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Narrator: Despite battling numerous civil suits

from victims following his release from jail,

Jeffrey Epstein manages to fade from public view until

a series of events in 2017 plunges him

back into the spotlight.

The nominee for secretary of the department of labor

will be Mr. Alex Acosta.

Narrator: Acosta's appointment piques the interest of

an investigative reporter from the Miami herald,

Julie K. Brown.

Julie had been a champion in reporting on women's issues,

and she was definitely aware of Jeffrey Epstein

and the sweetheart deal that Acosta had

signed off on in Florida back in 2007.

Kuvin: You gotta put this in perspective with respect

to the time.

So you're looking at 2007,

this was a time and age

where the me too movement didn't exist.

You know, bill Cosby was still America's dad.

Harvey Weinstein was still a wonderful producer

in Hollywood.

Narrator: Outraged by the NPA and empowered by the recent

me too movement,

Julie brown embarks on her own investigation of Epstein's

sex trafficking charges.

Dimond: She got the entire unredacted palm beach

police department file on Jeffrey Epstein.

She also got statements from the witnesses that no one

had ever seen before, because they'd been under court seal.

Yeah, I had been just curious about

where are these girls now?

And what do they think about this deal?

I mean, and how did this affect their lives?

Narrator: Brown tracks down over 60 victims,

including many who had interviewed with

palm beach police earlier.

Narrator: Brown compiles her research into a comprehensive

three-part series for the Miami herald

in November 2018.

It's an explosive investigative series

by the Miami herald.

The title is "perversion of justice."

Banfield: While the 2007 palm beach investigation really,

for the most part, flew under the radar of the national press,

Julie's reporting on Epstein's crimes and then that subsequent

sweetheart deal, well that ignited a powder keg in 2018.

Narrator: The attention prompts the fbi to reopen

its investigation,

compile evidence and witness testimony, and this time, act.

Volscho: July 6, 2019,

Jeffrey Epstein takes off around nine in the morning from

Paris and lands in Teterboro, new jersey,

around 4:30 to 5 o'clock.

It's at that point that his life changes.

An NYPD fbi joint task force

has a clandestine operation set up at the airport

by surprise.

Sarnoff: He was arrested the moment he landed

for solicitation

of child sex trafficking

and conspiracy to commit child sex trafficking.

Man: United states attorney Geoffrey Berman

announced the indictment against Jeffrey Epstein,

the politically connected financier now facing up to

45 years in prison on child sex trafficking charges.

Hoffenberg: Jeffrey Epstein was taken to the federal prison

in new york city, the metropolitan

correctional center.

Volscho: It's cold. There's vermin.

There's understaffing issues.

There's equipment issues.

I'm pretty sure the bathroom in

his airplane was larger than the cell he was occupying.

The whole situation was surreal to him,

to be locked up like this

in a place like this... He'd never been

exposed to something like this before.

Narrator: News of Epstein's arrest

ramps up scrutiny on the financier's

many powerful friends.

Dimond: After Epstein's arrest in 2019,

bill gates said publicly

that he had no business or personal relationship

with Epstein.

However, it has been reported that gates was seen

at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse several times

in those final years.

Narrator: Bill Clinton flew on Epstein's plane several times.

And Ghislaine Maxwell, in 2010, at Chelsea's wedding,

and so there's quite a relationship there.

But a spokesperson for bill Clinton said that

the former president has

not even spoken to Jeffrey Epstein

in well over a decade.

Come on in. Go inside.

Now, lots of reporters are digging in, and pretty soon,

a scandalous 1992 video from a party at mar-a-lago surfaces.

Woman: Trump alternates between dancing

and pointing out women to Epstein.

Trump gestures to one and appears to say to Epstein,

"look at her back there. She's hot."

in the video, it is crystal clear.

You can see Jeffrey Epstein right up next to Donald trump,

and the two of them, together, are gawking and groping

young women, and frankly,

it's just appalling.

Volscho: Donald trump gets peppered with questions

about Jeffrey Epstein,

and he just kind of distances himself from Epstein.

I haven't spoken to him in probably 15 years or more.

