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Each day since the Justice Department published 3.5 million new documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case on January 30, we\u2019ve learned of yet another powerful man who was in contact with the convicted sex offender and people in his network. Late last week, the name Peter Thomas Roth surfaced. According to what appear to be emails in the DOJ release, the skin-care brand founder had communicated with Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell from 2004 until 2018. Now, influencers and content creators are publicly disavowing Roth\u2019s brand and\u2014along with some everyday consumers\u2014calling for boycotts in light of this information.<\/p>\n
Nothing in the files suggests that Roth was involved in any criminal conduct, but he exchanged many friendly emails with Epstein and Maxwell long after the former pleaded guilty in 2008 to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution. In September 2017, Roth allegedly visited Epstein\u2019s home to \u201cexplain to all the girls about skin creams, cleansers and such,\u201d according to an email. The same month, Roth sent Epstein 13 gift bags filled with products. In another email, dated August 2018, Roth sent Epstein the link to a New York Post story headlined Steve Bannon Trying to Get on Disgraced Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s Good Side<\/em>,\u201d saying \u201cGreat picture of you!!!\u201d Epstein responded \u201cfun,\u201d to which Roth replied with three thumbs-up emojis. Epstein was subsequently charged with federal sex trafficking in July 2019.<\/p>\n Roth launched his skin-care line in 1993 after struggling to find products to treat his acne. The brand is now carried in Sephora, Ulta, and QVC. In a statement sent to Allure<\/em>, representatives for Peter Thomas Roth stated that Roth \u201cgave up the day-to-day operations of his eponymous brand in 2016.\u201d According to the brand\u2019s website, Roth \u201cleads all research and development efforts.\u201d He is still the CEO.<\/p>\n On February 8, skin-care influencer Hyram Yarbro posted a 26-minute YouTube video in which he said he would no longer promote the brand. He says he has featured its products in \u201chundreds\u201d of his videos. \u201cI just figured out today that one of my favorite skin-care brands that I have featured in hundreds of videos since the very beginning of my channel, Peter Thomas Roth, is all up in the Epstein files,\u201d Yarbro stated in the video. \u201cI personally will not be supporting him or the brand anymore.\u201d At press time, the video has more than 230,000 views and over 2,000 comments, some saying they are going to boycott Ulta and Sephora as long as they continue to carry the brand.<\/p>\n J.C. Dombrowski, a content creator, also posted a video to say he\u2019s severing any connection with the brand, deleting any previous videos he\u2019s made featuring its products, and requesting to be taken off its public relations team\u2019s mailing list. \u201cI feel especially let down, violated, and appalled that my content helped bankroll someone and some brand like that,\u201d he wrote in his caption, where he also described himself as a survivor of abuse.<\/p>\n People across the internet with far smaller followings, including on Reddit, are also denouncing Roth and his brand, calling on others to stop purchasing his products. \u201cI\u2019m genuinely disgusted and angry about this. PTR made one of my favorite moisturizers, but after this, I will be buying no more,\u201d one user wrote in the \/BeautyGuruChatter subReddit.<\/p>\n When Allure<\/em> asked brand representatives at Peter Thomas Roth for comment, they pointed us to a statement that Roth posted to both his personal Instagram profile and the brand\u2019s on February 5. In it, he said that Epstein was his physics teacher at the Dalton School in New York City in the early \u201970s. \u201cWe stayed in touch casually in the nearly five decades that followed,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI\u2019m horrified by the crimes he committed and the lasting impact they have had on his victims, and I deeply regret maintaining any association with him after leaving the Dalton School.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Roth also said in his statement that he never attended Epstein\u2019s parties, flew on his plane, or visited his island. He did recall once visiting Epstein\u2019s Manhattan residence to \u201cshow him some skin-care products\u201d and leaving after what he described as a \u201cbrief meeting\u201d in his dining room. Roth previously mentioned a visit with Epstein to The New York Times<\/em> in 2019. He described it as \u201can afternoon gathering\u201d where \u201ceveryone present was in their 40s and 50s.\u201d He told the publication at the time that he witnessed no \u201cuntoward behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time that a beauty brand founder has been named in files related to Epstein. In January 2024, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Fekkai, hairstylist and founder of his namesake brand, was named in unsealed court documents related to a 2015 lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre against Maxwell. Giuffre, a prominent survivor of Epstein\u2019s abuse who died by suicide last year, named Fekkai in the suit as one of the individuals who \u201chas knowledge of [Maxwell\u2019s] conduct.\u201d In one deposition related to the case, an Epstein employee testified, \u201cI heard him call someone, and say, Fekkai is in Hawaii. Can we find some girls for him?