By Tim Hanlon

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A copy of Jeffrey Epstein’s will has been found among new files released which surprisingly shows a former Barack Obama lawyer as an executor. Documents from the investigation into the disgraced financier are being released by the House Oversight Committee who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. And this included a sexually suggestive letter to Epstein purportedly signed by Donald Trump as part of a 50th birthday album compiled in 2003 – which the US president denies came from him. And among the files was a copy of Epstein’s will which was signed in January, 2019, eight months before he was found hanging in a New York prison cell. The will reportedly showed that Obama’s White House counsel and the current Goldman Sachs general counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, was a back-up executor for Epstein. The primary executors were Epstein’s former personal lawyer Darren Indyke and former accountant Richard Kahn, while the will was updated after Epstein was arrested in July, 2019. It has led to plenty of questions about Ruemmler’s links to Epstein with the lawyer having had dozens of meetings with him between 2013 and 2017, which was after he had been jailed in 2008 over crimes involving a teenage girl, with this information found in the financier’s diary which was released two years ago. Ruemmler, who was working for Latham & Watkins law firm, was reportedly scheduled to go with Epstein to Paris in 2015 and his private Caribbean island in 2017. But it is claimed that she never accepted the invitations to visit his island or fly with him. It is understood they first met when Epstein asked if she would like to represent Bill Gates and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a Goldman Sachs spokesman told the Wall Street Journal in 2023. And in released documents it included correspondences between Epstein and women allegedly working for him, who asked if it was fine for them to be around when Ruemmler was there, to which he mainly replied it was okay although told one not to be around. Ruemmler had dozens of appointments with Epstein which the Goldman spokesman said would have been normal. He reportedly said: “In the normal course, Epstein also invited her to meetings and social gatherings, introduced her to other business contacts and made referrals. It was the same kinds of contacts and engagements she had with other contacts and clients.” Meanwhile, Ruemmler has now told The Wall Street Journal following the release of the documents: “I have nothing to do with the estate and have never served in any capacity relating to the estate.” And Goldman Sachs have also stood by their lawyer. “Kathy’s legal judgement is widely respected and she has always put the interest of the firm first,” reportedly said Goldman spokesman Tony Fratto. The Mirror has contacted Goldman Sachs for comment.