Interlochen Center for the Arts

Also written: Interlochen, Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen Arts Academy, National Music Camp

Jeffrey Epstein attended the National Music Camp here on a scholarship in 1967, as a fourteen-year-old bassoonist, and returned decades later as a donor. Government Exhibit 741 records more than $420,000 in donations between 1993 and 1997, including $200,000 to build the Jeffrey E. Epstein Scholarship Lodge, which an FBI interview of the school's VP of Advancement describes as segregated from the main campus, a quarter to half a mile down the road, where 'people would not see others coming and going'. His scholarship agreement required the student to communicate with the donor and offered to arrange a meeting on campus. Three SDNY subpoenas were served between October 2020 and November 2021; the March 2021 grand jury subpoena cites the federal sex-trafficking statutes, 18 U.S.C. 2423(a) and 1591. The school renamed the lodge Green Lake Lodge and says it severed ties after the 2008 plea. A separate line in the corpus is an alumni-database export filtered to Interlochen completion years 1994 to 1998.

In July 2026 a law firm the school itself commissioned reported dozens of accounts of abuse by 47 adults affiliated with Interlochen, ranging from the 1950s to the 2010s and overwhelmingly unconnected to Jeffrey Epstein. That report is linked below rather than summarised here; this page covers only what the Jeffrey Epstein records show.

Where it is #

4000 Highway M-137, Interlochen, MI 49643

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Documented money #

From the C.O.U.Q. Foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings (EFTA00224262), tax years ending 2001 to 2007. Jeffrey Epstein is named Pres/Dir of that foundation. Every figure was read from the page image, and each schedule adds up to its own printed total. A grant marked Scholarship is a payment made through the institution; an Unrestricted one is money for it. The returns name no individual recipient for either. Where the purpose column is blank, the return left it blank. This is not a complete total: the corpus holds no schedules for this foundation outside those years, and three other Epstein-linked charities have returns nobody has read.

People #

Being named in these records is not by itself an allegation about anyone listed.

• Jeffrey Epstein
• Ghislaine Maxwell
• Woody Allen

Key events #

• Epstein donates $200K scholarship lodge to Interlochen (1994); Wexner Foundation pays $185K (92.5%)
• Epstein and Maxwell approach 13-year-old at picnic bench with Yorkie dog (Aug 1994)
• Flight logs: Aug 18, 1994 Aspen→Traverse City (TVC); Maxwell on Aug 20 return
• Victim first assaulted at 14 in pool house; Maxwell participated teaching 'what men like'
• Maxwell told Interlochen staff she was bringing 'their personal masseuse' to children's camp
• Three SDNY subpoenas citing sex trafficking statutes (2020-2021)
• Epstein sent Interlochen camp link to Bechet Allen (Woody Allen's daughter) in 2017 - same playbook

Related findings #

• Epstein Groomed Woody Allen's Daughter Bechet (Age 18), Interlochen Camp, Skype Calls, Drawings, "Come See Me in New York"
• Maxwell Superseding Indictment Grand Jury: Epstein Donated Lodge to Interlochen Arts Camp, Then Recruited 13-Year-Old from Picnic Table
• Interlochen Infrastructure: $420K+ Donations, Isolated Lodge, Directed Scholarships, FBI Subpoenas Under Sex Trafficking Statutes
• Maxwell Trial: Interlochen Victim's Full Testimony, Recruited at 13, Assaulted at 14, Maxwell Participated in Abuse
• Maxwell Proffer: 136 Corpus Findings Contradict Her Testimony Across 10 Categories
• Pilot Visoski Confirmed Under Oath: Clinton, Trump, Prince Andrew, Spacey, Glenn, Mitchell on Epstein Flights
• Wexner Deposition: 14 Statements Contradicted by EFTA Evidence

Source documents #

Cited above

EFTA00090261 EFTA00097133 EFTA01249911 EFTA00019438 EFTA00088218 EFTA01245486 EFTA00008631 EFTA00008744 EFTA00008716 EFTA00068582 EFTA00158608 EFTA00019503 EFTA01616775 EFTA00224262

Documents naming it

Showing the first 60 of 155. This is an exact-phrase count over the scanned text, so it undercounts: the scanning breaks words across line ends, and a document that spells the name differently is not matched. Search the corpus for it.

Outside the files #

Reporting and records from outside the corpus. Nothing here has been verified against a document in the files.

• Investigation of School Epstein Helped Finds Abuses Went Beyond Him (New York Times, 28 July 2026)