01x04 - Finding Their Voice

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[LAWYER 1] We're back on the

video record at 12:02 p.m.

[BRAD EDWARDS] Let's talk about

Jane Doe 102, Virginia Roberts.

Do you know Virginia Roberts?

- So she's Say again, who?

- [EDWARDS] Virginia Roberts.

Can you spell it?

[EDWARDS] Common spelling,

Virginia, like the state.

- Can you spell it for me, please?

- [EDWARDS] Roberts.

How is it What's the

last name? How is it spelled?

[EDWARDS] R-O-B-E-R-T-S, I believe.

Isn't it true that you

and Ghislaine Maxwell

celebrated her 16th birthday with

her and had sex with her on that day?

[LAWYER 2] Form, compound,

confusing, argumentative and harassing.

I'd like to answer that question.

But today I'm gonna have to

assert my Sixth Amendment rights,

my Fifth Amendment rights.

[EDWARDS] Is it true that

you forced Virginia Roberts

to have sex with

numerous friends of yours?

Are you kidding?

[GIUFFRE] The first time

I decided to go public,

it was because I gave birth

to this beautiful baby girl.

It kind of made me realize

what I had been through

was still happening to

other people out there.

It wasn't just me.

And I looked at my husband,

and I said, "Robbie,

we can't just sit by

and be silent anymore.

We've got to do something about it."

I was sexually abused by Prince Andrew.

Someone had to put their

hand up and say, like,

"He can't just get away with this."

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

[GIUFFRE] I first met Prince Andrew

March 10th, 2001,

in London at Ghislaine's townhouse.

He knocked on the door, he came

inside Ghislaine's townhouse,

and we're sitting there having tea.

Ghislaine has this favorite

guessing game that she does.

She goes to Prince Andrew, "How

old do you think Virginia is?"

And he said, "Seventeen."

And she's like, "Oh, you're right!"

And, you know, they, like,

made a little joke about it.

He's like, "My daughters

aren't far from your age.

My daughters are a bit younger than you.

We went out for the night.

Club tr*mp in London.

[ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING]

And he dances, and he's

profusely sweating over me,

and it was disgusting.

We get back to the

townhouse, and we go upstairs.

I have this little yellow Kodak camera,

and, um I ask Jeffrey to take a photo

of me and Prince Andrew together.

[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]

[GIUFFRE] And Ghislaine's literally

just, like, right behind me.

Ghislaine tells me

"You're going to have to do for

him what you do for Jeffrey."

[VOICE BREAKING] And it hit me.

And right after that photo was taken,

I was sexually abused by Prince

Andrew for the first time.

[REPORTER] A former prost*tute

claims she was just 17

when she allegedly had sexual

relations with Prince Andrew.

[GIUFFRE] I've been

called a serial prost*tute,

a bad mom, a serial liar,

a drug addict, every name under the sun.

The whole Prince Andrew

thing, it was just

kaboom.

And it went from being a harrowing

story about trafficking and abuse

to completely Prince Andrew.

I wasn't Prince Andrew's prost*tute,

because I was trafficked

to him, and I was a kid.

[SIGRID MCCAWLEY] My

client Virginia Giuffre

was trafficked by

Epstein almost 30 times

when she was under the age of 18,

both nationally and internationally.

Virginia came forward

publicly in a filing

in the Crime Victims' Rights Act case.

In that filing, she made public

some of the individuals

who had abused her

when she was being

trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.

One of those individuals

was Alan Dershowitz.

[ALAN DERSHOWITZ] I assure you, I

never had sex with Virginia Roberts.

Let me state categorically.

I never had sex with an

underage person in my life.

Even when I was an underage boy, I

never had sex with an underage girl.

I never had sex with anyone

related to Jeffrey Epstein.

I challenge Virginia Roberts

to come on your show,

look in the camera, and

say the following words:

"I accuse Alan Dershowitz

of having had sex with me

on six or seven occasions."

She has never been willing

to accuse me in public.

So please accuse me on

this show, I challenge you.

[GIUFFRE] I was with Alan

Dershowitz multiple times.

At least six that I can remember.

Well, I was trafficked to Alan

Dershowitz from Epstein. Epstein

made me, essentially,

forced me to . to have sex with him.

Every time I was trafficked was

at Epstein or Ghislaine's behest.

He's denied being with me. Is

one of us telling the truth? Yes.

Is that person me? Yes.

[SARAH RANSOME] I came forward in 2016

when the US election started to happen.

This was completely unplanned.

- [CROWD CHEERING]

- Thank you, everybody.

[RANSOME] Donald Trump and Hillary

Clinton are both up for election,

and both candidates for US president

had affiliations with Jeffrey Epstein.

So I went to almost

every single news channel,

British media, American media.

