Reporting methodology
Article 1 is primary-source led. Its language follows the evidence category supporting each claim.
Evidence categories
- Adjudicated fact
- A final judgment, conviction, guilty plea, official certification, or equivalent authoritative disposition.
- Institutional statement
- Evidence that an institution made a statement, not automatic proof that the statement is true.
- Investigator-recorded allegation
- An account documented by the outside investigators without a finding that the reported conduct occurred.
- Institutional record
- A personnel, student, donor, court, or administrative record described or preserved in the source archive.
- Respondent statement
- An admission, denial, partial acknowledgment, nonresponse, or statement through counsel, preserved with attribution.
- Boho News analysis
- A transparent calculation or inference drawn from identified evidence and labeled as analysis.
Counting the approximately 70 accounts
The report counts conduct involving each adult separately when one person described multiple adults. Its main decade-organized section contains 61 separately counted firsthand accounts involving 45 respondents. The Respondent 1 section adds seven; the Epstein section adds two. Boho News therefore reconstructs the published total as 61 + 7 + 2 = 70 while retaining the report’s “approximately” qualifier.
This is not a count of 70 proven assaults, 70 victims, 70 survivors, or necessarily 70 different alumni.
Privacy and limits
Boho News preserves the report’s anonymization and does not attempt to identify unnamed alumni or respondents through biographical clues. Descriptions of alleged conduct are limited to the detail needed to explain the record.
Unknown facts remain unknown. The absence of a surviving file does not prove that no report was made, and a reported disclosure does not by itself establish that senior leadership received or understood it.