01x03 - The Island

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[MAN SIGHS]

- [WOMAN] Raise your right hand, please.

- Yes.

[WOMAN] Do you swear your

testimony will be the truth,

whole truth and nothing but

the truth so help you God?

- Yes, I do.

- [WOMAN] Thank you.

This is Jeffrey Epstein in his

first deposition in my case.

I represented the original

girl that was brought to police

and gave her story that

started this investigation.

[LAWYER] Is it true, sir, that, um

you have what's been described

as an egg-shaped p*nis?

[LAWYER] I had hired psychologists

to do a psychological

profile on Jeffrey Epstein.

What type of person he was

and what would actually

get under his skin.

What made him tick was

that he was a narcissist.

He had no ability to feel empathy

and saw himself as the "Master

of Puppets," so to speak.

[LAWYER] Sir, one witness

described your p*nis as oval-shaped

and claimed, when erect, it

was thick towards the bottom

but was thin and small

- towards the head portion

- [EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] Sorry.

[LAWYER] and called it

egg-shaped. Those are not my words.

I apologize, but as

[EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] This

meeting is now adjourned.

[LAWYER] As Mr. Kreighton

has stated that this is a

- [INDISTINCT DIALOGUE]

- [EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] All right.

[LAWYER] I'm willing to continue.

[INDISTINCT DIALOGUE]

[LAWYER] He tries at all times

to be the master of his domain

and in control of his world.

As soon as he feels

he's out of control

it's unsettling to him.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

[MICHAEL REITER] When we first

turned the case over to the FBI,

they identified additional victims,

and early on, we in the

Palm Beach Police Department

helped them doing that.

But after nearly two years

there was very little information

flowing from the

federal side back to us.

In fact, they reminded

us on several occasions

that this was not a

cooperative investigation.

It was their investigation.

[LAWYER] All of a

sudden, I had gotten a tip

that Jeffrey Epstein was gonna

be there at the courthouse,

but we didn't know why.

As I'm going through security,

he was actually going through security

with his lawyers at the same time.

And they were kind of rushing him

through security to get upstairs.

The courtroom was packed,

and obviously, at that

point, I started realizing

that something was happening here

that was bigger than

just a routine hearing.

[MUSGRAVE] It was a

very hush-hush hearing.

It was scheduled at the last minute

despite all the time that had elapsed.

[SPENCER KUVIN] There was a

point where Mr. Epstein's lawyers

then took a sidebar and went up and

talked to the judge about something

that the rest of the

courtroom couldn't hear.

He was ushered over to the

bailiff where he was fingerprinted

and a DNA swab was done, and he

was then taken out of the room.

Somehow, his lawyers

had worked out a deal

with the US Attorney's office.

I mean, the whole thing was shocking.

[REITER] No one told us in the

Palm Beach Police Department

that any of this was happening.

Our lobby was full of the news media

because they knew

about it before we did.

Two years now after his arrest

for soliciting prostit*tes,

Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey

Epstein pleaded guilty today.

[FEMALE REPORTER] The guilty plea

and deal end a year's long process

that could have sent

Epstein to jail for 15 years.

He agreed to serve a total of 18 months

in the Palm Beach Detention Facility.

[BRAD EDWARDS] It was outrageous.

That's when we learned

for the first time

there's not a deal about to happen.

A deal actually already happened.

It's already done. The case is

over, and my clients are going,

"How is the case over

when it hasn't started?

This doesn't make any sense to me."

I told them, "None of

What doesn't make sense to you right now

also doesn't make sense to me."

Alex Acosta, the acting US Attorney,

should at least have to explain.

Why did you do what you did?

And give us the real story,

whatever it is. Just tell us why.

Give me some explanation for

why this f*cking happened.

[MALE REPORTER] News Channel

5's Dori Robau is live today

at the Palm Beach Police Department.

When the police chief here heard

that Epstein would be charged

with solicitation of prostitution,

he thought that the charges

ought to be much more serious,

and Palm Beach police chief Michael

Reiter believed a strong case

had been made that Epstein

had sex with children.

It's the only case I was

involved in, in my entire career,

that I felt as though I really

could not protect the victims.

[MAN] I've been working

together with Brad Edwards

on Epstein civil cases

for over a decade.

Jeffrey Epstein was given immunity

from any other state charges,

and immunity from all federal charges,

both for himself and for any of his

named and unnamed co-conspirators.

It is inexplicable to me

that any prosecutor

could ever have entered

into this kind of plea deal.

