Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (2020) s01e03 Episode Script
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[MAN SIGHS]
- [WOMAN] Raise your right hand, please.
- Yes.
[WOMAN] Do you swear your
testimony will be the truth,
whole truth and nothing but
the truth so help you God?
- Yes, I do.
- [WOMAN] Thank you.
This is Jeffrey Epstein in his
first deposition in my case.
I represented the original
girl that was brought to police
and gave her story that
started this investigation.
[LAWYER] Is it true, sir, that, um
you have what's been described
as an egg-shaped penis?
[LAWYER] I had hired psychologists
to do a psychological
profile on Jeffrey Epstein.
What type of person he was
and what would actually
get under his skin.
What made him tick was
that he was a narcissist.
He had no ability to feel empathy
and saw himself as the "Master
of Puppets," so to speak.
[LAWYER] Sir, one witness
described your penis as oval-shaped
and claimed, when erect, it
was thick towards the bottom
but was thin and small
- towards the head portion
- [EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] Sorry.
[LAWYER] and called it
egg-shaped. Those are not my words.
I apologize, but as
[EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] This
meeting is now adjourned.
[LAWYER] As Mr. Kreighton
has stated that this is a
- [INDISTINCT DIALOGUE]
- [EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] All right.
[LAWYER] I'm willing to continue.
[INDISTINCT DIALOGUE]
[LAWYER] He tries at all times
to be the master of his domain
and in control of his world.
As soon as he feels
he's out of control
it's unsettling to him.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[MICHAEL REITER] When we first
turned the case over to the FBI,
they identified additional victims,
and early on, we in the
Palm Beach Police Department
helped them doing that.
But after nearly two years
there was very little information
flowing from the
federal side back to us.
In fact, they reminded
us on several occasions
that this was not a
cooperative investigation.
It was their investigation.
[LAWYER] All of a
sudden, I had gotten a tip
that Jeffrey Epstein was gonna
be there at the courthouse,
but we didn't know why.
As I'm going through security,
he was actually going through security
with his lawyers at the same time.
And they were kind of rushing him
through security to get upstairs.
The courtroom was packed,
and obviously, at that
point, I started realizing
that something was happening here
that was bigger than
just a routine hearing.
[MUSGRAVE] It was a
very hush-hush hearing.
It was scheduled at the last minute
despite all the time that had elapsed.
[SPENCER KUVIN] There was a
point where Mr. Epstein's lawyers
then took a sidebar and went up and
talked to the judge about something
that the rest of the
courtroom couldn't hear.
He was ushered over to the
bailiff where he was fingerprinted
and a DNA swab was done, and he
was then taken out of the room.
Somehow, his lawyers
had worked out a deal
with the US Attorney's office.
I mean, the whole thing was shocking.
[REITER] No one told us in the
Palm Beach Police Department
that any of this was happening.
Our lobby was full of the news media
because they knew
about it before we did.
Two years now after his arrest
for soliciting prostitutes,
Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey
Epstein pleaded guilty today.
[FEMALE REPORTER] The guilty plea
and deal end a year's long process
that could have sent
Epstein to jail for 15 years.
He agreed to serve a total of 18 months
in the Palm Beach Detention Facility.
[BRAD EDWARDS] It was outrageous.
That's when we learned
for the first time
there's not a deal about to happen.
A deal actually already happened.
It's already done. The case is
over, and my clients are going,
"How is the case over
when it hasn't started?
This doesn't make any sense to me."
I told them, "None of
What doesn't make sense to you right now
also doesn't make sense to me."
Alex Acosta, the acting US Attorney,
should at least have to explain.
Why did you do what you did?
And give us the real story,
whatever it is. Just tell us why.
Give me some explanation for
why this fucking happened.
[MALE REPORTER] News Channel
5's Dori Robau is live today
at the Palm Beach Police Department.
When the police chief here heard
that Epstein would be charged
with solicitation of prostitution,
he thought that the charges
ought to be much more serious,
and Palm Beach police chief Michael
Reiter believed a strong case
had been made that Epstein
had sex with children.
It's the only case I was
involved in, in my entire career,
that I felt as though I really
could not protect the victims.
[MAN] I've been working
together with Brad Edwards
on Epstein civil cases
for over a decade.
Jeffrey Epstein was given immunity
from any other state charges,
and immunity from all federal charges,
both for himself and for any of his
named and unnamed co-conspirators.
