Interlochen Center for the Arts is moving forward with a plan to demolish the Green Lake Lodge, which was funded by Jeffrey Epstein.
INTERLOCHEN, Mich. (WJRT) – Interlochen Center for the Arts is moving forward with a plan to demolish the Green Lake Lodge, which was funded by Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein attended Interlochen in the summer of 1967 and was a donor to Interlochen Center for the Arts from 1990 to 2003. The cabin originally named “The Epstein Lodge” was owned by Interlochen and money from renting the lodge benefited scholarships for students at the camp.
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The Interlochen Board of Trustees recently approved a plan to remove the building. The cabin named after Epstein was renamed “Green Lake Lodge.”
Classified files connected to Jeffrey Epstein were released in December 2025 by the Department of Justice and provided new insight on the ties Epstein had to northern Michigan. It was at the music camp that Epstein met his first victim, a 13-year-old student, according to the DOJ.
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According to the court documents that are now public, Epstein and Maxwell met their first victim at a summer camp located in Grand Traverse County. In 1994, the girl who was originally from California, met the sex offenders at Interlochen Arts Camp when she was 13 years old.
The documents say the victim was on a bench alone when she was approached by them, bragging about giving scholarships to young kids in the arts. The documents say the girl was subsequently abused by Epstein and Maxwell for years as a young girl, suffering physical and psychological trauma and distress.
Despite that, the files say the victim has persevered and survived to tell her story, to hold her perpetrators accountable and to seek justice.
