Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (2020) s01e04 Episode Script
Finding Their Voice
[LAWYER 1] We're back on the
video record at 12:02 p.m.
[BRAD EDWARDS] Let's talk about
Jane Doe 102, Virginia Roberts.
Do you know Virginia Roberts?
- So she's Say again, who?
- [EDWARDS] Virginia Roberts.
Can you spell it?
[EDWARDS] Common spelling,
Virginia, like the state.
- Can you spell it for me, please?
- [EDWARDS] Roberts.
How is it What's the
last name? How is it spelled?
[EDWARDS] R-O-B-E-R-T-S, I believe.
Isn't it true that you
and Ghislaine Maxwell
celebrated her 16th birthday with
her and had sex with her on that day?
[LAWYER 2] Form, compound,
confusing, argumentative and harassing.
I'd like to answer that question.
But today I'm gonna have to
assert my Sixth Amendment rights,
my Fifth Amendment rights.
[EDWARDS] Is it true that
you forced Virginia Roberts
to have sex with
numerous friends of yours?
Are you kidding?
[GIUFFRE] The first time
I decided to go public,
it was because I gave birth
to this beautiful baby girl.
It kind of made me realize
what I had been through
was still happening to
other people out there.
It wasn't just me.
And I looked at my husband,
and I said, "Robbie,
we can't just sit by
and be silent anymore.
We've got to do something about it."
I was sexually abused by Prince Andrew.
Someone had to put their
hand up and say, like,
"He can't just get away with this."
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[GIUFFRE] I first met Prince Andrew
March 10th, 2001,
in London at Ghislaine's townhouse.
He knocked on the door, he came
inside Ghislaine's townhouse,
and we're sitting there having tea.
Ghislaine has this favorite
guessing game that she does.
She goes to Prince Andrew, "How
old do you think Virginia is?"
And he said, "Seventeen."
And she's like, "Oh, you're right!"
And, you know, they, like,
made a little joke about it.
He's like, "My daughters
aren't far from your age.
My daughters are a bit younger than you.
We went out for the night.
Club Tramp in London.
[ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING]
And he dances, and he's
profusely sweating over me,
and it was disgusting.
We get back to the
townhouse, and we go upstairs.
I have this little yellow Kodak camera,
and, um I ask Jeffrey to take a photo
of me and Prince Andrew together.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[GIUFFRE] And Ghislaine's literally
just, like, right behind me.
Ghislaine tells me
"You're going to have to do for
him what you do for Jeffrey."
[VOICE BREAKING] And it hit me.
And right after that photo was taken,
I was sexually abused by Prince
Andrew for the first time.
[REPORTER] A former prostitute
claims she was just 17
when she allegedly had sexual
relations with Prince Andrew.
[GIUFFRE] I've been
called a serial prostitute,
a bad mom, a serial liar,
a drug addict, every name under the sun.
The whole Prince Andrew
thing, it was just
kaboom.
And it went from being a harrowing
story about trafficking and abuse
to completely Prince Andrew.
I wasn't Prince Andrew's prostitute,
because I was trafficked
to him, and I was a kid.
[SIGRID MCCAWLEY] My
client Virginia Giuffre
was trafficked by
Epstein almost 30 times
when she was under the age of 18,
both nationally and internationally.
Virginia came forward
publicly in a filing
in the Crime Victims' Rights Act case.
In that filing, she made public
some of the individuals
who had abused her
when she was being
trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.
One of those individuals
was Alan Dershowitz.
[ALAN DERSHOWITZ] I assure you, I
never had sex with Virginia Roberts.
Let me state categorically.
I never had sex with an
underage person in my life.
Even when I was an underage boy, I
never had sex with an underage girl.
I never had sex with anyone
related to Jeffrey Epstein.
I challenge Virginia Roberts
to come on your show,
look in the camera, and
say the following words:
"I accuse Alan Dershowitz
of having had sex with me
on six or seven occasions."
She has never been willing
to accuse me in public.
So please accuse me on
this show, I challenge you.
[GIUFFRE] I was with Alan
Dershowitz multiple times.
At least six that I can remember.
Well, I was trafficked to Alan
Dershowitz from Epstein. Epstein
made me, essentially,
forced me to . to have sex with him.
Every time I was trafficked was
at Epstein or Ghislaine's behest.
He's denied being with me. Is
one of us telling the truth? Yes.
Is that person me? Yes.
[SARAH RANSOME] I came forward in 2016
when the US election started to happen.
This was completely unplanned.
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- Thank you, everybody.
[RANSOME] Donald Trump and Hillary
Clinton are both up for election,
and both candidates for US president
had affiliations with Jeffrey Epstein.
So I went to almost
every single news channel,
British media, American media.
I tried to tell them
I told them who Jeffrey
Epstein was, what he did.
I told them who Ghislaine was.
No one would listen. No one
would hear my voice in 2016.
[MESSAGE CHIMES]
[FEMALE REPORTER 1] This is a
moment in time unlike any other.
With the Me Too movement,
women are feeling the ability
to tell what happened to them,
some of the worst moments they've
lived, and tell it publicly,
and that is powerful, and
it is affecting everything,
and people are looking for justice.
[COURTNEY WILD] I remember watching
the TV about the Me Too movement,
and thinking, "Okay, like, we're next."
We don't need to feel ashamed
for having survived these things.
Actually talking about them,
you know, bringing them into the light
and finding support from each other
is a huge way towards healing.
[CHAUNTAE DAVIES] There's
definitely strength in numbers,
and I feel like women
feel more comfortable
to come forward when they
know they're not alone.
I think we have an unspoken bond
that many people won't ever understand.
Times have changed in a year,
such that these accusations will
be listened to in a different way.
It's an explosive investigative series
by the Miami Herald reporter
Julie K. Brown, connecting the dots
between President Trump's labor
secretary, Alexander Acosta,
and what the Miami Herald
calls "the deal of a lifetime"
that was given to accused
pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Senate committee on health,
education, labor and pensions
will please come to order.
This morning, we're holding
a confirmation hearing
on the nomination of Alexander Acosta
to serve as United
States Secretary of Labor.
[MAN] I did not hear
anything about Epstein
until President Trump nominated
Acosta to be Labor Secretary.
And so, as I was digging
into Acosta's background,
I came upon information
about the Epstein case.
I was shocked.
I'd like to ask you about this.
"Federal prosecutors
detail their findings
in an 82-page prosecution
memo and a 53-page indictment,
but Epstein was never indicted."
And then there's a quote.
Quote, "This agreement,"
the agreement you described,
"will not be made part
of any public record,"
the deal between
Epstein and Acosta says.
At the end of the day,
based on the evidence
um professionals within
a prosecutor's office decide
that a plea
that guarantees that
someone goes to jail
and that guarantees other
outcomes is a good thing, and so
[TIM KAINE] Was that a consensus
decision in your office?
It was a broadly held decision.
[KAINE] It was a secret
deal, as we now know.
I thought the outrageous
nature of the allegations
might lead to a vote against him.
I, Alexander Acosta,
do solemnly swear
I want to thank President
Trump, Vice President Pence,
and the members of the Senate
for the privilege of serving
as Secretary of Labor.
[CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING]
Karen and Chris, you've got to
come take a look at this order.
[KAREN] What happened?
Judge Marra has issued his
summary judgment ruling.
What Judge Marra has ruled
is that the federal government
entered into a conspiracy
with Jeffrey Epstein
to violate the Crime
Victims' Rights Act.
- This is just fantastic.
- [KAREN] Wow.
- That is great.
- [LAUGHING]
- Congratulations. Well deserved.
- All right.
- All right.
- It's a good day.
[JACK SCAROLA] There is
now in place a federal order
that the federal government,
under Alexander Acosta's direction,
not only failed to inform
victims, but actively misled them.
That means that there may be a new
hearing in front of a federal judge
where these victims have a right
to express their
opposition to this deal.
And a judge could
decide it was a contract
that was illegal from the outset.
Epstein has no immunity.
The federal government has
the right to prosecute you
and the right to prosecute
your co-conspirators.
[EDWARDS] There was this elation
on behalf of the victims that,
"Hey, look, we won.
We went up against the government
and Jeffrey Epstein, and we won.
We proved that you conspired
against us, the victims."
[WILD] When I heard Judge
Marra did rule in our favor,
I just felt very accomplished.
Uh We'd been fighting
for this for a long time.
Just to have it in words, "Your
rights were violated, period."
It was like, "Okay. Now
something's happening."
[EDWARDS] It became clear
that many of the crimes Jeffrey
Epstein had committed in Florida
originated in New York,
and that he likely had committed
these crimes in New York.
At this stage, the New York
investigation was underway.
[REPORTER 1] A federal
investigation shining some new light
on a controversial plea
deal for a wealthy investor
accused of molesting
dozens of underage girls.
[REPORTER 2] This
decision to investigate
reflects the Me Too movement potentially
touching on the Trump administration
and many other powerful people,
and most important, of
course, it impacts the women
who took the risk to come forward.
[EDWARDS] Now New York's
finally showing an interest,
my clients were all on board and
had been all on board for ten years.
[MICHAEL REITER] I had heard
that there was an investigation
by the FBI in New York and
the US Attorney in New York.
