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Kid Berwyn

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10. After Trump, Bill Barr might have been the happiest to see Epstein carted to the morgue.
Mon Oct 20, 2025, 06:46 PM
Oct 20

His father, headmaster Donald Barr, likely hired the college-drop-out Epstein to teach at Manhattan's exclusive Dalton School. Epstein enjoyed exclusive access to many of the children of the city's social and business elite. Reports exist Don was OSS (Office of Strategic Services) the CIA-precursor organization formed to fight NAZIs during World War 2. Sad part is, the NAZIs infiltrated the organization post-war. Sadder still, the KGB infiltrated the NAZIs during the war.



From NYT:

Jeffrey Epstein Taught at Dalton. His Behavior Was Noticed.

Some students at the esteemed Manhattan prep school recall that Mr. Epstein, now charged with sex trafficking, was willing to violate norms in his encounters with girls.


By Mike Baker and Amy Julia Harris
The New York Times, July 12, 2019

Excerpt...

The school, which had been a progressive haven for the children of artists and writers, was undergoing a shift under a new headmaster. Donald Barr, the father of Attorney General William Barr, came in as a disciplinarian focused on beefing up the academics of the school, and on enforcing a strict code of conduct.

In a school known for creativity, administrators had prohibited denim jeans and “bizarre and eccentric costumes.” If Mr. Barr caught students using marijuana, he would often send them to therapy as a condition of staying in the school. He himself described his leadership style as “by ukase,” using the Imperial Russian term for an edict from the czar.

Staff members would sometimes turn students away from their morning classes; girls for skirts that were too short, and boys for hair that was too long.

Some students and parents balked at the constraints. Still, the school continued to draw families of fame. Around the years of Mr. Epstein’s tenure, records show the student roster included Prudence Murdoch, the daughter of the media mogul Rupert Murdoch; the fashion designer Jill Stuart; and several future actresses, including Jennifer Grey, Tracy Pollan and Maggie Wheeler.

While Mr. Barr was strict on the school culture, he made it a point to hire teachers from unconventional backgrounds, recalled Susan Semel, a social studies teacher at Dalton from the 1960s to 1980s who later wrote a book on the history of the school.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-dalton-teacher.html

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