All language subtitles for Who.Killed.Jeffrey.Epstein.S01E02

Connolly: 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 is wrong.

All of that work,
all of that work

by the palm beach
police department

and the prosecutor just...

Let's him skate.

It's unconscionable.

Narrator: Rightfully frustrated,
chief Reiter asks 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 Reiter goes to
the U.S. Attorney's office,

U.S. Attorney Acosta
promised him

that he's gonna prosecute
this is in fullest extent.

When the fbi began
their investigation,

they began to re-interview
a lot of the young victims

that Joe Recarey
had already spoken with.

In addition to that, they found

additional victims that
Jeffrey Epstein and abused.

Ultimately, we were trying
to fight on behalf of

these young girls and trying to
get some measure of justice.

Narrator:
The federal investigation

goes on for two full years.

Connolly: 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 hook.

And guess who he hires?
Ken Starr.

Banfield: Ken Starr!

I mean, this was
the prosecutor, the special

prosecutor who went all-in
on the 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?

Narrator: 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.

Volscho: Leslie Wexner is
a retailing tycoon

who owns 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.

Connolly: Les Wexner had
fired some financial guy,

and he needed a replacement,

and somebody recommended
Jeffrey Epstein.

Wexner trusted Epstein

with the running of
his investment funds,

his trust funds,
his foundations.

Epstein was the fixer.

Narrator: Soon, Wexner grants
Epstein full power of attorney,

which allows Epstein to make
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 today.

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's
stock holdings.

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.

Sarnoff: 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.

Banfield: 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 any point,

maybe involved together
in something unsavory?

I mean, that was what
people were talking about.

Dimond: 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.

Narrator: 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.

Banfield: 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 doing
in a state courthouse?

Narrator: 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 sweetheart deal,

which is called
a nonprosecution agreement.

He agrees to one count

of felony prostitution
and one count

of soliciting a minor.

Goldman: There's no such 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 trafficking.

Narrator: On June 30, 2008,
Epstein agrees

to an 18-month sentence
after U.S. Attorney Acosta

agrees to drop
all federal charges.

A nonprosecution agreement
gives immunity

to not only Epstein,

but all potential
co-conspirators,

which was unbelievable to us
as lawyers at the time.

Banfield: 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.

Narrator:
Acosta apparently agrees,

despite the fact that
the decision could be

in violation of the federal
crime victims' rights act.

A secret plan to exclude
the victims is not

reported in the press until
after it's all done.

Volscho: 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.

Kuvin: The only reason that
Epstein got the deal he got

was because of his money,
his power, and his influence.

You take any other person
off the street,

and they're accused of

molestation or sexual abuse

of one... one girl,

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

In 25 years, I've never seen

a nonprosecution
agreement that broad.

The only 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
a huge financial crisis

and the stock market crash.

So maybe he was
giving information

to the federal government
for prosecutions of

financial crimes.

We had heard that he was maybe
an informant working

with the Israeli government,

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.

Narrator: A deeper dive
into Epstein's history

might provide clues as to how

he became so powerful, so fast.

Narrator: 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.

Hay: 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 born a simple guy.

It was in the early 1990s
that Jeffrey Epstein

meets Ghislaine Maxwell,

and she is his ticket to
high society.

Volscho: 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 united 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.

Ghislaine as a young girl,
she lived 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 nineties,
when I met Ghislaine Maxwell

and Jeffrey Epstein,

I was a stockbroker.

Ghislaine is a very
accomplished woman,

went to oxford,
she speaks several languages.

Basically, you would see
Ghislaine 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 Oxenberg.

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, um, 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.

Narrator: Ghislaine was
living the good life,

bouncing between
London and new york,

and then, it all came
crashing down.

In 1991,
Robert Maxwell was sailing

a yacht in the canary islands,

and he drowned.

Volscho: His body was found
by the Spanish navy,

and there's conflicting
information about exactly

how he died.

Goldman: Robert Maxwell
was on his yacht.

He either fell over,

attempted suicide,
or was murdered.

Narrator: 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 governments.

Narrator:
Some believe his secret life

might have led to his demise.

Others think the impending
discovery of

shocking crimes might have
led to suicide.

Volscho: After he died, it was
discovered that he had robbed

his own employees' pension
funds to prop up

his businesses.

Ghislaine believes
he was murdered.

She doesn't believe
that he would have ever

committed suicide.

Narrator: When Maxwell's global
media empire collapses,

Ghislaine flees the U.K. Media
frenzy for new york in hopes of

reclaiming her status.

Oxenberg: 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 bizarre.

She just simply was
dressed in a white bra

and her underwear...

Very pretty underwear,
but underwear...

And three other girls,

we were 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
the relationship begins.

Volscho: 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.

Goldman: By now,
Ghislaine knows everybody,

and she introduced him
to everybody,

her entire network.

