About
This site exists to document one specific factual question: whether the public account given by Neri Oxman, and elaborated by her husband Bill Ackman, of her contact with Jeffrey Epstein is consistent with the contemporaneous documentary record now released by the United States Department of Justice.
In September 2019, Oxman published a public statement through Medium and the Boston Globe describing her contact with Epstein as a single in-person meeting at the MIT Media Lab in October 2015. She acknowledged a $125,000 donation from Epstein to her research group. She characterised her contact as effectively limited to that one meeting. In January 2024, Bill Ackman published an extended X thread in defence of his wife, characterising the family's contact with Epstein as a single platonic encounter and describing Oxman as not having accepted any invitation from Epstein.
On 30 January 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice released, under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, more than thirty-three thousand pages of correspondence and scheduling documents from Epstein's estate. The release contains documents dated from 2002 to 2019. Documents referencing Oxman by name appear across that span. Their content is, in important respects, inconsistent with the public account given in 2019 and elaborated in 2024.
We publish those documents. We summarise them. We compare them against the public account. We invite Oxman, Ackman, and every other party named in our coverage to respond.
That is the entirety of what this publication does.
What we publish
We publish primary documents — emails, scheduling correspondence, public statements, court filings — sourced to the original disclosure. Every claim about a specific document on this site is accompanied by a canonical link to that document and, where copyright permits, a mirror of the document scan.
We publish editorial articles working through the documentary record on specific questions. Each article cites every claim to its source, applies strict editorial standards on quoting and characterisation (described in detail on the Methodology page), and is open to right-of-reply from every named party.
We publish a registry of current engagements — Neri Oxman's documented professional and institutional relationships as of 2026. The registry is sourced to public information. Inclusion is a statement of fact about a public commercial relationship, not a statement about the merit of that relationship.
We publish the Sources index, the documentary backbone of the whole site — every primary-source document and public statement cited across our coverage, organised by date with canonical links.
What we do not publish
We do not allege, suggest, or imply that Neri Oxman participated in, knew about, or facilitated the criminal conduct for which Jeffrey Epstein was convicted in 2008 or charged in 2019. There is no evidence in the documentary record before us to support any such claim, and we will not entertain submissions or comments that venture beyond the documentary record.
We do not publish speculation about Oxman's private life, her marriage, her children, or any conduct that is not directly germane to the narrow question of her public statements about her contact with Epstein.
We do not publish anonymous sourcing, reconstructed dialogue, or material that cannot be tied to a primary document or to an on-the-record public statement.
We are not a campaign, a petition, or a legal proceeding. We do not direct readers to take any specific commercial, professional, or personal action against Oxman or anyone associated with her. We do not call for boycotts, removals, de-platformings, or institutional sanctions. Readers may draw their own conclusions from the material we present.
Editorial standards
This publication is run on a pseudonymous basis by a small editorial team based in the United Kingdom. Pseudonymous editorial responsibility for accountability journalism on subjects of substantial public interest is established practice in both the United States and the United Kingdom, particularly where the subjects of the reporting are public figures with materially greater financial resources than the publication. Editorial responsibility and contactability are concentrated in a single, monitored address: contact@oxmanrecord.org. All correspondence is read.
Our full editorial standards are documented on the Methodology page. In brief: we cite every factual claim, we keep direct quotes under fifteen words, we paraphrase by preference, we name only individuals whose involvement is editorially substantive, and we hold every named party's right of reply open indefinitely.
We make errors. When we discover them, we correct them transparently and prominently. The full record of corrections is on the Corrections page.
Right of reply
Any individual or institution named on this site is entitled to a substantive right of reply. The mechanics of how we receive, integrate, and publish responses are documented on the Right of reply page. The principal point: substantive responses are integrated promptly and prominently, in the named party's own voice, without editorial interference with the substance.
This invitation extends in particular — but is not limited to — Neri Oxman, Bill Ackman, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and its Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, Cooper Hewitt, Foster + Partners, the Goodman Group, OXMAN, Pershing Square Capital Management and the Pershing Square Foundation, Reid Hoffman, and any current or former commercial partner of OXMAN or its predecessor entities. A response from any of these parties will be published in full upon receipt and will remain alongside the underlying material indefinitely.
Funding and independence
This site is funded out of editorial pocket. We accept no advertising, no sponsored content, no donations from any party with a commercial, professional, or personal interest in the subject matter, and no payment for the inclusion or exclusion of material. We do not coordinate editorial output with any other publication, individual, or institution. The decision not to monetise is intentional and is a load-bearing element of our editorial independence.
The pseudonymous editorial team operating this site has no financial, professional, or personal relationship with any party named in our coverage. We do not maintain off-the-record arrangements with named parties or their representatives.
Legal posture
This publication is journalism within the meaning of section 4 of the Defamation Act 2013 — publication on a matter of public interest — and within the protections afforded to commentary on public figures under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, as applied to public-figure plaintiffs under New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964).
Every factual claim on this site is sourced to a primary document or to an on-the-record public statement. Every characterisation is offered as honest opinion within the meaning of section 3 of the Defamation Act 2013, founded on facts set out in the same paragraph or page. We have submitted our published material to pre-publication review by counsel specialised in English defamation law.
Neri Oxman is a public figure within the meaning of those authorities and on multiple independent grounds: a TED speaker; the subject of a solo retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art; a former tenured member of the MIT faculty; the founder of a commercial design studio with international reach; the recipient of public funding and museum acquisitions; and the spouse of one of the most publicly active figures on Wall Street. She has, by any reasonable test, voluntarily entered the public arena.
The matter covered here — the consistency or otherwise of public statements made by a public figure about her sustained correspondence with, and acceptance of personal funding from, a convicted sex offender — is plainly a matter of public interest.
We have not, at the time of this publication, been threatened with legal action. If we are, this notice will be updated to reflect that fact.
Contact
For correction reports, right-of-reply, and general correspondence:
This address is monitored. We acknowledge receipt within 24 hours and provide a substantive response within seven days. Routing details for specific article responses are on the Right of reply page.
Last updated: 29 April 2026.