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The investigation was done properly until Barry Krischer got involved.

Was he trying to hide something?

I don't know. But when you agree to do an investigation and prosecute, and then

you don't, something's wrong.

All of that work, all of that work by the Palm Beach Police Department, and

prosecutor just lets him skate.

It's unconscionable.

Rightfully frustrated, Chief Ryder asked the FBI and the U .S. Attorney's Office

in Palm Beach to open a federal investigation.

The U .S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida was a man named

Alexander Acosta. Now, this is a guy who had cut his teeth on prosecuting Cali

and Medellin drug cartels. He seemed like just the guy to take on Jeffrey

Epstein and finally get some justice for these young girls.

When Chief Ryder goes to the U .S. Attorney's office, the U .S. Attorney

constantly promised him that he's going to prosecute this to the fullest extent.

When the FBI began their investigation, they began to re -interview a lot of the

young victims that Joe Terry had already spoken with.

In addition to that, they found additional victims that Jeffrey Epstein

abused. Ultimately, we were trying to fight on behalf of these young girls and

trying to get some measure of justice.

The federal investigation goes on for two full years.

They come up with 40 women.

And they had a 53 -count indictment ready to go against Epstein.

Jeffrey Epstein is looking for a powerful Republican to get him off the

And guess who he hires?

Ken Starr.

Ken Starr!

I mean, this was the prosecutor, the special prosecutor who went all in on

Clinton impeachment, which was effectively a case about sex between two

consenting adults.

And here, on the other hand, you've got Jeffrey Epstein, who is suspected of

raping and molesting 40 children, Starr and Dershowitz.

It doesn't get bigger than that in the legal world.

Only somebody with an endless supply of money and power could assemble.

A team like that. And it really began to beg the question, where was Jeffrey

Epstein getting all his money?

Epstein's accumulation of real wealth begins after he managed to avoid charges

in the Towers Ponzi scheme.

He soon sets his sights on his next mark, a well -known billionaire.

Leslie Wexner is a retailing tycoon.

who owned a company that owns a lot of the stores you'll see in an American

shopping mall, from Victoria's Secret to the limited structure Abercrombie &

Fitch. Les Wexner had fired some financial guy, and he needed a

And somebody recommended Jeffrey Epstein.

Wexner trusted Epstein with the running of his investment funds, his trust

funds, his foundations.

Epstein was the fixer.

Soon, Wexner grants Epstein full power of attorney, which allows Epstein to

financial decisions for Wexner.

Jeffrey Epstein is overseeing in that one year alone almost a quarter billion

dollars of stock transactions for Wexner, which is about $475 million

In that year, Jeffrey Epstein is in a one -bedroom apartment. He suddenly buys

an airplane.

He hires a full -time pilot. He starts liquidating large amounts of Leslie

Wexner stockholding. And shortly after all these stock transactions, Epstein,

like clockwork, will purchase a ranch, purchase an island.

Working for Leslie Wexner, Epstein is suddenly showered with hot and cold

running money. And in 1995, Wexner bestows upon his financial advisor a

magnificent gift, a $70 million Manhattan mansion.

It was rags to riches in 24 hours.

Few people with that kind of trajectory in history and lack of formal education

get these kind of opportunities, which goes back to the question, why in fact

did Leslie Wexner trust a man who was fired from the investment house with a

billion dollars? That's a lot of money.

The rumor mill really went into overdrive on this one.

Did Jeffrey Epstein have something on Les Wexner? Or were the two of them at

point maybe involved together in something unsavory? I mean, that was

people were talking about.

However he got so rich, Epstein did build a massive power base of wealth and

personal connection so he could live his life any way he wanted and squash

anybody who got in his way.

Federal authorities in Florida quietly work the case for two years, an

investigation that barely makes the news.

They find 40 victims claiming they were forced into Epstein's sex trafficking

ring.

Then, the financier turns up in the Palm Beach County Courthouse.

This doesn't make any sense at all. None of the alleged victims are present.

And if he's still under a federal investigation, then what on earth is he

in a state courthouse?

Despite the massive amount of evidence of sex trafficking, Epstein is somehow

given a remarkable deal.

The U .S. Attorney's Office and Epstein's lawyers enter into a

which is called a non -prosecution agreement.

