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The signature of former Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean and two-time acting Havard president Henry A. Rosovsky appeared on a letter containing images of a woman’s nude breasts in Jeffrey E. Epstein’s birthday album in 2003, according to a scan released by the House Oversight Committee on Monday.

One current and three former Harvard faculty members, in addition to Rosovsky, who died in 2022, were named in the scrapbook of birthday letters.

The 238-page document was subpoenaed from the Epstein estate as part of the House committee’s investigation into the disgraced financier, who died in prison in 2019 before he could face a trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.

Martin A. Nowak, a professor in Harvard’s Mathematics and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology departments, as well as Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan M. Dershowitz and Psychology professor emeritus Stephen M. Kosslyn, were all listed in a table of contents at the start of the album, which included letters bearing each of their signatures.

The signature of Mortimer “Mort” B. Zuckerman, a billionaire who taught at the Graduate School of Design and donated $10 million dollars to establish a graduate fellowship program, also appeared on a short handwritten note.

None of the four responded to requests for comment.

The scrapbook was organized by Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who helped Epstein operate a sex ring of underage girls out of New York City and Palm Beach. Its existence first became public in July when the Wall Street Journal published a description of a letter bearing President Donald Trump’s signature and a lewd illustration.

But the album itself was not public until Monday. Its release came after Trump vehemently denied that he was the letter’s creator, lending even more fuel to demands to publish files from Epstein’s estate and prompting the House Oversight Committee to subpoena the Justice Department for access to materials from its investigation into Epstein.

The letters, which were created and compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday, add another layer to the University’s web of ties with Epstein, who frequently associated with Harvard and MIT scientists and made major donations to their programs.

The 2003 entry signed by Nowak consists of five pages of compiled fragments of a science textbook describing computational biology. The entry referred to Nowak, whose Program for Evolutionary Dynamics received $6.5 million from Epstein in 2003, as an author associated with the “Epstein Institute” at Harvard.

Nowak, the biologist and mathematician, was placed on administrative leave in 2020 from over Epstein’s donations to a program Nowak directed after Harvard found that Epstein used the program to rehabilitate his image. Three years later, all of Nowak’s research and advising privileges were restored.

Rosovsky’s name appears on one of two consecutive pages that show what appear to be ink impressions of a woman’s breasts. One of the works is labeled “specially commissioned by Henry Rosovsky.”

The now-deceased FAS dean and professor in Harvard’s Economics department was long known as a friend of Epstein’s. In the early 1990s, Epstein facilitated a donation for the construction of the Harvard Hillel building, which was named in Rosovsky’s honor.

Maxwell — Epstein’s accomplice and a convicted sex trafficker — alleged in a transcribed Justice Department interview this summer that Rosovsky received a “massage” through Epstein’s network.

The scrapbook entry with the signature of Dershowitz, Epstein’s former lawyer, joked that Dershowitz had steered the focus of a Vanity Fair article away from Epstein to Bill Clinton. The note was accompanied by a parodied magazine cover featuring faux headlines including “Who was Jack the Ripper? Was it Jeffrey Epstein?” and “Jeffrey Epstein’s %&*#@ Rampage” under a “Vanity Unfair” nameplate.

The letter was previously described in a Wall Street Journal article. In a July interview with The Crimson, Dershowitz said that he “very possibly” sent Epstein a birthday card but had “no recollection of it.” He added that he was unaware at the time of any crimes Epstein had committed and “never renewed a personal relationship” with Epstein after helping him reach a plea deal in a case where he was accused of abusing underage girls.

A handwritten entry bearing the signature of Kosslyn, who served as Psychology department chair and dean of the FAS’s Social Science division, includes a series of struck-through equations and wishes for Epstein’s health over another 50 years.

In addition to letters bearing faculty signatures, Epstein’s birthday album also included a message with the signature of former L Brands CEO Leslie H. Wexner, a billionaire Harvard donor. The entry under Wexner’s name included a drawing of a pair of breasts with a note saying, “I want to give you what you want… so here it is.”

Epstein was never a Harvard student or faculty member, though he spent a year as a visiting fellow. But his connections with Harvard run so deep that University President Lawrence S. Bacow commissioned a 2019 investigation into the relationship. The resulting report found that Epstein had contributed $9.1 million to Harvard between 1998 and 2008.

Following the report’s release, Harvard developed policies for reviewing potentially controversial donations, including the creation of “triggering criteria” that faculty and staff are now trained to recognize in each gift. The University donated the remaining balance of Epstein’s contributions — $200,937 — to organizations that support victims of human trafficking and sexual assault.

Harvard has not acknowledged the wave of new revelations about its affiliates’ ties with Epstein that emerged this summer. A Harvard spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment for this article.

—Staff writer Caroline G. Hennigan can be reached at caroline.hennigan@thecrimson.com. Follow her on X @cghennigan.

—Staff writer Sidhi Dhanda can be reached at sidhi.dhanda@thecrimson.com. Follow her on X @sidhidhanda.