Even though it felt as though
the victims were completely abandoned
by the entire criminal justice system,
I never gave up over the years,
hoping that some measure of justice
would eventually come to the victims.
[MIKE FISTEN] I had
a pretty good inkling
that something was going to happen
because the FBI,
along with the detectives from
NYPD, were down here in Palm Beach,
interviewing numerous people
over the last three months.
[SHAWNA RIVERA] I was
contacted by the FBI.
They told me that they had this
investigation going on in New York,
and they wanted to get, you know,
as much information as they could.
I told them that they needed
to look out for their victims.
I told them that
if they were going to do this
thing, they needed to really do it.
[DAVIES] I was so angry that
I just wanted to
you know, make him pay.
So at that point, I reached out,
which led to a five-hour
meeting with the FBI,
and they flew out to LA to
meet with me, and that was
super intense,
but it finally felt like
we were getting somewhere.
[MARIA FARMER] I had interviewed
with some authorities.
So we knew they were closing in.
We were really excited.
I never, ever thought that
he would be held accountable.
[POLICE SIRENS WAILING]
[REPORTER 1] Big
breaking news overnight.
Jeffrey Epstein arrested
at a New York area airport.
[REPORTER 2] Jeffrey
Epstein was arrested
at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport
after returning on a flight from France.
[REPORTER 3] The 66-year-old
hedge fund manager was arrested
on federal charges
related to sex trafficking.
He has a bond hearing scheduled
for Monday in New York.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CRESCENDOES]
[MICHELLE LICATA] When I found out
that he was arrested, I was like,
"Oh, my God! Like, finally
he's going to pay for
everything that he has done.
I'm going to New York.
Even though I didn't want to see him,
I'm going to see him now
that he is in shackles.
You know, he is in,
like, an orange jumpsuit.
He is being treated like every
criminal would be treated.
This has got to be it. This
is when it's going to happen.
They're gonna start
digging into his life
and start pulling out this spider web
of people that were related to it.
Oh, he's going to jail.
This is it."
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
[REPORTER 4] Federal prosecutors
allege that between 2002 and 2005,
Epstein paid underage
girls as young as 14
to have sex with him at his townhouse.
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
He's a villain, that's it, and
we're here to get rid of him.
[REPORTERS CHATTERING LOUDLY]
[MAN] Shh.
[CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING]
Good morning.
I'm Geoff Berman, United States Attorney
for the Southern District of New York.
Today we announce the unsealing
of sex trafficking charges
against Jeffrey Epstein.
[GIUFFRE] I remember
my lawyer calling me
and saying, "You won't believe this.
Do you have anywhere to sit down?"
And while the charge conduct
is from a number of years ago,
it is still profoundly important
to the many alleged victims,
now young women.
They deserve their day in court.
I looked at my phone
and then I looked at my phone again.
And then I looked at my
phone, and then I was like
"No."
I mean, there was a flood of
emotions. I was confused. I was happy.
Tears of joy were
streaming down my face.
[GEOFF BERMAN] Epstein is
charged in a two-count indictment.
First, conspiracy to
commit sex trafficking,
and second, the substantive crime
of sex trafficking of underage girls.
It somewhat restored my faith
in the criminal justice system
that was lost by the way the prosecutors
in Florida treated the victims
and treated the case
back in 2006 and 2007.
The charges are very serious,
and they carry with them a maximum
sentence of 45 years in jail,
which to someone of Epstein's
age is basically a life sentence.
[DAVIES] I just could not believe it.
This all kind of just
exploded all of a sudden,
but at the same time,
I also still knew and
believed his power and
uh ability to get
himself out of things.
I was still kind of
wondering how it was going to go,
and whether or not they
were going to really be able
to build a case and to prosecute him.
[POLICE SIRENS WAILING]
[WOMAN] What's the
sitch? You know what's up?
- [MAN] This is Jeffrey Epstein's
- [WOMAN] Oh, shut up!
[MAN] Somebody must have tipped
them off to something else.
[REPORTER] New raid video
showing federal agents
as they bust open the door
of his seven-story,
77-million-dollar home
on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Inside, investigators found hundreds,
if not thousands, of
female nude photographs.
[HALEY ROBSON] I think
that he would have been
a little bit more careful,
and I don't think that there's
just one set of photos.
It makes me wonder if
there's photos of myself.
What do you do with those photos?
Do you show your friends?
Do you use them to get off?
All those thoughts crossed my mind.
Knowing that he had, in fact,
kept tokens like this
from women that he had
um you know, abused over the years,
that really got to me.
[EDWARDS] Jeffrey Epstein had no
clue that this case was coming down,
that there was any investigation
whatsoever into him in New York,
or he never would've
come back in the country.
[SHANNON CAKE] It was interesting.
Not long after he's arrested,
everyone who had a relationship
with Jeffrey Epstein, suddenly
no one really knew him.
Suddenly,
"Oh, well, we really weren't friends.
I knew him in an ancillary way."
[MALE REPORTER] Presidents Trump
and Clinton have quickly moved
to put some distance between
themselves and Epstein.
I had a falling out
with him a long time ago.
I don't think I've spoken to
him for 15 years. I wasn't a fan.
[FEMALE REPORTER 1] "He's not spoken
to Epstein in well over a decade
and has never been to
Little St. James Island,
Epstein's ranch in New Mexico,
or his residence in Florida."
[FEMALE REPORTER 2] Flight
logs obtained indicate
that former President Bill Clinton
was on Epstein's private
jet at least 26 times
between 2001 and 2003.
[STEVE SCULLY] Bill Clinton
has been on that island.
I saw Bill Clinton sitting with
Jeffrey on the living room porch.
[GIUFFRE] I remember having
a dinner with Clinton.
He was there, and I never
saw him do anything improper.
I wish, you know, he would
just come clean about, like,
"Yeah, I was there. So what?
Who cares? I didn't
see anything going on."
[CAKE] For years, there had been a
known affiliation and a friendship
between Jeffrey Epstein
and Prince Andrew.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[CAKE] And then, of course,
there were the allegations
from Virginia Giuffre.
And these stories had
dogged him for years.
So he decides, "I'll
confront them head-on."
So he sits down with the BBC.
Because 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.
So I'm sitting outside, and
I'm having my cup of coffee,
and I'm watching it on my tablet.
I mean, I wanted to throw
my tablet in the pool.
[STAMMERING] I've no
recollection of ever meeting her.
[GIUFFRE] As a victim, I think
one thing that we ask for is
some acknowledgment and some remorse.
This guy didn't have any remorse at all.
His arrogance about it, I mean
The whole "I don't sweat" thing
[STAMMERING] I have a
peculiar medical condition,
which is that I don't sweat
Um Or I didn't sweat at the time.
This guy was, like, profusely
sweating all over me, and
"I don't remember her.
I've never been upstairs
at Ghislaine's townhouse." How
did you know that's upstairs?
She provided a photo
- of the two of you together.
- Yes.
[EMILY MAITLIS] Your
arm was around her waist.
- [PRINCE ANDREW] Yes.
- You've seen the photo?
- I've seen the photograph.
- [MAITLIS] How do you explain that?
I can't.
'Cause I don't I have no
Again, I have absolutely no memory
of that photograph ever being taken.
[GIUFFRE] I didn't expect him to put
his hand up and say, "I'm guilty."
I didn't.
But some form of remorse or
acknowledgment would have been
Would have been better.
I think it's been universally agreed.
It was one of the worst mea
culpas ever known to man.
I mean, if people didn't
think he was guilty before,
after his interview,
I think people thought
that something had happened.
So I think that kind
of backfired on him.
[SCULLY] After Jeffrey
Epstein was arrested,
all of a sudden, the FBI now, and
this task force, they interviewed me.
They had me look at,
uh a large series
It must have been 60
or 70 photos of people.
Then they showed me
one of Virginia Roberts,
but it was a current photo,
and I couldn't identify her.
But I was told to check
a photo that had emerged out of
all of this investigative work,
and that photo is a
photo of Prince Andrew
with a young blonde girl.
And as soon as I saw her
That was the girl that
he was kind of, like,
grinding against at the pool.
She was, at that time,
wearing a bikini bottom.
That's it.
But I absolutely can tell you that
the photo of her, in the picture,
which is her when she is, I think, 17
that was Virginia Roberts.
Epstein should have been
behind bars years ago.
But, unfortunately,
Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta
cut Epstein a sweetheart deal,
while Acosta was a US
attorney in Florida in 2008.
I am calling on Secretary
Acosta to resign.
[CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING FURIOUSLY]
[ALEXANDER ACOSTA] Let
me start by reiterating
that I'm pleased that the New
York prosecution is going forward.
They've brought these charges
based on new evidence
against Jeffrey Epstein,
who is now a registered sex offender.
And this is a very, very good thing.
It's quite unbelievable that Mr. Acosta
could get up there with a straight face
and talk about how uh he's happy
that new charges are brought by
the Southern District of New York,
which means, essentially, Mr. Acosta
is admitting that it's wonderful
that another district office
was doing a better
investigation than his office did
and found more victims than he did.
[ACOSTA] I called the
President this morning.
I told him that I thought the
right thing was to step aside.
I do not think it is right and fair
for this administration's
Labor Department
to have Epstein as a focus.