In 45 years of practice,

I have never heard of anyone ever

entering into a plea agreement

that not only granted immunity

to the target of an investigation,

but

handed out "get-out-of-jail-free" cards

to everyone of that

person's co-conspirators,

named and unnamed.

[EDWARDS] All unknown co-conspirators

somehow also got immunity.

There was no way that

anybody could look at this

and think this was okay.

[ALAN DERSHOWITZ] The

outcome of this case,

whether people agree

or disagree with it,

doesn't require a conspiracy

between government

officials and wealthy people.

Everything that we negotiated

for had to be approved by Acosta,

by the Assistant Attorney General

in charge of the Criminal

Division in Washington,

by the Deputy Attorney

General of the United States,

ultimately by the Attorney

General of the United States.

This went through various levels.

It was a very tough negotiation.

Acosta mostly sat at the end of

the table and asked hard questions.

The issue was whether or not the

federal government could make a case

based on the evidence they had of

the commission of a federal crime,

and my job was to try to persuade

them they could not make that case.

[KUVIN] Jeffrey Epstein and his

team was just this huge train

of money, power, and influence

that was just barreling down on

the State's Attorney's office,

the US Attorney's office,

just trying to get their way

and eventually getting their way.

[DERSHOWITZ] In the end, they

decided that they'd be better off

getting a bird in the hand

versus two in the bush,

and they agreed to have him plead guilty

to State charges, get a sentence,

and then make massive compensation

to the alleged victims.

I can tell you one

interesting thing: at the end,

Jeffrey Epstein didn't think

we made a very good deal.

He was pretty upset with us. He

thought he could have done better.

Hi, uh Jeffrey. It's George Rush.

- [EPSTEIN] George, how are you?

- [RUSH] Good.

[RUSH] Do you want to say

anything just about the way

your agreement has been

characterized as a secret,

back-room sweetheart deal

that somehow, through the political

connections of your lawyers,

they obtained it.

[EPSTEIN] George, it's total bullshit.

On closer examination, you'll

find my penalty was harsher,

not less, harsher than anyone

else who's ever been charged

- with solicitation of prostitution.

- [RUSH] Mm-hmm.

[EPSTEIN] No girl ever came to my house.

First of all, I never left my house.

So any girl who came to my house

was coming to my house to get money,

to earn money.

New York, by the way,

you should understand,

for the same charge,

- it it's a $100 fine.

- [RUSH] Mm-hmm.

[EPSTEIN] That's the charge

in New York for this behavior.

- Now so.. It's two charges.

- [RUSH] Yes.

[EPSTEIN] So we're clear, one charge

was solicitation of prostitution.

That's nothing to do with minors.

Simply solicitation of prostitution.

The other charge that related to

a minor was procuring a minor

for engaging in prostitution.

So that was the only two

and none of those None

Neither one of the

charges nor any allegation

of alleged sexual intercourse

at any time or any type.

The state charge is simply

a procurement charge.

It has nothing to do with sex.

It's a procurement for prostitution.

[RUSH] Well, what

[EPSTEIN] If you look, even

up until six months ago,

soliciting a 16-year-old prost*tute

was a Class D misdemeanor,

which was a fine of $100,

similar to jay-walking.

They labeled us as underage prostit*tes

and it's embarrassing

to be identified as that.

It's embarrassing. It's hurtful.

It's all kinds of things.

These girls were not prostit*tes.

These girls were middle school

and high school kids Children.

The victims are left beaten and

destroyed and with no answers.

[MICHELLE LICATA] I was shocked when

I read that there was a plea deal.

I didn't know you could make

a deal with the government

and, you know, get a lesser sentence

just based upon how much

power and money you have.

[COURTNEY WILD] Justice wasn't served.

Everybody looked the other way.

And we find out that what

the government did was

they kept the victims in the dark

so we didn't have our day in court.

So, yeah, I was sexually

abused by Jeffrey Epstein,

but I was re-victimized

by the same government

that's supposed to protect us.

They muted our voices,

so I was Yeah, I was

angry. I'm still very angry.

[SHAWNA RIVERA] I think that this

is common for people like Jeff.

I think that they often don't have to

face the consequences for their actions.

I just wanted Jeff to be prosecuted.

I wanted him to, like, not be able

to dig his way out of it with money.

And then I found out

that this deal was made

where the records were sealed and, like,

my ability to do anything criminally

against him was was gone.

I was really upset about it.

I was mad about it and I didn't

know where to go from there.

