On June 11, 2007, Henry Jarecki attended the Accompaniment Literary Society Summer Benefit held at the Hudson Sky Terrace of the Hudson Hotel in New York City.
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famous psychiatrist Former commodities trader Henry Jarecki said Wednesday he had a “consensual, non-secret and respectful relationship” with a victim of Jeffrey Epstein who is now Jarecki is being prosecuted, accusing him of raped and sex trafficked her.
Jarecki, 91, said the relationship with the woman occurred more than a decade ago.
Her attorney told CNBC that the accuser is among a group of women who received compensation from a fund set up for victims of convicted sex offender Epstein.
Jarecki’s statement, sent to CNBC by his attorney Sarita Kedia, comes two days after Epstein’s victim, identified as Jane Doe 11, filed a complaint in Manhattan federal court. A married psychiatrist filed a civil lawsuit.
The complaint alleges Jarecki “forced her to become his modern-day sex slave” after wealthy money manager Epstein sent her to his “close” friend Jarecki to treat her depression, which she said was love Purstein’s sexual abuse.
The lawsuit alleges that Jarecki was the “go-to doctor” for victims of Epstein’s sexual abuse. Jarecki, who was around 80 at the time, allegedly raped his accuser when he first met him.
“More than a decade ago, I was in a consensual, non-secret and respectful relationship with a woman when an attorney solicited money from me and made false accusations against me,” Jarecki said in a statement Wednesday in response to the lawsuit. . She was already a successful professional in her 20s.
“I never engaged in any abusive behavior toward her or anyone else,” Jarecki said. “I will dispute these patently false claims in the appropriate forum.”
Brad Edwards, an attorney for the plaintiffs, wrote in an email to CNBC: “Jeffrey Epstein introduced a man 60 years his junior who was a known victim of sexual abuse. The patient’s ‘consensual’ relationship is a creative ‘justification’.
The lawsuit against Jarecki alleges that he raped the plaintiff multiple times from 2011 to December 2014, eventually forcing her to have sex with other men while he watched.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for sexual battery, sex trafficking and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Jarecki is an adjunct professor at Yale School of Medicine and received the award last year
Pardes Mental Health Humanitarian Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.
In 1999, he and his son Andrew Jarecki, a documentary producer, sold Moviefone, the online ticketing site they co-founded, to AOL for nearly $390 million in stock.
Epstein, 66, committed suicide at a federal prison in Manhattan in August 2019, a month after he was arrested in New York on federal child sex trafficking charges.
Many women have accused Epstein of sexually abusing them at a luxury townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands and a residence in New Mexico.
Epstein was a former friend of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Britain’s Prince Andrew and other wealthy celebrities and businessmen.
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