Emails between New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein are among the millions of documents released by the Justice Department on Friday.
In many of the emails, Epstein discusses setting up Tisch with various women. All the women’s names are redacted, as is Tisch’s email address.
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The Giants released a statement from Tisch later Friday, describing their relationship as brief and Epstein as a terrible person:
“We had a brief association where we exchanged emails about adult women, and in addition, we discussed movies, philanthropy, and investments. I did not take him up on any of his invitations and I never went to his island. As we all know now, he was a terrible person and someone I very much regret associating with.”
The emails are mostly from 2013, five years after Epstein was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution. There’s also one exchange from 2017 in which Tisch tells Epstein he’s been talking “deeply” about it with a friend and wants to “stay in touch.” Epstein was charged with sex trafficking of minors in 2019 and died in his cell a month later in what investigators ruled a suicide.
In another email exchange with the subject line “Ukrainian Girl,” Tisch asks “pro or civil?” about a woman he met through Epstein, to which Epstein responds “you want to know if she is as sweet as she looks? boyfriend? reliable, etc. she is serious. she is civil, but Russian, and rarely tells the whole truth, but fun.”
Epstein then sends a second reply, saying “send me a number to call I don’t like records of these conversations.” He later tells Tisch that he “got on very well” with an acquaintance, who is “a little freaked out by the age difference.”
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A different conversation has Tisch outright questioning whether one woman, described by Epstein as “tahitian” and “exotic,” is a “working girl.”
There are more conversations, such as when Tisch asks if he “can expect ‘trouble'” while discussing a visit to Epstein’s home. Epstein responds by offering to invite “the russain [sic],” to which Tisch asks “Is it fun?”
At other times, the two make plans for Epstein to attend a Giants game in Tisch’s suite. Epstein also invites Tisch to his now infamous Caribbean island, which Tisch says he has never visited.
There is one email in which Tisch introduces himself to a woman and says “Jeffrey Epstein is very excited about you and I meeting each other. I like that idea. Do you?” He later adds “Your picture is great!”
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Overall, the name “Steve Tisch” returns 440 results when searching the Epstein Library online, although many of those are calendar entries and different emails from the same conversation.
Tisch is the son of Preston Robert Tisch, who bought a 50% stake in the Mara family in 1991 and died in 2005. He officially holds the title of Chairman of the Giants and has also worked for decades as a Hollywood producer. Among his credits are “Risky Business”, “Forrest Gump”, “American History X” and the “Equalizer” series.
Among his projects currently in the works is “Madden,” Nicolas Cage’s biopic of legendary coach and broadcaster John Madden.