Oxenberg: 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 person
he wanted brought in.

Banfield: 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 of bill
Clinton and one very wealthy

and powerful playboy and real
estate mogul in 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.

Narrator: Soon,
Maxwell moves into

Epstein's 71st street mansion.

Over time, Epstein and
Maxwell's relationship evolves

from dating and networking
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 of 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.

Narrator: 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 of a gallery exhibit.

It was the only time
I got doing my paintings

in a gallery.

Narrator: Epstein zeroes in
on one of maria's paintings,

which features a young girl
on a 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 my work both
compelling and beautiful.

He said with my work,
he appreciated it,

because it would
get him thinking.

Narrator: 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 opportunity."

narrator: Epstein offers the
struggling art student a job.

He said, "show up at eight
o'clock in the morning

at the mansion."

narrator: Maria's new job,
receptionist.

My only duty was to sign
people in and sign them out

as they left...
Ghislaine 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 to 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... I believed her.

Why would I not believe her?

Right? I mean,
I know nothing about modeling.

I know about art.

Narrator: Soon, maria realizes
working a billionaire's

front desk isn't exactly
her dream 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 just destitute.

Narrator: 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 gonna be,

like, a scholarly conference
for aspiring college students,

and 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 she 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 gonna make it work.

But instead, Jeffrey said,
"you know what?

"I have an incredible house
on my friend's property.

"He gave it to me.

"It's... it's
les Wexner'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.

Narrator: 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 I brands
and Victoria's secret.

Jeffrey said, "this is
where the Victoria's secret

models stay, totally
safe and beautiful."

narrator: According to maria,
what starts as a dream chance

to finally focus on 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 this 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 Jeffrey
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 think I'm not very good

at this...
He put his hand like this

and started harming me,
like, on my chest,

and she went like this
and mirrored him.

So they're 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 started...
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.

That was, for me,
the greatest moment of horror.

Narrator: Maria says
she managed to run away

and hide in her bedroom.

I remember thinking that, uh,

that, you know,
I was gonna die, too,

and thinking about my mother
and how my mom was gonna

handle this.

Narrator: The next morning,
Epstein and Maxwell

leave early for the airport.

Jeffrey called me to tell me
he had 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 gates

and thinking I have
just escaped hell.

And I just got out of there,
and I couldn't believe

I was alive.

Narrator: Much to her horror,
maria says she learns

that she's not
the only family member

who has allegedly
been assaulted by the couple.

Earlier that summer, maria says,
Ghislaine and Jeffrey

had flown maria's little 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.

Volscho:
But when she gets there,

there was 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."

Volscho: 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."

farmer: I reported to the fbi
that night.

I reported
they trafficked my sister in,

and I thought,
I can't let this happen.

Volscho: But nothing ever
seems to actually

happen with any
of these reports.

It's unclear
what type of followup

our investigation ever
actually occurred.

Narrator: 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 deepens
his 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 private jet,

and Jeffrey agrees
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.

Banfield: In 2002,
the editor of vanity fair,

Graydon Carter, is intrigued
with Jeffrey 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,

Vicky ward, to dig in,

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

Narrator: In her reporting,
ward discovers

the criminal complaints

maria and Annie farmer filed.

Vanity fair contacted me,
and they really,

really wanted to do an article
about Jeffrey Epstein,

and they knew everything.

Vicky ward knew everything
that had happened to me.

She knew all the bad things.

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

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

Connolly: When Vicky ward was
working on her story,

I guess she had asked Jeffrey
about 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.

Vicky was pregnant when she
was doing the story, with twins,

and he said he was gonna
put a curse on her.

It frightened her
for whatever reason.

Narrator: In the end,
Epstein's campaign

to drop maria and Annie farmer

from the article works.

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've 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.

Dimond: 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.

Narrator: Jeffrey Epstein begins
his 18-month sentence as part

of the sweetheart deal
his 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.

It's like it was just business
as usual for Jeffrey Epstein.

I mean, this was not
hard time, no.

Narrator: In July 2009,
Epstein is released 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.

Narrator: His lawyers work to
reduce his legal restrictions.

Connolly: They all knew that
Jeffrey should be

put on the sexual offender list.

I was there in court,

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

I mean, thank god there 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.

Narrator: 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.

Kuvin: 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 gonna intimidate me,
and I was gonna ask him the most

personal,

embarrassing question
I could possibly think of.

Woman: Would you raise
your right hand, please?

Yes.

Woman: Do you solemnly swear
the testimony you're about

to give will be the truth,

the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth, so help you god?

Yes, I do.

Kuvin: Could you please
give us your name?

Jeffrey Epstein.

Is it true, sir, that, um...

You have what's been described
as an egg-shaped penis?

Kuvin: My hope was the question
alone would get him upset,

that he'd slip up,

he'd get mad at me.

