How Jeffrey Epstein Used Doctors to Control Women

This is a photo taken in Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan townhouse. It seems to show a doctor performing a medical procedure on Mr. Epstein's dining room table. We look through about 15,000 records from the Epstein files to understand how Jeffrey Epstein cultivated and rewarded a small circle of doctors as a means of control over the women in his orbit. Mr. Epste dictated when these women got plastic surgery, even when they went to the gynecologist. and he could also take medical care away. In some cases, you also see the doctors help Jeffrey Epste maintain that control over these women's lives. Here's one really striking example. Jeffrey Epstein is flying back from his island in the Virgin Islands to New York with a young woman who has suffered a really serious injury. He reaches out to somebody named Eva Dubin, former girlfriend of his and the founder of the Duben Breast Center at Mount Si. And he says, "This woman fell off the ATV and needs stitches in her forehead. Can you organize?" She responds, "Okay, Jess Ting, a plastic surgeon at Mount Si is standing by. Call me as soon as you land." And then you see the next day from Jeffrey Epste. Dr. Ting put 35 stitches in her head laid out on the dining room table. And that brings us back to this photo, which appears to be of Dr. Ting. Dr. Ting declined comment on this photo. When we talked to medical experts, they said, "There's no way you do this if you were putting the patients needs first. If you were doing that, you just take her to the hospital. There's much more equipment. There's many more people. The risk of infection is lower." The only reason you do this is if you were putting somebody else's needs first. We see again and again doctors in these files bending or breaking the rules of their profession. And often they treated Epstein as if he was the real client. They shared patients private information with Jeffrey Epstein. In this email, one of the women connected to Mr. Epstein expresses to Epste that she's uncomfortable with this arrangement. And Epste writes back to say, "This is how it is. These doctors know that I'm paying. They want to keep me happy." And these doctors benefited from their relationship with Mr. Epstein. He gave Mount Sinai over $375,000 in donations, including gifts to Dr. Dubin's breast cancer center and $50,000 to Dr. Ting's cancer research. Other doctors got high retainer fees and introductions to his celebrity friends. He even bought a few of them $900 Apple watches. We reached out to all the doctors listed in our story. Dr. Ting and Dr. Dubin told us that they had never witnessed anything they believed to be criminal conduct by Mr. Epstein. Still, Dr. Dr. Ting told us that he deeply regrets his association with him. Mount Sinai Hospital told us that they formed a committee to investigate the hospital's ties to Mr. Epstein and they would take any appropriate action that resulted. Reporters like me have been writing about the Epstein files for weeks, but there's still so much more to be learned. What was particularly chilling about this story was how Mr. Epste was able to corrupt an institution, medicine, which was supposed to be different. It gives you a sense of what else might be out there as we continue to dig through these files.

A group of doctors that Jeffrey Epstein hired for himself and the young women around him bent or broke ethical rules for Epstein, who rewarded some of the medical professionals with hefty fees, gifts and donations, The New York Times found. Our investigative reporter David A. Fahrenthold describes how Epstein used these doctors to control the medical care of and manipulate the young women from overseas. Video by David A. Fahrenthold, Christina Shaman, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, June Kim and Whitney Shefte/The New York Times Read the full investigation here: https://nyti.ms/3OW2ykS Subscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n More from The New York Times Video: http://nytimes.com/video ---------- Whether it's reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, New York Times video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. It's all the news that's fit to watch.