[GRADE A2 -- EFTA02216142, EFTA02649693, EFTA02657180, EFTA02324345, EFTA02328491, EFTA01895944, EFTA02458769, EFTA01780903, EFTA00313668 (Epstein's files, DOJ release)]
The corpus contains 30+ documents referencing 23andMe and related consumer DNA testing kits. The procurement operation appears to have been managed primarily through Lesley Groff (Epstein's executive assistant) and charged to Epstein's American Express card (ending 14009).
The Sultan Bin Sulayem Orders (May-June 2017):
Sultan Bin Sulayem, chairman of DP World, appears as the largest single procurement target. On or around May 20-21, 2017, 30 23andMe Health + Ancestry kits were ordered ($199 per kit). Groff managed the procurement. The kits were shipped to 9 East 71st Street (Epstein's Manhattan residence). According to the documents, the kits were to be hand-carried via Emirates airline to Dubai upon arrival. 23andMe subsequently invalidated the kits because the UAE was not a supported geographic region for their service.
[V2.0]: The v2.0 mining reveals the full logistics saga. Groff told 23andMe customer service that Sultan wanted 30 kits "to give them to his co-workers so they too may enjoy investigating their ancestry" (EFTA00453897). Sultan's UAE credit card was rejected -- Groff wrote: "I am going to ask my employer if I may use his cc details instead" (EFTA02215554), confirming Epstein's card was used as fallback. When 23andMe invalidated the kits, Groff admitted: "I had them loaded on a Emirates plane and flown to Dubai upon the arrival of the kits...so we cannot return them!" (EFTA00454927). Sultan then attempted a workaround: "Can we put the sample in it in dubai then send it to your address and you send it from New York to them" (EFTA02217649). This was rejected.
A separate order of 30 AncestryDNA kits was placed, described as being "for Shaikh Mohammed" (EFTA02649693). Sultan's PA James Miller handled payment logistics. The total cost on one confirmed order was $3,151.95; a second order at $6,084.95.
Other Named Kit Recipients:
The kit procurement pattern is notable for: (1) the scale -- 60+ kits in a two-week period for Dubai alone; (2) the geographic distribution -- New York, Dubai, Geneva, Cambridge; (3) the intermediation -- Epstein funded and shipped kits for other people's DNA testing through his own address and credit card; and (4) the timeline -- from Woody Allen (Sep 2016) through Sultan (Jun 2017) to Kahn (Apr 2018), spanning at least 19 months.
WHAT THIS SHOWS AND DOES NOT SHOW: The documents establish that Epstein procured consumer DNA testing kits at industrial scale, paid for them on his own credit card, shipped them through his residence, and in at least one case (Sultan) attempted to circumvent geographic restrictions by loading kits onto an Emirates plane. The documents do NOT show that recipients were unaware their kits were purchased by Epstein, do NOT show what was done with the results, and do NOT establish any coercion or unauthorized collection.