Epstein’s ‘last heiress’ accused of ‘smuggling human teeth into US’
Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged ‘last partner and main heiress’ Karyna Shuliak has been linked in newly surfaced emails to a ‘likely’ illegal scheme to smuggle 50 extracted human teeth into the US
Karyna Shuliak and Jeffrey Epstein in 2014(Image: Billy Farrell/BFA/Shutterstock)
Jeffrey Epstein’s “last partner and main heiress” is said to have been identified in newly surfaced material that “likely” sees her being involved in an illegal operation that allegedly included smuggling 50 human teeth into the United States.
Karyna Shuliak, a 36-year-old Belarusian-born dentist, is widely described as the late paedophile’s last romantic partner and the main beneficiary of his estate.
Shuliak was named in the “1953 Trust” Epstein signed two days before his death in August 2019, which set out plans for her to inherit much of what remained of his wealth. Veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez wrote Friday (May 8) on Substack that she had found an unusual email buried among the Justice Department’s release of millions of Epstein-related files.
The message, sent in October 2017, was from Rajesh Kannan, an Indian dentist later reported in 2019 to hold the “largest collection of extracted human teeth”. An email from October 22, 2017, from Kannan to Shuliak read: “Hi payments received for 50 anteriors.
“Reply with full shipping address with mobile number.bye” After Shuliak replied with her address and phone number, Kannan followed up on October 30, 2017 with directions apparently related to the shipment, Raw Story reported.
Kannan wrote: “Hi the tooth parcel has arrived usa and you will receive them soon. further in order to avoid loss of teeth due to postal inspection wehave attached all teeth to a cardboard with fevicol.
“It will look likea beautiful picture. remove all teeth and put them in hot boilingwater for 20 minutes and using a clean cloth wipe them.” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote that Shuliak is a licensed dentist who attended Columbia University’s dental school after “Epstein bribed two of the school’s leaders with more than $600,000 (£4400,000)” when her first application was turned down.
But she argued that because Shuliak graduated in 2015, there were “no legitimate dental procedures” that would require extracted human teeth, based on “experts” she consulted, as per Raw Story. Valdes-Rodriguez said she could not confirm why Shuliak would need 50 teeth, though she pointed to a possible non-dental purpose.
The journalist noted: “So what was Shuliak doing with all those (very expensive) smuggled human teeth? We do not know.
“But experts I spoke to agree: No legitimate dental procedure uses extracted human teeth.” She added: “What we do know is this: Anterior teeth, the kind Shuliak smuggled into the United States from India, are among the highest-quality sources of human DNA.
“The pulp, protected by enamel, preserves genetic material with exceptional reliability long after death.”
Valdes-Rodriguez also wrote that bringing human biological specimens into the US through intentional misrepresentation is “a federal offense under 18 USC 542, carrying up to two years imprisonment”, according to Raw Story.
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