[EDWARDS] Almost immediately

after the non-prosecution agreement

was secretly signed between

Jeffrey Epstein and the government,

I tell all of my clients

I have to fight this.

And the best thing that I can do is

to enforce your rights under

the Crime Victims Rights Act,

which ensures that

victims, in criminal cases,

um have certain basic

rights, which include the right

to confer with the

prosecutor on the case

before there's a resolution of the case.

We had to file a lawsuit.

[JACK SCAROLA] If a court says these

victims were entitled to be heard,

there may be a new hearing

in front of a federal judge

where these victims have a right

to express their

opposition to this deal,

and a judge could decide,

Jeffrey Epstein, you

did enter into a contract

that was ill*gal from the outset.

It is going to be voided.

You have no immunity. The federal

government has the right

to prosecute you

and the right to prosecute

your co-conspirators.

One of the next things that we did was

we requested all of

the email correspondence

between the US Attorney's

office and Jeffrey Epstein

to support our allegation

that there was this concerted effort

to

arrive at a secret deal

without the victims knowing.

There were so many unusual occurrences

that went on in connection

with the negotiation

of this non-prosecution agreement.

There were hundreds

of email communications

that got exchanged.

[MIKE FISTEN] We found

out Marie Villafaña

was sending emails back and

forth to Jeffrey's lawyers

asking them if they

wanted to make any changes.

I mean, at one point in her emails,

she's telling Jeffrey's lawyers,

"Don't email me at the office anymore.

Here's my Gmail. Email me at my Gmail."

[SCAROLA] Mr. Acosta holds some meetings

outside the US Attorney's office,

outside lawyers' offices

in a room at the Marriott hotel

that were clearly intended to preserve

the secrecy of the negotiations

that were going on.

If any of the victims knew what

was going on in this conspiracy

between Jeffrey Epstein

and the government,

they could have blown

the whole thing up.

Before the plea deal, I think

the focus was really on Florida.

They didn't really realize it expanded

with victims being trafficked,

and traveled, and lent out

around the country and around the world.

[EDWARDS] I'm reading from the complaint

filed by Virginia Roberts against you.

Isn't it true, sir, that

a friend of yours sent you

three 12-year-old

females for you to sexually

abuse on one of your birthdays?

[EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] Form

argumentative, harassing,

- and irrelevant to this lawsuit.

- Excuse me,

but could you You're saying

that's part of the lawsuit?

[EDWARDS] Yeah, I'll read it directly.

[GIUFFRE] It was Jeffrey's

birthday one year.

I don't remember what year it was,

but I would say it's a good

year into our you know

our relationship,

our knowing each other,

and he was laughing about the fact that

his friend sent him

three 12-year-old girls

that he had purchased

from their parents.

[EDWARDS] "On one of

defendant Epstein's birthdays,

a friend of defendant Epstein

sent him three 12-year-old girls

from France, who spoke no English,

for the defendant to

sexually exploit and abuse.

After doing so, they were sent

back to France the next day."

- Isn't that true?

- [EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] Once again,

I'm going to move to strike.

Irrelevant, argumentative, harassing.

[EDWARDS] All right.

I would like to answer that

question. I really would.

However, today my attorneys have told me

I have to assert my Fifth Amendment,

Sixth Amendment, and

Fourteenth Amendment rights

under the US Constitution.

[EDWARDS] You're invoking

your Fifth Amendment rights

to each of these questions

because you know that your

answers will incriminate you

and you feel uh, that it will result

in you being prosecuted

for these crimes,

isn't that right?

[EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] Objection.

Argumentative, harassing,

and calls for a legal conclusion.

- [MAN] Answer.

- No, in fact the Supreme Court recently said

that the Fifth Amendment right

is there to protect the innocent,

so that's why I'd like to answer that.

[CHURCH BELL RINGING]

[RINGING CONTINUES]

[WOMAN] I love it here in Spain

because it's so far away

that Jeffrey Epstein

could never find me here.

My name is Sarah Ransome.

In 2006,

I was sexually trafficked

by Jeffrey Epstein.

I'd just turned 22 when I

decided to go to New York.

New York's where

everyone's dreams come true.

I packed my bags, really excited,

and I landed in New York

on the first of September.

However, I didn't know anyone.

I didn't have that much money.

I was there for about two weeks,

and one night I went

to a club called Quo,

and I met this girl, Natalya Malyshev.

She immediately befriended me. She

became like my instant best friend.

She said that she knew this amazing

guy. He was a philanthropist.