He agrees to one count of felony prostitution and one count of soliciting

There's not such a thing as a child prostitute. If you're 14, you are not a

prostitute. You are a child. You don't understand the consequences of what

you're doing.

It's ridiculous calling them prostitutes. They're a victim of sex

On June 30, 2008, Epstein agrees to an 18 -month sentence after U .S.

Attorney Acosta agrees to drop all federal charges.

The non -prosecution agreement gives immunity to not only Epstein, but all

potential co -conspirators, which was unbelievable to us as lawyers at the

This is where it gets really ugly.

In conversations with the authorities, Epstein's lawyers actually make the case

not to tell the victims about any of it, not to involve them, nothing. They hear

nothing.

Acosta apparently agrees.

Despite the fact that the decision could be in violation of the Federal Crime

Victims' Rights Act, the secret plan to exclude the victims is not reported in

the press until after it's all done.

The victims, they're supposed to be told about any plea deals or any type of

sentencing and have some kind of input, whether real or symbolic. And they were

totally kept in the dark about everything.

The victims were willing to fight. They were willing to go on the record.

and they were not even contacted as the law required to get their approval.

The only reason that Epstein got the deal he got was because of his money,

power, and his influence.

You take any other person off the street, and they're accused of

molestation or sexual abuse of one girl.

They end up behind bars for 5, 10, 15, 20 years.

In 25 years, I'd never seen a non -prosecution agreement that broad. The

thing we could rationalize in our mind was that maybe the U .S. government was

getting something out of this deal. Maybe he was an informant. It was during

huge financial crisis and the stock market crash.

So maybe he was giving information to the federal government for prosecutions

financial crimes.

We had heard that he was maybe an informant working with the Israeli

and that's why they treated him the way they did.

We never truly learned the reason why they backed down the way they did.

A deeper dive into Epstein's history might provide clues as to how he became

powerful so fast.

Jeffrey Epstein's unusual meteoric rise has made him rich.

But the boy from Coney Island doesn't exactly fit in with the high society

crowd.

He was always just trying to build himself up.

Jeffrey Epstein was definitely insecure.

And I think he needed all this aggrandizement because, really, he was

simple guy.

It was in the early 1990s that Jeffrey Epstein meets Ghislaine Maxwell, and she

is his ticket to high society.

Ghislaine Maxwell.

She was a socialite. She was very well known, followed by the British tabloids.

And she is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, who was a press baron in the

Kingdom. He owned the Daily Mirror group of newspapers.

And so he was a very wealthy, connected person.

He named his yacht the Lady Ghislaine after his favorite daughter.

Jelena, the young girl, should have a wealthy life. She was part of one of the

richest families in Britain at the time, and she really had whatever she wanted.

I'm Laura Goldman, and in the 90s, when I met Jelena Maxwell and Jeffrey

Epstein, I was a stockbroker.

Jelaine is a very accomplished woman. Went to Oxford. She speaks several

languages. Basically, you would see Jelaine at the opening of everything.

If there was a gold envelope, she was there. She was part of the scene.

She liked to party.

She was a good -time girl.

My name is Christina Ochsenberg. I'm a writer by trade.

I am a cousin of Prince Andrew.

And in 1990, I met Ghislaine in America at a super ritzy party.

And I was there with my husband, and they knew each other.

And so she walked over, and he said, oh, Ghislaine, hello.

She did a bizarre little performance.

She looked at me, and she looped her arm in his, and she said, who is that?

I was getting ready to divorce this guy anyway, so I thought it was quite funny.

Ghislaine was living the good life, bouncing between London and New York,

then it all came crashing down.

In 1991, Robert Maxwell was sailing a yacht in the Canary Islands, and he

drowned.

His body was found by the Spanish Navy, and there's conflicting information

about exactly how he died.

Robert Maxwell was on his yacht.

He either fell over,

attempted suicide, or was murdered.

A conspiracy theory arises as to why he might have been killed.

I know from Jewish sources that Robert Maxwell was a spy for Israel, and many

people have also told me that he possibly sold information to other

Some believe his secret life might have led to his demise.

Others think the impending discovery of shocking crimes, might have led to

suicide. After he died, it was discovered that he had robbed his own

pension funds to prop up his businesses.