I wasn't a big fan of Jeffrey Epstein, that I can tell you.

This is a far cry

from Donald trump's statement in 2002 praising

Jeffrey Epstein as a terrific guy.

Volscho: The reality was that Jeffrey Epstein

and Donald trump were close for a number of years,

Banfield: But the heat wasn't just on Donald trump.

It was also on his newly minted secretary of labor,

Alexander Acosta.

Acosta, the architect of

that 2007 sweetheart deal in Florida.

Acosta hands in his resignation only

a few days after Epstein is arrested.

Acosta: It would be selfish for me to stay in this position

and continue talking about a case that's 12 years old

rather than about the amazing economy we have

right now.

Woman: President trump saying today

he still supports Acosta.

I'm with him.

He was a... He's a tremendous talent.

He's a Hispanic man.

He went to Harvard.

Banfield: It was a pretty flip way to refer

to the abuse of dozens of girls, right?

Calling it a case that's 12 years old and the fact that

neither of them actually

expressed any sympathy for these girls,

these kids, it just... it just seemed really unsettling.

Schoen: Jeffrey Epstein had asked me to formally

take over the case.

I said to him that I would do it,

because I wanted to help him on the case,

and he was very upbeat and excited about the strategies

that we had discussed.

He was looking forward to fighting his case.

Epstein was an arrogant man.

He felt that he was not only above the law, in every way,

he believed that he was smarter

than most other people.

He believed he could buy everything and everyone.

Woman: Will he give up the names of

the powerful men he allegedly serviced with underage girls?

One of the options that's gonna

be potentially available to him is cooperation.

Dimond: One would have to imagine that a lot

of Epstein's powerful friends were squirming at this point.

They had to wonder,

would Epstein give up their secrets to save himself?

Man: The 66-year-old multimillionaire hedge fund

manager, Jeffrey Epstein,

was found unresponsive in his cell Saturday morning.

Jeffrey Epstein's death is all over every television

network that you could imagine.

Man: One source tells CBS news Epstein hanged himself.

Schoen: I was shocked.

Suicide didn't seem likely to me.

He was planning to fight the case, clear his name.

I knew there would be a medical examination

immediately,

so I suggested that the family

send in an independent medical examiner.

I've done this before.

I suggested Michael Baden.

I think he's one of the best in the world.

My name is Cyril H. Wecht.

I am a forensic pathologist.

I have been studying the Epstein case since I was

first contacted by my colleague,

Dr. Michael Baden.

Dr. Baden has a wealth of experience,

including cases involving hangings in jails.

He attended the autopsy as

the official representative of the Epstein family.

Narrator: Six days later, the state medical examiner

releases the autopsy results.

Wecht: The chief medical examiner ruled the manner

of death as suicide.

I think that people have understandable suspicions

given the background of Jeffrey Epstein.

Narrator: Dr. Michael Baden goes public

with his own conclusion.

Well, I was asked by the brother, the next of kin,

to be at the autopsy, and at the autopsy, on day one,

there were findings that were unusual for suicidal hanging.

Narrator: Several aspects of Epstein's death are troubling to

the renowned pathologist,

beginning with what was found inside Epstein's prison cell.

If you look at the photographs,

the postmortems of his jail cell,

and you look at how many bed sheets were inside that cell,

he's given tens of bed sheets.

Dimond: He's also got a sleep apnea machine

with long electrical cords attached.

Now, remember, this is a man who

they thought had attempted suicide just weeks earlier.

Wecht: How in the world, if you have someone

on suicide watch,

would you allow those kinds of physical structures to be

present in the cell?

How do you think people hang themselves?

So this is bothersome.

Narrator: Examining Epstein's neck abrasions

during the autopsy,

Baden notices more peculiarities.

Wecht: The mark around the neck

of a person who has been strangled

or who has hanged himself is what we call a furrow.

Banfield: Usually in hangings,

the furrow mark is found up high in the neck, sort of right

under the jaw line, because if you think about it,

the noose slides up the neck

as the weight of the body is pulled down.