This guy genuinely is a really kind guy,

and, you know, whatever my dream

is, he can make it come true.

Natalya said, "This guy

would really like to meet you.

We're going to the cinema."

It was Jeffrey, of course.

He was charming, charismatic,

friendly, um, caring,

where he actually listened to me.

And then I get a call, like,

I think it was the next

day or like two days after,

and it was Natalya going,

"You'll never believe it.

Jeffrey really thought you were cool."

This guy wants to help me

out, pay for my education.

He was going to get me into the

Fashion Institute of Technology.

Natalya said, "And he's

got this private island,

and we're going on his private

plane, and it's amazing.

It's like a tropical paradise and "

I'm, like, down for going to a

private island on a private plane.

It was on that first plane journey

that something peculiar happened.

Jeffrey started having hardcore sex

in front of everybody with another girl.

And everyone else was sort of

pretending to be asleep and ignoring it,

and I just found it really

odd that no one wa

no one was saying or reacting

So I just pretended to sort of nod

off. I didn't know where to look.

It was traumatizing. It's still

a very vivid memory for me,

and I should have known then.

I should have trusted

my instincts, but I

I didn't.

[SEABIRDS SQUAWKING]

[GORDON ACKLEY] The island

is, uh, approximately 75 acres.

From St. Thomas, it's

about a ten-minute ride

by passenger boat out to the island.

This is Mr. Epstein's,

uh, principal residence,

which is the island

of Little Saint James.

Mr. Epstein built little cabanas and

beach houses all across the island.

The blue roof

that is closest to the water was

Mr. Epstein's personal residence.

And the main house and the guest house,

that's where the guests would stay.

He is not representative of the

people of the Virgin Islands,

I can tell you that.

But being on an island by yourself,

I guess he felt he could

do whatever he wanted.

[GIUFFRE] The island, that was one

of Jeffrey's favorite places to go

because it was so isolated.

There's no doubt that it was beautiful.

It has a nickname,

the Pedophile Island,

but that wasn't the

nickname Jeffrey gave it.

It was Little Saint Jeff's.

That was his nickname for it.

But it really is Orgy Island,

because that's what happened there.

That was what that island meant to me.

I started working on the island in 1999

and worked until either the end

of 2005 or the start of 2006.

I was there for maintenance on

Jeffrey Epstein's telecommunications

and data equipment.

He wanted a private cellular network.

Privacy was very important

to Jeffrey Epstein.

I was on the island

probably a hundred times.

I was ultimately in every

[CHUCKLING] single building

that existed on the island at that time.

And I would say every other month

I would see guests on the island,

and the guests almost

always included young girls.

One time I went to the

Grotto, the little beach,

as it was coined,

and when I walked down

there was a gentleman who was

not Jeffrey and three girls.

The three girls were topless.

Um

The gentleman was, uh nude.

I left immediately.

Sometimes there were

other people on the island

that were important people.

I saw Alan Dershowitz on the island.

It was more of a business meeting.

Another time, I saw Bill

Clinton sitting with Jeffrey

on the living room porch area,

which was Jeffrey's favorite spot.

I saw no other guests

there at that time at all.

I just said, "Hey, you know, wow

Jeffrey's sitting with Bill Clinton."

[GIUFFRE] Not all the men took part.

I have, you know, seen

people on the island

that came for a lunch or a dinner,

and they didn't stay very long.

[STEVE SCULLY] Jeffrey

hung out with a lot of

powerful and well-known figures,

both politically and

financially, and I mean

British royalty.

It was probably around 2004,

I saw Prince Andrew. He was at the pool.

He was with, at that time,

an unknown girl to me.

She was young. She

didn't have any top on.

They were engaged in foreplay.

He was

grabbing her and grinding against her.

You know, you tell yourself

that you didn't know for sure.

You never really saw anything.

But that's just all rationalization.

Jeffrey Epstein, he was a guy that

concealed his deviance very well.

But he didn't conceal it that well.

One day, the pool guy's on

the island when I get there.

He said, "Why are you doing this?"

And I said,

"I don't know. I really The money."

And he said, "Do you have any children?"

And I said, "Yeah, I have

two daughters, 13 and 15."

And he said, "Would you let your

daughters come to the island?"

And when he said that,

I realized I wouldn't

let my two children

within five miles of that man.

And I quit the next day.

I don't believe Jeffrey

Epstein ever regretted

a single thing he did in his life.

I think that he's one of

those kinds of sociopaths

that could afford to

live out his perversions

in any way that he wanted.

