Epstein files carry emails from Dario Amodei's wife

Cami Clark, the wife of Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei, asked Jeffrey Epstein in a March 2012 email exchange whether he would invest in her self-described "free luxury porn" company and a social dieting app. The exchange, the longest between the two to appear in the Epstein files, was reported by Forbes alongside the Wall Street Journal's account of Clark's role around Amodei and his company.

At a glance

• The introduction came in March 2011 through literary agent John Brockman, who told Epstein he should connect for dinner with "my girls", referring to Clark and her business partner Michelle Capocefalo.
• Nothing in the files indicates Epstein put money into either venture; his side of the 2012 thread opens with "i'm sorry, who is this" and later rules out video with "Can't do TV sex".
• Anthropic has confidentially filed to go public as soon as this fall at a valuation reported at $2 trillion or more, and Forbes puts Amodei's net worth at $15.5 billion.

The timing is what gives a decade-old email thread weight. Anthropic is courting investors ahead of a listing, and scrutiny of a founder-CEO's household tightens sharply once a company approaches public markets, which turns an informal adviser into a governance question rather than a curiosity. The Journal's framing of Clark as a sounding board appears to be the part investors will read closest, since it places a figure with almost no public record near decisions no filing would attribute to her.

Epstein opened the March 2012 thread by asking who Clark was

Clark reached out in March 2012 offering to connect Epstein with another female entrepreneur launching a lingerie line. Epstein replied, "i'm sorry, who is this". When she reminded him of the "free luxury porn company" and asked whether that rang a bell, he answered, "yes, a loud gong".

Clark proposed meeting in New York; Epstein said he was in the Caribbean but was "willing to look at whatever you think viable". Asked what had become of the porn company's plans, she said it was moving "full speed ahead" and pitched its move into video, which Epstein turned down with "Can't do TV sex". Nothing in the files points to a further in-person meeting between them.

In the same thread she also raised a social dieting app and website, pitching it as a service that pulls data from health monitoring devices and turns it into infographics about users' health, which they can then choose to share with friends.

John Brockman introduced Clark to Epstein in March 2011

Clark is an entrepreneur who married Amodei in 2022, after previously dating former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt. She met Epstein in March 2011 through John Brockman, a literary agent who knew the financier and wrote that Epstein should connect for dinner with "my girls", meaning Clark and Capocefalo.

Clark replied that they would love to have dinner that evening, and the next day passed along her company's funding requirements, calling the meeting fantastic. Days later she sent Epstein the script and treatment for the company's first films, noting that he "and the ladies" might enjoy them and that the material was "a little nsfw".

The approach came years after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution and his registration as a sex offender. Other emails show Clark kept him on her mailing list, inviting him to a housewarming party in July 2012, and that Epstein connected with her on LinkedIn in 2013.

Forbes values Amodei's net worth at $15.5 billion ahead of the listing

Forbes values Amodei's net worth at $15.5 billion, a figure that places him above OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, whom Forbes puts at $3.4 billion and who holds no equity in his own company, and far below Elon Musk at $863.2 billion.

Anthropic has confidentially filed for a listing that could come as soon as this fall, with a valuation reported at $2 trillion or more. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the company is working to win over potential investors ahead of the offering.

The Journal describes Clark as a "sounding board and strategic adviser" to Amodei and to Anthropic, and reports, citing an unnamed source, that deliberate efforts were made to remove public references to her. Little else about her appears publicly, and the paper notes that Anthropic's own model, Claude, cannot answer whether Amodei is married.

What the Epstein files leave open

No firm listing date has been made public beyond the reported fall window, and the reported $2 trillion valuation remains an expectation rather than a priced figure. The Justice Department released thousands of Epstein files publicly earlier this year, and people connected to the financier have faced scrutiny, with some called to testify to Congress, though many who appear in the documents have never been accused of wrongdoing.