Frédéric Fékkai, hairstylist to the stars, mentioned in new Epstein documents

• A hairstylist to the stars was named in recently unsealed documents releated to Jeffrey Epstein.
• In a May 2016 deposition, an Epstein accuser was asked if she heard him talk about Frédéric Fékkai.

Frédéric Fékkai — hairstylist to the stars, proprietor of his eponymous haircare line, and rehabilitator of lifestyle brand Bastide — was named in newly unsealed court documents related to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

The documents, hundreds of pages of which were released on Wednesday, are expected to name 170 associates (some connections others apparent victims) of Epstein and Maxwell. Additional documents are expected to be released on Thursday, a source told Business Insider's Jacob Shamsian.

It is unclear what relationship, if any, Fékkai had with Epstein. Fékkai did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside of regular business hours. Business Insider tried to reach several emails associated with Fékkai along with a public relations firm that has worked with his haircare line.

In a May 18, 2016, deposition with Epstein accuser Johanna Sjoberg, she was asked by attorney Sigrid S. McCawley: "Did you ever hear or observe Jeffrey talking on the phone about Frédéric Fékkai?"

"I heard him call someone, and say, Fékkai is in Hawaii," Sjoberg responded over the objection of the attorney for Maxwell, Laura A. Menninger. "Can we find some girls for him?"

"And what was your reaction to that?" McCawley asked.

"Well, I was massaging and I didn't have a reaction," Sjoberg replied in the sworn deposition. "I tried to remain reactionless the whole five years."

The deposition was related to a civil suit filed by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre against Maxwell, Epstein's ex-girlfriend and "Madame." The suit was settled in 2017, but multiple interested parties have been fighting to unseal the case.

US District Judge Loretta Preska has been unsealing the documents, including those released on Wednesday.

Maxwell was later tried and found guilty of multiple counts of sex trafficking in 2021. She is currently serving a 20-year sentence.

Epstein died by suicide in 2019 in a federal jail in Manhattan, while awaiting trial on charges related to sex trafficking. He pleaded guilty in 2008 to Flordia state charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution for which he served less than 13 months in prison and was registered as a sex offender.

Fékkai lives in Aix-en-Provence, France, with his wife Shirin von Wullfen where they operate the Bastide shop, according to a 2023 Goop piece.