How Jeffrey Epstein — and an NYC Dentist — Got His Girlfriend Into Columbia (1)

Feb. 11, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

In April 2011, a professor at the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine received a message from an assistant to Jeffrey Epstein.

“Jeffrey’s friend, Korina, is considering dental school,” the email read, asking whether the professor, Martin Davis, could arrange a tour the following day.

A little over a year later, Karyna Shuliak was accepted into the school as a transfer student, after not having finished her degree at a dental college in Belarus.

Epstein paid her tuition and donated at least $50,000 in her name to Columbia, a trove of emails and other documents released by the US Department of ...

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