It is inexplicable to me
that any prosecutor
could ever have entered
into this kind of plea deal.
In 45 years of practice,
I have never heard of anyone ever
entering into a plea agreement
that not only granted immunity
to the target of an investigation,
but
handed out "get-out-of-jail-free" cards
to everyone of that
person's co-conspirators,
named and unnamed.
[EDWARDS] All unknown co-conspirators
somehow also got immunity.
There was no way that
anybody could look at this
and think this was okay.
[ALAN DERSHOWITZ] The
outcome of this case,
whether people agree
or disagree with it,
doesn't require a conspiracy
between government
officials and wealthy people.
Everything that we negotiated
for had to be approved by Acosta,
by the Assistant Attorney General
in charge of the Criminal
Division in Washington,
by the Deputy Attorney
General of the United States,
ultimately by the Attorney
General of the United States.
This went through various levels.
It was a very tough negotiation.
Acosta mostly sat at the end of
the table and asked hard questions.
The issue was whether or not the
federal government could make a case
based on the evidence they had of
the commission of a federal crime,
and my job was to try to persuade
them they could not make that case.
[KUVIN] Jeffrey Epstein and his
team was just this huge train
of money, power, and influence
that was just barreling down on
the State's Attorney's office,
the US Attorney's office,
just trying to get their way
and eventually getting their way.
[DERSHOWITZ] In the end, they
decided that they'd be better off
getting a bird in the hand
versus two in the bush,
and they agreed to have him plead guilty
to State charges, get a sentence,
and then make massive compensation
to the alleged victims.
I can tell you one
interesting thing: at the end,
Jeffrey Epstein didn't think
we made a very good deal.
He was pretty upset with us. He
thought he could have done better.
Hi, uh Jeffrey. It's George Rush.
- [EPSTEIN] George, how are you?
- [RUSH] Good.
[RUSH] Do you want to say
anything just about the way
your agreement has been
characterized as a secret,
back-room sweetheart deal
that somehow, through the political
connections of your lawyers,
they obtained it.
[EPSTEIN] George, it's total bullshit.
On closer examination, you'll
find my penalty was harsher,
not less, harsher than anyone
else who's ever been charged
- with solicitation of prostitution.
- [RUSH] Mm-hmm.
[EPSTEIN] No girl ever came to my house.
First of all, I never left my house.
So any girl who came to my house
was coming to my house to get money,
to earn money.
New York, by the way,
you should understand,
for the same charge,
- it it's a $100 fine.
- [RUSH] Mm-hmm.
[EPSTEIN] That's the charge
in New York for this behavior.
- Now so.. It's two charges.
- [RUSH] Yes.
[EPSTEIN] So we're clear, one charge
was solicitation of prostitution.
That's nothing to do with minors.
Simply solicitation of prostitution.
The other charge that related to
a minor was procuring a minor
for engaging in prostitution.
So that was the only two
and none of those None
Neither one of the
charges nor any allegation
of alleged sexual intercourse
at any time or any type.
The state charge is simply
a procurement charge.
It has nothing to do with sex.
It's a procurement for prostitution.
[RUSH] Well, what
[EPSTEIN] If you look, even
up until six months ago,
soliciting a 16-year-old prostitute
was a Class D misdemeanor,
which was a fine of $100,
similar to jay-walking.
They labeled us as underage prostitutes
and it's embarrassing
to be identified as that.
It's embarrassing. It's hurtful.
It's all kinds of things.
These girls were not prostitutes.
These girls were middle school
and high school kids Children.
The victims are left beaten and
destroyed and with no answers.
[MICHELLE LICATA] I was shocked when
I read that there was a plea deal.
I didn't know you could make
a deal with the government
and, you know, get a lesser sentence
just based upon how much
power and money you have.
[COURTNEY WILD] Justice wasn't served.
Everybody looked the other way.
And we find out that what
the government did was
they kept the victims in the dark
so we didn't have our day in court.
So, yeah, I was sexually
abused by Jeffrey Epstein,
but I was re-victimized
by the same government
that's supposed to protect us.
They muted our voices,
so I was Yeah, I was
angry. I'm still very angry.
[SHAWNA RIVERA] I think that this
is common for people like Jeff.
I think that they often don't have to
face the consequences for their actions.
I just wanted Jeff to be prosecuted.
I wanted him to, like, not be able
to dig his way out of it with money.
