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Inside Karyna Shuliak’s Life With Jeffrey Epstein (Part 2) (7/27/26)
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Karyna Shuliak, a 37-year-old Belarus-born dentist, emerged from newly released investigative records as Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime girlfriend and one of the potential principal beneficiaries of his remaining fortune. Shuliak met Epstein in 2011, when...
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What's up, everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're picking up where we left off with the New York Times article that was authored by Matthew Goldstein and Sharon Otterman dealing with Corinnea Schuliac. You are the purest man. Ever since she was a child, Dr. Schuliac wanted to be a dentist. She was inspired by her own family's dental problems and what she saw as poor dental health and and Belarus, she wrote in an admissions essay to dental school reviewed by the Times. She completed four or five years of dental school in Minsk, but stopped her studies to go to New York. By the winter of 2012, she accepted Mr. Epstein's help to get into dental school. After Columbia's College of Dental Medicine initially rejected her, Mr. Epstein asked his own dentist, Dr. Thomas J. Magnani, a powerful alumnus, to put him in contact with the dental school's dean. Mr. Epstein dangled the idea of making up to a 10 million dollar donation. In the end, he would only give around 210,000 to Columbia, according to an accounting by the university. But it was enough to grease the wheels. Must be nice, huh? Little Lord Fuckleroy Epstein shows up with a bag of money and gets whoever he wants into school. The Justice Department files include a text message chain showing how Dr. Magnani and Dr. James Fine, a dental school administrator, gave Schuliac a heads up on topics she would encounter during an admissions exam in April of 2012 to test her practical skills as a transfer student. Neither Dr. Magnani or Dr. Fine responded to a request for comment. Oh, why would they? They don't have to explain themselves to mere peasants like us. They're fine members of the community pillars. In fact, after she passed and Columbia admitted her, Mr. Epstein arranged for Dr. Schuliac's mother to visit from Belarus. He would pay her tuition for three years of school. You are the purest man of all men, Dr. Schuliac wrote to him in June of 2012. Can you fucking imagine? Imagine the gaslighting that must have occurred. Or maybe not. Maybe Corinia Schuliak was willing to look past what Epstein really was because of the benefits it brought her. And unfortunately, there's a lot of people like that. How many people in this story, especially all your love and care, my parents, school, apartment. Thank you so much for everything. They fought at times over his insistence on having sex with other women in their 20s, including with a small group of assistants who did chores for him and whom he referred to as his family. According to emails, some Charles Manson type That's another thing I've said. This dude had a cult around him. That was his goal. Get all those girls, believe in all kinds of funky and thinking that everything he was up to and the stuff his friends were up to was normal. Meanwhile, it was anything but. She was about as normal as Norman Bates. I understand you need it. However, these are the things that don't feel natural to me. It feels somewhat dirty to me. She wrote to him in August of 2012. Nowhere in the Justice Department files that were reviewed by The Times does Dr. Schuliak express a broader ethical concern about how he was treating those other women, many of whom would later claim to be victims of his abuse. Instead, she asked Mr. Epstein to keep his relations with those women out of sight. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. And unfortunately, that was the MO surrounding Epstein, not just with Schuliac, but with most people. If that is not a lot to ask, please enjoy it, but keep me away from it, she wrote. I will stay with you no matter what, as long as you are happy. I love you. Getting a green card by the time she applied to Colombia in 2012, Dr. Schuliak had overstayed the student visa she had obtained in 2010. In early 2013, Mr. Epstein found a solution to keep her in in the country. The files show two years earlier, New York became one of the first states to legalize same sex marriage. Mr. Epstein concluded that a marriage in New York between two women might be the easiest way to gain US citizenship without raising red flags that the marriage was arranged solely to avoid deportation. The marriage hustle. And Jeffrey Epstein was pretty good at it. And it wasn't just the fake marriages. There was a lot of immigration fraud. And my question has always been, who helped him out doing that? Like I said in the earlier episode, he didn't do it on his own. There was somebody in the immigration office, he had a contact, somebody who wasn't. Mr. Epstein