Wecht: It is important to see

and note, the furrow is significantly lower on

Epstein's neck,

which is quite rare in cases of a hanging.

Hoffenberg: In order for Jeffrey Epstein to die

the way he died, under the autopsy results,

he had to put the noose around his neck

himself and had to hold the noose down

to near his chest.

Narrator: Low furrow marks like Epstein's

are more commonly found in strangulation homicides.

More doubt about a suicide emerges

when Baden looks under the skin.

There are multiple... three fractures in the hyoid bone,

thyroid cartilage, that are very unusual for suicide

and more indicative of strangulation,

homicidal strangulation.

The hyoid bone is a relatively delicate, small u-shaped bone

high up in the neck, and the thyroid cartilage,

the Adam's apple, that's below, lower down.

And there were three fractures,

one of the hyoid bone up high on the left side,

and then two more fractures of the thyroid cartilage,

one on each side.

Have you ever seen anyone that committed suicide,

and was hanging themselves with those three broken bones?

No... hanging does not cause these broken bones,

and a homicide does.

You don't get hyoid bone fractures

in cases of hanging... They are rare.

Schoen: Dr. Baden eventually said to me that,

in over 20,000 autopsies,

he had never seen injuries like this consistent with a suicide

and therefore did not believe it was a suicide.

He believes this was manual strangulation homicide.

Dimond: Once Baden went public with his conclusion

that this was murder,

it was like a tsunami was unleashed.

There were conspiracy theories

and memes about it exploding all over the internet.

Banfield: And, as you can imagine,

in our political climate these days,

everyone's theory had sort of a tone of accusing one

political party or another.

Narrator: The big question is this...

Who would most benefit from Epstein's demise?

A lot of people were probably happy that he...

He's dead, because dead men tell no tales.

Jeffrey Epstein's death is raising troubling questions

about how such a high-profile suspect

could apparently take his own life while in custody.

But it's also raising some conspiracy theories.

Narrator: If it was murder, many suspect

shadowy forces in the U.S. Government.

Connolly: All of Jeffrey's troubles,

the second time around,

began when trump appoints Acosta to his cabinet,

because

the U.S. Attorney for the southern district of

new york started investigating

for that nonprosecution agreement given

to Jeffrey Epstein.

There was a peculiar aspect to

the Epstein arrest at Teterboro that was

barely reported.

He was not arrested by agents of

the fbi with the child exploitation unit.

It was agents from

the government corruption unit that handcuffed him.

So that suggested to me that there was a political angle

to this thing,

and there has been a great deal of talk about

the prominent political friends

Jeffrey Epstein had and other wealthy friends.

So was this arrest really about going after

Jeffrey's crimes?

Or was this arrest more about going after potential

corruption in government officials

who helped him weasel out of those crimes?

Sarnoff: I believe that Epstein was killed,

and I believe that if he was not,

he would have talked, and he would have

pointed fingers at everyone

he needed to point fingers,

including government officials who looked the other way.

Narrator: Others, however, wonder if some of

the elites Epstein associated with

wanted to silence him due

to information he might have on them.

Kuvin: We know that he had

numerous visitors to his homes.

There are accounts of young girls that worked within home

that saw the cameras,

that saw the recording systems, that he bragged to those girls

about the recording systems.

Dimond: Many people also wonder if Epstein's private jet,

called the Lolita express,

was used as part of a blackmail scheme.

The flight logs that we looked at proved

that Jeffrey Epstein was flying with underage girls.

Oxenberg: In 1997, Ghislaine says to me,

"the plane is wired for video and audio."

she volunteers this information.

Why does she say this to me?

One thing that I know for sure is that if

you're filming your friends, and they don't know about it,

you're not their friend.

Kuvin: If any of that surveillance got out,

it would be incredibly embarrassing.

Narrator: There are many powerful people whose secrets

might have died with Epstein,

but one notorious friendship steals the world's attention

even before Epstein's death.

Sarnoff: According to Virginia Roberts,

she was paid $15,000

to service prince Andrew,

and she services prince Andrew three times

in three different cities...

New york, London, and then united states virgin islands.