He essentially pled the fifth to

every question
that was asked of him.

Sarnoff: 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. Courihay.

I am a publicist

and columnist and reporter
in new york city.

So I wear a couple
different hats.

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

So it's about repairing
your reputation

if it's repairable...
As a gossip columnist,

I've always had my ear
to the ground, so to speak.

So I would hear odd stories
about Jeffrey.

Narrator: Epstein reaches out
to hay seeking advice.

I would never have worked
for Jeffrey Epstein.

I only went to see that house to

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
his 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's
a billionaire pedophile."

so he said, "I'm just tired

of reading stories
that start this way."

and I looked 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 gotta go to

"bill gates and Melinda
immediately and pledge

"your entire fortune.

"You need to give
one-and-a-half billion,

"immediately outright,

not after your death.
Give it right now."

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

He looked at me, like,
"one year?"

I said, "one year.

One of the sex clinics where
you can get real help."

narrator: 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.

Narrator:
Epstein does try one new tack.

He began re-creating himself,

calling himself
a philanthropist,

interested in the sciences
and in education.

He gave Harvard
six 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 world runs on money.

Connolly: He was accepted
back in society

here in new york,
which is disgraceful.

Hay: Bill gates,

prince Andrew, long line
of important people...

They were all still friendly
with Jeffrey after

his conviction.

And then Epstein starts
getting invitations to

scientific conferences
and high society parties

with bold-face names,

like Katie Couric,
Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk.

He is still the convicted
pedophile billionaire,

but nobody seems to care.

Epstein's masterful ability
to manipulate

celebrities and powerbrokers
continues uninterrupted.

Would anything stop him from
terrorizing more young girls?

Narrator: When Jeffrey Epstein
re-emerges onto the new york

social scene,

he quickly reconnects with
a powerful old friend,

his royal highness,
prince Andrew.

Connolly: Jeffrey's out
a year or so,

he's in new york,
and he and prince Andrew,

uh, are caught

strolling around central park.

Not a good look.

Prince Andrew,
in the late eighties,

was really seen as a party boy.

Tabloids called him
"randy Andy," someone who was

a womanizer, you know,

it was said 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 fall at his feet,
that women would see him

and be absolutely
fascinated by him.

We know that Ghislaine
introduced Epstein to

prince Andrew

not long after she 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
pedophile in new york city?

Narrator: Things really take
a turn in 2011 when a photo of

the prince and a young girl
surfaces in the U.K. Press.

It was allegedly taken at
Ghislaine Maxwell's flat

in London,

and the girl is Virginia
Roberts, who claims to have

entered Epstein's sordid world

at the age of 15
by unhappy accident.

Volscho: Virginia Roberts'
father worked at mar-a-lago,

and so he gets her a job there.

So Ghislaine and Epstein are
having lunch at mar-a-lago,

and Ghislaine walks
into the ladies room,

and Virginia Roberts is

the bathroom attendant
working part-time.

Volscho: 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 Ghislaine then introduces her
to Epstein that afternoon.

Narrator: 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 a towel?

And she's like, okay,
this must be how

massage therapy as
a profession, it works.

It's Maxwell was 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,
and 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 take care of you,

to love you, to protect you.

Volscho: 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.

Sarnoff: 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 Nabokov's
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.

Ghislaine told me proudly

that the private plane that
she Jeffrey Epstein used

was wired for audio and video.

She 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 him.

He was probably a voyeur,
he was clearly a pervert.

And then, of course,
there was that backup.

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

Volscho: At some point,
I think 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,

is like, "oh, you're gonna
meet a prince tonight."

and then we get in the car,
and, um,

Ghislaine tells me in the car
that I have to do

what I do for Jeffrey
for prince Andrew,

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

Volscho:
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.

We went to club tramp,
and he danced with me,

and... 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 Robert says.

Prince Andrew was smiling,
happy, having a great time.

Virginia was not.

Virginia looked very sullen
and quiet.

Narrator: According to
Virginia's legal filings,

on Epstein's order,

she had sex with the prince.

Roberts: 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... or cared for
or worried about in any way.

None of those human emotions
were attached to...

To me when I was trafficked
to prince Andrew.

Banfield: 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's.

One of the most notable...
Alan Dershowitz.

Alan Dershowitz denied
the allegations, too,

and because of that,

Virginia Roberts sued
him for defamation,

and in a totally bizarre turn,
he sued her right back.

Did you ever see Mr. Epstein
with underage girls?

No. Oh, no.

If I had ever seen
Jeffrey Epstein in any

inappropriate situation
with an underage girl,

I would have 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 most powerful
people in the world.

Narrator: 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.

Narrator:
Virginia goes to Thailand,

but the thought of procuring
a 12-year-old girl

for 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 back."

for a number of years,

she went into hiding
until she received

a phone call from 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.