Top US arts camp and boarding school to demolish Jeffrey Epstein lodge

Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan approved a plan to demolish the Green Lake Lodge, previously known as the Jeffrey E Epstein Scholarship Lodge. The school removed references to Jeffrey Epstein after his 2008 conviction and said the lodge developed associations that do not reflect institutional values. Epstein attended the arts camp as a teenager in 1967 and donated more than $400,000 between 1990 and 2003, including $200,000 for the lodge’s construction. Epstein accusers have said they met him at Interlochen in the 1990s. Interlochen invited accusers to speak with an independent investigator and conducted internal reviews, including one after Epstein’s 2019 arrest, finding no misconduct involving him in its records.

"Interlochen Center for the Arts said this week that its board of trustees has approved a plan to demolish the Green Lake Lodge, which had been known as Jeffrey E Epstein Scholarship Lodge until the school cut ties and scrubbed references to the late millionaire sex offender after his first conviction in 2008. Epstein attended the Interlochen arts camp in 1967 as a teenager, and donated more than $400,000 to the school between 1990 and 2003, including $200,000 for the construction of the lodge."

"The lodge has, over time, come to carry associations that are not reflective of who we are as an institution or the values we strive to uphold, Interlochen said in a statement. After careful consideration, the board determined that removing this structure in a safe and timely manner is the right step for Interlochen at this time."

"At least two of Epstein's accusers have said they met him at Interlochen in the 1990s. The school said it was aware of news reports about the women's claims and said it has invited them to speak with an independent investigator as part of an external investigation into reports of historical misconduct at Interlochen. A pair of internal reviews, most recently after Epstein's sex trafficking arrest in 2019, found no reports of misconduct at Interlochen involving Epstein in its records, the school said."

"Epstein visited Interlochen periodically, often with his confidante and former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, and stayed in the lodge now marked for demolition. According to correspondence included in the justice department's recent release of Epstein-related records, he directed that tuition for at le"

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