A woman who claimed she was a victim of Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit Monday against Henry Jarecki, a famed psychiatrist who she alleged raped and sex trafficked her after Epstein sent her to him for psychiatric treatment.
The federal civil suit filed by the Manhattan woman said the 91-year-old was “close friends” with Epstein, a convicted pedophile who killed himself in his Brooklyn jail cell in 2019.
Epstein allegedly also sent Jarecki other young women to “treat” confidentially. In turn, the psychiatrist shielded Epstein from law enforcement, prescribed the women strong medication, and discussed their cases with Epstein, the suit alleges. It also claims that Jarecki himself used his friendship with Epstein to procure women for himself that he sexually abused, the Wall Street Journal reported.
“Jarecki also understood that the females Epstein was sending were under Epstein’s control and Jarecki could himself attempt to sexually abuse them without risk of being reported,” the suit alleges.
“While Jarecki was elderly, his sexual desires were frequent and depraved,” the complaint added, saying the psychiatrist showed the woman “pills that he said were testosterone pills that kept his sexual drive equal to that of a 25-year-old.”
“As Jane Doe 11 began showing more signs of depression and stress, Jarecki increased the sexual torture and control of her,” the suit alleges.
Jarecki was listed in Epstein’s, now public, black book and in flight logs on Epstein’s private planes, but his dealings with the convicted felon weren’t previously public.
Jarecki’s lawyer, Sarita Kedia, called the allegations “entirely false and baseless.”
“Dr. Jarecki never engaged in any abusive conduct with the complainant or any other person,” she said.
In addition to being a longtime Yale University faculty member and the recipient of the Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health, Jarecki made a fortune as a commodities trader and entrepreneur. He ran and sold several investment firms in the 1970s-1990s. He was also the chairman of Moviefone, which he co-founded with one of his sons. He sold it to AOL in 1999 for $388 million in stock.
According to her lawsuit against Jarecki, the unnamed woman came to the United States in 2010 through a modeling agency. She wasn’t allowed to model legally until she obtained her work visa. Another model introduced her to Epstein, who was known at the time for being a deep-pocketed philanthropist who helped models with their immigration problems.
The woman met Epstein at his New York mansion. He allegedly told her he’d help get her modeling career off the ground and also offered to pay her way through school. Soon, though, she became a target of the disgraced New York wealth manager who started sexually abusing her. When she began to struggle with her mental health, Epstein allegedly arranged for her to meet Jarecki at his home for “treatment.”
Instead of helping her, the suit alleges Jarecki gave her an expensive gift and a tour of his home. When they got to his bedroom, Jarecki, who was 80 at the time, raped her.
The woman told Epstein what happened, but he allegedly told her she’d have to deal with it and that he had made plans for her to continue to see Jarecki.
According to the lawsuit, the woman said Jarecki kept her at an apartment in Gramercy Park, plied her with pills, and controlled every aspect of her life, which included forcing her to have sex with other men and making her adhere to a strict 10 p.m. bedtime. When she resisted, he held her immigration status over her head.
It was not immediately known when or how the abuse ended.
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Epstein, a convicted sex offender and accused sex trafficker, was reportedly worth $559 million in self-reported assets before his death.
He was accused of luring dozens of women, many of them Russian and Eastern European models, by promising to use his connections to powerful people to get them jobs, careers, and other opportunities.