I tried to tell them

I told them who Jeffrey

Epstein was, what he did.

I told them who Ghislaine was.

No one would listen. No one

would hear my voice in 2016.

[MESSAGE CHIMES]

[FEMALE REPORTER 1] This is a

moment in time unlike any other.

With the Me Too movement,

women are feeling the ability

to tell what happened to them,

some of the worst moments they've

lived, and tell it publicly,

and that is powerful, and

it is affecting everything,

and people are looking for justice.

[COURTNEY WILD] I remember watching

the TV about the Me Too movement,

and thinking, "Okay, like, we're next."

We don't need to feel ashamed

for having survived these things.

Actually talking about them,

you know, bringing them into the light

and finding support from each other

is a huge way towards healing.

[CHAUNTAE DAVIES] There's

definitely strength in numbers,

and I feel like women

feel more comfortable

to come forward when they

know they're not alone.

I think we have an unspoken bond

that many people won't ever understand.

Times have changed in a year,

such that these accusations will

be listened to in a different way.

It's an expl*sive investigative series

by the Miami Herald reporter

Julie K. Brown, connecting the dots

between President Trump's labor

secretary, Alexander Acosta,

and what the Miami Herald

calls "the deal of a lifetime"

that was given to accused

pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Senate committee on health,

education, labor and pensions

will please come to order.

This morning, we're holding

a confirmation hearing

on the nomination of Alexander Acosta

to serve as United

States Secretary of Labor.

[MAN] I did not hear

anything about Epstein

until President Trump nominated

Acosta to be Labor Secretary.

And so, as I was digging

into Acosta's background,

I came upon information

about the Epstein case.

I was shocked.

I'd like to ask you about this.

"Federal prosecutors

detail their findings

in an 82-page prosecution

memo and a 53-page indictment,

but Epstein was never indicted."

And then there's a quote.

Quote, "This agreement,"

the agreement you described,

"will not be made part

of any public record,"

the deal between

Epstein and Acosta says.

At the end of the day,

based on the evidence

um professionals within

a prosecutor's office decide

that a plea

that guarantees that

someone goes to jail

and that guarantees other

outcomes is a good thing, and so

[TIM KAINE] Was that a consensus

decision in your office?

It was a broadly held decision.

[KAINE] It was a secret

deal, as we now know.

I thought the outrageous

nature of the allegations

might lead to a vote against him.

I, Alexander Acosta,

do solemnly swear

I want to thank President

Trump, Vice President Pence,

and the members of the Senate

for the privilege of serving

as Secretary of Labor.

[CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING]

Karen and Chris, you've got to

come take a look at this order.

[KAREN] What happened?

Judge Marra has issued his

summary judgment ruling.

What Judge Marra has ruled

is that the federal government

entered into a conspiracy

with Jeffrey Epstein

to violate the Crime

Victims' Rights Act.

- This is just fantastic.

- [KAREN] Wow.

- That is great.

- [LAUGHING]

- Congratulations. Well deserved.

- All right.

- All right.

- It's a good day.

[JACK SCAROLA] There is

now in place a federal order

that the federal government,

under Alexander Acosta's direction,

not only failed to inform

victims, but actively misled them.

That means that 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 it was a contract

that was ill*gal from the outset.

Epstein has no immunity.

The federal government has

the right to prosecute you

and the right to prosecute

your co-conspirators.

[EDWARDS] There was this elation

on behalf of the victims that,

"Hey, look, we won.

We went up against the government

and Jeffrey Epstein, and we won.

We proved that you conspired

against us, the victims."

[WILD] When I heard Judge

Marra did rule in our favor,

I just felt very accomplished.

Uh We'd been fighting

for this for a long time.

Just to have it in words, "Your

rights were violated, period."

It was like, "Okay. Now

something's happening."

[EDWARDS] It became clear

that many of the crimes Jeffrey

Epstein had committed in Florida

originated in New York,

and that he likely had committed

these crimes in New York.

At this stage, the New York

investigation was underway.

[REPORTER 1] A federal

investigation shining some new light

on a controversial plea

deal for a wealthy investor

accused of molesting

dozens of underage girls.

[REPORTER 2] This

decision to investigate

reflects the Me Too movement potentially

touching on the Trump administration

and many other powerful people,

and most important, of

course, it impacts the women

who took the risk to come forward.

[EDWARDS] Now New York's

finally showing an interest,

my clients were all on board and

had been all on board for ten years.

[MICHAEL REITER] I had heard

that there was an investigation

by the FBI in New York and

the US Attorney in New York.

Even though it felt as though

the victims were completely abandoned

by the entire criminal justice system,

I never gave up over the years,

hoping that some measure of justice

would eventually come to the victims.

