[GRADE B — Public records and secondary reporting]
The Mega Group was established in 1991 by Leslie Wexner and Charles Bronfman as an informal gathering of approximately 20 wealthy Jewish-American business leaders, focused on strengthening the relationship between the North American Jewish diaspora and the state of Israel. The group met twice annually.
Known members (from public reporting) — with v3.0 graph metrics and corpus presence:
| Name | Business | Graph Score | Relationships | Black Book | Corpus Presence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leslie Wexner | Limited Brands / Victoria's Secret | 19.0 | 1,361 common neighbors | Yes (Page 76, 16 phone numbers) | 93 House Oversight files; $46M USVI wire; direct jmail emails; SEC 13D; N.A. Property Inc. x8 |
| Charles Bronfman | Seagram | — | 8 | Yes (Page 8) | Office coordination email (EFTA02418583) |
| Edgar Bronfman Sr. | Seagram | 11.0 | 36 | Yes | 12 DugganUSA docs; "Active Tier 2" banking; Accretive LLC; $750/$200 financial lists |
| Edgar Bronfman Jr. | Seagram / Warner Music | 9.0 | 10 common neighbors | Yes (Page 8, Lexa Partners LLC) | IndexOfEpstein entity listing |
| Michael Steinhardt | Steinhardt Partners | — | 4 | Not in book | 2 DugganUSA docs incl. investment email |
| Ronald Lauder | Estée Lauder | 9.0 | 58 | Yes (Page 80) | 20+ jmail coordination emails (2017-2018); staff-level scheduling |
| Leonard Stern | Hartz Group / Village Voice Media | — | — | Yes (Page 52, 10 phone numbers) | Black book only; zero email corpus presence |
| Steven Spielberg | DreamWorks / Amblin | 12.0 | 93 | Not in book | Co-mention only (1 Peggy Siegal screening invite) |
| Lester Crown | General Dynamics | — | 3 | Not in book | Zero EFTA |
| Marvin Lender | Lender's Bagels | Not in graph | — | Not in book | Zero EFTA |
| Leonard Abramson | U.S. Healthcare | Not in graph | — | Not in book | Zero EFTA |
| Max Fisher | Aurora Gasoline | — | 4 | Not in book (deceased) | Zero EFTA |
v3.0 update: The membership table above reflects major corrections and upgrades. Wexner's House Oversight document count was corrected from "30+" to 93 files. Ronald Lauder, previously documented with "no direct correspondence," now has 20+ jmail coordination emails establishing an active social relationship. Leonard Stern, previously absent from the corpus, appears in the black book (page 52) with 10 phone numbers. Edgar Bronfman Jr. is now listed as a distinct entity from his father, with his own black book entry and graph presence.
Of the approximately 20 known Mega Group members, 5 now have documented contact with Epstein (Wexner, E. Bronfman Sr., Steinhardt, Lauder, Stern) — upgraded from 4 in v2.0 — plus one second-generation connection (E. Bronfman Jr.). Only the two co-founders (Wexner, Bronfman) plus Edgar Bronfman Sr. have substantive multi-document evidence chains. The remaining ~65% of membership still shows effectively zero corpus presence.
WHAT THIS SHOWS AND DOES NOT SHOW: The v3.0 expansion dramatically deepens the evidence for individual member relationships — particularly Wexner (from basic patronage to corporate governance embedding with $46M+ offshore transfers), Lauder (from no correspondence to active social relationship), and Stern (from absent to documented contact). The pattern of individual member relationships concentrated in the co-founders is reinforced, not weakened. Zero "Mega Group" organizational documents exist anywhere in the corpus.