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[Dramatic music playing]

[Woman] I think that
the story of the women

and Jeffrey Epstein
is now known.

I think the world knows
what a monster he was,

and that story is out there.

I think that the
story of the men

is not known really at all.

I'm trying to put
the dots together

through my reporting

to show that whatever
happens to ghislaine Maxwell

in her trial...

That the network of guys

who lifted up Jeffrey Epstein

and enabled these
alleged sex crimes,

that endures.

[Dramatic music playing]

[Intense music playing]

[Vicky] In the three years
after my vanity fair article

about Jeffrey Epstein ran,

no one publicly talked
about the sexual assault

allegations against him.

I stayed away from him,

and as it turned out,

so did ghislaine,

who began to move
in her own circles.

And then, in the summer of 2006,

everything changed for Jeffrey.

[Reporter] Jeffrey
Epstein was investigated

by the palm beach
police for months.

The police conclusion,

Epstein's palm beach mansion

was a revolving door for women,

and in some cases,
girls as young as 16.

Jeffrey Epstein was arrested

in palm beach,

but on state charges.

Solicitation of a prostitute

but also solicitation
of a minor.

What the world at large

had no idea of
was that there was

a federal investigation

involving dozens
of underage girls,

and that the FBI
was investigating

what was a massive
sex trafficking operation.

The FBI would speak to
between 30 and 40 victims,

and federal
prosecutors assembled

a 53-page indictment.

Jeffrey hired me
along with a group

of other very prominent lawyers

to help negotiate a deal

with the us attorney's office.

[Vicky] In addition
to Alan Dershowitz,

the team of "super lawyers"

included former
ambassador Jay lefkowitz,

and Kenneth
starr, the prosecutor

in Bill Clinton's impeachment.

They ended up making a deal

with Alexander acosta,

who is in the us
attorney down in Florida.

We took the position

that they did not have
a strong federal case,

because for a federal case,

you need to transport young
women into state commerce.

They just didn't really have
that case and therefore,

the best resolution
would be to have him plea

to what they had a strong
case on, a state case.

[Reporter] He pleaded
guilty in open court.

He agreed to serve
a total of 18 months

in the palm beach
detentions facility.

The guilty plea and deal
and a years' long process

that could have sent
Epstein to jail for 15 years.

[Intense music playing]

[Vicky] It was shocking.

Epstein didn't just
get a short sentence...

His lawyers negotiated

a non-prosecution
agreement for him,

and for four women who worked

at his palm beach compound.

This meant that none
of them could be charged

of these crimes involving
Epstein in the future.

One Epstein associate
was not on the list,

ghislaine Maxwell.

But why do you
think Jeffrey Epstein

didn't have her name

in the non-prosecution
agreement?

She was not directly involved,

insofar as we are aware

in the sex trafficking at
the time he was arrested.

[Dramatic music playing]

[Christopher] I
was reading about it

in the New York post.

And I just thought,

"wow. That creep."

You know, that's the
guy I met through...

Ghislaine.

But it was so
clear by that point

that she had moved on.

Even after Epstein,

you know, spectacularly
fell from grace

and went to jail
in the beginning,

I still didn't think...

Ghislaine was a terrible person.

I think she was clearly
tarnished and implicated

by her relationship
with Epstein.

But I just remember thinking,

"well, I would give ghislaine
the benefit of the doubt."

[Vicky] In palm beach,

Jeffrey would end
up serving only

13 months in a local jail.

And he was released
six days a week

to go to his office.

Was it just his
high-priced lawyers

who made all of this possible?

Or did he use other
types of influence?

I spoke with a new
source about this,

Felix sater,

a real estate developer
who's perhaps

best-known for his ties
to the trump organization,

and his attempt to broker a deal

for a trump tower in Moscow.

Sater cooperated
with the government

for more than a decade
after he was caught

in the late 1990s on
a racketeering charge.

He is somebody

who I thought might
be able to make sense

of this sort of underworld.

Recording started.

From everything that I see,

it is my belief that
he was probably

a very long-term cooperator
of the us government.

[Vicky] In Felix's opinion,

this arrangement
could go back as far as

the tower's financial
case in the early 1990s.

You would say that
his work as a cooperator

was so important
to the government

that they gave him
a lenient sentence?

He could have
maintained that relationship

with the government for decades.

And, yes, if things...
Push comes to shove

and he was involved in
something, they may...

They may go easier on him
because of the greater good.

Well, it's hard to argue
that's a greater good, Felix,

when you've got underage women

in astonishingly large numbers

being sexually assaulted.

We don't know what
information he was providing.

That doesn't take
away from the fact

that he was just a
complete piece of scum.

- Well, obviously...
- That said,

the government does not
get their best information

from honest dentists
in Manhattan.

They get their information
about bad guys from bad guys.

[Vicky] While Jeffrey navigated

the lows of plea
deals and jail time,

ghislaine was riding high.

I remember being
at a cocktail party

and running into ghislaine,

and her hugging me,

I haven't seen her
for a while, and...

Trailing behind her, she said,

"I want you to meet Ted."

[Vicky] Ted waitt is...

A self-made billionaire.

He was the ceo and founder

of a technology
company, gateway.

They met on a trip with
Bill Clinton to Beijing.

[Christopher] She managed
to slip into the conversation

that he had the
most incredible yacht.