[MIKE FISTEN] I had

a pretty good inkling

that something was going to happen

because the FBI,

along with the detectives from

NYPD, were down here in Palm Beach,

interviewing numerous people

over the last three months.

[SHAWNA RIVERA] I was

contacted by the FBI.

They told me that they had this

investigation going on in New York,

and they wanted to get, you know,

as much information as they could.

I told them that they needed

to look out for their victims.

I told them that

if they were going to do this

thing, they needed to really do it.

[DAVIES] I was so angry that

I just wanted to

you know, make him pay.

So at that point, I reached out,

which led to a five-hour

meeting with the FBI,

and they flew out to LA to

meet with me, and that was

super intense,

but it finally felt like

we were getting somewhere.

[MARIA FARMER] I had interviewed

with some authorities.

So we knew they were closing in.

We were really excited.

I never, ever thought that

he would be held accountable.

[POLICE SIRENS WAILING]

[REPORTER 1] Big

breaking news overnight.

Jeffrey Epstein arrested

at a New York area airport.

[REPORTER 2] Jeffrey

Epstein was arrested

at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport

after returning on a flight from France.

[REPORTER 3] The 66-year-old

hedge fund manager was arrested

on federal charges

related to sex trafficking.

He has a bond hearing scheduled

for Monday in New York.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC CRESCENDOES]

[MICHELLE LICATA] When I found out

that he was arrested, I was like,

"Oh, my God! Like, finally

he's going to pay for

everything that he has done.

I'm going to New York.

Even though I didn't want to see him,

I'm going to see him now

that he is in shackles.

You know, he is in,

like, an orange jumpsuit.

He is being treated like every

criminal would be treated.

This has got to be it. This

is when it's going to happen.

They're gonna start

digging into his life

and start pulling out this spider web

of people that were related to it.

Oh, he's going to jail.

This is it."

[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]

[REPORTER 4] Federal prosecutors

allege that between 2002 and 2005,

Epstein paid underage

girls as young as 14

to have sex with him at his townhouse.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

He's a villain, that's it, and

we're here to get rid of him.

[REPORTERS CHATTERING LOUDLY]

[MAN] Shh.

[CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING]

Good morning.

I'm Geoff Berman, United States Attorney

for the Southern District of New York.

Today we announce the unsealing

of sex trafficking charges

against Jeffrey Epstein.

[GIUFFRE] I remember

my lawyer calling me

and saying, "You won't believe this.

Do you have anywhere to sit down?"

And while the charge conduct

is from a number of years ago,

it is still profoundly important

to the many alleged victims,

now young women.

They deserve their day in court.

I looked at my phone

and then I looked at my phone again.

And then I looked at my

phone, and then I was like

"No."

I mean, there was a flood of

emotions. I was confused. I was happy.

Tears of joy were

streaming down my face.

[GEOFF BERMAN] Epstein is

charged in a two-count indictment.

First, conspiracy to

commit sex trafficking,

and second, the substantive crime

of sex trafficking of underage girls.

It somewhat restored my faith

in the criminal justice system

that was lost by the way the prosecutors

in Florida treated the victims

and treated the case

back in 2006 and 2007.

The charges are very serious,

and they carry with them a maximum

sentence of 45 years in jail,

which to someone of Epstein's

age is basically a life sentence.

[DAVIES] I just could not believe it.

This all kind of just

exploded all of a sudden,

but at the same time,

I also still knew and

believed his power and

uh ability to get

himself out of things.

I was still kind of

wondering how it was going to go,

and whether or not they

were going to really be able

to build a case and to prosecute him.

[POLICE SIRENS WAILING]

[WOMAN] What's the

sitch? You know what's up?

- [MAN] This is Jeffrey Epstein's

- [WOMAN] Oh, shut up!

[MAN] Somebody must have tipped

them off to something else.

[REPORTER] New raid video

showing federal agents

as they bust open the door

of his seven-story,

77-million-dollar home

on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Inside, investigators found hundreds,

if not thousands, of

female nude photographs.

[HALEY ROBSON] I think

that he would have been

a little bit more careful,

and I don't think that there's

just one set of photos.

It makes me wonder if

there's photos of myself.

What do you do with those photos?

Do you show your friends?

Do you use them to get off?

All those thoughts crossed my mind.

Knowing that he had, in fact,

kept tokens like this

from women that he had

um you know, abused over the years,

that really got to me.

[EDWARDS] Jeffrey Epstein had no

clue that this case was coming down,

that there was any investigation

whatsoever into him in New York,

or he never would've

come back in the country.

[SHANNON CAKE] It was interesting.

Not long after he's arrested,

everyone who had a relationship

with Jeffrey Epstein, suddenly

no one really knew him.

Suddenly,

"Oh, well, we really weren't friends.

