Anthropic CEOs wife once asked Jeffrey Epstein to fund porn venture now she helps steer the Claude AI empire

 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s wife Cami Clark played a bigger role in the AI juggernaut’s meteoric rise than previously known after her own forays in entrepreneurship – which included a failed fundraising pitch to late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for a “luxury” porn startup, according to a report.Before she met the AI guru, Clark and a friend started a “revolutionary porn company” aimed at making classy smut that was billed as “intellectually promiscuous,” the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.The company, called Eddice, reportedly had a website that featured content with titles like “Lady Porn Day” and “Orgasm, Inc.” After an intro to Epstein in 2011, Clark reportedly sent him a warm follow-up, writing: “Hello Jeffrey! We would love to have dinner with you this evening.” She sent him her cellphone number, too.Clark followed up by writing, “We thought you and the ladies might enjoy the script/treatment for our first 4 films, American Girl in Paris.A little nsfw,” or Not Safe For Work.A year later, Clark wrote Epstein again to pitch him on investing in her business, which she said had just hired someone from Oprah Winfrey’s company and Ashton Kutcher’s Katalyst, the media company tha launched shows like “Punk’d.” When Epstein at first didn’t recall her, Clark wrote, “We have the free luxury porn company.

Does that ring a bell?”Epstein wrote back, “Yes, a loud gong,” prompting a playful reply from Clark: “Haha, I was going to say, you would be the first person that didn’t remember us.”Epstein, who was a registered sex offender at the time, turned down the offer, saying, “Can’t do sex TV.”Clark stayed in touch with Epstein over two years, the Journal reported, inviting him to a Manhattan housewarming party for her and her porn biz cofounder Michelle Capocefalo.In 2013, Epstein reportedly received a LinkedIn message stating he should congratulate Clark for becoming CEO of “Female Al...