\u201d<\/p>\n Earlier this month, The New York Times<\/em> reported that regular appointments for \u201cundisclosed or redacted individuals\u201d in Epstein\u2019s circle were made at Fekkai\u2019s salon on New York City\u2019s Upper East Side. In 2019, former Fekkai employees told The Daily Beast<\/em> that Epstein regularly brought groups of young women into the salon, where the outlet reported, \u201cHe paid for their services and had them sit on his lap and stroke his hair.\u201d In a statement sent to the outlet, a spokesperson said, \u201cNeither [Fekkai] nor the current management team had any knowledge of the incidents described and, in Mr. Fekkai\u2019s limited acquaintance with Mr. Epstein, he never witnessed any of the deplorable conduct that led to Mr. Epstein\u2019s conviction.\u201d Nothing in the files suggests that Fekkai was involved in any criminal conduct, and he has not been charged with any crime. Allure<\/em> reached out to representatives for Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Fekkai yesterday for comment and did not receive a response before the time of publication.<\/p>\n Leslie Wexner, founder of L Brands (previously Limited Brands), has been in headlines for years regarding a longtime association with Epstein. L Brands once owned Victoria\u2019s Secret, Bath & Body Works, and Abercrombie & Fitch. (In 2021, the name was changed to Bath & Body Works. Victoria\u2019s Secret was spun off into its own company, and Abercrombie & Fitch was sold nearly 30 years ago.) Wexner stepped down as CEO in 2020. In the January 30 release of documents, an FBI file from 2019, unredacted earlier this week, referred to Wexner as a \u201cco-conspirator\u201d of Epstein. Wexner has not been charged with any crime in connection with Epstein\u2019s sex-trafficking and denies knowledge of Epstein\u2019s criminal conduct.<\/p>\n A legal representative for Wexner sent a statement to multiple outlets on Tuesday, saying, \u201cThe assistant U.S. attorney told Mr. Wexner\u2019s legal counsel in 2019 that Mr. Wexner was neither a co-conspirator nor a target in any respect. Mr. Wexner cooperated fully by providing background information on Epstein and was never contacted again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n While there are many industry players who appear in the files, the release of emails between Roth, Maxwell, and Epstein seems to have sparked sizable outrage from consumers. This may be due to the country\u2019s disgust with the investigation in general\u2014and a perceived lack of consequences\u2014that is growing more intense with the passing of time.<\/p>\n It remains to be seen if this outrage is maintained, if other emails or accusations arise among beauty industry leaders, and what domino effects we might see. Last week, skin-care brand Augustinus Bader reportedly canceled an Upper East Side cocktail event hosted by its cofounder Charles Rosier and self-help author Deepak Chopra just two hours before it was set to begin. We learned of Chopra\u2019s link to Epstein back in November, when another Epstein file release showed that the author had been in frequent email contact with Epstein in the years leading up to his 2019 sex trafficking charges. More of their email correspondence was included in the files released on January 30\u2014among them a 2017 email exchange in which Chopra wrote to Epstein, in part, \u201cGod is a construct. Cute girls are real.\u201d In June 2025, Rosier and Chopra launched an AI-based wellness platform called AB Chopra Epigenetics. Chopra has not been charged with any crimes, nor do his emails suggest involvement in any criminal conduct.<\/p>\n In a statement posted to X on February 4, Chopra wrote, \u201cI want to be clear: 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.\u201d He continued: \u201cSome past email exchanges have surfaced that reflect poor judgment in tone. I regret that and understand how they read today, given what was publicly known at the time.\u201d Allure<\/em> reached out to representatives for Chopra for comment and did not receive a response before the time of publication.<\/p>\n A representative for the Bader brand told Puck News this week, \u201cDeepak Chopra is no longer a stakeholder or involved in the development of Augustinus Bader\u2019s longevity platform.\u201d Allure<\/em> reached out to representatives for Augustinus Bader yesterday for additional comment and did not receive a response before the time of publication.<\/p>\n While the possible damage to brands and reputations seems to grow with each new cache of Epstein releases, in the end, it is nothing compared to the actual damage to the lives of countless abuse victims at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n More beauty news:<\/strong><\/p>\n Now, watch Dove Cameron’s 10-minute beauty routine:<\/strong><\/p>\n Follow<\/em> Allure on<\/em>\u00a0Instagram<\/em>and<\/em>\u00a0TikTok, or<\/em>\u00a0subscribe to our newsletter<\/em>to stay up to date on all things beauty.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.allure.com\/story\/peter-thomas-roth-jeffrey-epstein-emails-boycott”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/media.allure.com\/photos\/698e0c22d0184de70289d111\/16:9\/w_1280,c_limit\/peter%20thomas.jpg”] Each day since the Justice Department published 3.5 million new documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case on January 30, we\u2019ve learned of yet another powerful man who was in contact with the convicted sex offender and people in his network. 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