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Key Figure

Nicole Junkermann:
a decade of correspondence

Nicole Junkermann appears in 4,058 provenance-verified documents across every year from 2009 to 2019. The correspondence is personal and continuous — and in January 2014 it carried a World Economic Forum nomination into the Gates orbit within hours.

Verified documents
4,058
Span
2009–2019
Peak year
2014 · 640
Charged
No
The Finding
Nicole Junkermann appears in 4,058 provenance-verified documents — more than almost anyone in the released files, and across every year from 2009 to 2019.
The correspondence is close and continuous: standing phone calls booked by his assistant, advice on legal disputes and family illness, birthday and New Year messages. And in January 2014, when she wanted a World Economic Forum nomination, she asked him to "push a bit" — and he forwarded it to Bill Gates’s science adviser within hours.
Provenance and scope

4,173 documents mention Junkermann; 4,058 survive provenance verification and only those are used here. By year: 2009 (117) · 2010 (481) · 2011 (452) · 2012 (295) · 2013 (423) · 2014 (640) · 2015 (304) · 2016 (195) · 2017 (496) · 2018 (350) · 2019 (237).

Junkermann has not been accused of any offence, and nothing in these documents suggests knowledge of Epstein’s crimes. She has said she was unaware of them. This page documents a relationship and what passed through it.

Section 01

2009: Counsel and Confidence

The earliest exchanges establish the register, and it is not commercial.

In April 2009, writing as Executive Partner of United in Sports: "Not as smart as you :) but very interesting — let’s see what we can do together."

Within months he is advising her through a legal dispute. November 2009: "tell them you would be happy to meet, after the negotiations with the lawyers are near an end… do not meet… until at least a year from his passing."

And in October she asks him a question that reads like therapy: "what do you think about revenge and fairness in life :)" He answers at length — "thinking Revenge allows the other side to eat at you, and only with your consent."

There is illness, too. Her father’s operation in 2009; her mother’s test results in 2014 — "My mother had terrible results, try to comfort her."

The texture of it

Standing phone dates in his schedule, booked by Lesley Groff. New Year messages — "My dear friend… Miss you my friend." Valentine’s notes.

This is one of the longest continuous personal correspondences in the release.

EFTA006947202009-04-18Junkermann: "Not as smart as you :) but very interesting — let’s see what we can do together." She signs as Executive Partner, United in Sports
EFTA007403642009-10-07She asks: "what do you think about revenge and fairness in life :)" Epstein: "the focus has to be on you and you alone. Be ‘fair’ to yourself. — thinking Revenge, allows the other side to eat at you, and only with your consent."
EFTA007417202009-11-06Epstein advising on her legal dispute: "tell them you would be happy to meet, after the negotiations with the lawyers are near an end… do not meet… until at least a year from his passing."

Section 02

January 2014: The WEF Nomination

The clearest documented instance of what the relationship was for takes three emails and one morning.

At 5:21am on 9 January 2014, Junkermann wrote under the subject "Wef": "as you know two person send my application — do you think you can give me a helping hand and push a bit for my nomination :) please"

By 11:30am Epstein had forwarded it to Boris Nikolic — Bill Gates’s science adviser. Nikolic replied: "Will tell you more when we meet. Just landed to NYC."

Five minutes later Epstein wrote back to her: "this is for ygl?" — the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders programme.

This is the access function in miniature — a request arrives, and within hours it is inside the Gates orbit. What the documents do not show is whether anything came of it. No further WEF correspondence has been located. Outcome unresolved

EFTA025795052014-01-09Junkermann → Epstein, subject "Wef": "as you know two person send my application — do you think you can give me a helping hand and push a bit for my nomination :) please"
EFTA019425562014-01-09Epstein forwards it to Boris Nikolic, Bill Gates’s science adviser, the same morning
EFTA019425952014-01-09Nikolic replies: "Will tell you more when we meet. Just landed to NYC. Can’t wait to see you"
EFTA019426542014-01-09Epstein to Junkermann: "this is for ygl?" — the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders programme
EFTA008715752014-01-14Epstein outlines a role for a candidate: "chief of staff, manage meetings, travel dinners, philantropy, etc"

Section 03

December 2014: Named in the Carbyne Approach

When Ehud Barak brought Reporty Homeland Security — later Carbyne — to Epstein, he named her.

18 December 2014: "Good conversation yesterday. To be continued on Monday after the CEO and his team will prepare more material. Darren & Nicole could also share impressions with you."

"Darren" is Darren Indyke, Epstein’s attorney. The pairing places her alongside Epstein’s own lawyer as someone whose view on the investment mattered.

She was an investor in the company. Secondary What the corpus establishes is narrower: that Barak expected her to have an opinion, and that Epstein was the person he told.

EFTA017480292014-12-18Ehud Barak to Epstein on Reporty: "Darren & Nicole could also share impressions with you."
What is and is not established Established: a decade of close personal correspondence; Epstein advising her on legal, financial and family matters; her asking him to advance a World Economic Forum nomination and his routing it to Gates’s science adviser; her being named in the Carbyne approach.

Not established: that she knew of Epstein’s offending, that the WEF nomination succeeded, or that any of her ventures were shaped by him. She has not been accused of any offence. Unresolved

Section 04

Chronology

2009
The correspondence begins. She writes as Executive Partner of United in Sports: "let’s see what we can do together." Within months Epstein is advising her on a legal dispute, an inheritance negotiation and her father’s illness.
EFTA00694720 · EFTA00741720 · Primary source
2010–13
481 documents in 2010 alone. The relationship is constant and personal throughout.
Documented
Jan 9, 2014
She asks him to advance her World Economic Forum nomination. Within hours he forwards it to Boris Nikolic, Gates’s science adviser, who replies that he will "tell you more when we meet."
EFTA02579505 · EFTA01942556 · Primary source
Jan 2014
Standing phone dates appear in his schedule, booked by Lesley Groff. 2014 is the peak year — 640 documents.
EFTA02580528 · Primary source
Dec 2014
Barak brings Reporty to Epstein and names her among those who could "share impressions" — alongside Darren Indyke.
EFTA01748029 · Primary source
2017–19
496 documents in 2017, 350 in 2018, 237 in 2019. The correspondence continues to the year of his arrest.
Documented
2019
She is appointed to an NHS artificial-intelligence advisory board in the United Kingdom. The appointment drew scrutiny after her Epstein correspondence became public.
Secondary
documentedreportedinvestigative question
Related figure
Ehud Barak

Carbyne, Toka and the ventures she was named beside.

Related investigation
Access and Introduction

How proximity was converted into access.

Primary record
Every EFTA identifier resolves to its original DOJ PDF.

4,058 provenance-verified documents mention Nicole Junkermann. Quotations should be checked against the linked original.

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