Deepak Chopra, Jeffrey Epstein and those "cute girls" emails

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Deepak Chopra, Jeffrey Epstein and those “cute girls” emails
New Age guru exchanged hundreds of messages with Epstein, including some he’d probably like to take back

By Nicole Karlis
Senior Writer
Published May 19, 2026 6:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) In July 2016, best-selling author and wellness guru Deepak Chopra contacted Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender, to thank him for his hospitality. By email, Chopra wrote that he was glad that philanthropist Barnaby Marsh had introduced them in person. Chopra added that he was “grateful” for what he saw as the beginning of a friendship.

Within a few weeks, this new friendship deepened. They exchanged gossipy emails about Epstein’s friendship with Donald Trump and Marla Maples, Trump’s second wife. Epstein recounted a story about losing a $10,000 bet to Trump and about a friend of Maples who was rumored to have used high-heeled shoes as sex toys.

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Amid the 3.5 million Epstein files so far released by the Department of Justice, Chopra’s name appears more than 3,300 times. (Since duplicate messages frequently recur in different places in the Epstein files, the actual number of messages between Chopra and Epstein is somewhat less than that.) What the numerous emails and texts between the two men suggest is an intimate and affectionate relationship that went beyond a business or financial connection.

While they came from very different backgrounds and professional trajectories — Epstein from the world of high finance and Chopra from New Age philosophy, spirituality and medicine — the two seemed to enjoy discussing the nature of consciousness and other abstruse topics. They shared an unexplained inside joke, referring multiple times in their correspondence to the “tiger.” Their exchanges suggest that Chopra visited Epstein’s homes in New York and Palm Beach — locations where some of Epstein’s accused or apparent criminal acts took place. There is no evidence that Chopra was aware of Epstein’s criminal abuses. But on at least five occasions, as documented in the FBI files, Chopra mentioned Epstein’s “girls,” an apparent reference to young women who frequently accompanied Epstein. How Chopra perceived or understood these women’s relationship to Epstein is not clear. ...................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2026/05/19/deepak-chopra-jeffrey-epstein-and-those-cute-girls-emails/