"First off, many thanks for the invitation to your ranch. I had a great time, especially spending time with you and the girls, and seeing your Cretaceous sediments and the old railroad. In the same 2012 exchange, Horner asked about funding for his "DinoChicken" project, estimating the cost at approximately $15,000, later revising the amount to $8,650."
"My decision to pursue him as a donor was extremely poor judgment. Despite emails, he has maintained that there was nothing weird, inappropriate, or out of the ordinary. I want to make it perfectly clear that I knew nothing more than that. No amount of money in the world would have lured me to meet with a known sexual predator."
Jack Horner, a paleontologist who advised on the first five Jurassic Park films, was dismissed from Chapman University following the release of Department of Justice files containing emails between him and Jeffrey Epstein. The correspondence shows Horner visited Epstein's Zorro Ranch in New Mexico in 2012 and again in 2016, thanking Epstein for the invitation and time spent together. During these interactions, Horner sought approximately $15,000 in funding for his "DinoChicken" project, which Epstein agreed to support. Horner has acknowledged poor judgment in pursuing Epstein as a donor but maintains he was unaware of Epstein's criminal activities and that nothing inappropriate occurred during their interactions.
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