Ghislaine believes he was murdered. She doesn't believe that he would have ever

committed suicide.

When Maxwell's global media empire collapses, Ghislaine flees the UK media

frenzy for New York in hopes of reclaiming her status.

I think the death of her father affected her.

in every possible way, especially financially.

She lost her money. She felt she lost her identity.

Ghislaine calls me and invites me to a tea party at her apartment, and her

behavior is dull.

She just simply was dressed in white bra and her underwear, very

pretty underwear, but underwear, and three other girls.

We're all dressed.

She's very chatty, and she's saying that she's broke, and I think she thought I

would be of some use to her.

A close friend of hers introduces her to Jeffrey Epstein at a dinner, and that's

where their relationship begins.

Epstein had just really hit pay dirt in terms of managing Leslie Wexner's money,

so Ghislaine comes over, and they appear to be dating by now. Ghislaine knows

everybody. And she introduced him to everybody.

Her entire network.

Ghislaine has a way, people call it charm, I would call it theater.

And she's working constantly to make you laugh, make you comfortable,

draw you in.

She is the grifter, 100 % grifter.

And she's fairly good at it.

And Jeffrey had like a list, like a wish list of the type of person he wanted

brought in.

She introduces him to the Duke of York, Prince Andrew.

And it's right around that time that he's starting to cozy up with the likes

Bill Clinton and one very wealthy and powerful playboy and real estate mogul

New York, Donald Trump.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are frequent visitors to Mar -a -Lago.

the resort that Donald Trump owns and turned into a club.

Soon, Maxwell moves into Epstein's 71st Street mansion.

Over time, Epstein and Maxwell's relationship evolves from dating and

into something more sinister.

Maxwell became the mistress of the house. She would also procure the girls.

that she felt he would like.

She says he has an incredible sex drive.

He has to have three orgasms a day, so I help him out by bringing in the

females.

She felt no compunction about telling me this.

If anything, she was proud.

He's been hiding his sexual proclivities from, you know, the people he doesn't

want to know.

But... At the same time, he's wriggling his way into the upper echelons of New

York society, toast to the town. At one point, he even became a board member of

the New York Academy of Art.

My name is Maria Farmer. I am the first person who reported Jeffrey Epstein to

local authorities and the FBI.

In the 1990s, I was in graduate school in Manhattan at the New York Academy of

Art. It had been a dream of mine my entire life.

not only to live in Manhattan, but to be an artist, a painter in New York City.

In 1995, Maria meets Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at an Academy event.

They have a graduation, and everyone puts their paintings up, and it's kind

gallery exhibit.

It was the only time I got to hang my paintings in a gallery.

Epstein zeroes in on one of Maria's paintings, which features a young girl

couch. with a man watching her.

Maria explains that the model for this piece of art was her little sister,

Annie.

I had no idea who they were.

Jeffrey said that he didn't typically appreciate beautiful work, but he found

work both compelling and beautiful.

He said with my work, he appreciated it because it would get him thinking.

The wealthy financier makes a cut -rate offer, half the price.

He struck me as very cheap to ask for a discount from a student.

But Jeffrey said, I'm giving you a great opportunity.

With the discount you offer me, I'm going to be giving you the best

Epstein offers the struggling art student the job.

He said, show up at 8 o 'clock in the morning at the mansion.

Maria's new job, receptionist. My only duty was to sign people in and sign them

out. As they left, Elan came in, and she gave me all the instructions as to how

to behave and how to speak to people and breathe, basically.

She was also the one who was first showing me all the pinhole cameras next

the desk. I mean, he was very silly about it, too, and very proud of this.

But right next to my head were several little pinhole cameras.

I saw a lot of children coming in, a lot, a lot of children, little girls.

I remember thinking, how can this many young girls be coming and going?

What is the deal?

Ghislaine said, they're Victoria's Secret models, Maria.

And I believed her. Why would I not believe her, right? I mean, I know

about modeling. I know about art.

Soon, Maria realizes working a billionaire's front desk isn't exactly

job. I mean, here I was. I just received a master's degree in painting.

And this job really made no sense for me. And I stayed with it for months

because I was destitute.

Then Epstein begins asking about Maria's family.