Dimond: Once the press heard about Virginia's allegations

against prince Andrew, they went nuts.

Everyone wondered, was there more incriminating

evidence about the prince ready to drop?

Williams: The speculations about Jeffrey Epstein's

friendship with prince Andrew

is increasingly condemnatory.

The royal family are held to a higher level of scrutiny.

They are expected to be greater in terms of

their behavior,

and not just hanging around with someone who's unsavory.

What on earth is he doing?

Narrator: After Epstein's death,

prince Andrew takes to the airwaves

in an effort to clear his name.

I didn't have much time with him.

I suppose I saw him once or twice a year,

perhaps maybe maximum of three times a year.

But it would be... it would be a considerable stretch to say

that he was a very, very close friend.

Williams: Prince Andrew decides that the way

to sort all of this out

is to give an interview to the newsnight program,

a BBC program, which is known for its forensic questioning

of politicians.

I mean, yes, I would go and stay in his house,

but that was because of his girlfriend.

Andrew said he didn't regret his friendship with Epstein,

because through Epstein, he'd been introduced

to so many interesting people.

The people that I met

and the opportunities that I was given to learn...

Um,

either by him or because of him,

were actually very useful.

Narrator: Prince Andrew is pressed about

the incriminating photograph

taken with then 17-year-old Virginia Roberts.

I can tell you, categorically,

I don't remember meeting her

at all, I do not remember a photograph being taken,

and I've said consistently,

and, um, and frequently

that we never had any sort of sexual contact, whatever.

Williams: Prince Andrew has his arms around her,

and Ghislaine Maxwell is in the background, and that photo

really makes it clear that Virginia Roberts did meet

prince Andrew... She did meet him.

I admit fully that... that my...

Judgment was probably colored by my,

um,

tendency to be too honorable, but that's just the way it is.

Williams: Throughout an hour of interview,

prince Andrew never expressed any sympathy for

Epstein's victims,

for these young, exploited girls who suffered

so much.

That terrible interview was just excoriated by the press,

especially the U.K. Press.

Goldman: People say he's not the brightest,

and certainly, if you saw that interview,

you know he's not the brightest, okay,

that he's arrogant and entitled.

Williams: Prince Andrew has to step back from royal duties,

and it's the right thing for the royal family to do.

How on earth could this man,

who had been out socializing with a convicted pedophile,

then go and represent the country?

After Epstein's death at the MCC,

it has been reported that the fbi approached the prince.

They wanted to interview him,

and he publicly agreed to cooperate.

Narrator: However, to date, the prince has not interviewed

with the fbi.

Those who believe it was murder also point

to compelling clues found among

the financier's possessions.

After his arrest, the fbi raided

his home in Manhattan on 71st street.

They find troves of pictures of underage girls

and nude pictures,

and possibly pictures with prominent people on them,

potential blackmail information that he had

probably collected from his surveillance cameras.

They cracked open the safe, and the safe contained cash,

I believe $70,000, diamonds, single diamonds.

Narrator: To some, another item found

in Epstein's safe seems to

support the theory that he was connected to

international intelligence.

Volscho: Inside the safe,

they also find a passport with his picture.

Sarnoff: It was issued by Austria

with the address of a crown prince of Saudi Arabia,

which is...

Incredibly odd.

Banfield: It's well known that spies use foreign passports.

So the question became, is it possible that Jeffrey Epstein

was co-opted by

a foreign entity to spy on the rich and powerful

and use a sex ring

to get some pretty compromising

information called, in the business, kompromat?

We also know that, because of his connections

through Ghislaine Maxwell,

that he possibly had high-level security information

on behalf of governments throughout the world,

and there could potentially be people that didn't want him

talking about those connections and things that he knew.

This is someone that a lot of people didn't want talking.

Narrator: Although many believe the secret agent theory explains

both Epstein's wealth and suspicious death,

others find that idea absurd.

But I do know that he certainly

was capable of blackmailing people.

I don't think he was involved in any intelligence operations.

Nonsense. Nonsense.

Narrator: While there's no definitive proof Epstein

had blackmail information on government officials

or the super powerful,

or that he was a spy, one question still remains.

