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An email between Jeffrey Epstein and a billionaire shrink pal runs through options for avoiding trouble with the law — including steps such as wearing disguises or undergoing plastic surgery, documents released by the Department of Justice show.
A May 1, 2009, email from his longtime friend and confidante, Gramercy Park psychiatrist Dr. Henry Jarecki, titled “What If I Get Caught,” contains a long list of items essential to escape law enforcement.
The email, fired off by an assistant, purportedly was sent because the doctor — who founded MovieFone and sold it to AOL for $388 million in 1999 — was interested in writing a book on the topic.
“Dr. Jarecki asked me to send you the following notes, along with the statement, ‘I’m thinking of writing a new book, and I need a co-author,’” it reads.
At that time, Epstein was nearing the end of his 13-month Florida prison sentence for solicitation of prostitution as part of his 2008 non-prosecution “sweetheart deal.”
The note lays out a 7-point plan to live on the lam, starting with items like “don’t use credit cards” and “computer security” for “trouble avoidance” — and ends with mentions of going “in hiding” or “overseas.”
One of the more eyebrow-raising sections in the email is titled “post-trouble,” and lists “disguises,” “plastic surgeon” and “documents generation: birth certificate, driver’s license.”
It also states, “gather evidence on veracity and character of victim(s) and prosecution witnesses (private detectives and internet).”
Another point lists the importance of “multiple passports.”
Epstein is known to have used a fake Austrian passport to travel to the United Kingdom, France and Saudi Arabia between 1982 and 1983, according to the FBI. The passport, featuring Epstein’s photo and the name “Marius Robert Fortelni,” was found in a locked safe when the feds raided his Upper East Side mansion in 2019, alongside “piles of cash” and “dozens of diamonds.”
That was another point listed in the 2009 email from Jarecki – “have a stash of cash ready: how much is enough?”
The last section in the two-page email, titled “flight,” mentions extradition laws in Germany, Israel and Brazil, suggesting the sex predator may have considered escaping to one of these far-flung countries.
It also lists “money abroad” and “family contact when in hiding or overseas.”
Jarecki, 92, wrote one book since that email — a 2021 memoir titled “An Alchemist’s Way: How To Make Luck Look Like Skill.”
He authored previous research books titled “Modern Psychiatric Treatment” and “Scholar Rescue in the Modern World.”
Despite the two-decade age difference, the two men had a close relationship, the files show. Jarecki traveled on Epstein’s private jet, nicknamed the Lolita Express, and the two hung out in the Caribbean, according to the DOJ files. The shrink also wrote a note in Epstein’s infamous 50th birthday book, referring to the creep liking to work “in private, or better yet, utter secrecy.”
The two kept in regular contact. Epstein emailed Jarecki the morning of July 22, 2009, “home and free,” to announce his release from custody in Palm Beach.
An enthusiastic Jarecki wrote him that same afternoon, “I hope you do not come to your senses. And when’s the party?”
In another exchange in 2011, Epstein scolded Jarecki about his behavior with “girls.”
“You drive away these girls,” Epstein wrote him. “They start out open to a love relation and then, you torture and mistreat each.”
“They are ready to love, others are ready to be friends, others business associates….it poisons the water for future candidates as the reputation becomes widespread.”
Jarecki has been accused of rape by one of Epstein’s victims, after she was allegedly sent to the shrink for depression.
A former model claimed she was trafficked to Jarecki in 2011, when Epstein gave her a mental health referral — calling him the “best doctor in New York City,” according to a 2024 complaint filed in Manhattan Federal Court.
It alleged the “wealthy, well-connected” psychiatrist was Epstein’s “go-to” doctor to treat the pedophile’s victims, and that he shared confidential medical information with Epstein and shielded him from law enforcement.
Jarecki, a billionaire who owns two private islands in the British Virgin Islands near Epstein, has called the relationship with the accuser “consensual, non-secretive and mutually respectful.” The accuser voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit in November.
A spokesperson for Jarecki’s business office said the email was intended as humorous “advice” to someone about to be released from prison for crimes he maintained were fabricated.
“Given what we now know about the nature and seriousness of Epstein’s crimes, the humorous tone of the email written 17 years ago was completely inappropriate. Had Dr. Jarecki then possessed the information that later became public, he would have unequivocally disavowed any relationship with Epstein,” they said, adding Jarecki now suffers from advanced dementia and is non-communicative.
The former longtime Yale faculty member became uber wealthy trading commodities, in addition to the sale of MovieFone, which he co-founded with his son, filmmaker Andrew Jarecki.
Andrew Jarecki is an acclaimed movie producer known for his true-crime investigations that include the series “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.”
Another of the psychiatrist’s sons, Nicholas Jarecki, is also a Hollywood filmmaker, best-known for his 2012 film “Arbitrage” featuring Richard Gere.
Nicholas, 46, also had a close relationship with Epstein, with the psychiatrist’s son eager to hang out with him after his 2009 release from prison, writing him: “Let’s hang out. When are the bracelets off?” according to the files.
The friendship went south when the pervert declined financing the film after getting an early script, the documents show. Nicholas Jarecki has said he never witnessed anything “untoward” by Epstein but regrets some of their past interactions.