Th This is just totally
a bunch of bullshit.
It would be selfish for me
to stay in this position.
[FISTEN] He knows that we know now that
this case was never an
ultimatum to Jeffrey Epstein.
That this was an indictment
that the federal
government had against him
that they decided not
to go forward with.
Now, I know why he resigned today.
Because he knew, within 24 hours,
the real people that knew the truth
were going to come forward and say
that, "Mr. Acosta, you're full of
shit. That's not what happened."
Excuse my French.
[MENACING MUSIC]
[REPORTER] A Manhattan
judge is expected to decide
whether Jeffrey Epstein
should be released on bail
ahead of his federal trial.
Epstein pleaded not guilty.
His attorneys say he's ready to
post up to 100 million dollars bail.
And you have victims who
say that they are frightened
if he is out.
[CHATTERING]
[WILD] I was able to fly to New York
to be present at the court hearings.
I definitely thought he
would get out on bond,
just because of how much money he has.
And it was just like, that's
exactly what happened the first time.
[ANNIE FARMER] I didn't even
know if I could get into the court
because I wasn't sure
how it worked, um
But I just wanted there
to be somebody there
to represent the survivors.
What do you think is the safest route?
David, I think we
should take it that way.
That way. Yeah, more quiet.
- Ready?
- Let's go.
- [EDWARDS] We're gonna try to get in.
- [MCCAWLEY] Let's go. It'll be more quiet.
They're very courageous
and they want to encourage
others to come forward.
That's why they're here.
[WILD] That day was crazy.
Media attention, and it was something
that I never dealt with before.
[MAN] Brad, this way.
[WILD] It was just a lot
to take in all in one day.
I was terrified. I had never
experienced something like that. I was
I was actually, like, holding
Courtney's hand because I was like
"Uh I need to feel some kind
of, like, comfort right now."
[WILD] Me and Michelle definitely
It was like soul sisters.
"We were victims of Jeffrey
Epstein, and here we are.
There's no more hiding. You
know, it's no more Jane Doe.
Like, I'm Courtney Wild, and I was
sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein."
Michelle said the same thing,
and it was just overwhelming.
But there's power in
more than one person.
[LICATA] I want him to to look at me,
and I wanted to be like,
"Do you remember me?
Do you remember my face? Do
you remember anything about me?
Of course you don't remember me,
because there was hundreds like me.
You don't remember me, but, uh!
I'll remember you for
the rest of my life.
That's something that
I have to remember.
So I want you to take a good
look at my face right now,
and I want you to remember
the people that are
going to put you in prison
for the rest of your life."
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[REPORTERS CLAMORING]
[MAN] Brad, we've gotta go soon.
[LICATA] You know, my
heart's starting to race,
like, "Oh, my God, this is This is
the moment, like, I have kind of dreaded
ten years, 15 years?"
I'm going to see him, and
I haven't seen him since he was
laying out on a table,
masturbating and going
to town on himself.
And, you know,
like, that's the last time I've
actually seen him in person.
[REPORTERS CLAMORING]
Stay back, stay back, stay back!
Go back. No. Stay up on the steps.
[LICATA] I was sitting
in the courtroom, and
I was just I was so upset.
I was I was crying.
It was super overwhelming, um
He had, like, a bald spot
on the back of his head.
He was in, like, the
jumpsuit. I was like
"This is just This is unbelievable."
[WILD] I got to look at him in
the face in the courtroom and say,
I was sexually abused by
him, by Jeffrey when I was 14,
and to please not give him
bond and stuff like that.
And even though it was
such a short period of time,
it was just a short
statement I got to say,
you know, he still had to look
at me and hear me say that.
[EDWARDS] His attorneys were offering
hundreds of millions of dollars
for bond money, which should
ensure that he's going to return.
[MCCAWLEY] It started at 500 million.
They were making offers to the court
in order to try to convince
the judge to let him out.
He'll give all of his wealth,
whatever it takes to get him out.
[EDWARDS] But then the prosecutors
presented additional evidence.
When they broke into the home,
and they found child
pornography in his safe,
they also found a
number of other things,
diamonds, passports that were false.
[EDWARDS] The diamonds, passport
It looks like an escape plan.
He's had an escape plan forever.
[WOMAN] Ha!
- Good shit.
- [CAMERAMAN] What happened?
He's not getting out,
and this means he'll probably
spend the rest of his life in jail.
[MCCAWLEY] We're thrilled today
with the ruling by Judge Berman.
Only by taking away the
freedom of Jeffrey Epstein
can we restore the
freedom of these victims.
No bail for Jeffrey Epstein, the
judge agreeing with the government
that Epstein presents a
danger to the community
and also an extreme risk of flight.
[MUSGRAVE] He also talked a lot
about the community can't be safe.
He was a danger to the community.
And he was very, uh moved by
the statements by the two victims.
[TIM MALLOY] This is a guy
who manipulated, threatened,
uh bought his way
in and out of trouble.
And now, for the first time in
a jail cell in Lower Manhattan,
it looks like there was
no way to buy his way out.
[ROBSON] With everything
coming out again
and having to go through and relive it,
I'm scared. Scared to be
dragged through the media again.
It's just been a roller coaster.
I've been up and down every day.
I have been sick to my
stomach. Um I've cried a lot.
I mean, I think we can
all assume with his
reach, and his planes, and his wealth,
he could very well
walk out the front door
and we could never see him again.
And I'm hoping that after this time,
um, that it's the final time, and
that he actually does not get out.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC GROWS]
[ANNIE FARMER] I was laying on the sofa
and kind of drifting in an out of sleep,
and, um my husband
came and sat next to me,
and he woke me up, like, you know,
in a way that I knew
something was wrong.
And he said, "I have some hard news."
[MALE REPORTER 1] The disgraced
financier Jeffrey Epstein is dead.
Epstein took his own life while
behind bars here in New York City,
while facing charges of sex trafficking.
"Committed suicide? What?
How is that possible?"
[MALE REPORTER 1] What we know
is at some point this morning,
the Bureau of Prisons
and prison officials
found Jeffrey Epstein in his cell.
Apparently, he had hanged himself.
[MARIA FARMER] I was kind of in shock.
It didn't hit me for
maybe a couple hours,
and then I got really, really angry
that I couldn't face him and tell
him what he'd done to me and my life.
[MALE REPORTER 2] His body
in that van you see there
seen heading for the
Medical Examiner's office.
It is a stunning turn
of events for a man
who lived a life of exceptional wealth
with extremely powerful
people in his orbit.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
[MALLOY] It is inconceivable
that in a prison,
a federal prison that housed
terrorists and El Chapo,
that had cameras, that
had guards everywhere,
that something could go wrong
and harm could come to
Jeffrey Epstein. Inconceivable.
Reports indicated that
he tied his bed sheet
around his neck, and strangled himself.
It's a federal prison,
notoriously underfunded,
something of a hellhole,
and it's revealed that
the guards were sleeping.
The cameras weren't working.
Everything that could
go wrong went wrong.
[ANNIE FARMER] Honestly,
I felt so devastated that
once again, he had
you know, managed to escape
any kind of accountability.
That's how it felt. Like
people just didn't care enough
to make sure that he
was alive to go to trial.
[RAINING]
[RIVERA] There's no justice in this.
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
There was just so
much more to be said
that's never going to be said.
And that's sad.
- [RAIN POURING]
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
[RIVERA] I didn't know
how to react to it.
I felt sad immediately and I
Not to say that, like,
he didn't do bad things,
not to say that he didn't deserve
something terrible to happen to him
I just don't think that was
the ending that anybody wanted.
[RAIN FALLING]
Before I begin, I'd like
to briefly address news
from the Manhattan Correctional
Center over the weekend
regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
We are now learning of serious
irregularities at this facility
that are deeply concerning
and demand a thorough investigation.
[CHARLES GASPARINO] If you wanna know
how he could slip through
the cracks on this,
the New York's Metropolitan
Correction Center
used to be called "the Tombs."
It's a notoriously,
you know, harsh place.
It's understaffed, and largely
staffed by not the smartest people.
He knew his life was done.
He wanted to kill himself,
and he killed himself
the first chance he got.
[MUSGRAVE] I think it's just typical
of the whole Jeffrey Epstein story.
Even in death, he kept
the controversy alive.
[FEMALE REPORTER] Wild
rumors and theories
about how Jeffrey Epstein died
on the federal government's
watch is breeding online.
[MUSGRAVE] I think it's
the never-ending story.
Did he kill himself? Was he
killed? Was there a hit out?
Did one of these powerful men
pay a prison guard to kill him?
I don't know.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
This case is ripe for
conspiracy theories.
That's part of the story. There's
so many weird sort of connections.
Conspiracy theorists have claimed
that Epstein's death wasn't a suicide,
or it was faked.
Other Epstein theories floating online,
"How convenient now for the
princes, and politicians,
and other powerful people
Epstein mingled with
that he's dead."
[DAVIES] I'm sure many
people wanted him dead.
He had a lot of information on a
lot of people, a lot of blackmail.
Videos and pictures.
[MARIA FARMER] If you
look here, the limestone,
inside the house, behind,
like, a space like that,
they have cameras, and
they have them everywhere.