And then I found out
that this deal was made
where the records were sealed and, like,
my ability to do anything criminally
against him was was gone.
I was really upset about it.
I was mad about it and I didn't
know where to go from there.
[EDWARDS] Almost immediately
after the non-prosecution agreement
was secretly signed between
Jeffrey Epstein and the government,
I tell all of my clients
I have to fight this.
And the best thing that I can do is
to enforce your rights under
the Crime Victims Rights Act,
which ensures that
victims, in criminal cases,
um have certain basic
rights, which include the right
to confer with the
prosecutor on the case
before there's a resolution of the case.
We had to file a lawsuit.
[JACK SCAROLA] If a court says these
victims were entitled to be heard,
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,
Jeffrey Epstein, you
did enter into a contract
that was illegal from the outset.
It is going to be voided.
You have no immunity. The federal
government has the right
to prosecute you
and the right to prosecute
your co-conspirators.
One of the next things that we did was
we requested all of
the email correspondence
between the US Attorney's
office and Jeffrey Epstein
to support our allegation
that there was this concerted effort
to
arrive at a secret deal
without the victims knowing.
There were so many unusual occurrences
that went on in connection
with the negotiation
of this non-prosecution agreement.
There were hundreds
of email communications
that got exchanged.
[MIKE FISTEN] We found
out Marie Villafaña
was sending emails back and
forth to Jeffrey's lawyers
asking them if they
wanted to make any changes.
I mean, at one point in her emails,
she's telling Jeffrey's lawyers,
"Don't email me at the office anymore.
Here's my Gmail. Email me at my Gmail."
[SCAROLA] Mr. Acosta holds some meetings
outside the US Attorney's office,
outside lawyers' offices
in a room at the Marriott hotel
that were clearly intended to preserve
the secrecy of the negotiations
that were going on.
If any of the victims knew what
was going on in this conspiracy
between Jeffrey Epstein
and the government,
they could have blown
the whole thing up.
Before the plea deal, I think
the focus was really on Florida.
They didn't really realize it expanded
with victims being trafficked,
and traveled, and lent out
around the country and around the world.
[EDWARDS] I'm reading from the complaint
filed by Virginia Roberts against you.
Isn't it true, sir, that
a friend of yours sent you
three 12-year-old
females for you to sexually
abuse on one of your birthdays?
[EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] Form
argumentative, harassing,
- and irrelevant to this lawsuit.
- Excuse me,
but could you You're saying
that's part of the lawsuit?
[EDWARDS] Yeah, I'll read it directly.
[GIUFFRE] It was Jeffrey's
birthday one year.
I don't remember what year it was,
but I would say it's a good
year into our you know
our relationship,
our knowing each other,
and he was laughing about the fact that
his friend sent him
three 12-year-old girls
that he had purchased
from their parents.
[EDWARDS] "On one of
defendant Epstein's birthdays,
a friend of defendant Epstein
sent him three 12-year-old girls
from France, who spoke no English,
for the defendant to
sexually exploit and abuse.
After doing so, they were sent
back to France the next day."
- Isn't that true?
- [EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] Once again,
I'm going to move to strike.
Irrelevant, argumentative, harassing.
[EDWARDS] All right.
I would like to answer that
question. I really would.
However, today my attorneys have told me
I have to assert my Fifth Amendment,
Sixth Amendment, and
Fourteenth Amendment rights
under the US Constitution.
[EDWARDS] You're invoking
your Fifth Amendment rights
to each of these questions
because you know that your
answers will incriminate you
and you feel uh, that it will result
in you being prosecuted
for these crimes,
isn't that right?
[EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] Objection.
Argumentative, harassing,
and calls for a legal conclusion.
- [MAN] Answer.
- No, in fact the Supreme Court recently said
that the Fifth Amendment right
is there to protect the innocent,
so that's why I'd like to answer that.
[CHURCH BELL RINGING]
[RINGING CONTINUES]
[WOMAN] I love it here in Spain
because it's so far away
that Jeffrey Epstein
could never find me here.
My name is Sarah Ransome.
In 2006,
I was sexually trafficked
by Jeffrey Epstein.
I'd just turned 22 when I
decided to go to New York.
New York's where
everyone's dreams come true.
I packed my bags, really excited,
and I landed in New York
on the first of September.
However, I didn't know anyone.
I didn't have that much money.
I was there for about two weeks,
and one night I went
to a club called Quo,
and I met this girl, Natalya Malyshev.
