Katherine Keating, the daughter of former Australian prime minister Paul Keating, exchanged a string of emails with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, new documents show.
The emails between Katherine Keating and Epstein were contained in a tranche of thousands of emails from the Epstein estate released publicly on Thursday by the US House Oversight Committee. The brief exchange reveals for the first time the pair were in direct contact in late 2011.
Keating’s known contact with Epstein was brief, according to the files. In one exchange on 28 October, 2011, Keating sent Epstein an email with a link to a story in The Australian newspaper that carried the subject line “Keating Interview”. Epstein asked: “Are you here [sic]”.
“Yes,” Keating replied. “Just arrived back from San Fran[cisco].”
On 31 October that year, Keating wrote an email to share the foreword of her father’s book ‘After Words’ to an undisclosed mailing list that included Epstein. It began: “Dear Friends,” according to a copy of the email released by the House Oversight Committee.
