A business partner of Jeffrey Epstein – who once asked the paedophile “will you have a baby with me?” – financed two Dublin housing developments and an Irish tech company. One of the housing developments charges students more than €1,600 a month for a studio flat.
Entrepreneur and investor Nicole Junkermann used to “go out with Epstein” according to correspondence in the US Department of Justice’s Epstein files. She also tried to set up ex-Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak with a position at the Israeli outpost of an international private equity firm.
The Ditch reported earlier this month that Junkermann used a Dublin wealth management firm to coordinate her investment with Epstein and Barak in a company founded by Israel Defense Forces officers.
Junkermann used the same company for that partnership with Epstein and Barak to finance one of her Dublin housing projects investment in an Irish tech company.
She resigned from a British cancer charity yesterday after hundreds of her email exchanges with the convicted child sex offender were published as part of the Epstein files.
‘I was informed by Mrs. Junkerman’
The Ditch can reveal that Nicole Junkermann financed a student housing development on Dublin’s North Circular Road.
She used the same company, Montilla International, which entered into a partnership agreement with Epstein and ex-Israel Defense Forces chief of staff and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak.
A charge in favour of Junkermann’s Montilla International, a British Virgin Islands corporation, was registered by the Dublin 7 property’s developer, Ziggurat Circular Ireland Ltd, in September 2017.
It was fully satisfied in March 2018 according to CRO records.
Students pay as much as €435 a week for accommodation at the 444-bed development now known as Highfield Park.
Junkermann also claims to have financed another Ziggurat student housing project at Dublin 4’s former Montrose Hotel, according to the Epstein files.
The German-born investor, also known as Countess Nicole Brachetti Peretti, was also the financial backer of a 146-home development in west Dublin.
Meanwhile documents obtained by The Ditch show her Montilla International corporation has a substantial shareholding in Irish software company Jobbio.
Montilla International, now renamed NJF Capital Corporation, was also a significant investor in the Irish startup Coindrum, which went into liquidation last year.
Junkermann asked Epstein, “will you have a baby with me?” in a 2010 email exchange long after his 2008 conviction for soliciting sex from a child.
She wrote "if you come I come:)" in a 2014 email to Epstein, who replied "sounds like our sex 15 years ago".
Epstein called her “the tal (sic) german that i used to go out with” in a 2010 email asking a redacted recipient to give Junkermann a call.
In 2018 ex-Israel prime minister Ehud Barak emailed Advent International managing director James Brocklebank, saying, “I was informed by Mrs. Junkerman” that his “name was raised as a potential candidate” to lead the private equity firm’s operation in Israel.
Junkermann has been contacted for comment.