I knew him in an ancillary way."

[MALE REPORTER] Presidents Trump

and Clinton have quickly moved

to put some distance between

themselves and Epstein.

I had a falling out

with him a long time ago.

I don't think I've spoken to

him for 15 years. I wasn't a fan.

[FEMALE REPORTER 1] "He's not spoken

to Epstein in well over a decade

and has never been to

Little St. James Island,

Epstein's ranch in New Mexico,

or his residence in Florida."

[FEMALE REPORTER 2] Flight

logs obtained indicate

that former President Bill Clinton

was on Epstein's private

jet at least 26 times

between 2001 and 2003.

[STEVE SCULLY] Bill Clinton

has been on that island.

I saw Bill Clinton sitting with

Jeffrey on the living room porch.

[GIUFFRE] I remember having

a dinner with Clinton.

He was there, and I never

saw him do anything improper.

I wish, you know, he would

just come clean about, like,

"Yeah, I was there. So what?

Who cares? I didn't

see anything going on."

[CAKE] For years, there had been a

known affiliation and a friendship

between Jeffrey Epstein

and Prince Andrew.

[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]

[CAKE] And then, of course,

there were the allegations

from Virginia Giuffre.

And these stories had

dogged him for years.

So he decides, "I'll

confront them head-on."

So he sits down with the BBC.

Because I can tell you, categorically

I don't remember meeting her at all.

I do not remember a

photograph being taken,

and I've said consistently

and, um and frequently

that we never had any sort

of sexual contact whatever.

So I'm sitting outside, and

I'm having my cup of coffee,

and I'm watching it on my tablet.

I mean, I wanted to throw

my tablet in the pool.

[STAMMERING] I've no

recollection of ever meeting her.

[GIUFFRE] As a victim, I think

one thing that we ask for is

some acknowledgment and some remorse.

This guy didn't have any remorse at all.

His arrogance about it, I mean

The whole "I don't sweat" thing

[STAMMERING] I have a

peculiar medical condition,

which is that I don't sweat

Um Or I didn't sweat at the time.

This guy was, like, profusely

sweating all over me, and

"I don't remember her.

I've never been upstairs

at Ghislaine's townhouse." How

did you know that's upstairs?

She provided a photo

- of the two of you together.

- Yes.

[EMILY MAITLIS] Your

arm was around her waist.

- [PRINCE ANDREW] Yes.

- You've seen the photo?

- I've seen the photograph.

- [MAITLIS] How do you explain that?

I can't.

'Cause I don't I have no

Again, I have absolutely no memory

of that photograph ever being taken.

[GIUFFRE] I didn't expect him to put

his hand up and say, "I'm guilty."

I didn't.

But some form of remorse or

acknowledgment would have been

Would have been better.

I think it's been universally agreed.

It was one of the worst mea

culpas ever known to man.

I mean, if people didn't

think he was guilty before,

after his interview,

I think people thought

that something had happened.

So I think that kind

of backfired on him.

[SCULLY] After Jeffrey

Epstein was arrested,

all of a sudden, the FBI now, and

this task force, they interviewed me.

They had me look at,

uh a large series

It must have been 60

or 70 photos of people.

Then they showed me

one of Virginia Roberts,

but it was a current photo,

and I couldn't identify her.

But I was told to check

a photo that had emerged out of

all of this investigative work,

and that photo is a

photo of Prince Andrew

with a young blonde girl.

And as soon as I saw her

That was the girl that

he was kind of, like,

grinding against at the pool.

She was, at that time,

wearing a bikini bottom.

That's it.

But I absolutely can tell you that

the photo of her, in the picture,

which is her when she is, I think, 17

that was Virginia Roberts.

Epstein should have been

behind bars years ago.

But, unfortunately,

Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta

cut Epstein a sweetheart deal,

while Acosta was a US

attorney in Florida in 2008.

I am calling on Secretary

Acosta to resign.

[CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING FURIOUSLY]

[ALEXANDER ACOSTA] Let

me start by reiterating

that I'm pleased that the New

York prosecution is going forward.

They've brought these charges

based on new evidence

against Jeffrey Epstein,

who is now a registered sex offender.

And this is a very, very good thing.

It's quite unbelievable that Mr. Acosta

could get up there with a straight face

and talk about how uh he's happy

that new charges are brought by

the Southern District of New York,

which means, essentially, Mr. Acosta

is admitting that it's wonderful

that another district office

was doing a better

investigation than his office did

and found more victims than he did.

[ACOSTA] I called the

President this morning.

I told him that I thought the

right thing was to step aside.

I do not think it is right and fair

for this administration's

Labor Department

to have Epstein as a focus.

Th This is just totally

a bunch of bullshit.

It would be selfish for me

to stay in this position.