Maria Farmer has a 15 -year -old sister, Annie Farmer. And Epstein and Maxwell

get giddy and excited about this, and they want to meet her. So they represent

to the mother that there's going to be like a scholarly conference for aspiring

college students and that they want to.

help Annie pay for college and that she should travel abroad so that she can get

the type of resume that would look good to an Ivy League college.

I did not know that he was evil.

I just didn't see it.

She worked at that unrewarding front desk job for several months, but then

got a fateful phone call. She got a job offer to do a series of paintings for a

Hollywood movie.

I said, I no longer want to work for you at this desk. I got a new job doing

these paintings.

I didn't really have the space in my apartment, but I was going to make it

But instead, Jeffrey said, you know what?

I have an incredible house on my friend's property. He gave it to me.

It's Les Wetzner's house. You can stay there and paint.

I thought, this might be a really good experience.

That was the beginning of the worst time of my life.

And I was never safe again.

In the summer of 1996, Maria Farmer sets up her art studio at an Epstein home

nestled on the property of Les Wexner, the billionaire CEO of L Brands and

Victoria's Secret.

Jeffrey said, this is where the Victoria's Secret models stay, totally

beautiful. According to Maria, what starts as a dream chance to finally

her art quickly becomes a nightmare.

Maria makes serious allegations against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

There are pinhole cameras throughout that house in New Albany. And I know

for a fact because Ghislaine and Jeffrey told me. And they also wanted to make

it really clear that I was being watched.

Jeffrey and Ghislaine came to visit a couple times at the estate.

One night, Ghislaine called me in, and she asked me to come with she and

for a second, that Jeffrey needed to talk to me.

And so I walked just down this hallway. This room I was never allowed to go in

because it was Jeffrey's room. Ghislaine was in a robe, and she walked me around

the four -poster bed, and she wanted me to rub his feet.

And I remember him moaning and being very dramatic.

And so I said, oh, I think I'm not very good at this.

He put his hand like this and started.

farming me, like, on my chest.

And she went like this and mirrored him.

So they were both, like, twisting me on my chest, and it was really strange, and

I felt really uncomfortable and embarrassed, right? And at one point, I

like, tears started to come out, and she took my hand and was, like, rubbing it

and being all disgusting and, like, you know, kissed my hand. And I remember

thinking she was so disgusting.

And that was, for me, the greatest moment of horror.

Maria says she managed to run away and hide in her bedroom.

I remember thinking that, you know, I was going to die too, and thinking about

my mother and how my mom was going to handle this.

The next morning, Epstein and Maxwell leave early for the airport.

Jeffrey called me to tell me he'd had a great time the night before, and I just

started sobbing, and I'm like, I quit.

I hung up. Ghislaine called.

and was screaming at me.

I was able to find my way out of there.

I remember driving out of the gate and thinking, I have just escaped hell.

And I just got out of there.

And I couldn't believe I was alive.

Much to her horror, Maria says she learns that she's not the only family

who has allegedly been assaulted by the couple.

Earlier that summer, Maria says Ghislaine and Jeffrey had flown Maria's

sister Annie to New Mexico, to his ranch.

And the idea was, they told her, that she would join a group of students there

to do some college planning.

But when she gets there, there's no other students that are there.

Maria finds out that Annie was sexually assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell.

I don't know how to explain this, but she is my whole world.

I went to her, and I said, we need to go to the police.

So Maria Farmer returns to New York and reports to a police precinct near

Epstein's house about what Epstein had done to her, her assault. And the police

tell her, well, this might actually be a case for the FBI.

I report to the FBI that night.

I reported they trafficked my sister, and I thought, I can't let this happen.

But nothing ever seems to actually happen with any of these reports. It's

unclear what type of follow -up or investigation ever actually occurred.

Even in 1996, did Jeffrey Epstein have the power to quash a federal

investigation?

Nearly a decade later, the Teflon financier continues his ascent and

connections to major players.

He came on the scene very quickly with like a bolt of lightning.

All of a sudden, he was there, and he had all this money, and he was taking

everybody on his private plane.

President Clinton was looking for someone to fly him to Africa on a

and Jeffrey agreed to take the president.

