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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1409/
- Published: 2026-02-13T17:30:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-13T17:30:47.000Z
- Description: The Auckland University lecturer finds it “appalling” that his name appears in the US government’s latest dump of files related to the deceased paedophile.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> “Lolitawill never cease to shock”, wrote[ Brian Boyd](https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018818046/bookmarks-with-brian-boyd?ref=goodoil.news) in the introduction to his two-volume biography about Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.  
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> Fourteen years ago, when he spoke to Jeffrey Epstein about funding to write a book about the novel, the billionaire financier’s child sex abuse conviction “was not well known at all,” he says.  
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> “If I’d known he’d been convicted, the last thing I would ever have done would be to suggest a book on Lolita,” Boyd tells RNZ’s Nights.  
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> The Auckland University lecturer finds it “appalling” that his name appears in the US government’s [latest dump of files](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/586221/latest-epstein-files-documents-reveal-links-to-multiple-monarchies?ref=goodoil.news) related to the deceased paedophile.  
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> “I really didn’t think that my name would emerge in the Epstein files. I thought I was too much of a minnow to feature against all the big names that are there.”  
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> RNZ

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