Jeffrey took me into a room
which is a bit back
further than this window,
and it's leaded.
And it had all the computers
and all these monitors, like, the
old-fashioned TV monitors, stacked.
[GIUFFRE] I'm looking at the monitors,
and I'm like, "That's my room.
That's the massage room.
That's my shower. That's my toilet.
That's everyone else's
toilet in the house.
That's everyone else's
shower in the house."
That's Every single corner
of that house was monitored.
He was watching everybody all the time.
This was a blackmail scheme.
All those powerful people
abusing underage girls.
When he told me,
"People owe me favors, and
I will never get caught.
I can get away with things,"
he meant it.
[RANSOME] I think that he
would take a lot of people down.
This wasn't just a ring
for Jeffrey Epstein.
This was an international
sex trafficking ring.
This has reached all over the world.
He is a very small
piece in a huge network.
[MALLOY] Mark Epstein, Jeffrey's
brother, is not buying the suicide.
He doesn't believe it.
So he hires a renowned forensic expert
to take another look at the autopsy.
[DR. CYRIL WECHT] A call came
in from Dr. Michael Baden,
who is representing the family,
specifically the brother,
Mr. Mark Epstein.
I then received a copy
of the autopsy report
and discussed things with
Dr. Baden at great length.
There was no evidence at all to indicate
that he had jumped or
leaped from the bunk.
I came to learn that there were
fractures of the hyoid bone,
which is a delicate, U-shaped bone
located high in the neck directly
beneath the mandible, the lower jaw.
I have here, uh from a
totally unrelated case, of course,
a hyoid bone.
Now, there is some soft
tissue still attached.
On, uh, Jeffrey Epstein,
three fractures were found:
the horn of the hyoid
bone on the left side,
and then directly
beneath on Jeffrey Epstein
there were fractures
of the thyroid cartilage
and then on the right side
of the thyroid cartilage.
You do not get those three fractures
with a suicidal hanging
of someone leaning forward.
So where, again, is the force
that would have been required to produce
those fractures from kneeling forward?
I can say I've never seen it
myself in all of my autopsies.
I would say, to have
these three fractures
in that kind of a suicidal hanging
would be extremely rare. Extremely rare.
[GASPARINO] What really took this
tragedy to another level, in my view,
was when he moved his money over
to the Virgin Islands in his will.
[EDWARDS] Jeffrey Epstein signed a will
two days before he committed suicide.
At that time, he knew he
was committing suicide,
but I would presume his
lawyers didn't know that.
[GASPARINO] It made
it much more difficult
for the victims to get restitution,
and in my view, it sort of underscored
his evilness, you know, his venality.
It basically showed that he
had no remorse whatsoever.
He didn't think he did anything wrong.
That just says it all about
Jeffrey Epstein, you know.
It was a "Fuck you" to the victims.
Like, he had no, sort
of, remorse about victims.
[EDWARDS] The victims Certain things
have been taken from them forever.
They'll never get the satisfaction
of seeing him in jail for life.
But there will come a point in
time where they're able to prove
that they were victimized, they
were harmed by the victimization,
and and that they should
be compensated for it.
But they're never
going to be made whole,
because you just can't ever
take back what happened to them.
[MALLOY] Epstein's lawyers
wanted to dismiss the case.
You can't, uh try a dead guy.
But the judge wasn't
going to let that happen.
The judge was going to let some of
the victims have their day in court.
- [MAN] Good morning, Your Honor.
- Nice to see you.
[MAN] Nice to see you.
[REPORTER 1] Up to 30 women are expected
to accept a New York judge's invitation
to address the hearing
before he moves to dismiss
the criminal sex trafficking
case against Epstein.
[DAVIES] The invite to the
hearing was all very last-minute.
As emotional as this
has all been for me,
it's also ignited, sort of,
this dragon, if you will, in me
that I feel the need to
speak my truth and to
have my voice heard.
[REPORTER 2] More than
a dozen alleged victims
of convicted pedophile Jeffrey
Epstein finally had their day in court.
[WILD] We deserved our day in court.
I think it was a very
cowardly thing for him to do.
He escaped justice.
[REPORTERS CLAMORING]
[ANNIE FARMER] I was so touched
by the strength of the
women that were there
getting up and sharing their
experiences, so many for the first time.
It was a very cathartic
experience to be there.
[RANSOME] Judge Berman,
he changed my life.
For the first time,
I actually saw someone
in a position of power
that actually had any
form of respect for us,
and he listened,
and that's all I ever wanted,
was for someone to listen
and for someone to hear me.
[GIUFFRE] Judge Berman
gave me back something
that I never thought was possible.
He gave me back a
piece of myself that
was missing for so long.
Hugging those girls in court
[SIGHS]
It was beautiful.
[SIGHS]
We cried, we laughed, we hugged
and we all had each other's
backs that day in court.
[REPORTERS CLAMORING]
[EDWARDS] The way that Judge
Berman treated these victims
is going to be the model for
how victims should be treated.
I think that it's going
to go down in history
as the most important case
on behalf of crime victims
in US history to date.
[DAVIES] It makes me sick to my stomach
that there's perpetrators out there that
obviously helped him in many
ways for a very long time,
and they're still out there.
It gives nobody justice, and it
leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
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.
[MCCAWLEY] It's incredibly
scary to come forward
against someone like Jeffrey Epstein,
who's a billionaire, who has
friends in very high places,
who has intimidated
them, who has abused them,
and to stand up many years later
and to say, "This was wrong,
it shouldn't have happened to me,
and I don't want it to
happen to anybody else,"
is just an incredible thing to witness.
[MARIA FARMER] Okay, let's see.
I felt completely defeated.
My life was threatened.
My work was threatened. My career
was jeopardized completely.
I've pretty much been on a journey
for 20 years of not doing my art,
of not painting,
and I was just trying to survive.
And then I began again painting
because I was tired of being afraid.
I felt like I wanted
to expose the monsters,
and I just needed to get that out.
And so this is an illustration.
Basically, it's my diagram for the FBI,
because I want them to see what
I told them all those years ago.
And it's a version of Bosch's
Garden of Earthly Delights,
which is basically just
like Dante's Inferno,
portraying Heaven, Hell, and Earth.
This is our lovely Ghislaine Maxwell.
She's a pill, a hard pill to swallow,
and she's the property of
the FBI in this drawing.
I put Epstein here with his
little UFO on a NASA tower
because Epstein was, um
given a free ride by our government.
And, um Yeah. That's [CHUCKLES]
That makes me angry.
So I'm actually working
on something new right now.
I'm drawing the other Epstein survivors
because it empowers me to
provide them with strength.
And basically it's just about
strength in numbers at this stage.
We really I mean, we need
each other to get through this.
This is Annie, my sister,
and she's holding a paper doll.
What's gonna bind them together
is they're gonna be
holding these paper dolls,
and the paper dolls represent the
children who have not come forward,
and we don't know what happened to them.
[ANNIE FARMER] I think this
was just one chapter in my life.
For a long time, I didn't want
to think about myself as a victim.
And it's interesting because I've
gone on to work as a therapist.
I do think the fact that I had
this experience has helped me
to understand how people
respond to certain situations,
and, you know, to be the
kind of therapist that I am.
[MARIA FARMER] This is Courtney.
Courtney is very strong, and she's
definitely been through a lot.
And I admire her so much.
[WILD] My life is
definitely still a struggle
for everything that I
went through with Jeffrey.
However, it has kind of come to an end.
It's a good thing, it's a
bittersweet thing, because it's over,
and I can kind of work through
the healing process now.
And this is Michelle.
Michelle has, like, a
really fun spirit, I feel.
She has a great sense of humor,
and, also, she's beautiful,
and I wanted to
depict her as I see her, so
[LICATA] This isn't over.
I really hope that the police,
the FBI, the government
Just do your job.
I go to work. I do my job every
single day for the rest of my life.
Uh You're given that
position and that power
to make things right,
to do the right thing.
So do the right thing. That's it.
It's plain and simple, you know?
Take them down. Take everybody down.
[MARIA FARMER] That's
Sarah. She's my favorite.
I love this girl.
She's precious.
I feel a very special bond with
her. I love her like a sister.
[RANSOME] I'll never
get to see Jeffrey again,
and I wanted him to see
the woman I have become,
and that he didn't break me.
And I will fight till
my last breath on Earth.
I'm here today to tell
you that it stops here,
and it stops now, and I am here.
My fight for the rest of
my life will be to make sure
that no woman will ever
feel ashamed to come forward.
This is Virginia.
And I didn't know that Virginia
used a butterfly as a symbol,
which obviously makes sense, a
symbol of freedom, leaving the cocoon.
But I didn't know that when I drew this.
I found that kind of interesting.
[GIUFFRE] Epstein did not act
alone. So my next step is
holding other people accountable.
The people that were involved, the
people that actually participated,
there are so many of them out there.
None of them have been held accountable.
We were kids being trafficked
under their eyes, under their nose.
They knew exactly what was going on,
and they didn't say anything about it.
So stop worrying about
saving your own hide
and help us. That's
all we're asking for.
- Let's go!
- [DOG MOANING HAPPILY]
What are you doing in
there? What are you doing?
[GIUFFRE] The monsters
are still out there,
and they're still abusing other people.