She immediately befriended me. She
became like my instant best friend.
She said that she knew this amazing
guy. He was a philanthropist.
This guy genuinely is a really kind guy,
and, you know, whatever my dream
is, he can make it come true.
Natalya said, "This guy
would really like to meet you.
We're going to the cinema."
It was Jeffrey, of course.
He was charming, charismatic,
friendly, um, caring,
where he actually listened to me.
And then I get a call, like,
I think it was the next
day or like two days after,
and it was Natalya going,
"You'll never believe it.
Jeffrey really thought you were cool."
This guy wants to help me
out, pay for my education.
He was going to get me into the
Fashion Institute of Technology.
Natalya said, "And he's
got this private island,
and we're going on his private
plane, and it's amazing.
It's like a tropical paradise and "
I'm, like, down for going to a
private island on a private plane.
It was on that first plane journey
that something peculiar happened.
Jeffrey started having hardcore sex
in front of everybody with another girl.
And everyone else was sort of
pretending to be asleep and ignoring it,
and I just found it really
odd that no one wa
no one was saying or reacting
So I just pretended to sort of nod
off. I didn't know where to look.
It was traumatizing. It's still
a very vivid memory for me,
and I should have known then.
I should have trusted
my instincts, but I
I didn't.
[SEABIRDS SQUAWKING]
[GORDON ACKLEY] The island
is, uh, approximately 75 acres.
From St. Thomas, it's
about a ten-minute ride
by passenger boat out to the island.
This is Mr. Epstein's,
uh, principal residence,
which is the island
of Little Saint James.
Mr. Epstein built little cabanas and
beach houses all across the island.
The blue roof
that is closest to the water was
Mr. Epstein's personal residence.
And the main house and the guest house,
that's where the guests would stay.
He is not representative of the
people of the Virgin Islands,
I can tell you that.
But being on an island by yourself,
I guess he felt he could
do whatever he wanted.
[GIUFFRE] The island, that was one
of Jeffrey's favorite places to go
because it was so isolated.
There's no doubt that it was beautiful.
It has a nickname,
the Pedophile Island,
but that wasn't the
nickname Jeffrey gave it.
It was Little Saint Jeff's.
That was his nickname for it.
But it really is Orgy Island,
because that's what happened there.
That was what that island meant to me.
I started working on the island in 1999
and worked until either the end
of 2005 or the start of 2006.
I was there for maintenance on
Jeffrey Epstein's telecommunications
and data equipment.
He wanted a private cellular network.
Privacy was very important
to Jeffrey Epstein.
I was on the island
probably a hundred times.
I was ultimately in every
[CHUCKLING] single building
that existed on the island at that time.
And I would say every other month
I would see guests on the island,
and the guests almost
always included young girls.
One time I went to the
Grotto, the little beach,
as it was coined,
and when I walked down
there was a gentleman who was
not Jeffrey and three girls.
The three girls were topless.
Um
The gentleman was, uh nude.
I left immediately.
Sometimes there were
other people on the island
that were important people.
I saw Alan Dershowitz on the island.
It was more of a business meeting.
Another time, I saw Bill
Clinton sitting with Jeffrey
on the living room porch area,
which was Jeffrey's favorite spot.
I saw no other guests
there at that time at all.
I just said, "Hey, you know, wow
Jeffrey's sitting with Bill Clinton."
[GIUFFRE] Not all the men took part.
I have, you know, seen
people on the island
that came for a lunch or a dinner,
and they didn't stay very long.
[STEVE SCULLY] Jeffrey
hung out with a lot of
powerful and well-known figures,
both politically and
financially, and I mean
British royalty.
It was probably around 2004,
I saw Prince Andrew. He was at the pool.
He was with, at that time,
an unknown girl to me.
She was young. She
didn't have any top on.
They were engaged in foreplay.
He was
grabbing her and grinding against her.
You know, you tell yourself
that you didn't know for sure.
You never really saw anything.
But that's just all rationalization.
Jeffrey Epstein, he was a guy that
concealed his deviance very well.
But he didn't conceal it that well.
One day, the pool guy's on
the island when I get there.
He said, "Why are you doing this?"
And I said,
"I don't know. I really The money."
And he said, "Do you have any children?"
And I said, "Yeah, I have
two daughters, 13 and 15."
And he said, "Would you let your
daughters come to the island?"
And when he said that,
I realized I wouldn't
let my two children
within five miles of that man.
