Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote a $10,000 check to Mississippi’s oldest Baptist college in 2013.

Epstein sent the money  to Mississippi College less than a week before Thanksgiving that year to cover tuition for the daughter of his longtime pilot, Larry Visoski, who previously lived in Palm Beach, Florida, and flew the jet that became known as the “Lolita Express.” At the time of the check, Epstein wasn’t a household name, but he was already a registered sex offender. 

Jenny Tate, vice president of marketing communications for the college, told Mississippi Today, “Mississippi College can confirm it received a $10,000 tuition payment in 2013 for a student who was the daughter of one of Jeffrey Epstein’s employees. Our review of MC’s records indicates that MC had no other payments or contact with Epstein. Mississippi College unequivocally condemns all actions associated with Jeffrey Epstein, as these acts are incompatible with the mission and values of the University.”

The check and related emails are contained in the Justice Department’s release of more than 3 million documents related to Epstein. There is no suggestion in the documents that the Mississippi College case involved any sex-trafficking victims. 

But the documents do make more than 1,600 references to “tuition,” revealing that he paid tuition, mainly for female students, at  elite universities, massage schools, boarding schools and children’s summer camps around the world. Some are apparent victims, whose names are concealed through redactions.

Before her death, Virginia Giuffre became one of the loudest critics of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, describing how they sent her to a massage school in Thailand. She was also there, she said, “to pick up another victim and bring her back home.” 

In 2021, Giuffre sued then-Prince Andrew, alleging that he sexually abused her when she was 17. He denied the allegations but settled the lawsuit without admitting any wrongdoing. She took her own life last April just months before the release of her memoir, “Nobody’s Girl.”

With regard to Mississippi College, emails show that Visoski was upset when Epstein paid $10,000 for his daughter’s tuition, but Mississippi College didn’t refund the $8,900 Visoski had already paid toward tuition. “Not sure what I can [do] to get this money I paid back?” he wrote Epstein in a Dec. 4, 2013, email. “Any thoughts?”

It wasn’t the first time Visoski asked Epstein for cash to cover tuition. In 2012, Visoski asked Epstein for a loan to pay for tuition for the same daughter, then attending Millsaps College, as well as his other daughter, who was attending Syracuse University.

“Total $43,584.00,” Visoski wrote Epstein in a July 13, 2012, email. “Thank you.”

One daughter held her wedding at Epstein’s 7,600-acre “Zorro Ranch” in New Mexico and another got engaged there, social media posts show.

Visoski did not respond to a request for comment by phone.

From 1991 to 2019, he flew jets for Epstein. In addition to paying for the pilot’s daughters’ education, Epstein gave him 40 acres to build a house in New Mexico that includes a tennis court. A draft copy of Epstein’s will listed Visoski as a $10 million beneficiary, according to the documents released by the Justice Department.

Visoski became a key witness against Maxwell, and she is now serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking of a minor and transporting minors for illegal sex acts.

He testified that he flew Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Kevin Spacey, but he said he never knowingly flew minors and denied witnessing any evidence of sexual activity.

Emails show Visoski sometimes delivered females to Epstein. A Feb. 4, 2015, email shows Visoski telling a driver to pick up a female at the JFK International Airport and take her to the closest private airport, located in Teterboro, New Jersey — the same airport Epstein allegedly used to deliver dozens of sex slaves to the famous.

Visoski wasn’t the only employee whose children received tuition gifts from Epstein. So did the daughters of Bella Klein, who served as Epstein’s accountant. Epstein paid up to $25,000 a year for them to attend the Mark Twain Intermediate School for the Gifted and Talented in Brooklyn as well as summer camp, according to emails.

Epstein paid more than $70,000 in tuition for four children of the first lady of the Virgin Islands. “Never ends,” Epstein emailed his lawyer, Darren Indyke, a central figure in ongoing investigations into Epstein’s network.

Indyke has been accused of making payments from Epstein’s personal accounts, totaling over $2.5 million, to dozens of women for expenses that included tuition, rent and hotel stays. His lawyers have said he knew nothing about Epstein’s crimes.

In 2005, Palm Beach police began investigating Epstein after a 14-year-old girl’s parents told them that he paid her for a massage. 

Two years later, Epstein was allowed to plead guilty to two state charges in Florida and register as a sex offender in exchange for a nonprosecution agreement with federal prosecutors that gave Epstein immunity. Before that deal, they had planned on indicting Epstein with 60 counts of sex trafficking.

In 2018, the Miami Herald exposed the role of then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta in Epstein’s “sweetheart deal.” A month later, Epstein was found dead in a federal detention facility in Manhattan. The New York City chief medical examiner ruled the death a suicide.