Which is the kind
of detail that...

- [Vicky] Yes.
- Ghislaine never failed

to telegraph just so you know

that she wasn't
wasting her time.

It was the first
inkling I got that,

"god, ghislaine has
clearly moved on.

She's found some
guy she's crazy about,

and that she's having
a very exciting life

with this guy, and Epstein

seemed to be totally
out of the picture."

[Vicky] I ran into ghislaine,

which was not
something I had been

wanting to do or seeking
out, but I did bump into her.

Ted waitt's presence
actually made

this meeting between
ghislaine and I

probably far less awkward

than it otherwise
would have been.

It was almost like, Jeffrey who?

I mean, just...

It just seemed
different worlds away.

That period of her life,

both she and Ted waitt,

were very involved with...

Bill Clinton, the
Clinton foundation,

cgi, Clinton global initiative.

I mean, do you
remember her talking

a lot about Bill Clinton?

[Christopher] Yes.

Cleverly, she managed to...

Slip the name Bill Clinton
into most conversations.

So it was a kind of
reminder as ever...

- [Vicky] Yes.
- Of ghislaine,

that she's hanging out with

world leaders, the
[indistinct] of industry,

and this was kind of...

For her, this was
kind of normal.

[Vicky] I had not appreciated

just how important
sort of Clinton world

was in raising ghislaine up,

but it was... It was
hugely important.

Because ghislaine
originally had been known

as the access to
Jeffrey's money,

she was courted
in her own right.

Ghislaine even snagged
a prime aisle seat

at Chelsea Clinton's wedding.

You can see her in
one of the official photos.

This did put ghislaine into...

The sort of world
that, you know,

if you go way, way back,

she aspired to be
in her 20s, you know,

she was sought
after in her own right

as a person of substance,
and of a person of importance.

So she invited me
over to her house, and...

Whoa.

Wow, this is a gigantic
house, and it was clearly hers,

didn't seem to be anything
to do with her boyfriend,

it was ghislaine's house.

And ghislaine was
talking with great passion

about the thing that
really motivated her,

and it was saving
the world's oceans.

[Ghislaine] One
of my first dives,

when I went down,

I switched on the lights

at the bottom of the ocean

and saw a plastic hanger.

It was in that moment
actually that I decided

that I really wanted to focus

my attention on the ocean.

So you thought it was authentic?

I did.

And it just... I mean,
at the time, I did.

She was so passionate about it.

And I remember thinking,

"well, this is a whole
lot more interesting

than being the gal
Friday of a creepy guy."

[Vicky] But
ghislaine would never

be able to fully
shake the stigma

of her connection
to Jeffrey Epstein.

Well, a palm beach
billionaire is getting

his first taste of
freedom in over a year.

[Reporter] The black
sedan sped away

from the county jail,

its occupant,
registered sex offender

and billionaire,
Jeffrey Epstein.

He's been really happy
that his jail sentence is over,

and he can begin a
new chapter in his life.

[Woman] You'd think that
when he emerged from jail,

Jeffrey would have
been a social pariah,

but it seems that money talks.

While ghislaine
traveled the world

on high-profile missions,

Jeffrey found a different
way to pedal his influence.

Once Jeffrey got out of jail,

he turned his homes into salons

for the rich and
powerful and famous,

all in the guise

of Jeffrey the
great philanthropist,

this was his new image.

And it worked.

He really did have

the crown prince of Saudi Arabia

and Bill Gates.

And according to Kira dikhtyar,

the Russian model who
was friendly with him,

he went out with Elon Musk

and Jeff bezos.

Did these powerful men
seem to really like him?

[Kira speaking]

[Vicky] Kira was a
friend of Jeffrey's,

but she also says
that he paid her

and other women $1,000 each

to sit around his house
to impress clients.

[Kira speaking]

[Vicky] Journalist ed Epstein

hadn't seen Jeffrey
since the late 1980s,

but he was curious
when Jeffrey invited

him over in 2013.

[Ed] We had tea.

Someone knocked
on the door and said,

"Leon's here."

And he said he can wait,

and when I left,

Jeffrey walked me
to the door and said,

"you know Leon, don't you?"

Well, I didn't know Leon black.

I heard of him.

I mean, Leon black
was one of the most

famous and wealthiest,

powerful financiers
with his Apollo group.

Well, I thought,
well, if he's there,

well maybe, Jeffrey
has redeemed himself

in some way.

Or changed this behavior
or something like that.

I mean, you know...

[Vicky] It's really
quite remarkable.

I spoke to one source, he said,

"do you know, this was all

a very brazen effort

to erase his track record,

the fact that he was now
a convicted sex offender."

A large part of his
efforts was spent

to trying to create

a new reputation for himself,

not by rehabilitating himself

like doing charity
work or anything,

but he wanted people
to somehow think

that his conviction...

Was false.

[Vicky] To be clear,
none of the people

who spent time with Jeffrey

have been accused
of any wrongdoing.

It seems he used
these high-powered

individuals to attract others.

Someone described
him pretty well,

that he came to Jeffrey's house,

and he saw all these famous
people there like Bill Clinton

or Larry summers who
was the secretary of treasury.

And then he
thinks, well, my god,

all these people at his
salon, they all hang out here.

