Epstein’s emails show he called Imran major ‘threat to peace’

Published on: November 16, 2025 3:59 AM

Disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein termed former prime minister Imran Khan a major “threat to peace” in 2018, days after his PTI won Pakistan’s general elections. Epstein mentioned the now-incarcerated PTI founder in his email conversations with an unidentified individual on July 31, 2018, according to the latest batch of emails released by the US Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday. In 2019, the United States Justice Department charged Epstein in Manhattan with sex trafficking of minors. Epstein pleaded not guilty, but died by suicide the same year before the trial at age 66. In an email exchange encompassing various topics, Epstein wrote at 4:04am that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been “kind so far” and quipped, “how the US involves itself in others’ elections”. Minutes later, Epstein mentioned both Imran and Putin in the same message: “[Putin] hasn’t pointed out assassinations to overthrow [governments] coup funding Imran [Khan] in Pakistan, a much greater threat to peace than [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan, Khomeini, [China’s President] Xi or Putin.” The other individual asked, “The populist in Pakistan???”, to which Epstein only replied “really bad news”, apparently referring to Imran. “The cricket player – How could he be worse that [sic] the Islamist?” the person conversing with the sex offender wondered. “Makes Donald look like Einstein. incapable of truth. Devout Islamist [sic],” Epstein wrote back, seemingly referring to Imran. “Many nuclear weapons. (not Erdogan or Khomeni). He was married to two friends of mine, one daughter of Jimmy Goldsmith. Super wealthy take over guy. Forced her to convert. Wacko,” the pedophile financier claimed. “It follows your prediction around cults of personality. He is a cricket captain. Not a chess player, but he’s good at rousing the crowd,” Epstein added. The conversation, as per the emails released, then went silent for 40 minutes before resuming on another topic.