Jeffrey Epstein sufferer sues Henry Jarecki for rape, intercourse trafficking

A girl who says she was a sexual abuse victim of Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit Monday towards the famed psychiatrist, entrepreneur and commodities dealer Henry Jarecki, alleging that Jarecki raped and intercourse trafficked her after Epstein despatched her to Jarecki for psychiatric remedy.

The federal civil swimsuit by the unidentified girl in Manhattan federal court docket says Jarecki, 91, was “shut mates” with the late cash supervisor Epstein, who killed himself in a New York jail in 2019.

Epstein allegedly despatched Jarecki different younger girls for the psychiatrist to “deal with” confidentially, so as “to keep away from undesirable consideration on Epstein’s sexual abuse of those younger girls,” the swimsuit alleges.

“Jarecki additionally understood that the females Epstein was sending had been underneath Epstein’s management and Jarecki may himself try and sexually abuse them with out danger of being reported,” in response to the swimsuit, which first was reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Jarecki’s lawyer, Sarita Kedia, in an announcement to CNBC, stated, “The allegations might be proven to be solely false and baseless. Dr. Jarecki by no means engaged in any abusive conduct with the complainant or another individual.”

The criticism, which refers back to the girl as “Jane Doe 11,” says Jarecki “repeatedly raped” her starting in 2011 till December 2014.

It additionally alleges the Moviefone co-founder and film producer used testosterone capsules to raise “his intercourse drive,” and “began inviting different guys over and forcing Jane Doe 11 to have intercourse with these different males in entrance of him, which he did on quite a few events.”

The swimsuit is searching for unspecified financial damages for sexual battery, intercourse trafficking, and intentional infliction of emotional misery.

Brad Edwards, a lawyer for the accuser, stated in an e-mail to CNBC, “This is a vital lawsuit filed by a brave younger girl who we’re honored to signify.”

“We hope that her bravery will encourage others to really feel secure in coming ahead,” stated Edwards, whose co-counsels within the case are David Boies and Sigrid McCawley.

Their swimsuit comes a yr after the identical legal professionals obtained a $290 million settlement from banking big JPMorgan Chase on behalf of Epstein victims who accused the financial institution of benefiting from and facilitating Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.

Edwards advised CNBC that his Jane Doe 11 was one of many girls who acquired a financial settlement from a compensation fund arrange within the U.S. Virgin Islands for victims of Epstein.

The lawsuit notes that earlier than it was filed, Jane Doe 11 and Jarecki entered right into a so-called tolling settlement that allowed her to file the criticism underneath the New York Grownup Survivor’s Act regardless of the expiration of that regulation final November. The regulation allowed, for a restricted window open from Nov. 24, 2023, to Nov. 24, 2024, folks to file civil actions alleging sexual misconduct that may in any other case be barred underneath the statute of limitations.

An adjunct professor on the Yale Faculty of Drugs, Jarecki was awarded the Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Psychological Well being by the Mind & Habits Analysis Basis in November of final yr. He’s the co-author of the textbook “Trendy Psychiatric Therapy.”

Within the Eighties, Jarecki was dubbed “the dean of the American gold market” by The New York Occasions, for his position as chairman of Mocatta Metals Corp.

In 1999, he and his son, Andrew Jarecki, a documentary filmmaker who made “Capturing the Friedmans, bought their on-line ticket web site Moviefone to AOL for practically $390 million in inventory.

Epstein, 66, killed himself in a New York federal jail in August 2019 after being arrested a month earlier on youngster intercourse trafficking expenses.

Epstein had many high-profile and rich mates over time, together with Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew of Britain.

E. Jean Carroll, a author who had alleged that Trump raped her within the Nineteen Nineties in a Manhattan division, sued the previous Republican president underneath New York’s Grownup Survivor’s Act in late 2022.

A Manhattan federal court docket jury in Could 2023 discovered Trump liable in that swimsuit for sexually abusing Carroll within the division retailer assault and defaming her in 2022 when he denied her declare, and ordered him to pay her $5 million in damages.

Trump is interesting that verdict, together with a separate civil jury’s verdict in the identical court docket that in January ordered him to pay Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her statements he made whereas president after she first made her rape declare.