Somehow they must have
all vetted Jeffrey Epstein

and if they all found
that Jeffrey Epstein

was respectable, who is he to...

To quibble.

Jeffrey understood
how power really works.

He understood

that power is...

10 people, men,

in a room making decisions
that nobody else can see.

He understood how to use

money to influence people,

but he also understood
how to read people,

so that he could
manipulate his way

into their orbit.

And he could use them
to his own advantage.

Bill Gates began attending
these salons in 2011.

A spokesperson for
the gates foundation

says that many people told gates

Jeffrey was somebody who
could help the foundation.

But there are questions

about the death
of their friendship.

Sources say that gates
flew on Jeffrey's plane

at least once and visited
his home many times.

And there are rumors

that gates' divorced
from his wife, Melinda,

is in some part
connected to these visits.

[Reporter] According
to documents obtained

by the journal, Melinda
and her advisors

held the number of
calls with divorce lawyers

in October 2019,

the same month the New
York times first reported

that bill met with Epstein
on numerous occasions.

[Vicky] In 2019, gates
was quoted as saying,

"I thought those discussions
would lead literally

to billions of dollars
going to global health.

Turned out that
was a bad judgment."

He also admits,

[Vicky speaking]

While Jeffrey was
attracting new associates,

some of his longer
relationships had ended.

His patron Leslie wexner

severed ties while
Jeffrey was in jail.

Being taken advantage of

by someone who was so sick,

so cunning,

so depraved...

Is something that
I'm embarrassed

that I was even close to.

[Vicky] The most public
break came in 2011.

Prince Andrew went out

to stay with Jeffrey
Epstein in New York City.

They went on for
a walk together.

They went to central park

and pictures taken
of the two of them

where then published
in February 2011.

And that was the first
point that prince Andrew

was already drawn heavily

into the Jeffrey Epstein story.

He was obviously
criticized for maintaining

this friendship with
the man who was a...

At that point, a
convicted pedophile.

[Vicky] It then came out

that Epstein has recently paid

a $24,000 debt

for Andrew's ex-wife,
Sarah Ferguson.

The public uproar
about that meant

that the Duke of
York and his ex-wife

absolutely distanced
themselves from Jeffrey.

But other friends

like former Israeli
prime minister

ehud barak was still around.

In 2015,

barak and Epstein formed
an investment group together,

registered in the
Virgin Islands.

That's where Jeffrey established

his holding company

and his foundations after 2012.

National security analyst,
Vanessa neumann,

tells me that perhaps
it should have set off

alarm bells with the
clients he was courting.

What they're selling

is banking secrecy.

Shell companies...

You know, trusts that can't
be... that can't be tracked

and that would make perfect
sense for someone like him.

[Vicky] In other words,

it's a good place to engineer

the invisible deals that
Jeffrey specialized in.

And according to my sources,

he was offering his
services to new networks.

Jeffrey told ed Epstein

that he was investing for
certain African dictators

and that he was also working

with Mohammed bin salman,

the Saudi crowned prince,

and Mohamed bin zayed,
the controller of Abu Dhabi.

And he said that he
had a lot of influence

with the person who controlled

the port of Djibouti,

a very important strategic port.

What's interesting...

Is this puts you right
back into the world

that Jeffrey was
immersed in in the 1980s,

it's the work of bounty hunting,

of moving money
into offshore accounts.

It's the world of doing

international transactions
in the shadows,

that's what Jeffrey
knew had to do.

In national security circles,

there's a name for
somebody like Jeffrey.

He is what we would call

a "hyper connector."

- Right?
- Yes.

Because he is not only

very deeply connected

in one network, right?

He connects different networks.

It's not just like he was

the American Jewish
business network,

he also had the middle east

and he could link
banking to royalty,

et cetera and he could
move back and forth

through those groups.

[Vicky] Neumann says
that those connections

could have benefited Jeffrey.

When you have that kind of

reach and that
kind of connectivity,

you have a lot of people

who have a vested
interest in protecting you.

[Intense music playing]

[Vicky] According
to Kira dikhtyar,

Jeffrey also took
action to protect himself.

It is your distinct impression

that after Jeffrey
got out of jail,

he made very sure that no...

None of the women
around him were underage,

is that...

And how do you know that?

[Kira speaking]

- [Vicky] Really?
- [Kira speaking]

Given that he did seem to spend

the 10 years after
he got out of jail,

intent on
rehabilitating his image,

it seems highly likely

that he did have somebody
checking ID's at the door.

Now, whether or not

this was yet another
great Jeffrey Epstein facade

that completely belige reality,

your guess is as good as mine.

[Vicky] Despite Jeffrey's
attempt to escape his past,

in 2011,

a lurid tail of his
sex trafficking

hit the news when a
never-before-seen photograph

was published.

It would be the
beginning of the end

for both him and ghislaine.

The photograph
of Virginia Roberts

with prince Andrew,
prince Andrew's arm

around her midriff,

ghislaine Maxwell smiling,

sort of smugly in
the background,

put the story of their past

right, front, and center

in the public's consciousness
around the world.

[Reporter] It's a sordid
business and no small

embarrassment for
the British royal family.

[Reporter] Prince
Andrew is responding

to claim made Virginia Roberts.

[Vicky] As the media
uproar played out,

I decided to write
a blog about Jeffrey

and ghislaine for vanity fair.