[SARAH RANSOME] At

the US Virgin Islands,

you've got authorities going, you know,

"Hello, Mr. Epstein,

nice to see you again,"

welcoming him at the airport

as if he's some sort of celebrity,

with about five girls trailing behind,

and no one said anything.

And I think that they knew.

The airport staff knew.

The flight controllers knew.

The pilots knew. The landing guys knew.

The guys that are even

taking the luggage off knew.

They all knew.

From the very first day

that I arrived on the island,

the abuse started.

Natalya called me and

said that he, um

wanted to see me in in his room.

And there was this massage table,

and then I was asked to go on the table.

He just r*ped me.

It

It was like lying on a surgeon's table

and someone doing things to you

that you have no control over.

You're You're powerless.

I was trapped.

From the very first day,

I think I was in such shock

because I think the more he saw

you being damaged, the

more he enjoyed it

the more it excited him.

This area here reminds me of

the evening when I tried

to escape the island

after I had been r*ped

three times that day.

[VOICE BREAKING] And he would do things,

so [CRYING]

[SOBBING] It was Sorry.

[SOBBING] He did things that no

man should ever do to a woman.

And he did it all the time,

and, you know, that

day I'd just had enough.

My plan was just to swim away.

And I specifically went to

a remote part of the island.

Before I'd even gathered my thoughts

as to how I was going to climb down,

uh get into the ocean, swim

away, Jeffrey Epstein found me

almost immediately. He knew

exactly where I was, the location

Um

And I knew then that I was being

filmed. I was being watched 24/7.

There were cameras all over

the island, and he got me back.

[WOMAN] Jeffrey's Island:

it's like smoke and mirrors.

Some really bad stuff happened there.

I'm Chauntae Davies,

and I first met Jeffrey

Epstein at 21 years old.

I worked for Jeffrey as

a professional masseuse.

It was the end of 2001

when they said, "We're

flying to Jeffrey's island."

And here I was going to

this private island in

in the in the Caribbean and,

you know, just all this was just

so foreign to me that I just, you know,

I was I started to get very excited

because I was starting to really see

the perks of working for them.

They showed me around the island,

the various villas and

where I was staying.

So after dinner that night,

I went back to my room,

and then Sarah Kellen, their assistant,

came knocking on my door and said,

"Jeffrey is ready for his massage now."

[SINISTER MUSIC]

[CHAUNTAE DAVIES] It started

to feel like this is not

this is not okay.

This is not This isn't

going somewhere good.

I began the massage like I always did,

and then he flipped around,

and he threw me on the bed

by holding my wrists

together and r*ped me.

He jumped off the bed

and got in the shower,

and I just jumped off the bed

also, and ran out of the door,

and ran all the way back to my villa.

I'd left my shoes behind and

was barefoot running back,

and by the time I got back to my villa,

my feet were were a bloody mess,

and then I just cried myself

to sleep that night and

woke up the next day and tried

to pretend like it didn't happen.

Did I resist? Absolutely.

Did I say no? Yes, I did.

Did I fight? No, I didn't.

Um

You know, I was terrified.

[VOICE BREAKING] I was

isolated on a private island

in the middle of nowhere and

Um

[SIGHS]

Just didn't, you know

Just let it happen.

Jeffrey Epstein went to jail

just before 10:00 this morning.

He pleaded guilty in open court.

He agreed to serve a total of 18 months

in the Palm Beach Detention Facility.

[MAN] It was negotiated between

the federal government and the state

that Mr. Epstein would serve

his time at a county jail

which was ours.

Mr. Epstein stayed in T dorm,

which is located where

my finger is pointing.

Describing this as a jail sentence

is grossly misleading.

He served it in a

private wing of the jail.

[EDWARDS] His cell door was left open.

He was provided food that

other people didn't get to eat.

He was provided a TV room.

He got to meet with his

lawyers almost around the clock

when he was at the jail facility.

[MICHAEL GAUGER] Mr. Epstein

was given work release

that he qualified for

immediately upon his entry.

[EDWARDS] Are you released

from jail at some time?

Do you have to report back

to jail on a daily basis?

Yes, I report back to jail at 8:00 p.m.

[EDWARDS STAMMERS] Every single day?

Yes, sir.

[EDWARDS] And is it seven days a

week that you're out on work release?

No, sir.

[EDWARDS] How many days a week

are you out on work release?

Six.

[EDWARDS] And of those six days,

how many hours per day are

you out on work release?

Twelve.