Sarnoff: If somebody killed him, how did they have access

to his cell?

How did they organize?

This was an organized killing.

Narrator: Amidst a sea of theories surrounding powerful

figures who might have ordered Epstein's murder,

the question is, who could have done it

inside prison walls?

Schoen: But I think, if my theory is right,

it would have to be another inmate.

Jeffrey told me that he was

very concerned about being incarcerated there.

People were constantly commenting about him.

Someone who is charged with the kinds

of crimes that Jeffrey Epstein was charged with,

fooling around with 14-, 15-, 16-year-old girls,

is going to be persona non grata.

Even to the most vile of other prisoners,

this is gonna be repulsive.

Schoen: The question is how did someone get in and get out?

Well, I've learned a great deal about what inmates,

through their ingenuity, do and not do.

People are very, very inventive in

these situations.

Narrator: Some close to Epstein quickly

point the finger at a possible suspect.

Remember that first time that Jeffrey Epstein was suspected

of attempting suicide and put on a suicide watch?

At that time, he had a cellmate,

a muscle-bound suspected murderer

named Nicholas Tartaglione.

Wecht: Tartaglione was a former cop,

240, 50 pounds, muscular, um, burly guy.

He was charged with four murders

and is looking at a death sentence.

Epstein reportedly told his lawyers, who came to visit him

almost every single day, that he was scared of Tartaglione.

He said that Tartaglione was

on a mission to, quote, "rough him up."

Mersey: Jeffrey had some abrasions on his neck

after the first incident,

which nobody really ever figured out,

was it a suicide attempt,

or was it his bunkie attacking him?

I asked him, I said, what... I said,

"what happened, Jeffrey, that night?"

and he said, "I don't know.

"I got up in the middle of the night to get

"a drink of water.

I don't remember anything after that."

according to Tartaglione's attorney,

when Epstein tried to commit suicide the first time,

that Tartaglione was the one who alerted

all the guards and tried to save him.

Narrator: And the strongest proof exonerating Tartaglione

for Epstein's murder lies in his alibi.

Tartaglione had been transferred out of

Epstein's cell

after that first suicide attempt and before his death.

And so the likelihood that somehow this big,

hulking guy could have made his way back

to Jeffrey's Epstein cell,

killed Epstein, and then slinked off into the, you know,

jail nighttime...

It just doesn't sound reasonable.

Narrator: Epstein's inmate suicide watch counselor,

bill Mersey,

is one of the last people to have spoken with Epstein.

Mersey: I probably spent five or six four-hour shifts in

the presence of Jeffrey Epstein with me watching him.

He didn't talk about prince Andrew or anybody else.

He didn't really volunteer information.

For a suicide inmate, he was pretty well adjusted.

He wasn't a prima Donna or a diva.

He didn't complain.

The only complaint I ever heard from him

was they gave him the wrong laxative.

He didn't strike me as depressed,

but he was really apprehensive about prison life.

He was scared.

In the middle of conversations,

his eyes would drift off, like...

"oh my god, I'm in prison, am I ever gonna get out of here?"

prison... it's not a fun place.

You're in your cell 23 hours a day.

You shower three times a week, and there's mice

and there's water bugs,

and it's real noisy, and it's cold.

It's a long way down from

a $77 million mansion on the upper east side.

There's no way that somebody got in there and killed him.

You know how many people you'd have to

pay off to get in there and kill him?

It's just... no way.

That said, some of the people that Jeffrey Epstein could have

ruined with his secrets... They had plenty of money

to pay anybody off.

Narrator: One striking piece of anecdotal evidence that

supports the theory of suicide

can be found in the records of Epstein's

vast wealth.

Volscho: Epstein, 48 hours prior to him killing himself,

if that's what happened, refiles and changes his will

to be collapsed into a trust in the virgin islands.

People in the virgin islands that are older,

their lawyers advise them,

"don't file your estate or your will or your probate in

"the virgin islands... File it in the mainland,

"because it'll take 9, 10 years before people

in your will see any of the benefits of that."

so this will make it very difficult for victims

to get any type of restitution from his estate.