I included the fact

that I knew about the farmers'

sexual assault
allegations in 2002,

but we haven't published them.

Somebody changed
it quite dramatically

so that it ended up
reading like a puff piece.

My lines about the
farmers were taken out

and the language got changed.

[Ominous music playing]

It read that I

hadn't believed the farmers,
which was absolutely not true

and it got posted without
me seeing the changes,

which was incredibly upsetting.

I thought I'm never
going to be able to get

the farmers and
their allegations

into vanity fair magazine and...

I just gave up.

The Virginia Roberts photograph

put a swift end

to ghislaine's new
life away from Jeffrey.

The team around Bill Clinton

and the Clinton
global initiative

decided that
ghislaine was no longer

to be invited to Clinton events.

She and Ted waitt
broke up that same year.

Several months later,
I ran into ghislaine

and she invited me to lunch,

I think she wanted
to sell me on a story

about saving the oceans.

I also think she was lonely.

She talked about how sad she was

that she had broken
up with Ted waitt.

It was almost like
she'd been left behind.

Good afternoon.

[Vicky] After that
loss, she once again

tried to separate
herself from Jeffrey,

starting her own
non-profit called,

"terramar".

I'd bump into her occasion

and she'd always
be talking about

a new charitable endeavor.

It was like she was on a PR,

- personal PR.
- The ocean, the terramar?

And you felt that
that wasn't authentic?

I thought it was odd
and felt a bit forced.

I didn't think
she was faking it,

but I thought it
was PR campaign.

Tell everybody how
much you love the ocean.

Love your planet for
generations to come.

[Vicky] For a while, the
diversion seemed to work.

She developed a Ted talk

and spoken at the UN

about the plates of the oceans.

I'm here representing
civil society.

[Vicky] And then the
other shoe dropped

at the end of 2014.

Virginia Roberts
giuffre joined a group

of women suing
Jeffrey in Florida.

We need to get to the bottom

on everybody who
was involved with that,

starting with ghislaine
Maxwell and...

And that's when
she's talking about

being forced to have
sex with prince Andrew

in the bathroom of ghislaine
Maxwell's London townhouse.

Anything that might
have been implicit before

was now written
large in huge typeface

on the front pages of
national newspapers.

[Reporter] In the filing,
Roberts now claiming

Epstein made her
available for sex

to politically connected and
financially powerful people,

one of them, the prince,

the other, the prof,

Harvard law professor,
Alan Dershowitz.

The story is completely
and totally made up

and believe me I
remember everybody

I've ever had sex with.

[Vicky] Alan Dershowitz tells me

that Jeffrey pressured
him to settle with giuffre

instead of fighting publicly.

Well, Jeffrey
called me and said,

"don't litigate this thing.

Just deny it. Be quiet.

We don't want lawsuits.

We don't want testimony."

He put enormous pressure on me

to settle my cases

going so far as to
offer to contribute

to the settlements.

How much is the
potential settlement

did Jeffrey say he
would pay for you?

We never got into
numbers because I refuse to

even talk about it.

If what Alan says is true,

are there other
men walking around

who have made these
kind of settlements

who were in Jeffrey's network

that we do not yet know about?

Dershowitz sued
not only giuffre,

but her lawyers,

including the well-known
litigator David boies.

It's become a major battle

between two high
profile attorneys,

a fight for their
professional futures.

I want Virginia giuffre
to go to jail for perjury.

She has victimized many,
many people by her perjury.

I want her lawyers
to be investigated

and disbarred if
the evidence shows

that they suborned her perjury.

Alan Dershowitz's wild claims

are designed to serve on purpose

and one purpose only

and that is to try
to distract attention

from his own misconduct.

The attacks he is made

on the integrity, the character,

the honesty of
the young survivors

of the Epstein-Maxwell
sex-trafficking enterprise

would be pathetic if they
weren't so outrageous.

That has been the way
he defended Epstein.

That is the way he's
attempting to defend himself.

[Vicky] David boies and
other accusers' attorneys

have played a key role
in not only the civil suits,

but the criminal cases.

In 2015, after Virginia giuffre

filed her allegations,

ghislaine issued a
statement calling her a liar.

And boies then file
a defamation suit

against ghislaine
on Virginia's behalf.

That defamation suit
where David boies

ended up taking two of
ghislaine's depositions

is hugely important

in what happens
subsequently both to Jeffrey

and then to ghislaine.

The depositions
were very extensive

when she refused
to answer questions

in the first deposition.

They went to the
judge and got an order,

required her to
answer questions again

in the second disposition.

So we have a very
extensive record.

[Vicky] Ghislaine is now
charged with perjuring

herself in those depositions.

According to the indictment,

ghislaine claimed
that she hadn't known

that there were underage girls

in Epstein's house at any time,

that to her knowledge,
he didn't have sex

with anybody other than her.

And that she had never

given anyone a massage.

The defamation case
had another side effect,

it drove ghislaine
back into Jeffrey's orbit.

[David] Remember her defensive,

Epstein was a defensive herself.

And she and Epstein
were cooperating

in defending them...
Themselves, plural.

- [Vicky] Right.
- And Epstein and she

were working very
closely together

in terms of, for example,
defending against the claims,

bringing matters to the press,

all of the kind of PR stuff.

Did you get the impression
that he and ghislaine

were back in touch?

