All language subtitles for Who.Killed.Jeffrey.Epstein.S01E03

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?