For sex offenders to be on work

release makes no sense to me.

[GAUGER] Every other inmate

would be given the same privileges

if they met the parameters.

Mr. Epstein had to file for

a work permit application,

and that's what I have in my hand.

"Participants shall not engage

in or have contact with any person

that's engaged in ill*gal activities."

Part of the agreement

was an off-duty deputy

that he would be responsible

for the salaries of

that would be with him the entire

time of, uh at his office.

It was approximately $42 an

hour for a deputy to be with him.

So that's 12 hours per day.

Here are the payments

that were made by Epstein,

uh, with a total of $128,136.

[EDWARDS] At the office, he

was able to ask other females

to send him photographs.

He was able to fly girls in. He

was able to engage in sexual acts.

[GAUGER] We were given Mr. Epstein

under conditions that

we were not used to,

and we did the very best we could

under the parameters that we had.

[MUSGRAVE] It's hard to decide

which part of the deal is the worst,

but I think probably the biggest laugh

was that he was allowed to leave.

So he was just like,

he was staying at a really bad motel.

[RANSOME] He did jail, whatever that is,

but you know a Holiday

Inn. [CHUCKLES] Great.

So, I've been r*ped over and over again

because Alex Acosta didn't have the

ba*ls or the courage to protect us.

[REPORTER 1] A few steps, a smile,

and a wave to the deputy at the door.

We watched Jeffrey

Epstein walk out of jail,

but only his attorneys heard from him.

He's very happy that his

jail sentence is over,

and, uh, he can begin a

new chapter in his life.

[REPORTER 2] Palm Beach billionaire

Jeffrey Epstein is waking up

in his mansion this morning

after serving just 13 months

of his 18 month sentence

for paying underage girls for sex.

[REPORTER 3] Epstein will

serve 12 months house arrest

at his Palm Beach home.

The 54-year-old will

be confined to his home

except for work and other activities

approved by his probation officer.

[FISTEN] In 2009, after

Jeffrey Epstein got out of jail,

victims' attorney Brad Edwards asked me

to follow Jeffrey to see if he

was abiding by his probation.

So we're about a block and a

half east of Jeffrey's house.

The street here, you get a good view

of who would come in

and out of his gate.

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[FISTEN] There was a couple of occasions

where we knew Jeffrey was hiding

in the car when he left.

He would violate his probation

almost on a daily basis.

There's 11 pages here of

just different violations.

I think I myself

documented 66 different days

that he violated his probation.

On this particular day

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- Epstein left his house

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and drove to South Beach

where he met with Alan

Dershowitz at a hotel.

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[FISTEN] This is pictures

of his bodyguard, Igor,

outside waiting for them to come out.

That's his Escalade.

I had contacted the probation and

said, "Do you know where Jeffrey is?"

And she said, "Yeah,

he's home at his house."

I said, "No he's not. He's

at a hotel down in Miami."

I waited outside for Jeffrey to leave.

I just got out of my car with my

camera and I said, "Hey, smile."

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- [FISTEN] He would go to New York

to his island.

He would go to the airport,

jump in his helicopter.

Who knows where he went

without telling anybody?

Every time I brought the

probation office a case,

they kept telling me the same thing.

"What would you like us

to do? He's a celebrity."

I mean, just think about this.

You have a pedophile out on probation.

To violate probation in the

state of Florida is ill*gal,

except for Jeffrey Epstein.

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[DAVIES] In 2002,

Jeffrey's office asked me

if I wanted to go on a trip to Africa.

I was reluctant to go because

I was traumatized on the island,

but I developed the sort of mentality

that as long as I didn't

talk about the abuse,

it didn't really happen.

It was something that, you know,

I'd kind of been conditioned to

from my childhood. Just, you know,

there was so many tragedies

and traumas that happened,

and none of it was ever talked about.

So Ghislaine got on one of

the phone calls and said,

"This is a great opportunity,

and we'd love to have you."

I went from just the masseuse

to being asked to be a

personal assistant on this trip.

So I was blinded by

the opportunity of it.

I hadn't gone anywhere really

and to go to Africa was

like a dream come true.

I flew from L.A. to New York.

The plane was ready on the

tarmac when I got there,

and I took a seat.

Then our our guests arrived.

It was Bill Clinton,

Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker.

I was

blown away, like, "Oh, my God!"

It was surreal.

But the trip was about

the A*DS organization

that Clinton had started.

This trip to Africa is

probably the single most

amazing moment of my life.

