File 030430
Email from John Brockman to Jeffrey Epstein About Personal Matters (File 030430)
Personal email from literary agent John Brockman to Jeffrey Epstein dated February 6, 2017, discussing family hardships including the sudden death of his brother-in-law and his brother's prostate cancer treatment.
Summary
John Brockman writes to Jeffrey Epstein about recent personal difficulties. He describes the sudden death of his brother-in-law Jonathan Matson from a stomach illness, his older brother Philip's advanced prostate cancer and approval for experimental Keytruda treatment, and reminisces about his representation of the Biosphere project in the early 1990s, noting the connection to Steve Bannon's subsequent involvement as CEO.
From: John BrockmanSent: 2/6/2017 8:34:19 PMTo: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]Subject: sorry I missed your callImportance: High3E,--Last week was misery.. .On Tuesday, Katinka's' younger brother, Jonathan Matson, was planning on flyingin from Boston and having dinner with her. After several emails back and forth in the morning, he wroteto say he was packed and ready to leave the house but he had been fighting a stomach bug, so he haddecided it was best to postpone and go to bed. He was fine at 6pm when his wife (a mass General healthprofessional) came home. She brought him a coke, went downstairs to make dinner. Half an hour later shewent upstairs to check on him. He had died. We got the news at 9pm on a phone call from someone we hadn'ttalked to in 20 years" "Jonathan Matson has died" was impossible to process. Katinka is still wasdistraught and, just coming out of shock.--And...this, from my older brother Philip ("Distinguished NASA Physcist" awardee), who had prostatesurgery about 25 years, and got lucky be living in Raliegh-Durham, near Duke medical center which istops. They've kept him alive and it's finally caught up to him:"1 have run out of standard treatments. chemo is getting less effective with increasing side effects.There is a new drug Keytruda it has been approved for some cancers but is still experimental for prostatecancer.https://prostatecancernewstoday.com/pembrolizumab-immune-therapy-help-men-prostate-cancer/. I have beenapproved to get Keytruda and will start on Thursday."--Finally, did I ever tell you about the Biosphere crowd? Absolutely nutty cult I represented in theearly 90s. (Although individually the people were sometimes fun). My friend Roy walford, the doctorinside the Biosphere, eventually died because of a condition he developed while inside. I kept sendingwriters down there to work with them and they would inevitably sneak away in the dead of night. I had tosell their book three times, each time for a fractions of the previous advance which started in 7figures. Turns out Bannon took over as CEO of the place in 1993 so we may have overlapped. See:Steve Bannon Was Once Hired to manage an Artificial World of People Living Under Glass (Before the Trumpcampaign)-http://slate.me/2kesDunIn the office this afternoon and after 10:30am tomorrow.1111111111111mobileHOUSE OVERSIGHT 030430