This undated and unlocated handout image released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on December 18, 2025 shows late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (R) speaking to US professor and political activist Noam Chomsky

This undated and unlocated handout image released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on December 18, 2025 shows late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein (R) speaking to US professor and political activist Noam Chomsky

Renowned American intellectual Noam Chomsky privately sympathized with Jeffrey Epstein over what he described as the "horrible way" the press treated the late sex offender, urging him in a 2019 email to lie low and avoid media "vultures."

The exchange, revealed in a newly released cache of US government files, took place months before Epstein's arrest on child sex trafficking charges and points to a closer relationship between the financier and the revered leftwing academic than previously known.

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