Jeffrey Epstein accuser sues prominent psychiatrist for making her ‘sex slave’
NEW YORK — A prominent 91-year-old psychiatrist who was once close friends with Jeffrey Epstein was sued on Monday by a onetime model who said he enabled the late financier’s sex trafficking, and turned her into his “modern-day sex slave.”
In a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, the plaintiff, using a pseudonym Jane Doe 11, said Henry Jarecki raped her repeatedly starting in 2011, after Epstein referred her for mental health treatment following his own sexual abuses.
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Doe also said Jarecki was Epstein’s “go-to” doctor for treating young women experiencing depression, shared victims’ confidential medical information with Epstein, and shielded Epstein from law enforcement.
“The allegations will be shown to be entirely false and baseless,” said Sarita Kedia, a lawyer for Jarecki. “Dr. Jarecki never engaged in any abusive conduct with the complainant or any other person.”
He is a longtime Yale University faculty member whose works include the book “Modern Psychiatric Treatment.”
Jarecki also became wealthy trading commodities, and from selling MovieFone, which he co-founded with his son, to America Online for about $388 million in stock in 1999.
While Jarecki was in Epstein’s public address book, Monday’s lawsuit appears to be the first over their relationship.
Monday’s complaint said Doe came to the United States in 2010, seeking a visa to work a model, when another model told her that Epstein could help her career.
She said Epstein sent her to Jarecki after she became depressed, calling him “the best doctor in New York City.”
But instead of helping, Jarecki allegedly promised to “save” Doe from Epstein, pushing her to move into an apartment he could monitor from his own bedroom around the corner in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park neighborhood.
Doe said Jarecki, then in his late 70s, began using the apartment to force her into sex, threatening her work status or to return her to Epstein if she failed to comply.
The complaint accused Jarecki of “raping Jane Doe 11 by force on dozens of occasions.”