Why they have not been named
and shamed yet is beyond me.
video record at 12:02 p.m.
[BRAD EDWARDS] Let's talk about
Jane Doe 102, Virginia Roberts.
Do you know Virginia Roberts?
- So she's Say again, who?
- [EDWARDS] Virginia Roberts.
Can you spell it?
[EDWARDS] Common spelling,
Virginia, like the state.
- Can you spell it for me, please?
- [EDWARDS] Roberts.
How is it What's the
last name? How is it spelled?
[EDWARDS] R-O-B-E-R-T-S, I believe.
Isn't it true that you
and Ghislaine Maxwell
celebrated her 16th birthday with
her and had sex with her on that day?
[LAWYER 2] Form, compound,
confusing, argumentative and harassing.
I'd like to answer that question.
But today I'm gonna have to
assert my Sixth Amendment rights,
my Fifth Amendment rights.
[EDWARDS] Is it true that
you forced Virginia Roberts
to have sex with
numerous friends of yours?
Are you kidding?
[GIUFFRE] The first time
I decided to go public,
it was because I gave birth
to this beautiful baby girl.
It kind of made me realize
what I had been through
was still happening to
other people out there.
It wasn't just me.
And I looked at my husband,
and I said, "Robbie,
we can't just sit by
and be silent anymore.
We've got to do something about it."
I was sexually abused by Prince Andrew.
Someone had to put their
hand up and say, like,
"He can't just get away with this."
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[GIUFFRE] I first met Prince Andrew
March 10th, 2001,
in London at Ghislaine's townhouse.
He knocked on the door, he came
inside Ghislaine's townhouse,
and we're sitting there having tea.
Ghislaine has this favorite
guessing game that she does.
She goes to Prince Andrew, "How
old do you think Virginia is?"
And he said, "Seventeen."
And she's like, "Oh, you're right!"
And, you know, they, like,
made a little joke about it.
He's like, "My daughters
aren't far from your age.
My daughters are a bit younger than you.
We went out for the night.
Club Tramp in London.
[ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING]
And he dances, and he's
profusely sweating over me,
and it was disgusting.
We get back to the
townhouse, and we go upstairs.
I have this little yellow Kodak camera,
and, um I ask Jeffrey to take a photo
of me and Prince Andrew together.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[GIUFFRE] And Ghislaine's literally
just, like, right behind me.
Ghislaine tells me
"You're going to have to do for
him what you do for Jeffrey."
[VOICE BREAKING] And it hit me.
And right after that photo was taken,
I was sexually abused by Prince
Andrew for the first time.
[REPORTER] A former prostitute
claims she was just 17
when she allegedly had sexual
relations with Prince Andrew.
[GIUFFRE] I've been
called a serial prostitute,
a bad mom, a serial liar,
a drug addict, every name under the sun.
The whole Prince Andrew
thing, it was just
kaboom.
And it went from being a harrowing
story about trafficking and abuse
to completely Prince Andrew.
I wasn't Prince Andrew's prostitute,
because I was trafficked
to him, and I was a kid.
[SIGRID MCCAWLEY] My
client Virginia Giuffre
was trafficked by
Epstein almost 30 times
when she was under the age of 18,
both nationally and internationally.
Virginia came forward
publicly in a filing
in the Crime Victims' Rights Act case.
In that filing, she made public
some of the individuals
who had abused her
when she was being
trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.
One of those individuals
was Alan Dershowitz.
[ALAN DERSHOWITZ] I assure you, I
never had sex with Virginia Roberts.
Let me state categorically.
I never had sex with an
underage person in my life.
Even when I was an underage boy, I
never had sex with an underage girl.
I never had sex with anyone
related to Jeffrey Epstein.
I challenge Virginia Roberts
to come on your show,
look in the camera, and
say the following words:
"I accuse Alan Dershowitz
of having had sex with me
on six or seven occasions."
She has never been willing
to accuse me in public.
So please accuse me on
this show, I challenge you.
[GIUFFRE] I was with Alan
Dershowitz multiple times.
At least six that I can remember.
Well, I was trafficked to Alan
Dershowitz from Epstein. Epstein
made me, essentially,
forced me to . to have sex with him.
Every time I was trafficked was
at Epstein or Ghislaine's behest.
He's denied being with me. Is
one of us telling the truth? Yes.
Is that person me? Yes.
[SARAH RANSOME] I came forward in 2016
when the US election started to happen.
This was completely unplanned.
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- Thank you, everybody.
[RANSOME] Donald Trump and Hillary
Clinton are both up for election,
and both candidates for US president
had affiliations with Jeffrey Epstein.
So I went to almost
every single news channel,
British media, American media.
I tried to tell them
I told them who Jeffrey
Epstein was, what he did.
I told them who Ghislaine was.
No one would listen. No one
would hear my voice in 2016.
[MESSAGE CHIMES]
[FEMALE REPORTER 1] This is a
moment in time unlike any other.
With the Me Too movement,
women are feeling the ability
to tell what happened to them,
some of the worst moments they've
lived, and tell it publicly,
and that is powerful, and
it is affecting everything,
and people are looking for justice.
[COURTNEY WILD] I remember watching
the TV about the Me Too movement,
and thinking, "Okay, like, we're next."
We don't need to feel ashamed
for having survived these things.
Actually talking about them,
you know, bringing them into the light
and finding support from each other
is a huge way towards healing.
[CHAUNTAE DAVIES] There's
definitely strength in numbers,
and I feel like women
feel more comfortable
to come forward when they
know they're not alone.
I think we have an unspoken bond
that many people won't ever understand.
Times have changed in a year,
such that these accusations will
be listened to in a different way.
It's an explosive investigative series
by the Miami Herald reporter
Julie K. Brown, connecting the dots
between President Trump's labor
secretary, Alexander Acosta,
and what the Miami Herald
calls "the deal of a lifetime"
that was given to accused
pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Senate committee on health,
education, labor and pensions
will please come to order.
This morning, we're holding
a confirmation hearing
on the nomination of Alexander Acosta
to serve as United
States Secretary of Labor.
[MAN] I did not hear
anything about Epstein
until President Trump nominated
Acosta to be Labor Secretary.
And so, as I was digging
into Acosta's background,
I came upon information
about the Epstein case.
I was shocked.
I'd like to ask you about this.
"Federal prosecutors
detail their findings
in an 82-page prosecution
memo and a 53-page indictment,
but Epstein was never indicted."
And then there's a quote.
Quote, "This agreement,"
the agreement you described,
"will not be made part
of any public record,"
the deal between
Epstein and Acosta says.
At the end of the day,
based on the evidence
um professionals within
a prosecutor's office decide
that a plea
that guarantees that
someone goes to jail
and that guarantees other
outcomes is a good thing, and so
[TIM KAINE] Was that a consensus
decision in your office?
It was a broadly held decision.
[KAINE] It was a secret
deal, as we now know.
I thought the outrageous
nature of the allegations
might lead to a vote against him.
I, Alexander Acosta,
do solemnly swear
I want to thank President
Trump, Vice President Pence,
and the members of the Senate
for the privilege of serving
as Secretary of Labor.
[CROWD CHEERING, APPLAUDING]
Karen and Chris, you've got to
come take a look at this order.
[KAREN] What happened?
Judge Marra has issued his
summary judgment ruling.
What Judge Marra has ruled
is that the federal government
entered into a conspiracy
with Jeffrey Epstein
to violate the Crime
Victims' Rights Act.
- This is just fantastic.
- [KAREN] Wow.
- That is great.
- [LAUGHING]
- Congratulations. Well deserved.
- All right.
- All right.
- It's a good day.
[JACK SCAROLA] There is
now in place a federal order
that the federal government,
under Alexander Acosta's direction,
not only failed to inform
victims, but actively misled them.
That means that there may be a new
hearing in front of a federal judge
where these victims have a right
to express their
opposition to this deal.
And a judge could
decide it was a contract
that was illegal from the outset.
Epstein has no immunity.
The federal government has
the right to prosecute you
and the right to prosecute
your co-conspirators.
[EDWARDS] There was this elation
on behalf of the victims that,
"Hey, look, we won.
We went up against the government
and Jeffrey Epstein, and we won.
We proved that you conspired
against us, the victims."
[WILD] When I heard Judge
Marra did rule in our favor,
I just felt very accomplished.
Uh We'd been fighting
for this for a long time.
Just to have it in words, "Your
rights were violated, period."
It was like, "Okay. Now
something's happening."
[EDWARDS] It became clear
that many of the crimes Jeffrey
Epstein had committed in Florida
originated in New York,
and that he likely had committed
these crimes in New York.
At this stage, the New York
investigation was underway.
[REPORTER 1] A federal
investigation shining some new light
on a controversial plea
deal for a wealthy investor
accused of molesting
dozens of underage girls.
[REPORTER 2] This
decision to investigate
reflects the Me Too movement potentially
touching on the Trump administration
and many other powerful people,
and most important, of
course, it impacts the women
who took the risk to come forward.
[EDWARDS] Now New York's
finally showing an interest,
my clients were all on board and
had been all on board for ten years.
[MICHAEL REITER] I had heard
that there was an investigation
by the FBI in New York and
the US Attorney in New York.
