Epstein re-invited into home with teen present, newly released emails reveal

Newly released records from the United States Justice Department have cast renewed scrutiny on the social rehabilitation of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein after his 2008 conviction, revealing that a former girlfriend invited him to her home while her teenage daughter was present.

The documents include a 2010 email from Eva Andersson-Dubin—Epstein’s on-and-off partner during the 1980s—sent two years after he pleaded guilty in Florida to soliciting a minor for prostitution, served jail time, and was registered as a sex offender.

“Come and visit next week, Celina will have 5 friends over,” Andersson-Dubin wrote in the message. At the time, her daughter Celina was believed to be 15 years old.

The email has drawn sharp attention because it was exchanged after Epstein’s conviction and release, at a point when his criminal record was public and his movements were subject to scrutiny. According to Vanity Fair, Eva Andersson-Dubin and her billionaire hedge-fund-manager husband, Glenn Dubin, were among the first members of Epstein’s elite social circle to welcome him back following his incarceration.

In 2009, a year before the resurfaced email, Andersson-Dubin wrote to Epstein’s probation officer acknowledging his conviction but stating she was “100% comfortable with Jeffrey Epstein around my children.” She later invited him to Thanksgiving dinner, the report said.

Born Eva Birgitta Andersson in Uddevalla, Sweden, Andersson-Dubin is a former Ford model who won Miss Sweden in 1980 before attending UCLA medical school. She dated Epstein intermittently throughout the 1980s and married Glenn Dubin in 1994. Despite the end of their romantic relationship, she and Epstein remained close for decades.

She has consistently denied knowledge of Epstein’s broader pattern of abuse. Following his 2019 arrest on federal sex-trafficking charges, a spokesperson for the Dubins said the allegations were “completely counter to the person she is familiar with,” adding that the family was horrified.

“If they had been aware of the vile and unspeakable conduct, they would have cut off all ties and certainly never have allowed their children to be in his presence,” the statement said.

Andersson-Dubin later testified as a defence witness in the 2021 sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. In court, she denied participating in any sexual activity involving Epstein and Maxwell and said she did not recall meeting one of Epstein’s accusers.

Questioned about gaps in her memory, she told the court: “It’s very hard for me to remember anything far back, and sometimes I can’t remember things from last month. My family notices it. I notice it.”

She also testified that Epstein had what she described as an “uncle-like” relationship with her children—who referred to him as “Uncle F”—and said she and her husband were comfortable with that arrangement.

The newly released records now add a troubling layer to the long-running questions over how Epstein was able to regain access to influential social circles, including homes with minors present, even after his criminal conviction.