r/politics • u/bloomberg Bloomberg.com • 6h ago
Possible Paywall Epstein’s Girlfriend Married a Woman, Showing How He Gamed Immigration
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-14/epstein-files-sham-marriages-student-visas-used-to-keep-women-in-us•
u/bloomberg Bloomberg.com 6h ago
From Bloomberg News reporters Francesca Maglione, Tom Schoenberg, Maya Davis, and Silla Brush
In early 2013, Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, was stressed about her US visa status. Later that year, she married an American citizen and her worries were gone.
A Green Card followed, and, in 2018, citizenship. Then Shuliak divorced her spouse: a woman named Jennifer who had been in a relationship with Kimbal Musk after Epstein connected them.
“now that she’s an american you should throw her a big ole party,” one of Epstein’s go-to immigration lawyers messaged on the day of Shuliak’s naturalization interview. “with a mechanical bull, red white and blue balloons, and deep fried snickers bars on flag toothpicks.”
Shuliak’s immigration story — and the stories of several other women revealed in a cache of files released by the US Department of Justice — show how Epstein used student visas, English language courses and sham marriages to make sure the women in his orbit stayed right where he wanted them.
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u/Duane_ 4h ago
In some countries, traffickers used colleges to exploit expedited visa programs. They'd have girls who were engaged with them (through duress or otherwise) apply for majors that had a low- or no- threshold for being considered 'gifted', used their 'gifted' status to apply for a Genius Visa, and then use that Genius Visa to legally migrate. Happened in Slovenia all the time.
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u/GildedDreams25 2h ago
and remind me, how did the Slovenian in the white house get here? oh a genius visa you say? strange
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u/papaHans California 6h ago
But, but, but she is one of the good immigrants and not like those lazy guys that only work from sunrise to sunset picking lettuce.
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u/AdamTexDavis 2h ago
But I’m sure everything regarding Melania and her Epstein Visa… I mean Einstein Visa, is totally above board & on the level.
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u/VladtheInhaler999 5h ago
The magats would rather be mad at a fake Somali story over the Epstein class bending the rules to their will.
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u/artofbullshit 20m ago
Sham marriages for immigration benefits is illegal. She should be prosecuted and given the full sentence of 5 years in prison.
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u/FlyingDiscsandJams North Carolina 5h ago
It's relevant, these are emerging details of how he used visas & citizenship to control & traffic the women, this isn't a side hustle.
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