[FISTEN] He knows that we know now that

this case was never an

ultimatum to Jeffrey Epstein.

That this was an indictment

that the federal

government had against him

that they decided not

to go forward with.

Now, I know why he resigned today.

Because he knew, within 24 hours,

the real people that knew the truth

were going to come forward and say

that, "Mr. Acosta, you're full of

sh*t. That's not what happened."

Excuse my French.

[MENACING MUSIC]

[REPORTER] A Manhattan

judge is expected to decide

whether Jeffrey Epstein

should be released on bail

ahead of his federal trial.

Epstein pleaded not guilty.

His attorneys say he's ready to

post up to 100 million dollars bail.

And you have victims who

say that they are frightened

if he is out.

[CHATTERING]

[WILD] I was able to fly to New York

to be present at the court hearings.

I definitely thought he

would get out on bond,

just because of how much money he has.

And it was just like, that's

exactly what happened the first time.

[ANNIE FARMER] I didn't even

know if I could get into the court

because I wasn't sure

how it worked, um

But I just wanted there

to be somebody there

to represent the survivors.

What do you think is the safest route?

David, I think we

should take it that way.

That way. Yeah, more quiet.

- Ready?

- Let's go.

- [EDWARDS] We're gonna try to get in.

- [MCCAWLEY] Let's go. It'll be more quiet.

They're very courageous

and they want to encourage

others to come forward.

That's why they're here.

[WILD] That day was crazy.

Media attention, and it was something

that I never dealt with before.

[MAN] Brad, this way.

[WILD] It was just a lot

to take in all in one day.

I was terrified. I had never

experienced something like that. I was

I was actually, like, holding

Courtney's hand because I was like

"Uh I need to feel some kind

of, like, comfort right now."

[WILD] Me and Michelle definitely

It was like soul sisters.

"We were victims of Jeffrey

Epstein, and here we are.

There's no more hiding. You

know, it's no more Jane Doe.

Like, I'm Courtney Wild, and I was

sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein."

Michelle said the same thing,

and it was just overwhelming.

But there's power in

more than one person.

[LICATA] I want him to to look at me,

and I wanted to be like,

"Do you remember me?

Do you remember my face? Do

you remember anything about me?

Of course you don't remember me,

because there was hundreds like me.

You don't remember me, but, uh!

I'll remember you for

the rest of my life.

That's something that

I have to remember.

So I want you to take a good

look at my face right now,

and I want you to remember

the people that are

going to put you in prison

for the rest of your life."

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

[REPORTERS CLAMORING]

[MAN] Brad, we've gotta go soon.

[LICATA] You know, my

heart's starting to race,

like, "Oh, my God, this is This is

the moment, like, I have kind of dreaded

ten years, 15 years?"

I'm going to see him, and

I haven't seen him since he was

laying out on a table,

masturbating and going

to town on himself.

And, you know,

like, that's the last time I've

actually seen him in person.

[REPORTERS CLAMORING]

Stay back, stay back, stay back!

Go back. No. Stay up on the steps.

[LICATA] I was sitting

in the courtroom, and

I was just I was so upset.

I was I was crying.

It was super overwhelming, um

He had, like, a bald spot

on the back of his head.

He was in, like, the

jumpsuit. I was like

"This is just This is unbelievable."

[WILD] I got to look at him in

the face in the courtroom and say,

I was sexually abused by

him, by Jeffrey when I was 14,

and to please not give him

bond and stuff like that.

And even though it was

such a short period of time,

it was just a short

statement I got to say,

you know, he still had to look

at me and hear me say that.

[EDWARDS] His attorneys were offering

hundreds of millions of dollars

for bond money, which should

ensure that he's going to return.

[MCCAWLEY] It started at 500 million.

They were making offers to the court

in order to try to convince

the judge to let him out.

He'll give all of his wealth,

whatever it takes to get him out.

[EDWARDS] But then the prosecutors

presented additional evidence.

When they broke into the home,

and they found child

p*rn*graphy in his safe,

they also found a

number of other things,

diamonds, passports that were false.

[EDWARDS] The diamonds, passport

It looks like an escape plan.

He's had an escape plan forever.

[WOMAN] Ha!

- Good sh*t.

- [CAMERAMAN] What happened?

He's not getting out,

and this means he'll probably

spend the rest of his life in jail.

[MCCAWLEY] We're thrilled today

with the ruling by Judge Berman.

Only by taking away the

freedom of Jeffrey Epstein

can we restore the

freedom of these victims.

No bail for Jeffrey Epstein, the

judge agreeing with the government

that Epstein presents a

danger to the community

and also an extreme risk of flight.

[MUSGRAVE] He also talked a lot

about the community can't be safe.

He was a danger to the community.

And he was very, uh moved by

the statements by the two victims.