Yes, definitely.

The lawsuit against
her by Virginia Roberts

threatened Jeffrey.

They wound up in
the same boat, uh,

metaphorically speaking.

[Vicky] In 2016 the
defamation case was settled

when ghislaine paid
Virginia an undisclosed sum.

At that point, ghislaine
sold her townhouse

and left New York.

The Jeffrey Epstein story
died down once again.

Even the publication
of the bestseller

filthy rich, exposing many

of his crimes down
in palm beach,

didn't keep it in the headlines.

David boies kept trying
to get a criminal case

reopened against Jeffrey.

In 2016 and 2017, we
were going to prosecutors,

we were going to the media,
we were going to anybody

who would listen and
trying to talk to them...

- Right.
- About the evidence.

He thinks ghislaine
should have taken

that opportunity to
turn against Jeffrey.

If I had been representing her,

I would have told
her to run, not walk,

run to the us attorney's office

and come clean.

She could have
given the prosecutors

Epstein on a platter.

And that would
have been valuable.

It's even conceivable to me

that if she had acted promptly,

she could have done a deal

that would not have
involved jail time.

[Vicky] David boies
has his own theory

as to why that didn't happen.

If you're gonna
cooperate, the prosecution

is going to require you

to tell the complete truth.

And if you leave anything
out, it will avoid the...

- Right.
- Plea deal.

So she would have
had to really come clean

about everything
that she'd done.

She still had
social pretensions,

she still, as they
say, portrayed herself

as an environmentalist,
she still spoke at programs,

that all would have
come to a screeching halt

if she had admitted her
role in the sex trafficking.

[Vicky] There's no way
to know why ghislaine

didn't turn on Jeffrey
Epstein, of course.

The one possibility
is that she simply

didn't know what
Epstein was doing

and therefore could
not have turned him in.

What we do know is that
four years after David boies

began representing
Virginia giuffre,

he still hadn't
convinced the FBI

to take up Jeffrey's case again.

Instead, one of the
other plaintiffs' attorneys

found somebody who would listen.

In November 2018, the
Miami herald published

an expose by
reporter Julie brown.

She had spoken to more
than 60 women whose stories

had never been told publicly,

even though many had told them

to federal investigators
more than a decade before.

[Reporter] The case has
gained renewed interest

after the Miami herald reported

that federal prosecutors entered

into a secret deal with Epstein.

The stories exposed the fact

that the federal investigation

was effectively shut down

by the justice department,

shut down by Alexander acosta,

who was in the us attorney.

I think there was a
feeling at that point

for a lot of people that acosta

had basically let
Jeffrey Epstein

off the hook with
a very light charge

when in reality what
he was accused of

was basically industrial
scale child abuse.

[Vicky] Alexander acosta had
become the secretary of labor

in President Trump's cabinet,

and the backlash eventually
forced him out of office.

[Reporter] Acosta's
sudden departure comes

less than 48 hours
after the labor secretary

defended his role
as a us attorney.

[Vicky] The stories
also put a target

on Jeffrey Epstein's back.

The FBI of New York
says it opened up

the Epstein case in response

to the Miami herald's
reporting on Jeffrey Epstein.

You said he had a
sort of kitchen cabinet

who met at least three
times that you were aware of

in the last six months
before he was arrested.

They brainstormed what he can do

about his deteriorating

and impossible situation.

It included bannon.

- So it included Steve bannon.
- [Edward] And...

Yes, he had
become a close friend

and then become
an adviser to him

in terms of public relations.

[Vicky] Ed Epstein says
the planning sessions

also included Jeffrey's
business partner, ehud barak.

Barak denies that
saying that he was never

a legal or informal
advisor to Epstein.

The meetings
continued into 2019.

But Jeffrey doesn't seem to have

believed he was in danger.

[Vicky] But on July 6th, 2019,

it all came crashing down.

Billionaire financier Jeffrey
Epstein has been arrested.

He was taken into
custody overnight

at a New Jersey airport.

Today, we announce the unsealing

of sex trafficking charges
against Jeffrey Epstein.

[Reporter] His mansion
on east 71st street

was raided early Sunday morning

as agents hauled out
multiple bags of evidence.

[Vicky] It looked as if Jeffrey

would finally face justice.

And Epstein watchers,
wondered if authorities

would find the
blackmail material

he was rumored to have
taped over the years.

There are Epstein
victims who say

that they saw a room

in his upper east side mansion.

And it was filled with screens,

screens with live feeds

from the bathrooms
in his mansion,

from the bedrooms
in his mansion.

What happened to
that video footage,

if it ever existed,

is one of the great
mysteries of this whole thing.

We heard that
there were passports,

there were diamonds,
you know, all sorts of things

found in that
house but no tapes.

And that remains
the big question,

who has them and where are they?

[Vicky] At the
time of the arrest,

Jennifer araoz who
says she was raped

by Jeffrey Epstein
when she was 15

was getting ready to
sue him for damages.

She quickly filed the
suit and went public

with an interview
on the today show.

He hurt me badly.

I prefer not to go through that,

so, you know, this is one way

for me to get justice.

[Vicky] Then in August, five
weeks after Jeffrey Epstein

was arrested, came
more shocking news.

Disgraced financier
Jeffrey Epstein

has taken his own life
while he was behind bars

here in New York City.