And I remember having

this false belief that

the abuse had stopped because

nothing had happened in Africa,

thinking that maybe it just

wasn't going to happen anymore.

But after the Africa trip,

the abuse started all over again,

and it never stopped after that.

It never once occurred to me that

I was being paid for anything more

than being a masseuse. I

really kept it separate.

I was there for a job,

and this man was also sexually

assaulting me on the side.

It was two separate things for me.

I definitely didn't have

the mature mindset of a

normal 21, 22, 23-year-old.

My mom had fled an extremely

a*usive relationship,

and so when we fled, I was

taking care of my sister.

Years later, my then 17-year-old

sister was living with me.

On one random weekend, Jeffrey

and Ghislaine flew to L.A.,

and they just invited me for lunch.

Ghislaine was like, "Bring

her along," you know,

and it never occurred to me

that this was maybe a bad idea.

I never thought that he was

doing this to other people.

I really didn't.

So

I brought my sister with me

and it was decided right then and there

that they were going to

send her to school in Spain

to study language and to pursue

her dream to be a translator.

It wasn't until April of

2005, almost two years later,

that I learned that he was

also doing this to my sister.

She came back home

with an eating disorder.

She was rail-thin and

looked horrible, and

she confessed that Jeffrey had been

sexually assaulting her

basically since they sent her to school.

I never knew until

she came home that day.

My sister thought that Jeffrey

was the most powerful

man she'd ever meet

and knew that he was friends

with celebrities and

and, you know, wealthy people and

There was an altercation that took

place in Jeffrey's Paris apartment

with Harvey Weinstein.

My sister came running from the room,

freaked out at whatever

he'd said and did in there,

and immediately, Harvey

Weinstein's assistant got involved,

trying to remedy the situation

by sending flowers and apology notes.

Jeffrey and Harvey are

both very disgusting people

who used their power

to manipulate and abuse.

I let Jeffrey know that I knew

what he had done to my sister

and that I didn't want to, you know,

have anything to do with him anymore.

And he told me that

if I thought I could

get anywhere in life

without his help that I was wrong,

and basically hung up on me after

that, and we never spoke again.

I still feel

an immense amount of guilt because

I was responsible for her and I

let her s move to a different

country under the pretense

that she was going to get

this amazing education,

and she came back traumatized

at the same hands of the

person who was traumatizing me

for the last three years and

Um

How could she not be angry?

You know? I would be angry.

There's definitely still a lot of

guilt and anger that I have

and feel that I don't

know will ever go away.

[RANSOME] Jeffrey found

out where your weakness was.

When I was 14, I had been r*ped.

That one r*pe will affect

you for the rest of your life.

Part of being sexually trafficked

is you're coerced right from the start.

Once you've opened that door,

they then shut that door

so you can't get back out.

Jeffrey put me up in his

apartment in New York.

He gave me enough money to buy food.

He was, um, organizing

my transportation.

He was going to be

paying for my education.

My whole life was based through Jeffrey.

It was eight and a half months

that I had Jeffrey in my life.

This is as an a*usive

relationship physically and

and mentally as it gets.

But I left and I disappeared.

So when I fled New York,

I fled for my life.

You're either going to live or die.

That's That's That's simple.

[FISTEN] Jeffrey Epstein, after

he got released on probation,

he goes to New York.

The first thing he does is have a party.

All these people

showing up at this house.

The Prince is there.

Woody Allen's there.

After everybody knew

a large number of

underage girls were abused,

people continued to

associate themselves with him.

[EPSTEIN] I'm just looking

to, you know, get my life back.

Go into my philanthropy.

I must have given away

like $14 million last year.

I've collected some of the

world's smartest people.

I've funded some of the world's

greatest cutting-edge science.

I mean, I have lots

of Nobel Prize winners

come here and they end up, you know

getting funded for some things

that it's difficult

to get funded for now.

Quantum computing, for example.

Evolutionary code theory.

[RUSH] Mm-hmm.

So you're not, um you're

not engaging in any sort

- of ill*gal massage or ?

- [EPSTEIN SCOFFS] No. I'm afraid not.

Most of the scientists who come

here are in their 70s and 80s,

and they're probably

They're not that attractive.

[MARC FISHER] Epstein,

uh managed to maintain

a very good reputation

in many, uh, circles

by being a very generous donor to

universities, to research centers.

He would show up at academic

conferences, at medical conventions,

and not only write them a check but

want to be part of the discussion.

