The Dubins’ board terms ended this spring; they did not seek re-election
Glenn Dubin, the hedge fund billionaire whose financial and personal connections to Jeffrey Epstein have come under scrutiny, has stepped down from Mount Sinai’s board of trustees after serving on it since 2007, according to sources close to the New York hospital. Mount Sinai said: “The Dubins’ terms on the board of trustees ended this past spring, and they did not seek re-election.” Dubin had served as a vice-chair. The hospital did not say whether its Epstein-related review had concluded, what the review found, or whether the review was connected to the departure.
Earlier this year, Mount Sinai reportedly formed a committee to review its longstanding ties to Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of sex trafficking. The Guardian described Mount Sinai, a New York hospital that has long ranked as a top medical provider in New York City, as featuring prominently in the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice. One episode in those files concerns a Mount Sinai doctor who appears to have operated on a young Russian woman inside Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse after she was hurt during a stay on his Caribbean island. The circumstances surrounding the Dubins’ departures are not clear.
Glenn Dubin, a founder of Highbridge Capital Management, had financial connections to Epstein and previously referred to Epstein as a friend. His wife, Dr Eva Andersson-Dubin, had once dated Epstein before her marriage and stepped down earlier this year from the board of Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine. A spokesperson for the Dubins did not respond to questions about the departure from the boards. In a statement, the spokesperson said: “Had they been aware of Epstein’s vile and unspeakable conduct, they would have cut off all ties long ago and certainly never allowed him to be in the presence of their children.” The couple were still listed as members of the hospital’s “boards of trustees” in a May 2025 journal marking the hospital’s 40th anniversary Crystal Party, a major fundraiser. In the journal for the 41st annual Crystal Party, held this past May, neither Glenn Dubin nor Eva Andersson-Dubin appeared on the “boards of trustees” list, which included members as of March 31, 2026.
A 2019 New York Times report, published after Epstein’s arrest on sex-trafficking charges but before his death, said Dubin first met Epstein through his wife and had provided Epstein with financial advice earlier in their decades-long relationship. The report said Epstein had invested $10m in Dubin’s hedge fund and that the two continued to socialize in Palm Beach even after they “parted professional ways.” In July 2019, the Dubins’ spokesperson said they were “horrified” by allegations of Epstein’s sex trafficking and said: “The Dubins were loyal friends and mistakenly believed Mr Epstein, a person they had known for decades, had rehabilitated himself after his 2008 plea and deserved a second chance.”
On the House floor last month, Republican congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky alleged that Glenn Dubin was one of 14 “Epstein co-conspirators” who ought to face investigation and possible prosecution. A spokesperson for Dubin did not respond to the Guardian’s request for comment on Massie’s statement. Massie also named Leon Black, another Wall Street billionaire tied to Epstein who served on Mount Sinai’s board. “Perhaps hearing these names,” said Massie, “will shame the Department of Justice into delivering justice.” Black has said he is the target of a political witch-hunt. Last month, Congress voted unanimously to hold Black in contempt for refusing to comply with subpoenas issued by the House committee on oversight, which demanded that he appear for a deposition and provide the committee with all his nondisclosure agreements. Black has denied knowledge of Epstein’s alleged crimes and has sued the House committee, alleging it overstepped its authority.
Black served on Mount Sinai’s board of trustees from 2001 to 2012 and on the board of its Icahn School of Medicine through 2024. In 2000, Black and his wife endowed the Debra and Leon Black Professor of Pediatrics chair at Icahn, and in 2005 they established Mount Sinai’s Black Family Stem Cell Institute. Attorney Brad Karp has served on Mount Sinai’s board since 2019. He was the longtime chairman of the Paul, Weiss law firm until he resigned from that position earlier this year after emails released in the Epstein files revealed extensive personal and business communications with Epstein. Paul, Weiss has said Karp “regrets” his interactions with Epstein. Karp remains on Mount Sinai’s board.
According to Department of Justice files released in January, Epstein donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mount Sinai and its medical school in the years following his 2008 conviction on state charges. In 2019, after Epstein’s death in jail by suicide, Mount Sinai said it was “contributing a sum equal to the donations we received from Mr Epstein and his foundation to a charity focused on preventing human trafficking and exploitation.” The hospital declined to answer questions about how much money it donated or to whom. The Epstein files indicate that the donations gave Epstein “VIP” status at the hospital.
A New York Times report said Dr Jess Ting, an assistant professor of surgery at Mount Sinai, sewed 35 stitches into the forehead of a young Russian woman inside Epstein’s townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The woman had injured herself while riding an ATV on Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean in October 2012. The New York Times published an undated color photograph that appeared to show the surgeon performing the procedure in Epstein’s dining room.