chose from the ranks of his assistants a 30 year old woman from Minnesota to be her spouse. Brad Edwards, the lawyer for the woman, said that his client was a victim of Mr. Epstein and that he could not speak about her situation. But he said that as a general rule, nobody was permitted or dared to ever disobey Jeffrey Epstein. And you know, Brad Edwards has really turned heel here, huh? All of a sudden he's defending all these women that for years he called co conspirators. Pretty odd to me. And look, I get it, the facts change on the ground. But here's a fact that's never going to change. A lot of those people that he's now representing were allegedly involved in abusing people like Virginia. So I don't know how he squares that circle. The emails show that Mr. Epstein instructed the woman to meet Dr. Schuliak on the morning of September 16, 2013, at the New York City Marriage Bureau. She was told to have her bags packed so she could immediately fly to the Virgin Islands after getting the marriage license, while Dr. Schuliak would stay behind to attend her dental school classes. The women were married three weeks later at the office of the City Clerk. Photos were taken of the ceremony. Yeah, they had to make it look legit, right? If anyone came asking questions, we have to have some contemporaneous evidence that this is legit, or at least close to being legit. After the wedding, a Brooklyn immigration lawyer working for Mr. Epstein submitted an immigration form stating that the woman wanted to list Dr. Schuliak as her wife and beneficiary. The request was approved, and immigration officials dismissed Dr. Schuliac's pending deportation proceedings. Months after the marriage, Dr. Schuliac got a green card, making her a lawful resident. Talk about game in the system. My question is, how many other girls did this happen to? We don't know about girls that weren't as lucky as Kia Shuliak hourly. The marriage had signs of legitimacy. The two women shared an apartment in the Upper east side building that was partly owned by Mr. Epstein's brother and where Mr. Epstein housed many of his assistants. They had a joint bank account at Deutsche bank and went on trips together to London, Europe, and Japan. Yeah, accompanying Epstein, doing work for Epstein. In May of 2018, she officially became a US citizen. A year later, Dr. Schuliak and her spouse divorced. According to a report released this year by Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and government reform, Dr. Schuliak's former wife claimed she had been forced into the marriage. The woman, in a statement to the Epstein estate, said she had not known that the wedding had been scheduled just days before Dr. Schuliac's deportation hearing. The report concluded that the marriage may have been done to provide Dr. Schuliak with the legal basis to continue residing in the United States. It didn't recommend any legal challenge to her citizenship. Of course not. Epstein reached out, talked to his buddies, and made sure everything was cool. I met Epstein's girlfriend in early 2019. Dr. Schuliak, Epstein. Mr. Epstein seemed every bit the couple. She was living most of the time in his New York mansion, and Took along her cat blueberry when they traveled together. She had become a licensed dentist in the u. S. Virgin islands, Florida and new mexico after completing dental school in 2015. But there's no evidence that she had much of a practice, Even though the files detail dental equipment installed at some of the residences. Instead, she spent much of her energy helping to manage his properties and staff. That was her new role. She took over for sarah, kellen vickers and ghislaine Maxwell. That was the role. Now, was she setting up girls to come in? I don't know. We haven't seen that yet. And she seems a bit jealous, so probably not, but who knows? We have to keep going. We have to dig deeper, and we have to see where the evidence takes us. No task seemed too small. She instructed his drivers to keep cold voss water in Mr. Epstein's cars, organized a floral installation for his manhattan mansion, Ordered a shipping container filled with outdoor furniture for his island, and managed repairs and cleaning schedules for the upper east side apartments that his brother was invested in. In mid June 2019, the pair traveled to Paris where Mr. Epstein had an apartment. On July 6, Mr. Epstein returned home to the United States while Dr. Schuliak remained in Europe. When his plane touched down at teboro airport in new Jersey, Federal agents were waiting and arrested him. Too little, too late. Rose should have been arrested 20 years ago and not just arrested. Thrown under the prison. About a month and a half after his arrest, in a 20 minute phone call from jail in Lower Manhattan, Mr. Epstein told Dr. Schuliak that the federal sex trafficking charges, which would take longer to resolve than he had thought. He advised her to find another place to stay for the time being, According to an account of the call provided by