Deepak Chopra is widely recognized for his public persona of spiritual depth and advocacy for higher consciousness. However, behind the scenes, he maintained a surprising connection with the notorious Jeffrey Epstein, exchanging light-hearted jokes, meeting invitations, and planning visits to Epstein’s lavish homes. This information emerges from documents recently unveiled by the Justice Department, as reported by the Daily Mail.

Their relationship began in 2016, years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution and three years before his controversial death in a jail cell in 2019.

Chopra and Epstein’s interactions covered a range of topics, from metaphysical discussions and consciousness to handling media scrutiny, and even conversations about pursuing young women, often blending these subjects in their communications.

In one instance, Chopra, who has been married to his wife Rita for 56 years, remarked to Epstein, “God is a construct. Cute girls are real,” showcasing a stark contrast to his public teachings.

Additionally, Chopra made a quip about a Vatican event where he was set to speak alongside the Pope, humorously noting, “Only sinners are invited.”

In another exchange, the best-selling spiritual advisor wisecracked about a Vatican event when he was scheduled to speak with the Pope: ‘Only sinners are invited.’

Chopra has not responded to the Daily Mail’s inquiries for comment.

In a February 4 post on X, he acknowledged that his emails with Epstein reflect ‘poor judgement in tone,’ but insisted: ‘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 was seen arriving in Los Angeles last week – his first public appearance since the files revealed the extent of his correspondence with Epstein. 

The spiritual guru, accompanied by his wife, dodged questions when confronted about his relationship with the pedophile at the airport. 

In video obtained by the Daily Mail, a journalist can be heard asking Chopra if he has anything to say about his actions and if he regrets his relationship with Epstein. 

‘You decide,’ Chopra replies repeatedly, at one point saying: ‘You give me your opinion. You have a right to your opinion.’ 

As the reporter presses further, Chopra continues to dodge the questions, telling the man: ‘You do your own work and find out’….I’m not answering.’ 

Later in the video, as the exchange comes to a close, Chopra warns: ‘It will all come to light.’ 

Dozens of messages between Chopra, Epstein and their schedulers show that the two men set up frequent appointments at Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan, and sometimes at his home in Palm Beach, Florida. 

Chopra occasionally slept over or came for an hour at a time, even when Epstein wasn’t home.

One email string between Epstein and someone whose name was redacted by the Justice Department reads: ‘Friday at 330 deepak is coming by, you are of course his favorite.’

In another text string, Chopra thanked Epstein, ‘for a v lovely experience’.

Epstein responded: ‘I sent [redacted name] request for her details. I only met her in the street two weeks ago.’

‘Amazing! How did you pick her up?’ Chopra asked.

‘Listen my son and the wisdom of sages will reflect your reality,’ Epstein quipped.

‘Aha! I have much to learn,’ Chopra wrote back. ‘In many ways [redacted name] is more connected to ‘reality’ than the brilliant scientists. I felt connected to her at the level of awareness.’

Epstein wrote: ‘I liked watching you zero in on your prey. Made me smile.’

‘I not a predator Just a lover,’ Chopra replied.

Messages show Epstein invited Chopra to his ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico, his apartment in Paris, and his island off St Thomas, and that Chopra asked Epstein to attend his speaking events and workshops in New York, California and Switzerland.

Chopra also encouraged Epstein to ‘bring your girls’ to Israel, and to ‘use a fake name,’ if he wished.

‘Ill bring the cheerleaders :),’ Epstein wrote about a public debate Chopra had planned with science writer Michael Shermer.

Within hours of being introduced by British philanthropy advisor Barnaby Marsh in the summer of 2016, Chopra started fawning over Epstein, who socialized with and bankrolled the work of some big-name scientists.

‘I’m grateful for what I see as the beginning of a friendship and I could use some of your mentoring so I don’t irk the big boys in the intellectual club that is mainstream academia,’ wrote Chopra, who describes himself as ‘consciousness explorer and world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation.’

‘I did not experience anything other than graciousness and hospitality from you. Your manners are impeccable and your comments razor sharp. I could learn a lot. All love and gratitude,’ he wrote Epstein.

Chopra was still sweet-talking his new chum two months later.

‘You are a friend and a genius in many ways. I’ve only hung out with sages psychotics genuses rebels all my life. You can vilify them praise them kill them, love them. But you cannot ignore them !!!,’ he wrote.

Chopra texted Epstein that ‘I prefer the company of beautiful people and scarce friendship any day to that of Scientists.’

‘Just finished my session with lovely Sarah,’ he added.

‘session is what you call it?’ Epstein asked.

Later, when Epstein asked him: ‘What do you enjoy the most now?’ Chopra confided: ‘I do enjoy the company of younger intellectually sharp and self aware women and love to engage with them to inspire and stimulate them.’

