More than five months after his death behind bars, Jeffrey Epstein continues to spark controversy — and legal battles. On Monday, Lawrence Lessig, a prominent law professor at Harvard University, filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts against The New York Times for publishing what he describes as “clickbait defamation” against him in an Epstein-focused story.
On Sept. 14, just over a month after Epstein was found dead in his prison cell by self-strangulation after being charged with sex trafficking of minors, The New York Times published a story on Epstein’s donations to M.I.T. titled, “A Harvard Professor Doubles Down: If You Take Epstein’s Money, Do It in Secret.” The story, which offers “a conversation with Lawrence Lessig about Jeffrey Epstein, M.I.T. and reputation laundering,” begins:
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