Filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki’s Chummy Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein Revealed

On May 14, 2009, writer-director Nicholas Jarecki sent Jeffrey Epstein, then serving time in Florida for procuring a minor for prostitution, an email, one of many communications between the two over the years. Jarecki wrote, “Let’s hang out. When are the bracelets off?”

Epstein, whose plea deal allowed him to leave the Palm Beach County Stockade to work at his office, replies.

“july 23.”

On that day in July, Epstein sends what appears to be a group email to many recipients with the subject line “free and home.”

Jarecki, then the 30-year-old co-screenwriter of The Informers, replies, “Congratulations! How where and when do we celebrate? Say the word and I am there within the day. Welcome home you crazy cat.”

A year later, Jarecki would ask Epstein to finance what would become his 2012 film Arbitrage, and send him the script. For all his Hollywood connections, the convicted sex trafficker and financier was…