Banfield: Tying up all his money in international red tape,

that very well might have been a final "f you"

to his victims if,

in fact, he was planning to kill himself.

Mersey: For all the conspiracy theorists out there

about Jeffrey Epstein's suicide versus murder,

this is what I say... You're the same guys

who think that the moon landing was a fake.

Don't be ridiculous.

Get over it. He killed himself.

You're tripping.

There's no question about it in my mind.

Case closed for me.

Dimond: As far as how Epstein died,

people either firmly believe he committed suicide,

or they strongly believe he was murdered.

But there could be a third possibility.

What if Epstein did, in fact,

hang himself, and he had help doing it?

Investigators and lawyers have more questions than

answers about what happened

inside that new york jail at dawn Saturday.

I think it was a homicide, but, um,

I don't know who killed him.

This simplest answer to me always rings true,

and the simplest answer is he killed himself,

uh, because he didn't want his secrets revealed.

I think he was ready to sing,

and perhaps that's why he was murdered.

The attorney general of the united states decides to

weigh in on this case,

William Barr, and he says that this was no murder.

He says this was just a perfect storm

of screwups within the prison system.

Barr: I was appalled,

and indeed the whole department was,

and frankly, angry,

to learn

of the MCC's failure to adequately secure this prisoner.

But come on, Epstein was

the most high-profile prisoner in the entire

system at the time.

What if these failures that Barr talked about weren't failures

but rather deliberate acts of incompetence

that allowed Epstein to take his own life.

I do know that they put him on suicide watch,

and then, inexplicably, they took him off.

Why? Why would you do that?

Sarnoff: They released him within a week.

That's absurd. Unheard of. Absurd.

Connolly: He should have been on suicide watch,

but somebody wanted him off

who had to choose to make that happen.

He is now by himself... The very next day,

we have Epstein found dead.

Epstein had extension cords in this cell block.

He had sheets at his disposal.

Wecht: And guess what? The two guards who were assigned

to watch him on a 24-hour basis were so tired

from being overworked that they fell asleep.

It would be astronomical odds that you would have all of

those things occur at that particular time

in that fashion,

especially in this kind of a federal prison.

It seems like almost it was an invitation.

Kuvin: Like they were saying, "please kill yourself.

Here's all the stuff you need to do it."

bloom: Jeffrey Epstein was by far the most

famous person in that jail at that time.

Everybody was interested in what he was doing every minute

of the day, everything he ate,

everybody who came to visit him,

and I just... I'm very skeptical.

Maybe someone very powerful knew that Epstein

was on the edge

and then decided to just turn up the heat.

Narrator: Even more shocking to some,

the only individuals charged with crimes to date are those

at the bottom of the jail's hierarchy...

Prison guards Michael Thomas and Tova Noel.

I'm Montell Figgins,

the defense attorney for Michael Thomas.

Michael Thomas and miss noel

were on duty at the time

that Jeffrey Epstein was found to have died.

After the death of Mr. Epstein, there was a huge investigation

into how he died and what role the guards

may have played in that.

Mr. Thomas as well as his co-defendant,

miss noel, they were indicted for making false statements in

the logs regarding the checks

and the rounds that they were supposed to do.

But the system itself is what failed

and allowed this to happen.

The bureau of prisons didn't have enough people working,

so the administrative officials were allowing many

individuals to work multiple shifts in a row.

Now Mr. Thomas faces up to five years in jail.

This is very rare that a guard

would be charged with a criminal offense

in this situation... It's my position that

the guards in this case are being scapegoated.

Goldman: I am outraged that the only two people

who may go to jail in the entire Epstein affair

are two African-American prison guards

that were at MCC the night that

Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.

Maybe they should be suspended.

Maybe they should be fired, but that they should go

to jail... no, no, no, that's just not okay.

The question remains why everyone in upper-level staff

is able to keep their jobs,

keep their pensions,

not face any jail time.

We will get to the bottom of what happened,

and there will be accountability.

Banfield: But even attorney general Barr has

a bizarre connection to this case.