The idea that he
had killed himself

was shocking to me

because this was
not a guy who thought

that anyone or anything
could defeat him.

Somebody who knew
Jeffrey very well said to me,

well, this is his
way of winning.

This is his way of
having the last laugh.

That was before we knew

about all the very
strange circumstances.

It's an almost incomprehensible

series of
coincidences if you will.

Take him off suicide watch,

remove his cellmate,

not have the guards
look in on him, um,

somehow the
cameras are turned off.

These things can happen, right?

These things can happen
but they all shouldn't

happen in one place.

All these peculiar
things that I know

have caused even members
of his own defense team

to question if he
really killed himself

despite that being
the coroner's finding.

[Vicky] Former arms
dealer Ari Ben-menashe,

whose controversial theories

often tend towards conspiracy,

was held at the same jail

when he was
awaiting trial in 1989.

And he also thinks the
official account is unlikely.

In the cell itself,
almost impossible

to commit suicide in the cell.

Almost impossible.

Well, I'm sure

if you had the gun smuggled,

- then you'd commit suicide.
- Right.

[Ari] But how they
described it, it's impossible.

[Vicky] So you're
suggesting that he was...

He was murdered?

I'm suggesting
that Epstein needed

to be gotten rid of somehow,

one way or another.

[Vicky] In your narrative,

the stories of Jeffrey Epstein

and Robert Maxwell are
actually very, very similar.

[Ari] That's
right, very similar.

Very, very similar.

[Vicky] Both men whose fortunes

were based on mirages.

[Ari] Correct.

And both men who,
according to you,

died because it was
too dangerous for them

to reveal the
secrets that they had.

Correct.

These guys thought
they're protected

with the knowledge they had.

Actually the knowledge they had

was what had them killed.

[Vicky] Of course, neither death

was officially ruled murder,

but questions have lingered.

And justice Robert
Maxwell's victims felt cheated

when he died in 1991,

so, too, did Epstein's
30 years later.

I wanted my day in court,

I wanted to tell him, you know,

exactly what I felt about him.

I just felt just really,
I don't know, alone.

[Vicky] Jennifer araoz and
her attorney, Eric lerner,

wanted to get
answers from ghislaine

and sue her for damages.

Jennifer was a child,

she was 14 years old
and she was exploited

and recruited from high school.

And based on the
allegations in the indictment,

this couldn't have happened
without ghislaine Maxwell.

We hired an investigative
team to, you know,

look for her and they
had some sightings of her

in California in in-n-out
and we had people out there.

We pretty much searched
the country for her.

Physically going to locations

and trying to find her

and looking for leads.

[Vicky] But ghislaine
had gone underground.

Rumors eventually
start to surface

that she was hiding out
in a chateau in France,

that she was staying on
a yacht in New Zealand,

they led nowhere.

[Vicky] As it would turn
out, ghislaine hadn't left

the United States at all.

She was in new england
living with her new husband,

a tech entrepreneur
named Scott borgerson.

The marriage was a secret.

Last time I saw her,

she came to my
terrace very briefly

and that was about
the terramar thing

and that she was
living in New Hampshire

or Boston or somewhere.

[Vicky] She didn't
mentioned she was married?

No. I... no, that
was a total surprise.

She's a citizen of the world.

She's got a French passport.

Why would she
have stayed in the us?

It's one of the great mysteries.

There are two reasons
I can only imagine.

Either she was deeply in
love with somebody who'd...

And she wanted
to live in america

or she was promised by the FBI

that they weren't
coming after her.

[Vicky] In December 2019,

ghislaine bought a house
in Bradford, New Hampshire

for $1,000,000 in cash.

It was even called tucked away

that was how secluded it was.

And the neighbors had no idea

she was living there, you know.

There are people...
Journalists went to try

to speak to them and they
didn't have the faintest idea

ghislaine Maxwell
was living next to them.

She kept her head down.

She had a...

She had large
financial resources

with which to do that.

[Vicky] But the hideout
only stayed secret

for a few months.

They knew she was in a
small town in New Hampshire

but they didn't
know exactly where.

So they had to get a warrant.

They used a sophisticated
piece of technology,

a stingray is what it's called.

They can essentially
ping a cell phone

and then zero in on it,

and determine a precise
location of that cell phone.

The FBI moves in,
ghislaine Maxwell disobey,

in order for her
to open the door

instead she moved
further into her mansion.

They get inside
and they arrest her.

[Reporter] Federal
agents found her cell phone

wrapped in tinfoil in what
prosecutors described

as a seemingly misguided effort

to evade detection
by law enforcement.

Maxwell is scheduled to
go before a judge today

to find out if she will be
granted release on bond.

[Man] Bail denied.

Jeffrey Epstein's
former girlfriend

will remain behind bars on
charges that she recruited

young girls for Epstein
to sexually abuse.

[Jack] She asked for
more than $28 million bail.

She's gonna pay for
former special forces soldiers

to keep her under armed guard.

She offered to give
up her passports.

And come the
third bail application,

she offered to
give up her British

and French citizenship.

So we've heard from Ian Maxwell

who's given TV interviews

and he's firmly of the view

that the only reason she's there

is because Jeffrey
Epstein is dead.

[Man] Why is ghislaine Maxwell

being treated differently?