Kevin Spacey was on that trip. Chris Tucker, comedian, was on that trip.

Ghislaine Maxwell and several other girls were on that trip.

In 2002, the editor of Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter, is intrigued with

Epstein. He wants to know who is this guy and how did he make all this money?

And he asks one of his star correspondents and writers, Vicki Ward,

do the story, and research how this guy got to where he was.

In her reporting, Ward discovers the criminal complaints Maria and Annie

filed.

Vanity Fair contacted me, and they really, really wanted to do an article

Jeffrey Epstein, and they knew everything.

Vicki Ward knew everything that had happened to me. She knew all the bad

She knew enough to know this was a very dangerous man.

And she knew that he had harmed my sister, who was 16.

When Vicki Ward was working on her story, I guess she had asked Jeffrey

Maria Farmer and her sister, and that's when Jeffrey went full blast to try and

stop the story.

Jeffrey somehow got into Vanity Fair's office one day, and it was unnerving, to

say the least.

Vicki was pregnant when she was doing the story with Quinn, and he said he was

going to put a curse on her.

It frightened her for whatever reason.

In the end, Epstein's campaign to drop Maria and Annie Farmer from the article

worked. Jeffrey said to Graydon, take out the women.

And Graydon did. I wouldn't have, but Graydon did.

I gave up everything for the truth.

All I wanted was for people to know the truth.

And I found that most people do not want to hear the truth in this case.

I remember thinking that this guy, he could get away with anything.

Now, Maria is terrified.

She leaves New York, leaves the art world, and goes into hiding. It'll be

another decade before her voice is heard.

But for Jeffrey Epstein, he's just getting started.

Jeffrey Epstein begins his 18 -month sentence as part of the sweetheart deal

lawyers made with U .S. attorney Alexander Acosta.

He's allowed out on work release during the day to go to an office where we now

know he's meeting with other people on his staff, which included young girls.

And then he goes back to sleep at the jail at night.

This convicted child sex offender is still being granted access

to young girls, all while he's supposed to be in prison serving a sentence.

Like it was just business as usual for Jeffrey Epstein.

I mean, this was not a hard time.

No.

In July 2009, Epstein is relieved early on good behavior.

Once the sentence is over, he's secreted out of jail, no one knows about it, and

he gets to go home.

His lawyers work to reduce his legal restrictions.

They argued that Jeffrey shouldn't be put on the sexual offender list. I was

there in court.

And the judge came out and said, are you kidding me?

I mean, thank God it was a legitimate judge, but how could you... It was later

discovered that Mr. Epstein continued molesting young girls even after he was

allowed out of jail here in South Florida, and that there were additional

victims up in the New York area.

The federal government should have charged Epstein with, at the time, sex

trafficking, and by not doing so...

They allowed Epstein to continue to prey on women for another 12 years.

Since Epstein was not held accountable in criminal court, some of his victims

turned to the civil courts in search of justice.

Several of the attorneys representing the victims begin to file civil cases

against Epstein for restitution on behalf of their clients.

I wanted Epstein to know.

That despite his wealth, despite his power, despite who he felt he held

influence over, I didn't care.

I didn't care who he was. He wasn't going to intimidate me.

And I was going to ask him the most personal, embarrassing question I could

possibly think of.

Would you raise your right hand, please?

Yes. Do you solemnly swear to testimony about to give away the truth, the whole

truth, and nothing but the truth to help you guys? Yes, I do.

Could you please give us your name?

Jeffrey Epstein.

Is it true, sir, that you have what's been described as an egg -shaped

penis?

The deposition is adjourned.

My hope was the question alone would get him upset, that he'd flip up, he'd get

mad at me. He eventually pled the fifth to every question that was asked of him.

Leslie Wexner fires him formally, but Epstein's already made enough money and

has all the contacts in the world he needed.

And so he begins to fix his reputation.

My name is R. Corey Hay. I am a publicist and columnist and reporter in

City. So I wear a couple different hats.

The publicist is brought in to tell the story of the client.

It's about repairing your reputation if it's repairable.

As a Gotham columnist, I've always had my ear to the ground, so to speak. So I

would hear odd stories about Jeffrey.

Epstein reaches out to Hay, seeking advice.

