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More from WorldEmails reveal investment pitch<\/p>\nEmails in the Epstein files show Cami Clark, wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, sought investment from Jeffrey Epstein for business ventures in 2011 and 2012, though there is no indication he invested <\/p>\n
Cami Clark, an entrepreneur and the wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, is facing renewed scrutiny over her past business dealings with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after emails from the Epstein files revealed her efforts to seek his investment. Clark approached Epstein in 2011 and 2012 to discuss ventures including a self-described \u201cfree luxury porn\u201d company and a women\u2019s health startup.<\/p>\n
A Wall Street Journal report has also examined the exchanges, while the files contain no indication that Epstein invested in either business.<\/p>\n
Clark, an entrepreneur who married Amodei in 2022, previously dated former Google chief Eric Schmidt. The Journal has described her as a \u201csounding board and strategic adviser\u201d to Amodei and Anthropic.<\/p>\n
Before marrying Amodei, Clark pursued several business ideas, including a \u201cfree luxury porn\u201d company aimed at women and a \u201csocial dieting app\u201d.<\/p>\n
She first met Epstein in March 2011 through literary agent John Brockman, who knew the financier. Emails in the Epstein files show Brockman telling Epstein he \u201cshould connect for dinner with my girls\u201d, referring to Clark and her business partner Michelle Capocefalo.<\/p>\n
Clark replied to the introduction by writing, \u201cWe would love to have dinner with you this evening\u201d. The following day, she emailed Epstein details of her company\u2019s funding requirements and wrote, \u201cIt was FANTASTIC meeting you last night!\u201d<\/p>\n
More from WorldEmails reveal investment pitch<\/p>\n
A few days after their initial meeting in March 2011, Clark sent Epstein the script and treatment for her company\u2019s first films. She told him she thought Epstein \u201cand the ladies\u201d might enjoy them and described the material as \u201ca little nsfw\u201d.<\/p>\n
The correspondence continued into March 2012, when Clark contacted Epstein to ask whether he would consider investing in businesses she and a colleague were developing. The Epstein files contain no indication that he ultimately invested.<\/p>\n
The approach came years after Epstein was convicted in 2008 of soliciting prostitution and registered as a sex offender.<\/p>\n
Clark discussed multiple business ideas<\/p>\n
The March 2012 exchange is the longest conversation between Clark and Epstein found in the files. Epstein initially responded, \u201ci\u2019m sorry, who is this\u201d after Clark contacted him and asked to introduce him to another female entrepreneur who was launching a lingerie line.<\/p>\n
Clark reminded him that she ran the \u201cfree luxury porn company\u201d and asked whether that \u201cring[s] a bell\u201d. Epstein replied, \u201cyes, a loud gong\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was going to say, you would be the first person ever that didn\u2019t remember us :),\u201d Clark responded.<\/p>\n
Clark then asked to meet Epstein in New York. He said he was in the Caribbean but was \u201cwilling to look at whatever you think viable\u201d.<\/p>\n
When Epstein asked what had happened to Clark\u2019s plans for the porn company, she said they were moving \u201cfull speed ahead\u201d and pitched an investment in the company\u2019s move into video.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan\u2019t do TV sex,\u201d Epstein responded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t think so :),\u201d Clark replied.<\/p>\n
Clark also discussed her social dieting app and website, which she described as a service that collected data from health monitoring devices and turned it into infographics about users\u2019 health. Users could then choose to share the information with friends.<\/p>\n
The files do not make clear whether Epstein ever responded to that particular pitch.<\/p>\n
Further contact after business discussions<\/p>\n
Other emails in the Epstein files show Clark continuing to include Epstein on her email list. She invited him to a housewarming party in July 2012, while Epstein connected with her on LinkedIn in 2013.<\/p>\n
The files contain no indication that Clark and Epstein met in person again.<\/p>\n
What is known about Clark<\/p>\n
There is limited public information about Clark beyond the details reported by the WSJ. The publication noted that even Anthropic\u2019s AI model Claude cannot answer whether Amodei is married.<\/p>\n
The WSJ also reported, citing an unnamed source, that there had been deliberate \u201cefforts\u201d to remove public references to Clark.<\/p>\n
According to Forbes, Amodei\u2019s net worth is $15.5 billion. That puts him ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, whose net worth Forbes puts at $3.4 billion, although he remains far behind Grok leader Elon Musk, whose net worth Forbes values at $863.2 billion.<\/p>\n
Anthropic\u2019s planned IPO<\/p>\n
The renewed attention on Clark comes as Anthropic prepares for a potential public listing as soon as this fall. The IPO could reportedly be valued at $2 trillion or more.<\/p>\n
People linked to Epstein have faced increased scrutiny, with some called to testify before Congress. However, many high-profile figures associated with Epstein have never been accused of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emails in the Epstein files show Cami Clark, wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, sought investment from Jeffrey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[152],"tags":[13698,587,4422,51310,84607,87598,87596,586,84940,87600,9454,87595,667,87597,664,84941,625,87599],"class_list":["post-195875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dario-amodei","tag-ai-industry","tag-anthropic","tag-anthropic-ceo","tag-anthropic-ipo","tag-cami-clark","tag-cami-clark-business-ventures","tag-cami-clark-epstein","tag-dario-amodei","tag-dario-amodei-wife","tag-epstein-connections","tag-epstein-documents","tag-epstein-emails","tag-epstein-files","tag-epstein-investment","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-luxury-porn-company","tag-wall-street-journal","tag-womens-health-startup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117129302958818335","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}