Remember, his father was the headmaster of

the Dalton school, that elite school in Manhattan

where Jeffrey Epstein, you know,

got a job as a teacher,

and it just seems like everybody who was investigating

Jeffrey Epstein had some weird,

twisted connection to him,

which begs the question,

is this case ever gonna actually be solved?

Narrator: Another question is whether the financier's alleged

co-conspirators will ever face justice.

Connolly: Maxwell... She's in hiding somewhere.

Nobody knows where she is.

A lot of people would like to know where she is.

Oxenberg: In 1997, or maybe it was '98,

Ghislaine told me, very proudly, that

she'd got her helicopter license.

And I said to her, "why on earth

"would you want such a thing? So dangerous.

Why would you do that? Why would you want that?"

and she said, "for secrecy."

Hoffenberg: She's a fugitive now.

Ghislaine Maxwell is a fugitive.

Farmer: I would love to see justice in the form of

every co-conspirator needs to be

behind bars.

They belong there. They're criminals.

Narrator: Now that Jeffrey Epstein is dead

and the investigation shrouded in mystery and doubt,

many wonder what will become of the decade's most

controversial saga.

Sarnoff: The Epstein case goes from

palm beach to new york

to the white house to Buckingham palace,

where you have politicians,

business leaders, opinion makers,

very powerful people implicated in one way

or another... it's so expansive.

It is a global case.

It crosses the political barrier,

and it is the longest-running child sex trafficking case

in U.S. Legal history to date.

What's important about this story is the lawyers

and the prosecutors and the U.S. Attorney

who let him off the hook.

You can't have this in a society,

and Acosta and Krischer...

They should be held responsible for what they did.

Sarnoff: What this case has, I think,

shown is that we live in

a society with two systems of justice,

one for the rich and one for the poor.

And Epstein knew this all along.

Jeffrey knew that.

All these people, from federal prosecutors to politicians

to prison officials, say there will be accountability.

Really? I don't see any indictments.

No accountability at all.

To me, it's just been a travesty.

Do I feel his death was an appropriate punishment?

Absolutely not. It gives nobody justice,

and it leaves a lot of unanswered questions.

Bloom: The scale of what he did is almost

too much for the human mind to take in.

We are talking about, at a minimum, hundreds of

victims, potentially thousands, I believe

it was probably thousands of victims,

because I believe those who came forward are just

the tip of the iceberg, most of them are never going to want to

come forward.

And the victims are getting zero right now.

No more payments being issued.

Not any money.

And I think everybody wants to

see justice for the victims here.

If I could wave a magic wand,

all of his estate would go to his victims.

I'd say it's pretty empowering.

It's also...

Pretty upsetting to see how many lives

he's devastated and to see

how long this went on for, and nobody did anything about it.

And why did no one do anything about it?

Well, if you think about it,

Epstein and Maxwell both maintained that there were

recording devices in the mansions and the properties

and the fancy jet,

and there were a lot of really important,

powerful people that trafficked through those areas.

So wisdom might have it that there's some

pretty compromising video and sound somewhere out there.

Dimond: I can only hope that someday it leaks out,

and the guilty parties get what's coming to them.

Farmer: I felt I was held to silence

for so long and suffocated by silence.

I gave up everything, and I mean everything,

because I gave up my health, too.

Now, I'm very, very sick with a brain tumor,

so I'm drawing this project.

This tree is the tree of rotten apples.

These are the evil roots of the apple tree...

Alex Acosta, Alan Dershowitz,

les Wexner.

I put Jeffrey Epstein up in this ufo,

because he's free and easy, flying around.

So Maxwell, you know, her pearls and fetching children.

It's really creepy.

All I wanted was for people to know the truth,

and I'm not going to be quiet about it.

I'm not going to be quiet.

I'm doing the series, drawing all the women,

all their portraits,

honoring them, because they're victims,

but they're also survivors.

I'm giving them each a drawing

so that they know that they matter.

We're binding together, and there's strength

in numbers, let me tell you something.

They aren't gonna get away with it anymore.

2020 is the year that the predators become the prey.

It would be a wonderful thing, wouldn't it?