Even though it felt as though
the victims were completely abandoned
by the entire criminal justice system,
I never gave up over the years,
hoping that some measure of justice
would eventually come to the victims.
[MIKE FISTEN] I had
a pretty good inkling
that something was going to happen
because the FBI,
along with the detectives from
NYPD, were down here in Palm Beach,
interviewing numerous people
over the last three months.
[SHAWNA RIVERA] I was
contacted by the FBI.
They told me that they had this
investigation going on in New York,
and they wanted to get, you know,
as much information as they could.
I told them that they needed
to look out for their victims.
I told them that
if they were going to do this
thing, they needed to really do it.
[DAVIES] I was so angry that
I just wanted to
you know, make him pay.
So at that point, I reached out,
which led to a five-hour
meeting with the FBI,
and they flew out to LA to
meet with me, and that was
super intense,
but it finally felt like
we were getting somewhere.
[MARIA FARMER] I had interviewed
with some authorities.
So we knew they were closing in.
We were really excited.
I never, ever thought that
he would be held accountable.
[POLICE SIRENS WAILING]
[REPORTER 1] Big
breaking news overnight.
Jeffrey Epstein arrested
at a New York area airport.
[REPORTER 2] Jeffrey
Epstein was arrested
at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport
after returning on a flight from France.
[REPORTER 3] The 66-year-old
hedge fund manager was arrested
on federal charges
related to sex trafficking.
He has a bond hearing scheduled
for Monday in New York.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CRESCENDOES]
[MICHELLE LICATA] When I found out
that he was arrested, I was like,
"Oh, my God! Like, finally
he's going to pay for
everything that he has done.
I'm going to New York.
Even though I didn't want to see him,
I'm going to see him now
that he is in shackles.
You know, he is in,
like, an orange jumpsuit.
He is being treated like every
criminal would be treated.
This has got to be it. This
is when it's going to happen.
They're gonna start
digging into his life
and start pulling out this spider web
of people that were related to it.
Oh, he's going to jail.
This is it."
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
[REPORTER 4] Federal prosecutors
allege that between 2002 and 2005,
Epstein paid underage
girls as young as 14
to have sex with him at his townhouse.
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
He's a villain, that's it, and
we're here to get rid of him.
[REPORTERS CHATTERING LOUDLY]
[MAN] Shh.
[CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING]
Good morning.
I'm Geoff Berman, United States Attorney
for the Southern District of New York.
Today we announce the unsealing
of sex trafficking charges
against Jeffrey Epstein.
[GIUFFRE] I remember
my lawyer calling me
and saying, "You won't believe this.
Do you have anywhere to sit down?"
And while the charge conduct
is from a number of years ago,
it is still profoundly important
to the many alleged victims,
now young women.
They deserve their day in court.
I looked at my phone
and then I looked at my phone again.
And then I looked at my
phone, and then I was like
"No."
I mean, there was a flood of
emotions. I was confused. I was happy.
Tears of joy were
streaming down my face.
[GEOFF BERMAN] Epstein is
charged in a two-count indictment.
First, conspiracy to
commit sex trafficking,
and second, the substantive crime
of sex trafficking of underage girls.
It somewhat restored my faith
in the criminal justice system
that was lost by the way the prosecutors
in Florida treated the victims
and treated the case
back in 2006 and 2007.
The charges are very serious,
and they carry with them a maximum
sentence of 45 years in jail,
which to someone of Epstein's
age is basically a life sentence.
[DAVIES] I just could not believe it.
This all kind of just
exploded all of a sudden,
but at the same time,
I also still knew and
believed his power and
uh ability to get
himself out of things.
I was still kind of
wondering how it was going to go,
and whether or not they
were going to really be able
to build a case and to prosecute him.
[POLICE SIRENS WAILING]
[WOMAN] What's the
sitch? You know what's up?
- [MAN] This is Jeffrey Epstein's
- [WOMAN] Oh, shut up!
[MAN] Somebody must have tipped
them off to something else.
[REPORTER] New raid video
showing federal agents
as they bust open the door
of his seven-story,
77-million-dollar home
on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Inside, investigators found hundreds,
if not thousands, of
female nude photographs.
[HALEY ROBSON] I think
that he would have been
a little bit more careful,
and I don't think that there's
just one set of photos.
It makes me wonder if
there's photos of myself.
What do you do with those photos?
Do you show your friends?
Do you use them to get off?
All those thoughts crossed my mind.
Knowing that he had, in fact,
kept tokens like this
from women that he had
um you know, abused over the years,
that really got to me.
[EDWARDS] Jeffrey Epstein had no
clue that this case was coming down,
that there was any investigation
whatsoever into him in New York,
or he never would've
come back in the country.
[SHANNON CAKE] It was interesting.
Not long after he's arrested,
everyone who had a relationship
with Jeffrey Epstein, suddenly
no one really knew him.
Suddenly,
"Oh, well, we really weren't friends.
I knew him in an ancillary way."
[MALE REPORTER] Presidents Trump
and Clinton have quickly moved
to put some distance between
themselves and Epstein.
I had a falling out
with him a long time ago.
I don't think I've spoken to
him for 15 years. I wasn't a fan.
[FEMALE REPORTER 1] "He's not spoken
to Epstein in well over a decade
and has never been to
Little St. James Island,
Epstein's ranch in New Mexico,
or his residence in Florida."
[FEMALE REPORTER 2] Flight
logs obtained indicate
that former President Bill Clinton
was on Epstein's private
jet at least 26 times
between 2001 and 2003.
[STEVE SCULLY] Bill Clinton
has been on that island.
I saw Bill Clinton sitting with
Jeffrey on the living room porch.
[GIUFFRE] I remember having
a dinner with Clinton.
He was there, and I never
saw him do anything improper.
I wish, you know, he would
just come clean about, like,
"Yeah, I was there. So what?
Who cares? I didn't
see anything going on."
[CAKE] For years, there had been a
known affiliation and a friendship
between Jeffrey Epstein
and Prince Andrew.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[CAKE] And then, of course,
there were the allegations
from Virginia Giuffre.
And these stories had
dogged him for years.
So he decides, "I'll
confront them head-on."
So he sits down with the BBC.
Because 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.
So I'm sitting outside, and
I'm having my cup of coffee,
and I'm watching it on my tablet.
I mean, I wanted to throw
my tablet in the pool.
[STAMMERING] I've no
recollection of ever meeting her.
[GIUFFRE] As a victim, I think
one thing that we ask for is
some acknowledgment and some remorse.
This guy didn't have any remorse at all.
His arrogance about it, I mean
The whole "I don't sweat" thing
[STAMMERING] I have a
peculiar medical condition,
which is that I don't sweat
Um Or I didn't sweat at the time.
This guy was, like, profusely
sweating all over me, and
"I don't remember her.
I've never been upstairs
at Ghislaine's townhouse." How
did you know that's upstairs?
She provided a photo
- of the two of you together.
- Yes.
[EMILY MAITLIS] Your
arm was around her waist.
- [PRINCE ANDREW] Yes.
- You've seen the photo?
- I've seen the photograph.
- [MAITLIS] How do you explain that?
I can't.
'Cause I don't I have no
Again, I have absolutely no memory
of that photograph ever being taken.
[GIUFFRE] I didn't expect him to put
his hand up and say, "I'm guilty."
I didn't.
But some form of remorse or
acknowledgment would have been
Would have been better.
I think it's been universally agreed.
It was one of the worst mea
culpas ever known to man.
I mean, if people didn't
think he was guilty before,
after his interview,
I think people thought
that something had happened.
So I think that kind
of backfired on him.
[SCULLY] After Jeffrey
Epstein was arrested,
all of a sudden, the FBI now, and
this task force, they interviewed me.
They had me look at,
uh a large series
It must have been 60
or 70 photos of people.
Then they showed me
one of Virginia Roberts,
but it was a current photo,
and I couldn't identify her.
But I was told to check
a photo that had emerged out of
all of this investigative work,
and that photo is a
photo of Prince Andrew
with a young blonde girl.
And as soon as I saw her
That was the girl that
he was kind of, like,
grinding against at the pool.
She was, at that time,
wearing a bikini bottom.
That's it.
But I absolutely can tell you that
the photo of her, in the picture,
which is her when she is, I think, 17
that was Virginia Roberts.
Epstein should have been
behind bars years ago.
But, unfortunately,
Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta
cut Epstein a sweetheart deal,
while Acosta was a US
attorney in Florida in 2008.
I am calling on Secretary
Acosta to resign.
[CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING FURIOUSLY]
[ALEXANDER ACOSTA] Let
me start by reiterating
that I'm pleased that the New
York prosecution is going forward.
They've brought these charges
based on new evidence
against Jeffrey Epstein,
who is now a registered sex offender.
And this is a very, very good thing.
It's quite unbelievable that Mr. Acosta
could get up there with a straight face
and talk about how uh he's happy
that new charges are brought by
the Southern District of New York,
which means, essentially, Mr. Acosta
is admitting that it's wonderful
that another district office
was doing a better
investigation than his office did
and found more victims than he did.
[ACOSTA] I called the
President this morning.
I told him that I thought the
right thing was to step aside.
I do not think it is right and fair
for this administration's
Labor Department
to have Epstein as a focus.
Th This is just totally
a bunch of bullshit.