In our review of dozens of their messages, the Daily Mail saw Chopra mention his wife only once.

Within two months of meeting, Epstein referred to Chopra as ‘one of the family’ when connecting him with powerful people, including former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. 

He also ordered monogrammed shirts for him, as was his habit when trying to win over new friends.

‘They are v preppy,’ Chopra wrote.

Epstein introduced Chopra to, among others, Sultan Bin Sulayem, an Emirati businessman, Nobel laureate Richard Axel, a molecular biologist, Baroness Ariane de Rothschild, a billionaire banker, Miroslav Lajčák, then-president of the United Nations General Assembly, and director Woody Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn.

He seems to have mocked Chopra’s spiritual work, calling it ‘woo woo’ in an email inviting billionaire Peter Thiel to meet the author.

Still, he donated at least $50,000 to Chopra’s nonprofit and the two discussed making an app and board game together.

And at one point, Chopra sought to introduce Epstein to his son-in-law, a venture capitalist.

‘You might enjoy meeting him. Maybe we can visit tomorrow?’ he wrote, with a parenthetical warning — ‘(can’t talk about girls).’

Much of their banter focused on name-dropping and women whom one or the other found attractive.

Chopra mentioned that Ivanka Trump attended one of his workshops in 2016.

‘I noticed a pretty girl in the room Afterwards someone told me it was her.’

From a trip to the Middle East in 2017, he wrote to Epstein: ‘There were many beautiful Saudi girls.’ 

Both can be seen in their messages admiring the appearance at a woman Chopra described as ‘now my best friend’ – former Saudi ‘Princess Ameerah,’ now known as Ameera Al-Taweel.

‘She is v sweet – like your girls,’ Chopra wrote with an emoji indicating he was smitten with her.

Chopra opened up about his feelings for actress and then-podcast host Kat Foster, describing her as ‘innocent and smart at the same time.’

Epstein, for his part, dissed Leena Nasser, whom Chopra had recently hired as CEO of his organization, writing: ‘She is pleasant. Not sure if [she] will be taken seriously.’ Chopra noted that she is the daughter of the head of the Saudi-owned Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer, warning, ‘So let’s not crack any sex jokes etc.’

Their exchanges at times sounded downright adolescent.

After Chopra ended one of his texts to the pedophile with a perfunctory, ‘Sending love,’ for example, Epstein responded, ‘Can you send it it in female form,’ with a smiley face emoji.

‘Ha ha ha,’ Chopra wrote back.

The pair engaged in frequent conversations about philosophy and metaphysics, many of which bordered on the absurd.

‘Cells are human constructs. No such thing! Universe is human construct. No such thing. Cute girls are aware when they make noises,’ Chopra wrote.

‘so when the girl says oh my god. . ?’ Epstein asked.

‘Yes. That’s divine trancendence,’ Chopra told him.

‘oh, i thought she was just referring to me,’ Epstein responded.

‘That’s because you are God in drag,’ Chopra wrote.

Aside from their frequent Beavis and Butthead banter, conversations between the two aging men at times touched on more serious issues.

Each wrote to the other about his boredom with life.

Chopra at the end of 2018 told Epstein that he was about to begin a silent retreat and ‘Giving up on idea of fun. Shifting to profound peace.’

‘Dangerous. Sounds more dead than alive,’ Epstein wrote back. ‘It is your extreme boredom (I recognize it in myself ) talking.’

Chopra at times relied on Epstein for support when criticized by scientists, at one point sharing with him an email in which famous researchers derided him as a narcissist, blowhard and celebrity nutjob.

Epstein, in turn, kept Chopra apprised of developments with his public relations woes. 

In 2016, he forwarded a link to a Daily Mail article about a woman who claimed in a lawsuit to have been assaulted by Epstein and Donald Trump when she was 13 years old, and dropped her civil case against the future president, claiming she was too afraid to move forward with it.

‘Did she also drop civil case against you?’ Chopra asked. ‘Yup,’ Epstein wrote. ‘Good’ Chopra responded, seemingly unbothered by allegations against him.

In early 2019, Epstein texted Chopra about what he described as ‘another round of very bad press. Ugh.’

‘Stay silent. Meditate,’ Chopra advised.

Epstein wrote back two weeks later, saying: ‘I think of you often. I am aware of the toxicity of my press’ – as if concerned that Chopra was distancing himself because of it.

Chopra wrote, ‘Sorry I am not concerned about that,’ yet nevertheless asked to communicate mostly by WhatsApp, a more secure alternative to their text messages.

‘I think we should meditate together!’ he offered.

That same winter, Epstein let Chopra know that it was his birthday. It would be his last before his second arrest and apparent suicide behind bars in August 2019.

‘Happy, happy, happy birthday,’ Chopra wrote. ‘On the other hand a reminder that death is stalking us.’