And I quit the next day.
I don't believe Jeffrey
Epstein ever regretted
a single thing he did in his life.
I think that he's one of
those kinds of sociopaths
that could afford to
live out his perversions
in any way that he wanted.
[SARAH RANSOME] At
the US Virgin Islands,
you've got authorities going, you know,
"Hello, Mr. Epstein,
nice to see you again,"
welcoming him at the airport
as if he's some sort of celebrity,
with about five girls trailing behind,
and no one said anything.
And I think that they knew.
The airport staff knew.
The flight controllers knew.
The pilots knew. The landing guys knew.
The guys that are even
taking the luggage off knew.
They all knew.
From the very first day
that I arrived on the island,
the abuse started.
Natalya called me and
said that he, um
wanted to see me in in his room.
And there was this massage table,
and then I was asked to go on the table.
He just raped me.
It
It was like lying on a surgeon's table
and someone doing things to you
that you have no control over.
You're You're powerless.
I was trapped.
From the very first day,
I think I was in such shock
because I think the more he saw
you being damaged, the
more he enjoyed it
the more it excited him.
This area here reminds me of
the evening when I tried
to escape the island
after I had been raped
three times that day.
[VOICE BREAKING] And he would do things,
so [CRYING]
[SOBBING] It was Sorry.
[SOBBING] He did things that no
man should ever do to a woman.
And he did it all the time,
and, you know, that
day I'd just had enough.
My plan was just to swim away.
And I specifically went to
a remote part of the island.
Before I'd even gathered my thoughts
as to how I was going to climb down,
uh get into the ocean, swim
away, Jeffrey Epstein found me
almost immediately. He knew
exactly where I was, the location
Um
And I knew then that I was being
filmed. I was being watched 24/7.
There were cameras all over
the island, and he got me back.
[WOMAN] Jeffrey's Island:
it's like smoke and mirrors.
Some really bad stuff happened there.
I'm Chauntae Davies,
and I first met Jeffrey
Epstein at 21 years old.
I worked for Jeffrey as
a professional masseuse.
It was the end of 2001
when they said, "We're
flying to Jeffrey's island."
And here I was going to
this private island in
in the in the Caribbean and,
you know, just all this was just
so foreign to me that I just, you know,
I was I started to get very excited
because I was starting to really see
the perks of working for them.
They showed me around the island,
the various villas and
where I was staying.
So after dinner that night,
I went back to my room,
and then Sarah Kellen, their assistant,
came knocking on my door and said,
"Jeffrey is ready for his massage now."
[SINISTER MUSIC]
[CHAUNTAE DAVIES] It started
to feel like this is not
this is not okay.
This is not This isn't
going somewhere good.
I began the massage like I always did,
and then he flipped around,
and he threw me on the bed
by holding my wrists
together and raped me.
He jumped off the bed
and got in the shower,
and I just jumped off the bed
also, and ran out of the door,
and ran all the way back to my villa.
I'd left my shoes behind and
was barefoot running back,
and by the time I got back to my villa,
my feet were were a bloody mess,
and then I just cried myself
to sleep that night and
woke up the next day and tried
to pretend like it didn't happen.
Did I resist? Absolutely.
Did I say no? Yes, I did.
Did I fight? No, I didn't.
Um
You know, I was terrified.
[VOICE BREAKING] I was
isolated on a private island
in the middle of nowhere and
Um
[SIGHS]
Just didn't, you know
Just let it happen.
Jeffrey Epstein went to jail
just before 10:00 this morning.
He pleaded guilty in open court.
He agreed to serve a total of 18 months
in the Palm Beach Detention Facility.
[MAN] It was negotiated between
the federal government and the state
that Mr. Epstein would serve
his time at a county jail
which was ours.
Mr. Epstein stayed in T dorm,
which is located where
my finger is pointing.
Describing this as a jail sentence
is grossly misleading.
He served it in a
private wing of the jail.
[EDWARDS] His cell door was left open.
He was provided food that
other people didn't get to eat.
He was provided a TV room.
He got to meet with his
lawyers almost around the clock
when he was at the jail facility.
[MICHAEL GAUGER] Mr. Epstein
was given work release
that he qualified for
immediately upon his entry.
[EDWARDS] Are you released
from jail at some time?
Do you have to report back
to jail on a daily basis?
Yes, I report back to jail at 8:00 p.m.
