETT: 14 shared documents TODD MEISTER and JOICHI ITO: 14 shared documents BROCK PIERCE and REID WEINGARTEN: 14 shared documents PRINCE ANDREW and REID WEINGARTEN: 15 shared documents JOICHI ITO and REID WEINGARTEN: 15 shared documents EHUD BARAK and NATHAN MYHRVOLD: 16 shared documents NATHAN MYHRVOLD and ANTHONY BARRETT: 16 shared documents REID WEINGARTEN and BARRY JOSEPHSON: 16 shared documents TODD MEISTER and PRINCE ANDREW: 17 shared documents PETER ATTIA and REID WEINGARTEN: 17 shared documents NATHAN MYHRVOLD and MARK TOLLISON: 18 shared documents MARTIN WEINBERG and DARREN INDYKE: 18 shared documents ANTHONY BARRETT and MARK TOLLISON: 21 shared documents REID WEINGARTEN and MARK TOLLISON: 21 shared documents PETER MANDELSON and PRINCE ANDREW: 23 shared documents MASHA DROKOVA and STEVEN SINOFSKY: 23 shared documents BILL GATES and PETER MANDELSON: 24 shared documents EHUD BARAK and BROCK PIERCE: 25 shared documents TODD MEISTER and BILL GATES: 25 shared documents PETER MANDELSON and REID WEINGARTEN: 25 shared documents NATHAN MYHRVOLD and PRINCE ANDREW: 27 shared documents GEORGE CHURCH and JOICHI ITO: 27 shared documents NATHAN MYHRVOLD and REID WEINGARTEN: 28 shared documents GEORGE CHURCH and REID WEINGARTEN: 29 shared documents PRINCE ANDREW and MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN: 30 shared documents JOICHI ITO and DANNY HILLIS: 30 shared documents PETER MANDELSON and JUSTIN NELSON: 31 shared documents EHUD BARAK and PRINCE ANDREW: 33 shared documents EHUD BARAK and MARK TOLLISON: 34 shared documents BILL GATES and DANNY HILLIS: 37 shared documents EHUD BARAK and TODD MEISTER: 39 shared documents EHUD BARAK and BILL GATES: 39 shared documents BROCK PIERCE and DANNY HILLIS: 39 shared documents NATHAN MYHRVOLD and GEORGE CHURCH: 40 shared documents EHUD BARAK and STEVE BANNON: 41 shared documents BILL GATES and GEORGE CHURCH: 41 shared documents EHUD BARAK and NILI PRIELL BARAK: 46 shared documents NATHAN MYHRVOLD and DANNY HILLIS: 47 shared documents TODD MEISTER and JUSTIN NELSON: 47 shared documents LUCIANO FONTANILLA and DARREN INDYKE: 52 shared documents REID WEINGARTEN and JUSTIN NELSON: 55 shared documents BILL GATES and REID WEINGARTEN: 58 shared documents MARTIN WEINBERG and PRINCE ANDREW: 58 shared documents TODD MEISTER and REID WEINGARTEN: 66 shared documents BILL GATES and PRINCE ANDREW: 67 shared documents EHUD BARAK and PETER MANDELSON: 73 shared documents EHUD BARAK and JUSTIN NELSON: 81 shared documents MARTIN WEINBERG and REID WEINGARTEN: 88 shared documents EHUD BARAK and REID WEINGARTEN: 92 shared documents NATHAN MYHRVOLD and BILL GATES: 92 shared documents LESLEY GROFF and DARREN INDYKE: 93 shared documents GEORGE CHURCH and DANNY HILLIS: 129 shared documents GINA MAGLIOCCO and JUSTIN NELSON: 155 shared documents BILL GATES and LARRY COHEN: 303 shared documents ROY HODGES and STEPHANIE HODGES: 874 shared documents
2,506 docs 1,967 docs 1,964 docs 1,889 docs 1,777 docs 1,767 docs 1,743 docs 1,736 docs 1,709 docs 1,706 docs 1,705 docs 1,692 docs 1,692 docs 1,673 docs 1,671 docs 1,669 docs 1,657 docs 1,643 docs 1,616 docs 1,589 docs 1,585 docs 1,580 docs 1,580 docs 1,550 docs 1,547 docs 1,529 docs 1,525 docs 1,507 docs 1,494 docs 1,431 docs 1,392 docs 1,378 docs 1,372 docs 1,359 docs 1,353 docs 1,312 docs 1,296 docs 1,275 docs
Reading the board
The thickest thread
Roy Hodges and Stephanie Hodges appear together in 874 documents,
more than twice any other pair on the board. A sample of the shared
records shows day-to-day operations: property maintenance emails and
staff contact sheets that list both names. On this board, heavy threads
generally reflect shared paperwork rather than prominence: the
second-heaviest, at 303 documents, connects Bill Gates and Larry Cohen,
a longtime Gates adviser.
The most connected
Measured by number of connections rather than document volume,
George Church, the Harvard geneticist, and Reid Weingarten, a criminal
defense attorney, each share documents with 21 of the other 37 people.
Ehud Barak and Bill Gates follow with 20. The scientists on the board
tend to connect to one another; the attorneys connect broadly across
it.
The bankers
The third-heaviest thread, 155 documents, connects Gina Magliocco
and Justin Nelson. Nearly all of it is monthly J.P. Morgan account
statements for Epstein’s accounts and related trusts, each of which
prints the names of the banking team assigned to the account. The
corpus preserves these statements page by page, which is why two
bankers outrank most of the board’s better-known pairs.
Why Epstein is absent
Jeffrey Epstein does not appear as a node. Nearly every document in
the corpus mentions him, so a thread from him to each name would carry
no information. The board shows only the connections among the other
people in his files.
Method: a thread between two people counts the corpus
documents whose text mentions an alias of each, using the same alias index
the benchmark uses to build tasks. The index is heuristic and undercounts
unusual name forms; details and limitations in the
dataset card . The benchmark's raw target list has
40 entries; for display, two scan fragments of the same person are merged and
one organization misread as a person is dropped. Co-occurring in a mail
archive is a fact about paperwork, not a relationship claim.
These are public records released by U.S. courts and
Congress. Appearing in the files means appearing in someone's email, calendar,
or financial records. It is not an accusation of wrongdoing. Epstein Bench
measures whether AI can retrieve and cite what the documents say; it takes no
position on any individual's conduct. For the avoidance of doubt, this
neutrality does not extend to the crimes themselves.