[TIM MALLOY] This is a guy

who manipulated, threatened,

uh bought his way

in and out of trouble.

And now, for the first time in

a jail cell in Lower Manhattan,

it looks like there was

no way to buy his way out.

[ROBSON] With everything

coming out again

and having to go through and relive it,

I'm scared. Scared to be

dragged through the media again.

It's just been a roller coaster.

I've been up and down every day.

I have been sick to my

stomach. Um I've cried a lot.

I mean, I think we can

all assume with his

reach, and his planes, and his wealth,

he could very well

walk out the front door

and we could never see him again.

And I'm hoping that after this time,

um, that it's the final time, and

that he actually does not get out.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC GROWS]

[ANNIE FARMER] I was laying on the sofa

and kind of drifting in an out of sleep,

and, um my husband

came and sat next to me,

and he woke me up, like, you know,

in a way that I knew

something was wrong.

And he said, "I have some hard news."

[MALE REPORTER 1] The disgraced

financier Jeffrey Epstein is dead.

Epstein took his own life while

behind bars here in New York City,

while facing charges of sex trafficking.

"Committed suicide? What?

How is that possible?"

[MALE REPORTER 1] What we know

is at some point this morning,

the Bureau of Prisons

and prison officials

found Jeffrey Epstein in his cell.

Apparently, he had hanged himself.

[MARIA FARMER] I was kind of in shock.

It didn't hit me for

maybe a couple hours,

and then I got really, really angry

that I couldn't face him and tell

him what he'd done to me and my life.

[MALE REPORTER 2] His body

in that van you see there

seen heading for the

Medical Examiner's office.

It is a stunning turn

of events for a man

who lived a life of exceptional wealth

with extremely powerful

people in his orbit.

[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]

[MALLOY] It is inconceivable

that in a prison,

a federal prison that housed

t*rrorists and El Chapo,

that had cameras, that

had guards everywhere,

that something could go wrong

and harm could come to

Jeffrey Epstein. Inconceivable.

Reports indicated that

he tied his bed sheet

around his neck, and strangled himself.

It's a federal prison,

notoriously underfunded,

something of a hellhole,

and it's revealed that

the guards were sleeping.

The cameras weren't working.

Everything that could

go wrong went wrong.

[ANNIE FARMER] Honestly,

I felt so devastated that

once again, he had

you know, managed to escape

any kind of accountability.

That's how it felt. Like

people just didn't care enough

to make sure that he

was alive to go to trial.

[RAINING]

[RIVERA] There's no justice in this.

[THUNDER RUMBLES]

There was just so

much more to be said

that's never going to be said.

And that's sad.

- [RAIN POURING]

- [THUNDER RUMBLING]

[RIVERA] I didn't know

how to react to it.

I felt sad immediately and I

Not to say that, like,

he didn't do bad things,

not to say that he didn't deserve

something terrible to happen to him

I just don't think that was

the ending that anybody wanted.

[RAIN FALLING]

Before I begin, I'd like

to briefly address news

from the Manhattan Correctional

Center over the weekend

regarding Jeffrey Epstein.

We are now learning of serious

irregularities at this facility

that are deeply concerning

and demand a thorough investigation.

[CHARLES GASPARINO] If you wanna know

how he could slip through

the cracks on this,

the New York's Metropolitan

Correction Center

used to be called "the Tombs."

It's a notoriously,

you know, harsh place.

It's understaffed, and largely

staffed by not the smartest people.

He knew his life was done.

He wanted to k*ll himself,

and he k*lled himself

the first chance he got.

[MUSGRAVE] I think it's just typical

of the whole Jeffrey Epstein story.

Even in death, he kept

the controversy alive.

[FEMALE REPORTER] Wild

rumors and theories

about how Jeffrey Epstein died

on the federal government's

watch is breeding online.

[MUSGRAVE] I think it's

the never-ending story.

Did he k*ll himself? Was he

k*lled? Was there a hit out?

Did one of these powerful men

pay a prison guard to k*ll him?

I don't know.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

This case is ripe for

conspiracy theories.

That's part of the story. There's

so many weird sort of connections.

Conspiracy theorists have claimed

that Epstein's death wasn't a suicide,

or it was faked.

Other Epstein theories floating online,

"How convenient now for the

princes, and politicians,

and other powerful people

Epstein mingled with

that he's dead."

[DAVIES] I'm sure many

people wanted him dead.

He had a lot of information on a

lot of people, a lot of blackmail.

Videos and pictures.

[MARIA FARMER] If you

look here, the limestone,

inside the house, behind,

like, a space like that,

they have cameras, and

they have them everywhere.

Jeffrey took me into a room

which is a bit back

further than this window,

and it's leaded.

