‘The patient is a VIP’: Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s close ties to Mount Sinai Hospital | CNN Politics

For Dr. Ira Bleiweiss, a renowned breast pathologist who sees upwards of a thousand breast cancer cases in a typical year, the email he received in July 2014 felt hardly out of the ordinary: The founder of the Dubin Breast Center at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital wanted to connect him with the daughter of a breast cancer patient for an urgent consultation about her mother’s case. “She is receiving the specimen tomorrow and can bring it up to you. I will let two of you take it from here,” Eva Andersson-Dubin wrote. More than a decade later, Bleiweiss was shocked to learn that his name was mentioned in the Justice Department’s Epstein files numerous times. Unbeknownst to him, the patient’s daughter, Karyna Shuliak, had been Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend at the time. And Andersson-Dubin — a doctor and former Miss Sweden married to American hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin — was Epstein’s ex-girlfriend. In a recent interview with CNN, Bleiweiss said he vaguely remembered Andersson-Dubin introducing him to the daughter of a patient who was from Eastern Europe. He knew nothing about Mount Sinai’s links to Epstein while he worked there, he said, and was shocked to lea