I would never have worked for Jeffrey Epstein. I only went to see that house

put on my reporter's hat and get a story.

On the first visit, we walked out of the office and up some stairs and back to a

very grand baronial room.

There was Jeffrey seated at the end, quite imperious, with fabulous gray hair

and not dressed up, no suit, no tie. And he's quite disarming and charming.

Basically, he said he was unhappy that all the stories about him started with

Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire pedophile.

So he said, I'm just tired of reading stories that start this way. And I

up at the chandelier, and there was a blow -up doll in it, a sex doll.

Okay.

It was getting weirder and weirder, but even I was sucked in. It was

fascinating. So I went, well, Jeffrey, you've got to go to Bill Gates and

Melinda immediately and pledge your entire fortune.

You need to give one and a half billion immediately, outright, not a few deaths.

Give it right now.

Then I said you had to go into professional rehab for one year.

She looked at me like, one year? I said one year.

One of the sex clinics where you could get real help.

In the end, Epstein doesn't take most of the advice, and Mr. Hay is glad he

didn't. I'm not interested in getting Jeffrey Epstein off the hook, because

these girls, they'll never be off the hook.

Epstein does try one new tack.

He began recreating himself, calling himself a

philanthropist, interested in sciences and in education.

He gave Harvard $6 million in total.

And everybody bought that hook, line, and sinker. MIT, Stanford.

I mean, even Bill Gates invested $2 million on behalf of Epstein.

Now, people are ashamed they took the money, but they took it because the

runs on money.

He was accepted back in society here in New York, which is disgraceful.

Bill Gates?

Prince Andrew, long line of important people. They were all still friendly

Jeffrey after his conviction.

And then Epstein starts getting invitations to scientific conferences

society parties with bold -faced names like Katie Couric, Jeff Bezos, and Elon

Musk. He is still the convicted pedophile billionaire, but nobody seems

Epstein's masterful ability to manipulate celebrities and power brokers

continues uninterrupted. Would anything stop him from terrorizing more young

girls?

When Jeffrey Epstein reemerges onto the New York social scene, he quickly

reconnects with a powerful old friend, his royal highness, Prince Andrew.

Geoffrey's out a year or so. He's in New York. And he and Prince Andrew are, of

course, strolling around Central Park.

Not a good look.

Prince Andrew, in the late 80s, was really seen as a party boy.

Tabloids called him Randy Andy.

Someone who was a womanizer.

You know, he loved beautiful women and had a lot of girlfriends, had a lot of

dates, had a lot of parties. And I think...

Under it all was really the expectation of Andrew that women would follow to

see, that women would see him and be absolutely fascinated by him.

We know that Ghislaine introduced Epstein to Prince Andrew not long after

arrived in New York City and that they started spending more and more time

together, Epstein and Prince Andrew, in the early 2000s. And we start to see

Epstein being invited.

to royal parties and royal properties.

Jeffrey Epstein was really introduced to the British public in 2010 with a bang.

That was really shocking because what was Andrew doing walking with this

convicted paedophile in New York City?

Things really take a turn in 2011 when a photo of the prince and a young girl

surfaces in the UK press.

It was allegedly taken at Ghislaine Maxwell's flat in London. And the girl

Virginia Roberts, who claims to have entered Epstein's sordid world at the

of 15 by unhappy accident.

Virginia Roberts' father worked at Mar -a -Lago, and so he gets her a job

So Galen and Epstein are having lunch at Mar -a -Lago, and Galen walks into the

ladies' room, and Virginia Roberts is the bathroom attendant, working part

-time. So Maxwell's like, oh, wow, are you interested in massage?

I know this wealthy man who, you know, he might actually pay for you to be

trained as a masseuse.

And Virginia Roberts is like, wow, this is great. I could get, like, a

professional license.

So Galen then introduces her to Epstein that afternoon.

Virginia says she agreed to meet Maxwell and Epstein at his Palm Beach mansion

the same day.

Virginia Roberts' father dropped her off there.

It was his understanding that Ghislaine Maxwell would be kind of like

chaperoning and overseeing his daughter.

And so when Virginia goes up, she's a little bit weirded out by like, why is

this guy laying in the towel?

Okay, this must be how massage therapy, as a profession, it works. Maxwell is

basically massaging Epstein and showing her, do it like this, rub him like this.

