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 made his money trading commodities — 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 forsolicitation of prostitutionas 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.”
