Yale psychiatrist and founder of Moviefone accused of holding sex slave, tied to Epstein
Henry Jarecki has won awards practicing psychiatry, made a fortune trading metals, produced Hollywood movies, dabbled in real estate and co-founded Moviefone. The 91-year-old has also now been accused of participating in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking operation.
An unnamed woman filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court on Monday against Jarecki accusing him of raping her repeatedly from 2011 to 2014. She alleges that Epstein introduced her to Jarecki for mental-health treatment and instead of helping her, Jarecki sexually abused her.
The lawsuit alleges that Epstein sent many of his victims to Jarecki to treat depression and that the psychiatrist shielded Epstein from law enforcement, prescribed the women medication and discussed their confidential medical information with Epstein. It also alleges that Jarecki used his friendship with Epstein to obtain young females from him and sexually abused them himself.
Sarita Kedia, a lawyer for Jarecki, said, “the allegations will be shown to be entirely false and baseless. Dr. Jarecki never engaged in any abusive conduct with the complainant or any other person.”
The psychiatrist was listed in Epstein’s now public address book and in flight logs of Epstein’s private planes but his dealings with the convicted sex offender, who died in 2019, weren’t previously public.
He is known as a wealthy commodities trader and entrepreneur as well as a longtime faculty member at Yale University, where he co-authored the book “Modern Psychiatric Treatment.” Last year, he was awarded the Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health.
Jarecki ran and sold several investment firms in the 70s, 80s and 90s, including metals trader Mocatta and commodities brokerage Brody White. He also was chairman of Moviefone, which he co-founded with one of his sons, and sold to AOL in 1999 for $388 million in stock.
Jarecki used his wealth to purchase an 850-acre private island in the British Virgin Islands and a historic five-floor townhouse in New York’s Gramercy Park, which was used to film scenes of the 2012 film “Arbitrage” directed by another of his sons.
In 2006, Epstein was publicly accused of sexually abusing girls in Florida who were as young as 14 years old. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and police investigated, and Epstein reached a deal with prosecutors in 2008. He pleaded guilty to soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution.
A 2023 Journal investigation showed that Epstein’s sexual exploitation and abuse didn’t end with his 2008 conviction, but continued until his second arrest in 2019. He lured dozens of women, many of them Russian and Eastern European models, by promising to use his connections to powerful people to get them jobs or other opportunities. He then groomed most of the women for his personal sexual exploitation, and passed a select group to other men for sex.
Bradley Edwards, the lawyer who represents the Jarecki accuser and other Epstein accusers, previously told the Journal more than 20 men participated in sexual exploitation or abuse by women who were trafficked by Epstein. At the time, he declined to name the men, citing client confidentiality.
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