And then Epstein at some point flips over and she is sexually assaulted and

Maxwell is there the whole time.

And at the end they pay her a couple hundred dollars and say, you did great

when can you come back?

Virginia says she was sexually abused in the past, and I think that may have set

her up as easy prey for a predator like Epstein.

She would later say that she came to believe during this time that this was

normal. The lifestyle with Epstein was the way life was just supposed to be.

Pretty sad.

He grooms her, which is what these traffickers do. They groom you.

First to trust them, to believe that they're the only ones who are going to

care of you, to love you, to protect you.

And then over a period of time, she was sort of like a long -term employee who

was then pimped out to other rich, powerful men around the world.

He begins to loan her out to his rich male friends. And so one of them happens

to be, according to Virginia, Prince Andrew.

Jeffrey Epstein's plane was nicknamed the Lolita Express, named after

famous novel Lolita, in which a college professor has sex with a 12 -year -old

girl.

Photos of the plane's luxurious interior were taken when the Lolita Express was

put up for sale. They later surfaced in the tabloids.

Helene told me proudly that the private plane that she and Jeffrey Epstein

used was wired for audio and video. He was more than hinting that the

purpose of this was blackmail, to insulate themselves, to protect

themselves.

I bet Jeffrey saved the videotapes because he enjoyed looking at them. He

probably a voyeur. He was clearly a pervert. And then, of course, there was

backup. You could use those tapes as leverage if you got in trouble.

But at some point, I think it was March of 2001, there's a series of flights

into Europe that Virginia Roberts is on Epstein's plane.

And one of the flights lands at London's Luton Airport.

According to Virginia, Ghislaine Maxwell takes her out shopping, dresses her up.

It's like, oh, you're going to meet a prince tonight.

And then we get in the car and Ghislaine tells me in the car that I have to do.

What I do for Jeffrey before Prince Andrew.

And that's when I learned what was going to happen.

And so Virginia Roberts, she's like, oh, my God, even these royal people are

just as sick and depraved as he is.

But she basically goes out dancing with him.

And we went to Club Tramp, and he danced with me, and he sweats a lot, and he

smells funny.

And that's the very first time I met him.

And that's right before I was abused by him.

My client is a London woman who recalls seeing Prince Andrew and Virginia

Roberts together at that London nightclub in 2001, just as Virginia

says. Prince Andrew was smiling, happy, having a great time. Virginia was not.

Virginia looked very sullen and quiet.

According to Virginia's legal filing, on Epstein's order, she had sex with the

prince.

You cannot say no to these people.

Of course, there is sadness, there is anger, there are scars that will never

heal, ever.

You're not even acknowledged as being alive or there or important or cared for

or worried about in any way. None of those human emotions were attached to me

when I was trafficked to Prince Andrew.

Prince Andrew denies all of these allegations.

But Virginia Roberts also states in legal filings that she's had sexual

encounters with other associates of Jeffrey Epstein. One of the most

Alan Dershowitz.

Alan Dershowitz denied the allegations, too.

And because of that, Virginia Roberts sued him for defamation. And in a

bizarre turn, he sued her right back.

Did you ever see Mr. Epstein with Underage Girl? No. Oh, no. If I had ever

Jeffrey Epstein in any inappropriate situation with Underage Girl, I would

terminated my relationship and turned him in. No way. This is a woman with a

long, long record of lying for money.

I was always disgusted that there were so many people involved.

It was the elite of the world. It was people who run the world. It was the

powerful people in the world.

Finally. After three years of alleged abuse, Virginia manages to escape

Epstein's grasp.

Epstein had proposed to her that she give him a child. And so he sends her to

Thailand to bring back a 12 -year -old.

Virginia goes to Thailand. But the thought of procuring a 12 -year -old

Epstein gives her the strength to escape.

She meets this young man, and they fall in love instantly, and they instantly

marry. And she calls Epstein from Thailand and says, I'm never coming

For a number of years, she went into hiding until she received a phone call

the FBI.

The FBI approached Virginia Roberts concerning Epstein when they were doing

their investigation, and she handed over the photograph to the FBI.

Virginia files a defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell and a civil suit

seeking damages against her as well.