Investigations show Epstein used money, influence and elite scientific connections to promote transhumanist ideas and a secretive reproductive scheme.
BY PC Bureau
February 8, 2026: Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, harbored a chilling ambition: to use his vast wealth, property and elite connections to propagate his own DNA and create what he privately envisioned as a genetically superior lineage.
Over more than a decade, Epstein confided to scientists, business leaders and advisers that he wanted to impregnate women at his sprawling New Mexico estate, turning the property into what some privately dubbed a “baby ranch.” According to a detailed investigation by The New York Times, Epstein imagined the ranch as a site where women would be inseminated with his sperm and give birth to his children. There is no evidence the plan was ever executed, nor proof that it would necessarily have been illegal.
The idea stemmed from Epstein’s fascination with transhumanism, a movement advocating technological and genetic enhancement of human capabilities. Critics often draw parallels between transhumanist ideology and eugenics, the discredited belief that humanity can be perfected through selective breeding — an idea historically embraced and weaponized by the Nazis.
Epstein had pleaded not guilty to sex-trafficking charges involving girls as young as 14. Investigations later revealed he routinely exaggerated his financial success, inflated his scientific credentials, and misrepresented his business connections. Yet through relentless networking, strategic donations and lavish hospitality, he embedded himself within elite political, financial and academic circles.
Jeffrey Epstein was reportedly planning to develop an improved super-race of humans using genetic engineering and artificial intelligence, and hoped to seed the human race with his own DNA by impregnating women at his ranch in New Mexico, Guardian reports. pic.twitter.com/bLOaIBWGDq
— Current Report (@Currentreport1) February 4, 2026
Courting Science’s Elite
Epstein employed the same tactics to penetrate elite scientific communities. Among those he cultivated were some of the world’s most celebrated thinkers, including Nobel laureate physicist Murray Gell-Mann, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould, and geneticist George M. Church.
He funded research, sponsored conferences, underwrote elite gatherings, and hosted intellectual salons where science, philosophy and futurism were debated over extravagant meals and fine wine. Several scientists later acknowledged that the promise of funding dulled concerns about Epstein’s criminal past.
At Harvard University, Epstein donated $6.5 million to help establish the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, paying for buffet lunches and academic events. Conferences funded by Epstein were staged in the U.S. Virgin Islands, with guests flown in and entertained at his private island estate. On one occasion, scientists including Stephen Hawking boarded a submarine chartered by Epstein.
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker said Epstein dominated discussions at gatherings organized by prominent academics. At one session, Epstein criticized global efforts to reduce starvation and expand healthcare in poor countries, arguing that such interventions worsened overpopulation. Pinker challenged the claim, citing evidence that declining infant mortality reduces birth rates. Epstein reportedly bristled, and Pinker was later told he was no longer welcome.
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The ‘Baby Ranch’
From the early 2000s, Epstein spoke openly about transforming his 33,000-square-foot Zorro Ranch near Santa Fe into a center for human reproduction.
Two award-winning scientists and a financial adviser independently recalled Epstein describing plans to impregnate multiple women simultaneously at the ranch. One woman, identifying herself as a NASA scientist, said Epstein envisioned as many as 20 women pregnant at any given time.
Epstein reportedly drew inspiration from the now-defunct Repository for Germinal Choice, a controversial sperm bank that sought donations from Nobel Prize winners in hopes of advancing human genetics.
Those who heard Epstein describe the plan characterized it as deeply disturbing, unrealistic, and delusional.
Epstein also expressed interest in cryonics, the experimental preservation of bodies through freezing, believing future technology might restore life. One associate said Epstein wanted his head and penis preserved after death, underscoring his obsession with biological legacy.
Children, Secrecy, and Unanswered Questions
Whether Epstein ever fathered children remains unresolved.
Recently released U.S. Justice Department files, part of a massive document dump, include references suggesting he may have done so. Among them is a diary entry from a woman claiming she gave birth to a baby girl around 2002, when she was 16 or 17. She alleged the child was taken from her moments after birth, under supervision of Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell. The claims have not been independently verified.
The woman later filed a civil lawsuit — under a pseudonym — accusing financier Leon Black of sexual assault at Epstein’s home. Black has denied the allegations, and the case remains ongoing.
There has never been public confirmation that Epstein had children, and none are mentioned in his will. His last known girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, was set to inherit his private island, Manhattan mansion, and $50 million.
One undated video from Epstein’s New York townhouse shows a DNA paternity test kit placed on a table. An email sent in 2011 by Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, congratulated Epstein on the apparent birth of a baby boy — information she later said had been relayed to her by Prince Andrew. No further evidence ever surfaced.