Four months after the procedure, in February 2013, Epstein directed his accountant, Richard Kahn, to make out a check to Mount Sinai for $50,000. An email written by Ting said the money was “earmarked” for research. Four years later, Ting co-authored an article about an experiment related to “aggressive sporadic breast cancer” in Clinical Cancer Research, a peer-reviewed medical journal. Its acknowledgements noted that the research was supported by donations from, among others, “Jeffrey Epstein to JT.” Tax records for the Icahn School of Medicine show Ting received $4.6m in compensation in 2019. Mount Sinai did not respond to questions about whether Ting faced consequences for having apparently performed the procedure in Epstein’s home, and Ting did not respond to questions from the Guardian.
The New York State Department of Health said in a statement: “While the department cannot discuss or provide details pertaining to active investigations, the allegations in recent media reports are deeply troubling and clearly warrant review. As regulator of New York state hospitals and diagnostic and treatment centers, the Department of Health holds all facilities accountable for the quality of care they provide to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all patients. The New York State Department of Health condemns any abuse that undermines patient trust and safety, including any predatory or unlawful behavior, and takes its responsibility to investigate allegations like this very seriously. We extend our support to all victims and survivors of medical misconduct, physical abuse, or sexual abuse and encourage any patient who believes they are a victim of misconduct to file a complaint.” Mount Sinai declined to comment.
In 2010, the Dubins established Mount Sinai’s Dubin Breast Center, now a 15,000 sq ft facility inside the hospital’s main campus on the Upper East Side. Its Fifth Avenue entrance has a large hot-pink awning with “Dubin Breast Center” in white. Epstein files show that Andersson-Dubin and Epstein communicated frequently about many topics, and that she reportedly served as Epstein’s “conduit” to Mount Sinai. According to Department of Justice emails, in April 2012 Andersson-Dubin, at Epstein’s request, sought a volunteer position at the center for a young Russian woman. When Mount Sinai’s director of international personnel said the “volunteer tasks” the “foreign national” wanted to perform “potentially conflict with the duties designated for the union,” Andersson-Dubin wrote to Epstein that the young woman could “sit there and just look pretty … if that makes it better!! This woman … has something against Russian girls I think … ,” to which Epstein replied simply: “socialism.” After Andersson-Dubin appealed to the hospital, the volunteer position was approved. Mount Sinai declined to comment, and the Dubins’ spokesperson did not respond to questions about the alleged incident.
Celina Dubin, the couple’s daughter, was a student at the Icahn School of Medicine and is now an assistant professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai. The daughters of two other billionaires linked to Epstein — Bill Gates’s daughter, who graduated in 2024 and is now a pediatric resident, and US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick’s daughter, who is currently enrolled — have also attended the medical school. Both billionaires have testified in Congress about their relationships with Epstein.
Last month, US district judge Jed Rakoff, who has presided over all Epstein-victim class action lawsuits filed against banking institutions, ruled that the newest suit could proceed. Those lawsuits have yielded $438m in settlements. The suit, brought against FirstBank Puerto Rico by Boies Schiller Flexner and Edwards Henderson, alleges that Epstein’s donations to Mount Sinai included at least $50,000 drawn from his Enhanced Education account at FirstBank Puerto Rico in June 2014 and were “directly used to fund” his illegal activities. It also alleges Mount Sinai was “linked to individuals known to have recruited for him,” without specifying their names. Mount Sinai declined to comment on the lawsuit. FirstBank said in a legal filing that it provided “routine banking services” to Epstein, did not violate anti-trafficking laws or knowingly facilitate his alleged crimes, and filed a suspicious activity report shortly after Epstein’s 2019 arrest.
A separate group of Mount Sinai employees, including female doctors, filed a federal employment discrimination lawsuit against Mount Sinai Health System, its Icahn School of Medicine and various current and former male Mount Sinai officials in April 2019. The lawsuit alleges that one defendant, a Mount Sinai doctor, “regularly called women ‘bitches’ and ‘cunts’.” The case awaits a ruling on Mount Sinai’s motion for summary judgment before US district judge Vernon Broderick. Mount Sinai’s legal filing called the complaint “nothing less than a malicious instrument of character assassination” and “rife with allegations that are immaterial and/or scandalous.” Ann Olivarius, head of the McAllister Olivarius law firm that filed the 2019 suit, said: “The Epstein connection is what gets attention, but that kind of culture never has just one victim or kind of victim. When powerful institutions let their men mistreat women, it’s usually a feature, not a bug.” Mount Sinai did not respond to questions about the lawsuit.
This past summer, outside Mount Sinai’s annual Crystal Party fundraiser at Chelsea Piers downtown, volunteers supporting Equity Now, an organization formed by former Mount Sinai employees who sued the hospital, distributed fliers featuring current and former Epstein-linked board members Glenn Dubin, Brad Karp and Leon Black. The fliers read: “WOULD YOU LET THESE MEN RUN YOUR PTA?” and “SO WHY WERE THEY RUNNING MOUNT SINAI?” Mount Sinai has not disclosed whether its Epstein-related review has concluded, what the review found, or whether the Dubins’ departure was connected to it.