She's a patsy for Epstein

is the answer whom
they lost on their watch

and they're taking
it out on my sister.

Damn it. That's wrong.

[Vicky] David Boise
says that ghislaine

is just one of the people

who should be held responsible.

Do you think we are likely

to see any more
arrests or indictment?

[Jack] I hope we do.

I think that Epstein and Maxwell

were the two central players,

but there a number
of other people

who contributed and import

the ways for the continuation

of the sex-trafficking
enterprise.

And I think those people
need to be held to account.

[Vicky] One of the four
minor victims who are part

of the indictment against
ghislaine is Annie farmer,

who first spoke to
me back in 2002.

I finally had the chance
to meet her in person

when she spoke in court in 2019.

Annie farmer did
stand out even then

as somebody of
remarkable composure

and calm to meet
her in the courthouse,

you know, she was
exactly what I'd pictured.

She strikes to me
as a very dignified,

extraordinarily brave person.

My dealings with
Annie's sister, Maria,

have been much more difficult.

I heard from Maria
around this time,

I can't tell you what she said

because it was off the record.

She claimed to have had

a very harrowing life

in the aftermath of
the non-publication

of her allegations
against Jeffrey.

We did manage to get
the allegations out in 2015.

But I know that Maria,

in the last two years

is very angry at me.

And, um, I get it,

you know what, I failed her

and, um...

I feel, uh,

awful about it.

And you know, if I
had the opportunity,

I would say to her
that I am so, so sorry.

[Dramatic music playing]

[Vicky] You've talked about
the sort of web of power

that propped Jeffrey up.

It doesn't seem like
that's going to disappear

even if ghislaine Maxwell is
found guilty and go to prison.

Yeah, it doesn't end with her.

There are a lot of
people to blame in this.

I think one of the reasons,

it focuses on ghislaine

is because she has
knowledge of that web

- or at least that we've originally thought.
- Mmm-hmm.

[Eric] But it seems
like there's a lot

of powerful men
around Jeffrey Epstein

who are part of this
web and don't appear

to be part of any
investigation right now.

[Vicky] Whilst
ghislaine stand accused

of terrible, terrible,
terrible crimes,

there are other people

who might be
culpable in all of this

who just off scot free

and those are what I
call the invisible men

and they are men

who surrounded Jeffrey

all this time,

enabled his awful crimes

looked the other way

whether out of self-protection,

self-interest, greed.

There have been repercussions
for some of the men

who are friendly with Jeffrey.

Prince Andrew, for example,

amidst public pressure,

he agreed to speak to
the BBC after Jeffrey died.

It would be a
considerable stretch

to say that he was a
very, very, close friend.

Do I regret of the fact
that he has quite obviously

conducted himself in
a manner unbecoming?

Yes.

Unbecoming?

He was a sex offender?

Yeah. I'm sorry.
I'm being polite.

I think what the British
public were probably expecting

from prince Andrew
was an apology.

They were probably
expecting him to show

empathy and sympathy.

I don't remember that
photo of ever being taken.

But it's possible
that it was you

- with your arm around her waist...
- That's me but whether

that's my hand or whether
that's, um, the position, I...

[Vicky] Do you regret the
whole friendship with Epstein?

I'm... I...

Now, I still not.

He said that he valued the
connections that he made

which is fascinating
that even after everything

that had happened,
obviously the power

of Epstein's political
connections was still having

swayed over prince
Andrew even in that moment.

[Reporter] The Monday
morning headlines say it all.

Prince Andrew's attempt
to explain his friendship

with accused sex trafficker
Jeffrey Epstein backfiring.

The furor over it does not seem

to be settling down today.

[Jack] Prince Andrew
was forced to step back

from public life.

What's important for
Americans to understand

is that royals don't get
cancelled, you know,

that's not a thing that happens.

You don't lose your
job as a member

of the royal family.

[Vicky] Another man who's
being affected is Leon black,

the former ceo of Apollo
global management

who admitted paying
Jeffrey $158 million

over five years.

My friend, William d. Cohan,

who covers wall street
for vanity fair and others

broke that one down for me.

This idea that Leon black,

truly one of the smartest
guys on wall street,

would turn to Jeffrey Epstein

for bespoke financial...

Tax advice

absolutely makes
no sense whatsoever.

[Vicky] Bill says that the men
who have the most connection

to Epstein are known on
wall street as the big three.

Black, Leslie wexner,

and former hedge fund
manager Glenn dubin

who married Jeffrey's former
girlfriend, Eva Andersson.

Dubin left his fund
after Jeffrey died

and has been subpoenaed
by an investigator

in the us Virgin Islands.

Black was forced out of his role

as board chair of Apollo.

And wexner and
his wife have also

left the board of l brands.

The big three, the ones
that I think everybody knew

Jeffrey had a relationship with,

as well as Bill Gates
and prince Andrew,

have paid a reputational price.

But who are the others?

Ghislaine really
could be the gateway,

the key to this shadowy
web of invisible men.

The big question is what
information does she have?

I mean ghislaine holds
the key to the cabinet, right?

And in that cabinet,
there's a lot information.

She was around
Jeffrey Epstein's life,

she was around his
life, meets a lot of very,

very powerful people

talking to them,
entertaining them,

dining with them.

She holds a lot.

