Documents recently released by the Justice Department may show a connection between a Monroe County school and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.  

The phone number of Meadow Montessori in Monroe appears multiple times in emails between Jeffery Epstein and one of his associates, Lesley Groff. The emails date from 2011 with one reminding Epstein to call ‘Catherine Calder’ at the same number publicly listed for the school. According to the school’s website, Catharine Calder is the founder and head of Meadow Montessori. 

WDET called the number listed and asked to speak with Calder and about any connection she or the school had to Epstein, who died in 2019. The person who answered declined to comment. 

WDET has confirmed that Calder attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts in 1967, the same year Epstein went to camp there.

Another document shows an email from earlier in 2011 between a redacted name and Epstein where Calder is described as a “very old friend” of the late convicted sex-trafficker.