Chopra had close relationship with Epstein, told him to bring ‘your girls’ on trips, messages show
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2026 2:36 am
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/23/politics ... tein-files
When the Justice Department publicly released millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, bestselling author and wellness guru Deepak Chopra was one of the many prominent individuals to distance himself from his onetime friend.
“I was never involved in, nor did I participate in, any criminal or exploitative conduct. Any contact I had was limited and unrelated to abusive activity,” Chopra wrote on X earlier this month.
But Chopra’s contacts with Epstein were hardly limited, with hundreds of messages between the two men in the Justice Department’s “Epstein Library.” And a CNN review of their correspondence reveals they shared a far more intimate friendship than was previously known, having frequent contact between 2016 and 2019 — the year that Epstein was arrested on charges of operating a sex-trafficking ring and of sexually abusing underage girls.
The revelation marks just one more example of how Epstein had long tentacles into the worlds of entertainment, academics and high society, even after he served jail time following his 2008 guilty plea for soliciting prostitution from a minor. Chopra joins the ranks of other high-profile figures now trying to recast the nature of their relationship with Epstein by downplaying just how close they had once been.