Top Goldman Sachs lawyer who called Epstein ‘Uncle Jeffrey’ in emails resigns

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A top lawyer at Goldman Sachs and a former White House counsel to Barack Obama announced her resignation Thursday, after emails between her and the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein were published by the Department of Justice.

The emails revealed a close relationship between Kathy Ruemmler and Epstein and, in one instance, found her referring to him as an “older brother” and appearing to downplay his sex crimes in others.

Ruemmler confirmed that she would “step down as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of Goldman Sachs as of June 30, 2026,“ having previously attempted to distance herself from the correspondence and defiantly refused to resign from a senior legal post she has held since 2020.

While she has more recently called Epstein a “monster,” her relationship with him was markedly different before his arrest for sex crimes and subsequent death by suicide in a New York City jail cell in 2019.

The emails reveal that she once referred to him as “Uncle Jeffrey” and declared that she adored him.

In a statement prior to her resignation, a Goldman spokesperson said Ruemmler “regrets ever knowing” Epstein.

During her time in private practice after leaving the White House in 2014, Ruemmler received several expensive gifts from Epstein, including luxury handbags and a fur coat, the files reveal.