her lawyer to federal authorities. The lawyer, Maurice sir cars said he had told her to be strong. The next morning, August 10, 2019, Mr. Epstein was found to have died by suicide in his jail cell, Allegedly. Now, look, I am more than willing to accept that it was suicide, but we need more evidence. I mean, when you have Dr. Baden and several other medical examiners calling out Barbara sampson hawk for her job here, for what she said, what she did, I think we have to take note of that and I think we should pay attention. Shortly before his death, Mr. Epstein amended his will to leave her much of the $600 million fortune that that he had at the time, including the large diamond ring in contemplation of marriage, according to a handwritten note on a related document. But how much she will actually receive is unclear. The estate is worth between 120 million and 200 million. After paying out large sums to his victims, records show there are dozens of beneficiaries in addition to Dr. Schuliak, including Mark Epstein's children, who stand to inherit 10 million. Of course they do. And all this money is ill gotten gains. The money should be seized. If it was a RICO case, the money would have been seized. And that's another reason why it's not a RICO case. People are still getting rich here. And when I say people, I don't mean survivors. And all the jack holes out there saying, oh, it was a big money grab by the survivors. Well, Jeffrey Epstein's nieces or whatever, the. They're about to get $10 million. And I can assure you none of the survivors got $10 million from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. So take your ass narrative and shove it. Yet despite this potential windfall, Dr. Schuliak did not give up her desire to be a dentist. By 2023, she was back in New York, applying for a postdoctoral dental program at Columbia. Apparently to fulfill a requirement she needed to obtain a license to practice in the state. The same two dentists who helped her gain admission to Columbia in 2012 once again came to her assistance, according to a copy of her admission file reviewed by the Times. The file shows that Dr. Fine, the dean overseeing Columbia's postgraduate residency program, created a special faculty internship for her at the midtown Manhattan dental practice he shared with Dr. Magnani. Both men gave her their highest recommendation for the program, which she graduated from in May of 2025 along with six other students. In November, she received her dental license to practice in New York. In the aftermath of the release of the Epstein files, Columbia demoted Dr. Fine and removed Dr. Magnani from his alumni leadership post. The men declined to comment. The university did not recommend any consequences for Dr. Schuliak, who it said had met the qualifications for admission. Oh, well, in that case, I'm sure Jeffrey Epstein and his long arm had nothing to do with it. At around the same time she received her New York dental license, Dr. Schuliak entered a want ad on Indeed.com for a part time job as a dentist in downtown Brooklyn, according to a dentist with a practice who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss workplace issues. It was there that that Yunhan Kim, a patient, was treated by her twice for cleaning in December and a filling in February. Ms. Kim said she hadn't realized Dr. Schuliak's true identity until she saw photographs of her released with the Epstein files. Feeling duped because she was not informed of Dr. Schuliak's full name, and wanting to warn other patients, she reached out to the Times. Hey, I get it, man. I don't want one of Jeffrey Epstein's Manson family people digging around in my mouth either. I was so upset, Ms. Kim said. I just couldn't believe it. Of all the things that happened to me, I didn't win the lottery. I met Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend. Dr. Schuliak's last day working at the Brooklyn office was February 12th. She was supposed to work on February 16th, but called in sick and never returned. The notoriety from the files probably made it difficult for her to keep working there. The dentist at the practice said Dr. Schuliak's lawyer declined to say whether she had gotten another dental job. And unfortunately, that's the scarlet letter, right? Epstein's girlfriend, Somebody that was that close to him, Somebody that knew what he was. And not only that, but according to the files, according to what we know, she never claimed to be a victim. So she was there willingly. So I could understand why Ms. Kim wants nothing to do with a dentist. That was Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend. I mean, it seems like a quality life decision to me. So I wonder what's gonna happen with the money, and I wonder if juliac is gonna get her share of it. And to that end, like usual, we'll keep an eye on it. And when we have some more information, one way or the other, we'll get that added to the catalog as well. All the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.