It would be selfish for me
to stay in this position.
[FISTEN] He knows that we know now that
this case was never an
ultimatum to Jeffrey Epstein.
That this was an indictment
that the federal
government had against him
that they decided not
to go forward with.
Now, I know why he resigned today.
Because he knew, within 24 hours,
the real people that knew the truth
were going to come forward and say
that, "Mr. Acosta, you're full of
shit. That's not what happened."
Excuse my French.
[MENACING MUSIC]
[REPORTER] A Manhattan
judge is expected to decide
whether Jeffrey Epstein
should be released on bail
ahead of his federal trial.
Epstein pleaded not guilty.
His attorneys say he's ready to
post up to 100 million dollars bail.
And you have victims who
say that they are frightened
if he is out.
[CHATTERING]
[WILD] I was able to fly to New York
to be present at the court hearings.
I definitely thought he
would get out on bond,
just because of how much money he has.
And it was just like, that's
exactly what happened the first time.
[ANNIE FARMER] I didn't even
know if I could get into the court
because I wasn't sure
how it worked, um
But I just wanted there
to be somebody there
to represent the survivors.
What do you think is the safest route?
David, I think we
should take it that way.
That way. Yeah, more quiet.
- Ready?
- Let's go.
- [EDWARDS] We're gonna try to get in.
- [MCCAWLEY] Let's go. It'll be more quiet.
They're very courageous
and they want to encourage
others to come forward.
That's why they're here.
[WILD] That day was crazy.
Media attention, and it was something
that I never dealt with before.
[MAN] Brad, this way.
[WILD] It was just a lot
to take in all in one day.
I was terrified. I had never
experienced something like that. I was
I was actually, like, holding
Courtney's hand because I was like
"Uh I need to feel some kind
of, like, comfort right now."
[WILD] Me and Michelle definitely
It was like soul sisters.
"We were victims of Jeffrey
Epstein, and here we are.
There's no more hiding. You
know, it's no more Jane Doe.
Like, I'm Courtney Wild, and I was
sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein."
Michelle said the same thing,
and it was just overwhelming.
But there's power in
more than one person.
[LICATA] I want him to to look at me,
and I wanted to be like,
"Do you remember me?
Do you remember my face? Do
you remember anything about me?
Of course you don't remember me,
because there was hundreds like me.
You don't remember me, but, uh!
I'll remember you for
the rest of my life.
That's something that
I have to remember.
So I want you to take a good
look at my face right now,
and I want you to remember
the people that are
going to put you in prison
for the rest of your life."
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[REPORTERS CLAMORING]
[MAN] Brad, we've gotta go soon.
[LICATA] You know, my
heart's starting to race,
like, "Oh, my God, this is This is
the moment, like, I have kind of dreaded
ten years, 15 years?"
I'm going to see him, and
I haven't seen him since he was
laying out on a table,
masturbating and going
to town on himself.
And, you know,
like, that's the last time I've
actually seen him in person.
[REPORTERS CLAMORING]
Stay back, stay back, stay back!
Go back. No. Stay up on the steps.
[LICATA] I was sitting
in the courtroom, and
I was just I was so upset.
I was I was crying.
It was super overwhelming, um
He had, like, a bald spot
on the back of his head.
He was in, like, the
jumpsuit. I was like
"This is just This is unbelievable."
[WILD] I got to look at him in
the face in the courtroom and say,
I was sexually abused by
him, by Jeffrey when I was 14,
and to please not give him
bond and stuff like that.
And even though it was
such a short period of time,
it was just a short
statement I got to say,
you know, he still had to look
at me and hear me say that.
[EDWARDS] His attorneys were offering
hundreds of millions of dollars
for bond money, which should
ensure that he's going to return.
[MCCAWLEY] It started at 500 million.
They were making offers to the court
in order to try to convince
the judge to let him out.
He'll give all of his wealth,
whatever it takes to get him out.
[EDWARDS] But then the prosecutors
presented additional evidence.
When they broke into the home,
and they found child
pornography in his safe,
they also found a
number of other things,
diamonds, passports that were false.
[EDWARDS] The diamonds, passport
It looks like an escape plan.
He's had an escape plan forever.
[WOMAN] Ha!
- Good shit.
- [CAMERAMAN] What happened?
He's not getting out,
and this means he'll probably
spend the rest of his life in jail.
[MCCAWLEY] We're thrilled today
with the ruling by Judge Berman.
Only by taking away the
freedom of Jeffrey Epstein
can we restore the
freedom of these victims.
No bail for Jeffrey Epstein, the
judge agreeing with the government
that Epstein presents a
danger to the community
and also an extreme risk of flight.
[MUSGRAVE] He also talked a lot
about the community can't be safe.
He was a danger to the community.
And he was very, uh moved by
the statements by the two victims.
[TIM MALLOY] This is a guy
who manipulated, threatened,
uh bought his way
in and out of trouble.
And now, for the first time in
a jail cell in Lower Manhattan,
it looks like there was
no way to buy his way out.
[ROBSON] With everything
coming out again
and having to go through and relive it,
I'm scared. Scared to be
dragged through the media again.
It's just been a roller coaster.
I've been up and down every day.
I have been sick to my
stomach. Um I've cried a lot.
I mean, I think we can
all assume with his
reach, and his planes, and his wealth,
he could very well
walk out the front door
and we could never see him again.
And I'm hoping that after this time,
um, that it's the final time, and
that he actually does not get out.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC GROWS]
[ANNIE FARMER] I was laying on the sofa
and kind of drifting in an out of sleep,
and, um my husband
came and sat next to me,
and he woke me up, like, you know,
in a way that I knew
something was wrong.
And he said, "I have some hard news."
[MALE REPORTER 1] The disgraced
financier Jeffrey Epstein is dead.
Epstein took his own life while
behind bars here in New York City,
while facing charges of sex trafficking.
"Committed suicide? What?
How is that possible?"
[MALE REPORTER 1] What we know
is at some point this morning,
the Bureau of Prisons
and prison officials
found Jeffrey Epstein in his cell.
Apparently, he had hanged himself.
[MARIA FARMER] I was kind of in shock.
It didn't hit me for
maybe a couple hours,
and then I got really, really angry
that I couldn't face him and tell
him what he'd done to me and my life.
[MALE REPORTER 2] His body
in that van you see there
seen heading for the
Medical Examiner's office.
It is a stunning turn
of events for a man
who lived a life of exceptional wealth
with extremely powerful
people in his orbit.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
[MALLOY] It is inconceivable
that in a prison,
a federal prison that housed
terrorists and El Chapo,
that had cameras, that
had guards everywhere,
that something could go wrong
and harm could come to
Jeffrey Epstein. Inconceivable.
Reports indicated that
he tied his bed sheet
around his neck, and strangled himself.
It's a federal prison,
notoriously underfunded,
something of a hellhole,
and it's revealed that
the guards were sleeping.
The cameras weren't working.
Everything that could
go wrong went wrong.
[ANNIE FARMER] Honestly,
I felt so devastated that
once again, he had
you know, managed to escape
any kind of accountability.
That's how it felt. Like
people just didn't care enough
to make sure that he
was alive to go to trial.
[RAINING]
[RIVERA] There's no justice in this.
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
There was just so
much more to be said
that's never going to be said.
And that's sad.
- [RAIN POURING]
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
[RIVERA] I didn't know
how to react to it.
I felt sad immediately and I
Not to say that, like,
he didn't do bad things,
not to say that he didn't deserve
something terrible to happen to him
I just don't think that was
the ending that anybody wanted.
[RAIN FALLING]
Before I begin, I'd like
to briefly address news
from the Manhattan Correctional
Center over the weekend
regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
We are now learning of serious
irregularities at this facility
that are deeply concerning
and demand a thorough investigation.
[CHARLES GASPARINO] If you wanna know
how he could slip through
the cracks on this,
the New York's Metropolitan
Correction Center
used to be called "the Tombs."
It's a notoriously,
you know, harsh place.
It's understaffed, and largely
staffed by not the smartest people.
He knew his life was done.
He wanted to kill himself,
and he killed himself
the first chance he got.
[MUSGRAVE] I think it's just typical
of the whole Jeffrey Epstein story.
Even in death, he kept
the controversy alive.
[FEMALE REPORTER] Wild
rumors and theories
about how Jeffrey Epstein died
on the federal government's
watch is breeding online.
[MUSGRAVE] I think it's
the never-ending story.
Did he kill himself? Was he
killed? Was there a hit out?
Did one of these powerful men
pay a prison guard to kill him?
I don't know.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
This case is ripe for
conspiracy theories.
That's part of the story. There's
so many weird sort of connections.
Conspiracy theorists have claimed
that Epstein's death wasn't a suicide,
or it was faked.
Other Epstein theories floating online,
"How convenient now for the
princes, and politicians,
and other powerful people
Epstein mingled with
that he's dead."
[DAVIES] I'm sure many
people wanted him dead.
He had a lot of information on a
lot of people, a lot of blackmail.
Videos and pictures.
[MARIA FARMER] If you
look here, the limestone,
inside the house, behind,
like, a space like that,
they have cameras, and
they have them everywhere.
Jeffrey took me into a room
which is a bit back
further than this window,
and it's leaded.