And it had all the computers

and all these monitors, like, the

old-fashioned TV monitors, stacked.

[GIUFFRE] I'm looking at the monitors,

and I'm like, "That's my room.

That's the massage room.

That's my shower. That's my toilet.

That's everyone else's

toilet in the house.

That's everyone else's

shower in the house."

That's Every single corner

of that house was monitored.

He was watching everybody all the time.

This was a blackmail scheme.

All those powerful people

abusing underage girls.

When he told me,

"People owe me favors, and

I will never get caught.

I can get away with things,"

he meant it.

[RANSOME] I think that he

would take a lot of people down.

This wasn't just a ring

for Jeffrey Epstein.

This was an international

sex trafficking ring.

This has reached all over the world.

He is a very small

piece in a huge network.

[MALLOY] Mark Epstein, Jeffrey's

brother, is not buying the suicide.

He doesn't believe it.

So he hires a renowned forensic expert

to take another look at the autopsy.

[DR. CYRIL WECHT] A call came

in from Dr. Michael Baden,

who is representing the family,

specifically the brother,

Mr. Mark Epstein.

I then received a copy

of the autopsy report

and discussed things with

Dr. Baden at great length.

There was no evidence at all to indicate

that he had jumped or

leaped from the bunk.

I came to learn that there were

fractures of the hyoid bone,

which is a delicate, U-shaped bone

located high in the neck directly

beneath the mandible, the lower jaw.

I have here, uh from a

totally unrelated case, of course,

a hyoid bone.

Now, there is some soft

tissue still attached.

On, uh, Jeffrey Epstein,

three fractures were found:

the horn of the hyoid

bone on the left side,

and then directly

beneath on Jeffrey Epstein

there were fractures

of the thyroid cartilage

and then on the right side

of the thyroid cartilage.

You do not get those three fractures

with a suicidal hanging

of someone leaning forward.

So where, again, is the force

that would have been required to produce

those fractures from kneeling forward?

I can say I've never seen it

myself in all of my autopsies.

I would say, to have

these three fractures

in that kind of a suicidal hanging

would be extremely rare. Extremely rare.

[GASPARINO] What really took this

tragedy to another level, in my view,

was when he moved his money over

to the Virgin Islands in his will.

[EDWARDS] Jeffrey Epstein signed a will

two days before he committed suicide.

At that time, he knew he

was committing suicide,

but I would presume his

lawyers didn't know that.

[GASPARINO] It made

it much more difficult

for the victims to get restitution,

and in my view, it sort of underscored

his evilness, you know, his venality.

It basically showed that he

had no remorse whatsoever.

He didn't think he did anything wrong.

That just says it all about

Jeffrey Epstein, you know.

It was a "f*ck you" to the victims.

Like, he had no, sort

of, remorse about victims.

[EDWARDS] The victims Certain things

have been taken from them forever.

They'll never get the satisfaction

of seeing him in jail for life.

But there will come a point in

time where they're able to prove

that they were victimized, they

were harmed by the victimization,

and and that they should

be compensated for it.

But they're never

going to be made whole,

because you just can't ever

take back what happened to them.

[MALLOY] Epstein's lawyers

wanted to dismiss the case.

You can't, uh try a dead guy.

But the judge wasn't

going to let that happen.

The judge was going to let some of

the victims have their day in court.

- [MAN] Good morning, Your Honor.

- Nice to see you.

[MAN] Nice to see you.

[REPORTER 1] Up to 30 women are expected

to accept a New York judge's invitation

to address the hearing

before he moves to dismiss

the criminal sex trafficking

case against Epstein.

[DAVIES] The invite to the

hearing was all very last-minute.

As emotional as this

has all been for me,

it's also ignited, sort of,

this dragon, if you will, in me

that I feel the need to

speak my truth and to

have my voice heard.

[REPORTER 2] More than

a dozen alleged victims

of convicted pedophile Jeffrey

Epstein finally had their day in court.

[WILD] We deserved our day in court.

I think it was a very

cowardly thing for him to do.

He escaped justice.

[REPORTERS CLAMORING]

[ANNIE FARMER] I was so touched

by the strength of the

women that were there

getting up and sharing their

experiences, so many for the first time.

It was a very cathartic

experience to be there.

[RANSOME] Judge Berman,

he changed my life.

For the first time,

I actually saw someone

in a position of power

that actually had any

form of respect for us,

and he listened,

and that's all I ever wanted,

was for someone to listen

and for someone to hear me.

[GIUFFRE] Judge Berman

gave me back something

that I never thought was possible.

He gave me back a

piece of myself that

was missing for so long.

Hugging those girls in court

[SIGHS]

It was beautiful.

[SIGHS]

We cried, we laughed, we hugged

and we all had each other's

backs that day in court.

