# @newsday on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DVO9mILEoIp
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/57730098-newsday-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-02-26T20:01:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newsday • Long Island News (@newsday) — https://gondola.cc/newsday

## Caption

In early 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the Laurel Hollow research institution, was planning an exclusive event.

The invitation was sent on behalf of one of those Nobel Laureates: James Watson, a pioneering biologist who led the Cold Spring Harbor lab for decades before being ousted over controversial remarks about race and intelligence.

Now, a tranche of documents recently released by Congress and the U.S. Justice Department reveal new details about the ties between Epstein and Watson.

The records highlight not just Epstein's well-documented desire to befriend prominent figures in the scientific community, but also his yearslong relationship with Watson — including plans for a lunch at Cold Spring Harbor that were apparently derailed by Epstein's 2019 arrest on federal sex trafficking charges.

More on their relationship is at the link in bio. (Photos: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams Jr.; TNS, Rick Kopstein and George Argeroplos)
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#longislandny #epstein #coldspringharbor #investigation #linkinbio

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