Martin Nowak, Jeffrey Epstein and the Questions Harvard Still Hasn’t Answered (8/25/26)

The newly released Epstein records have put Harvard professor Martin Nowak back under intense scrutiny, not simply because of a bizarre 2014 email exchange about a “captured spy” and “torture,” but because the correspondence sits inside a much larger and more troubling relationship between Epstein, Nowak and Harvard. Nowak said the “spy” reference came from the computer game Civilization II and insisted that nobody had actually been captured or tortured, while saying he did not know what prompted Epstein’s response. There is no allegation that Nowak committed a crime, but Harvard placed him on administrative leave in February 2026 after millions of Epstein-related records were released, and the university has yet to publicly resolve the formal inquiry into his conduct. The deeper issue was Epstein’s extraordinary access to Nowak’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, where Epstein maintained an office, cultivated relationships with scientists and even privately described the operation as his institute at Harvard. Harvard had already shut the program down in 2021 before restoring some of Nowak’s research and advising privileges in 2023, only for the newest records to reopen questions about just how intertwined Epstein had remained with the university long after his 2008 conviction.

The documents also showed that Epstein’s relationship with Harvard was useful to him for reasons that went far beyond an interest in science. Epstein spent years using his connections to prestigious academics and institutions to rehabilitate his reputation, particularly as damaging information about his criminal conduct increasingly dominated internet searches for his name. His own websites prominently advertised his support for Nowak’s program, claiming Epstein had provided as much as $30 million, while Harvard has said the actual figure was approximately $6.5 million. More revealingly, Epstein’s publicist explicitly asked Nowak’s laboratory in 2014 to create a page about Epstein on Harvard’s website because having his name attached to a Harvard.edu address would improve his Google results, and Nowak agreed. The newer documents also suggested Harvard’s previous internal examination of Epstein’s ties to the university was incomplete, including evidence indicating Epstein may have visited campus later than Harvard had previously disclosed. What emerged was therefore bigger than one strange email: Epstein had successfully turned Harvard’s prestige, its professors and its scientific programs into valuable pieces of his post-conviction reputation-management operation, and years later the university was still being forced to account for how extensively he had been allowed to do it.



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Harvard Still Employs Professor Whose Emails with Epstein Mentioned Spies And Torture

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