[REPORTERS CLAMORING]

[EDWARDS] The way that Judge

Berman treated these victims

is going to be the model for

how victims should be treated.

I think that it's going

to go down in history

as the most important case

on behalf of crime victims

in US history to date.

[DAVIES] It makes me sick to my stomach

that there's perpetrators out there that

obviously helped him in many

ways for a very long time,

and they're still out there.

It gives nobody justice, and it

leaves a lot of unanswered questions.

It's also pretty upsetting to see

how many lives he's devastated,

and to see

how long this went on for, and

nobody did anything about it.

[MCCAWLEY] It's incredibly

scary to come forward

against someone like Jeffrey Epstein,

who's a billionaire, who has

friends in very high places,

who has intimidated

them, who has abused them,

and to stand up many years later

and to say, "This was wrong,

it shouldn't have happened to me,

and I don't want it to

happen to anybody else,"

is just an incredible thing to witness.

[MARIA FARMER] Okay, let's see.

I felt completely defeated.

My life was threatened.

My work was threatened. My career

was jeopardized completely.

I've pretty much been on a journey

for 20 years of not doing my art,

of not painting,

and I was just trying to survive.

And then I began again painting

because I was tired of being afraid.

I felt like I wanted

to expose the monsters,

and I just needed to get that out.

And so this is an illustration.

Basically, it's my diagram for the FBI,

because I want them to see what

I told them all those years ago.

And it's a version of Bosch's

Garden of Earthly Delights,

which is basically just

like Dante's Inferno,

portraying Heaven, Hell, and Earth.

This is our lovely Ghislaine Maxwell.

She's a pill, a hard pill to swallow,

and she's the property of

the FBI in this drawing.

I put Epstein here with his

little UFO on a NASA tower

because Epstein was, um

given a free ride by our government.

And, um Yeah. That's [CHUCKLES]

That makes me angry.

So I'm actually working

on something new right now.

I'm drawing the other Epstein survivors

because it empowers me to

provide them with strength.

And basically it's just about

strength in numbers at this stage.

We really I mean, we need

each other to get through this.

This is Annie, my sister,

and she's holding a paper doll.

What's gonna bind them together

is they're gonna be

holding these paper dolls,

and the paper dolls represent the

children who have not come forward,

and we don't know what happened to them.

[ANNIE FARMER] I think this

was just one chapter in my life.

For a long time, I didn't want

to think about myself as a victim.

And it's interesting because I've

gone on to work as a therapist.

I do think the fact that I had

this experience has helped me

to understand how people

respond to certain situations,

and, you know, to be the

kind of therapist that I am.

[MARIA FARMER] This is Courtney.

Courtney is very strong, and she's

definitely been through a lot.

And I admire her so much.

[WILD] My life is

definitely still a struggle

for everything that I

went through with Jeffrey.

However, it has kind of come to an end.

It's a good thing, it's a

bittersweet thing, because it's over,

and I can kind of work through

the healing process now.

And this is Michelle.

Michelle has, like, a

really fun spirit, I feel.

She has a great sense of humor,

and, also, she's beautiful,

and I wanted to

depict her as I see her, so

[LICATA] This isn't over.

I really hope that the police,

the FBI, the government

Just do your job.

I go to work. I do my job every

single day for the rest of my life.

Uh You're given that

position and that power

to make things right,

to do the right thing.

So do the right thing. That's it.

It's plain and simple, you know?

Take them down. Take everybody down.

[MARIA FARMER] That's

Sarah. She's my favorite.

I love this girl.

She's precious.

I feel a very special bond with

her. I love her like a sister.

[RANSOME] I'll never

get to see Jeffrey again,

and I wanted him to see

the woman I have become,

and that he didn't break me.

And I will fight till

my last breath on Earth.

I'm here today to tell

you that it stops here,

and it stops now, and I am here.

My fight for the rest of

my life will be to make sure

that no woman will ever

feel ashamed to come forward.

This is Virginia.

And I didn't know that Virginia

used a butterfly as a symbol,

which obviously makes sense, a

symbol of freedom, leaving the cocoon.

But I didn't know that when I drew this.

I found that kind of interesting.

[GIUFFRE] Epstein did not act

alone. So my next step is

holding other people accountable.

The people that were involved, the

people that actually participated,

there are so many of them out there.

None of them have been held accountable.

We were kids being trafficked

under their eyes, under their nose.

They knew exactly what was going on,

and they didn't say anything about it.

So stop worrying about

saving your own hide

and help us. That's

all we're asking for.

- Let's go!

- [DOG MOANING HAPPILY]

What are you doing in

there? What are you doing?

[GIUFFRE] The monsters

are still out there,

and they're still abusing other people.

Why they have not been named

and shamed yet is beyond me.