And it had all the computers
and all these monitors, like, the
old-fashioned TV monitors, stacked.
[GIUFFRE] I'm looking at the monitors,
and I'm like, "That's my room.
That's the massage room.
That's my shower. That's my toilet.
That's everyone else's
toilet in the house.
That's everyone else's
shower in the house."
That's Every single corner
of that house was monitored.
He was watching everybody all the time.
This was a blackmail scheme.
All those powerful people
abusing underage girls.
When he told me,
"People owe me favors, and
I will never get caught.
I can get away with things,"
he meant it.
[RANSOME] I think that he
would take a lot of people down.
This wasn't just a ring
for Jeffrey Epstein.
This was an international
sex trafficking ring.
This has reached all over the world.
He is a very small
piece in a huge network.
[MALLOY] Mark Epstein, Jeffrey's
brother, is not buying the suicide.
He doesn't believe it.
So he hires a renowned forensic expert
to take another look at the autopsy.
[DR. CYRIL WECHT] A call came
in from Dr. Michael Baden,
who is representing the family,
specifically the brother,
Mr. Mark Epstein.
I then received a copy
of the autopsy report
and discussed things with
Dr. Baden at great length.
There was no evidence at all to indicate
that he had jumped or
leaped from the bunk.
I came to learn that there were
fractures of the hyoid bone,
which is a delicate, U-shaped bone
located high in the neck directly
beneath the mandible, the lower jaw.
I have here, uh from a
totally unrelated case, of course,
a hyoid bone.
Now, there is some soft
tissue still attached.
On, uh, Jeffrey Epstein,
three fractures were found:
the horn of the hyoid
bone on the left side,
and then directly
beneath on Jeffrey Epstein
there were fractures
of the thyroid cartilage
and then on the right side
of the thyroid cartilage.
You do not get those three fractures
with a suicidal hanging
of someone leaning forward.
So where, again, is the force
that would have been required to produce
those fractures from kneeling forward?
I can say I've never seen it
myself in all of my autopsies.
I would say, to have
these three fractures
in that kind of a suicidal hanging
would be extremely rare. Extremely rare.
[GASPARINO] What really took this
tragedy to another level, in my view,
was when he moved his money over
to the Virgin Islands in his will.
[EDWARDS] Jeffrey Epstein signed a will
two days before he committed suicide.
At that time, he knew he
was committing suicide,
but I would presume his
lawyers didn't know that.
[GASPARINO] It made
it much more difficult
for the victims to get restitution,
and in my view, it sort of underscored
his evilness, you know, his venality.
It basically showed that he
had no remorse whatsoever.
He didn't think he did anything wrong.
That just says it all about
Jeffrey Epstein, you know.
It was a "Fuck you" to the victims.
Like, he had no, sort
of, remorse about victims.
[EDWARDS] The victims Certain things
have been taken from them forever.
They'll never get the satisfaction
of seeing him in jail for life.
But there will come a point in
time where they're able to prove
that they were victimized, they
were harmed by the victimization,
and and that they should
be compensated for it.
But they're never
going to be made whole,
because you just can't ever
take back what happened to them.
[MALLOY] Epstein's lawyers
wanted to dismiss the case.
You can't, uh try a dead guy.
But the judge wasn't
going to let that happen.
The judge was going to let some of
the victims have their day in court.
- [MAN] Good morning, Your Honor.
- Nice to see you.
[MAN] Nice to see you.
[REPORTER 1] Up to 30 women are expected
to accept a New York judge's invitation
to address the hearing
before he moves to dismiss
the criminal sex trafficking
case against Epstein.
[DAVIES] The invite to the
hearing was all very last-minute.
As emotional as this
has all been for me,
it's also ignited, sort of,
this dragon, if you will, in me
that I feel the need to
speak my truth and to
have my voice heard.
[REPORTER 2] More than
a dozen alleged victims
of convicted pedophile Jeffrey
Epstein finally had their day in court.
[WILD] We deserved our day in court.
I think it was a very
cowardly thing for him to do.
He escaped justice.
[REPORTERS CLAMORING]
[ANNIE FARMER] I was so touched
by the strength of the
women that were there
getting up and sharing their
experiences, so many for the first time.
It was a very cathartic
experience to be there.
[RANSOME] Judge Berman,
he changed my life.
For the first time,
I actually saw someone
in a position of power
that actually had any
form of respect for us,
and he listened,
and that's all I ever wanted,
was for someone to listen
and for someone to hear me.
[GIUFFRE] Judge Berman
gave me back something
that I never thought was possible.
He gave me back a
piece of myself that
was missing for so long.
Hugging those girls in court
[SIGHS]
It was beautiful.
[SIGHS]
We cried, we laughed, we hugged
and we all had each other's
backs that day in court.
[REPORTERS CLAMORING]
[EDWARDS] The way that Judge
Berman treated these victims
is going to be the model for
how victims should be treated.
I think that it's going
to go down in history
as the most important case
on behalf of crime victims
in US history to date.
[DAVIES] It makes me sick to my stomach
that there's perpetrators out there that
obviously helped him in many
ways for a very long time,
and they're still out there.
It gives nobody justice, and it
leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
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.
[MCCAWLEY] It's incredibly
scary to come forward
against someone like Jeffrey Epstein,
who's a billionaire, who has
friends in very high places,
who has intimidated
them, who has abused them,
and to stand up many years later
and to say, "This was wrong,
it shouldn't have happened to me,
and I don't want it to
happen to anybody else,"
is just an incredible thing to witness.
[MARIA FARMER] Okay, let's see.
I felt completely defeated.
My life was threatened.
My work was threatened. My career
was jeopardized completely.
I've pretty much been on a journey
for 20 years of not doing my art,
of not painting,
and I was just trying to survive.
And then I began again painting
because I was tired of being afraid.
I felt like I wanted
to expose the monsters,
and I just needed to get that out.
And so this is an illustration.
Basically, it's my diagram for the FBI,
because I want them to see what
I told them all those years ago.
And it's a version of Bosch's
Garden of Earthly Delights,
which is basically just
like Dante's Inferno,
portraying Heaven, Hell, and Earth.
This is our lovely Ghislaine Maxwell.
She's a pill, a hard pill to swallow,
and she's the property of
the FBI in this drawing.
I put Epstein here with his
little UFO on a NASA tower
because Epstein was, um
given a free ride by our government.
And, um Yeah. That's [CHUCKLES]
That makes me angry.
So I'm actually working
on something new right now.
I'm drawing the other Epstein survivors
because it empowers me to
provide them with strength.
And basically it's just about
strength in numbers at this stage.
We really I mean, we need
each other to get through this.
This is Annie, my sister,
and she's holding a paper doll.
What's gonna bind them together
is they're gonna be
holding these paper dolls,
and the paper dolls represent the
children who have not come forward,
and we don't know what happened to them.
[ANNIE FARMER] I think this
was just one chapter in my life.
For a long time, I didn't want
to think about myself as a victim.
And it's interesting because I've
gone on to work as a therapist.
I do think the fact that I had
this experience has helped me
to understand how people
respond to certain situations,
and, you know, to be the
kind of therapist that I am.
[MARIA FARMER] This is Courtney.
Courtney is very strong, and she's
definitely been through a lot.
And I admire her so much.
[WILD] My life is
definitely still a struggle
for everything that I
went through with Jeffrey.
However, it has kind of come to an end.
It's a good thing, it's a
bittersweet thing, because it's over,
and I can kind of work through
the healing process now.
And this is Michelle.
Michelle has, like, a
really fun spirit, I feel.
She has a great sense of humor,
and, also, she's beautiful,
and I wanted to
depict her as I see her, so
[LICATA] This isn't over.
I really hope that the police,
the FBI, the government
Just do your job.
I go to work. I do my job every
single day for the rest of my life.
Uh You're given that
position and that power
to make things right,
to do the right thing.
So do the right thing. That's it.
It's plain and simple, you know?
Take them down. Take everybody down.
[MARIA FARMER] That's
Sarah. She's my favorite.
I love this girl.
She's precious.
I feel a very special bond with
her. I love her like a sister.
[RANSOME] I'll never
get to see Jeffrey again,
and I wanted him to see
the woman I have become,
and that he didn't break me.
And I will fight till
my last breath on Earth.
I'm here today to tell
you that it stops here,
and it stops now, and I am here.
My fight for the rest of
my life will be to make sure
that no woman will ever
feel ashamed to come forward.
This is Virginia.
And I didn't know that Virginia
used a butterfly as a symbol,
which obviously makes sense, a
symbol of freedom, leaving the cocoon.
But I didn't know that when I drew this.
I found that kind of interesting.
[GIUFFRE] Epstein did not act
alone. So my next step is
holding other people accountable.
The people that were involved, the
people that actually participated,
there are so many of them out there.
None of them have been held accountable.
We were kids being trafficked
under their eyes, under their nose.
They knew exactly what was going on,
and they didn't say anything about it.
So stop worrying about
saving your own hide
and help us. That's
all we're asking for.
- Let's go!
- [DOG MOANING HAPPILY]
What are you doing in
there? What are you doing?
[GIUFFRE] The monsters
are still out there,
and they're still abusing other people.
Why they have not been named
and shamed yet is beyond me.