[ANNIE FARMER] It was really

troubling how quickly he was just,

you know, brought back into

the fold in his in his world

and the celebrities that felt

like it was just fine, you know,

to socialize with him

and be in public with him.

It felt like there was

just really no consequence

and people didn't care

about his behavior.

It was really disheartening.

[MUSGRAVE] I think that is one

of the tragedies of the case,

is Jeffrey Epstein was allowed

to just resume business as usual.

His victims struggled, you know?

They had had, you know,

this horrible experience.

Nobody had taken them seriously.

And you know, yeah, for years

I think a lot of them struggled

and still probably to this

day are still struggling.

[WILD] Being so young at 14, being

introduced to Jeffrey Epstein,

you know

having this sexual relationship

with a guy that gives me money.

It was too much.

I just dropped out of high school.

It wasn't pretty. It was, um you

know, drugs, money, sex, fast life.

Um For a very long

time, I went down that road.

And that did lead me into incarceration.

It was a dark time, for sure.

[LICATA] I started going down

this really depressing road.

I hated myself.

I wanted to inflict pain on myself.

So I would just take like a knife,

and I'd just like

Just cut it right here on my arm.

If I was the one doing the pain

then it wasn't anybody

else doing it to me.

I wanted to to know that I could

always have control of a situation

because that situation that I was

in made me feel like I was helpless.

Things only got worse after that.

I was doing drugs.

Started out with pills

and then mushrooms

acid

heroin.

Gotten to a point and just

I [SIGHS] I'm just gonna k*ll

myself doing these drugs and

why would it matter?

There's days when I

don't get out of bed,

and I don't feel like

I'm going to make it.

I lost a lot of friends. I

had to quit a lot of places

because I was being bullied at work.

I struggled.

Even though I was a

minor when I met him,

I wasn't protected.

My name was thrown out there.

I was definitely vilified, humiliated.

They released my name.

They released my pictures.

They released a lot of

personal information.

I was a victim, just

like the other girls.

I was, um, preyed upon

by Jeffrey Epstein,

the same way the others were.

I do think about the girls that

I brought, that I recruited

and I think this is probably the

hardest part because of the guilt.

That's what destroys me every day.

[GIUFFRE] Being lent out

and being abused by Epstein,

I was in a bad way.

I was very scared,

and I was very alone

and I knew that I had to get out.

I didn't know what that

opportunity was going to be

when I started packing those bags,

but I really felt

like this was my break.

I'm in Australia now

and I have been for 17 years

since I escaped from Jeffrey Epstein.

It was 2002, just

before my 19th birthday.

I'd been with Jeffrey just

over two years at that point.

We went for a snorkeling

day on his island

and Ghislaine's like,

"I wanna talk to you

about something kind of serious."

And I thought, "Oh, God, what are

they going to ask me to do now?"

And she goes, "Well, Jeffrey

and I, we want to have a baby.

We want you to have the baby for us,

but it's not really going to be your kid

because we need you to sign

over that child's rights to us."

It was gut-wrenching. I

just I knew I had to get out.

But I was afraid to say

no, so I said, "Okay, well,

you guys did promise me

that I'd get an education.

So could you at least let me

get my massage certificate

and we'll do it."

And not even a few weeks later,

Jeffrey gives me these

tickets booked to Thailand

Um

And he says, "Happy

birthday. This is for you.

You're going to go get a certificate."

So I get to Thailand, and I'm like,

"I have an opportunity here to escape.

I've got to tell somebody what's

going on. I've got to leave."

Nearly immediately, I met Robert.

We fell in love.

It was the first moment in my life

where I said I can take

control of my own life.

He got on one knee.

He proposed, just like that.

He said, "Come back

to Australia with me."

Seven days later, we were married

in a Chiang Mai Buddhist temple

in the mountains.

It was the happiest moment of my life.

I called Jeffrey. I

didn't know what to say

or how to say it, but I said

I just blurted out, um

"Jeffrey, I just got married

and, um, I'm not coming back."

He said, "What do you mean?"

And you could tell he

was pissed, well pissed.

And I'm scared. I'm scared to death.

I said, "Jeffrey, I'm

Just I've started a new life.

You know, that's it."

And he hung up the phone.

I felt free. I mean, I immediately

felt like the chains broke off.

It was a powerful moment for me

but one of the first things

that I said to my husband was,

"Robbie, enough's enough.

We've got to do something. He

needs to be brought to justice."

Then I said, "Okay, let's

hold them accountable."

And that's when we decided

we're going to go get them.

We're gonna go get them all.