[Dramatic music playing]

[Vicky] What about the
tapes Epstein allegedly made

to blackmail people?

Does she know about those?

[David] I think there is no
doubt that there were tapes.

Now, where are those tapes are?

Indeed, even whether those tapes

continue to exist is something

that we've not
been able to prove

one way or the other.

Ghislaine Maxwell is
being pressured now

about the tapes.

Does she know where they
are? Does she have them?

She might have bits of them

but the Israelis
definitely has them.

- Yes.
- You know that?

[Ari] Yes.

I think this whole extraordinary

tale of influence, campaigns,

of arms dealing,

of compromising people

shows that he may well
have been propped up

by an international network,

that he could have had much
more leverage over people,

over countries than
perhaps any of us knew.

It is absolutely remarkable

the reach that he had.

[David] Uh, that's
absolutely right.

There's still an enormous
amount that even those of us

who have been working
on this for six or seven years

don't yet know that
the contacts he had,

the powerful people
who had one connection

with him or another.

His legion.

[Vicky] Even two
years after his death,

Jeffrey Epstein
still has the power

to pull down the
rich and famous.

The question is whether
ghislaine could do the same.

[David] I think there are
powerful people out there

who want to keep

concealed facts

that Ms. Maxwell knows

just as I think there
were powerful people

who wanted to keep concealed
facts with Jeffrey Epstein.

He was a dangerous
person for a lot of people

because if he went down,
then he was the type that would

take everybody down with him.

Well, how dangerous is
ghislaine Maxwell, then?

Question is, what does she know?

And who doesn't
want that coming out?

And how long is that valuable?

Because information
loses its strength after time.

Ghislaine Maxwell may be

the last person on earth

who can be squeezed to say

what actually happened here

because I'm afraid that people

will never spill their guts.

It's very, very hard

to get people to
spill the beans.

[William] Especially
when they've been paid

a lot of money probably and
they've signed agreements

that they won't and I
really think that that's

what's going on here and
not just like back in the day.

I think these people have
been paid and are continuing

to be paid and may
even be being paid more.

Really this is a
story about guys,

very, very rich guys
covering for each other.

Couldn't agree more.

And who knows what
they're covering for?

Their lives, their
reputations depend

on the truth never getting out.

And so I suspect that the truth

will never come out.

[Vicky] As she faces trial,

ghislaine has
maintained her innocence

and it's possible
that that is true.

Her father's
biographer, Tom bower,

who remains in
contact with the family,

says it's also possible

that she's following
the Maxwell tradition.

The Maxwell psyche is
always to fight for survival

and to win and that's I'm
sure she's aiming for now.

She imagines that she can,

in her day in court, be...

Persuade the jury
that she's innocent.

Uh, and that's what
she'll be fighting for.

Her legal team,
according to sources,

believes that
she's going to win.

If they are really
telling her that,

I think that is a grave
disservice to their client.

I think that she is not
going to win this trial.

[Vicky] Ghislaine may
be taking her example

from her brothers who
were found not guilty

in their fraud
trial 25 years ago.

Kevin now is helping ghislaine

daily with her defense.

Do you know that for sure?

I mean the rest of us
don't know Kevin Maxwell

in the way that you do.

[Tom] Yes, for sure,
he's helping them.

Do not underestimate
Kevin's determination

to ensure that his
sister's acquitted.

I think you can anticipate

that Kevin's defense strategy

will be to destroy the
credibility of the women.

[Vicky] And there
is one more defense

that ghislaine could attempt.

She could claim that she, too,

was a victim of Jeffrey Epstein.

Ghislaine can easily
plea that she is a victim

of a tyrannous
boyfriend, Epstein.

And there'll be
women in that jury

who will sympathize
with the idea that ghislaine

has been the
victim of a monster.

[Vicky] For those of us
who knew her over the years,

it's almost impossible
to comprehend

where ghislaine's
road has taken her.

It's very sobering the idea
that someone you knew

could have been
doing this kind of stuff.

What are your
feelings about it all?

Total disgust, horror,

and a kind of
feeling of some guilt.

And it just turns my stomach.

It's one thing when you're...

You must rush
out and get some...

Get Epstein the best
chicken soup in New York City,

it's a hella different story

if it's feeding his
depraved appetite

for defenseless young girls.

It's just awfully disgusting

and you kind of
don't want to believe

that a friend of yours

is capable of
anything that is just...

-[Vicky] A monstrous.
-[Christopher] No. It's monstrous.

[Vicky] In the end,
ghislaine Maxwell's story

returns to her father
and his own sordid past.

One of the great
takeaways from doing

all this reporting

is in the
extraordinary parallels

between Jeffrey Epstein
and Robert Maxwell.

In some ways, it's
where ghislaine is now

has something to do with the way

she was raised by her father.

And then the way she
was controlled willingly

by Jeffrey Epstein,
two very similar men.

The ordinary expectation
for somebody like ghislaine

would be what she told friends

she wanted to be,
to become somebody,

somebody of great
importance in the world.

I think the whole question
of chasing ghislaine

is how and where did she

allegedly make a wrong turn

so that instead of
becoming this glorious,

relevant influencer
in the world,

she's now sitting in jail,

facing unspeakable charges
of helping Jeffrey Epstein

with his sexual crimes.

To be honest, it's still
something of a mystery.

[Somber music playing]