Rumor Epstein said babies taste like cream cheese is unsubstantiated

In late February 2026, social media users alleged that the Department of Justice’s recently released federal case files regarding the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein showed that he compared the taste of babies to cream cheese. The rumors was related to broader claims that Epstein and his associates engaged in cannibalism and “ritualistic sacrifice.” 

Numerous online posts claimed the files quoted Epstein as saying babies taste like cream cheese, while others said they contained descriptions that “compared the taste of little babies to cream cheese.” 

(X user @SouthpauzArt)

While the words “cream cheese” and “babies” appear in an email exchange within the Epstein files, there’s no evidence he was comparing the taste of the two or that the references are linked to cannibalistic practices. Social media analyses of the emails are purely speculative.

In an email with the subject line “Cream cheese baby,” Epstein wrote, “there are millions of babies, very little good vegatble cream cheese” (referring to vegetable cream cheese). He was responding to a redacted sender who wrote, “Lol, I don’t know if cream cheese and baby are on the same level.”

The full email exchange reads as follows (emphasis ours):

REDACTED NAME: Lol, I don’t know if cream cheese and baby are on the same level..
It’s ok, there is still enough time today.
I am trying to schedule priming for 5.30; fuel explosion 9.45pm ?
Will bring a new engine startup video.

EPSTEIN: there are millions of babies, very little good vegatble cream cheese

REDACTED NAME: Haha
Do you want veggie cream cheese tomorrow? I would go look for it now

EPSTEIN: don’t look ” just go to toojays

REDACTED NAME: I tried but they don’t make it anymore.. I will call lake worth and pb gardens..

EPSTEIN: any good bagel place has it.

EPSTEIN: I found it at too jays lake worth.

The exchange begins with what appears to be a joke comparing babies to cream cheese before shifting to a discussion about places to purchase vegetable cream cheese. It does not provide definitive evidence that Epstein said babies taste like cream cheese, as some posts claim. However, because the exchange is presented without full context, it wasn’t possible to clearly establish the intent behind the remarks. 

Other references to “cream cheese” in the files were largely innocuous. The words appeared as part of food orders, lists for Epstein’s estate and mentions of his bagel preferences. We also looked through all references to “babies” and found nothing directly connected to cannibalism, though there were unrelated references to baby formula and an unknown sender’s email to Epstein discussing his wish to investigate gut bacteria by potentially using fecal matter from healthy babies in Tibet or Nepal. 

Snopes previously reported that references to cannibalism and “ritualistic sacrifice” appeared in the released files. The mentions of “cannibal” or “cannibalism” included media digests; an academic syllabus; a transcript of a conversation between Epstein and a man named “Richard” and an email from Epstein to an unknown person about jerky and “a restaurant called Cannibal.” (Snopes also interviewed a chef included in the emails about jerky.)

Some of the files detailed a purported interview between the FBI and an anonymous man. The man claimed he witnessed “ritualistic sacrifice” and “babies being dismembered” on a yacht belonging to Epstein in 2000. According to the DOJ records, the man did not provide evidence to support his allegations. We did not investigate the claims’ legitimacy.

Snopes has also previously covered false rumors about Ellen DeGeneres in the files and how there is no evidence in the files that the “pizzagate” conspiracy theory was real. 

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