[EDWARDS STAMMERS] Every single day?
Yes, sir.
[EDWARDS] And is it seven days a
week that you're out on work release?
No, sir.
[EDWARDS] How many days a week
are you out on work release?
Six.
[EDWARDS] And of those six days,
how many hours per day are
you out on work release?
Twelve.
For sex offenders to be on work
release makes no sense to me.
[GAUGER] Every other inmate
would be given the same privileges
if they met the parameters.
Mr. Epstein had to file for
a work permit application,
and that's what I have in my hand.
"Participants shall not engage
in or have contact with any person
that's engaged in illegal activities."
Part of the agreement
was an off-duty deputy
that he would be responsible
for the salaries of
that would be with him the entire
time of, uh at his office.
It was approximately $42 an
hour for a deputy to be with him.
So that's 12 hours per day.
Here are the payments
that were made by Epstein,
uh, with a total of $128,136.
[EDWARDS] At the office, he
was able to ask other females
to send him photographs.
He was able to fly girls in. He
was able to engage in sexual acts.
[GAUGER] We were given Mr. Epstein
under conditions that
we were not used to,
and we did the very best we could
under the parameters that we had.
[MUSGRAVE] It's hard to decide
which part of the deal is the worst,
but I think probably the biggest laugh
was that he was allowed to leave.
So he was just like,
he was staying at a really bad motel.
[RANSOME] He did jail, whatever that is,
but you know a Holiday
Inn. [CHUCKLES] Great.
So, I've been raped over and over again
because Alex Acosta didn't have the
balls or the courage to protect us.
[REPORTER 1] A few steps, a smile,
and a wave to the deputy at the door.
We watched Jeffrey
Epstein walk out of jail,
but only his attorneys heard from him.
He's very happy that his
jail sentence is over,
and, uh, he can begin a
new chapter in his life.
[REPORTER 2] Palm Beach billionaire
Jeffrey Epstein is waking up
in his mansion this morning
after serving just 13 months
of his 18 month sentence
for paying underage girls for sex.
[REPORTER 3] Epstein will
serve 12 months house arrest
at his Palm Beach home.
The 54-year-old will
be confined to his home
except for work and other activities
approved by his probation officer.
[FISTEN] In 2009, after
Jeffrey Epstein got out of jail,
victims' attorney Brad Edwards asked me
to follow Jeffrey to see if he
was abiding by his probation.
So we're about a block and a
half east of Jeffrey's house.
The street here, you get a good view
of who would come in
and out of his gate.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[FISTEN] There was a couple of occasions
where we knew Jeffrey was hiding
in the car when he left.
He would violate his probation
almost on a daily basis.
There's 11 pages here of
just different violations.
I think I myself
documented 66 different days
that he violated his probation.
On this particular day
- [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
- Epstein left his house
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
and drove to South Beach
where he met with Alan
Dershowitz at a hotel.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[FISTEN] This is pictures
of his bodyguard, Igor,
outside waiting for them to come out.
That's his Escalade.
I had contacted the probation and
said, "Do you know where Jeffrey is?"
And she said, "Yeah,
he's home at his house."
I said, "No he's not. He's
at a hotel down in Miami."
I waited outside for Jeffrey to leave.
I just got out of my car with my
camera and I said, "Hey, smile."
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
- [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
- [FISTEN] He would go to New York
to his island.
He would go to the airport,
jump in his helicopter.
Who knows where he went
without telling anybody?
Every time I brought the
probation office a case,
they kept telling me the same thing.
"What would you like us
to do? He's a celebrity."
I mean, just think about this.
You have a pedophile out on probation.
To violate probation in the
state of Florida is illegal,
except for Jeffrey Epstein.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
[DAVIES] In 2002,
Jeffrey's office asked me
if I wanted to go on a trip to Africa.
I was reluctant to go because
I was traumatized on the island,
but I developed the sort of mentality
that as long as I didn't
talk about the abuse,
it didn't really happen.
It was something that, you know,
I'd kind of been conditioned to
from my childhood. Just, you know,
there was so many tragedies
and traumas that happened,
and none of it was ever talked about.
So Ghislaine got on one of
the phone calls and said,
"This is a great opportunity,
and we'd love to have you."
I went from just the masseuse
to being asked to be a
personal assistant on this trip.
So I was blinded by
the opportunity of it.
I hadn't gone anywhere really
and to go to Africa was
like a dream come true.
I flew from L.A. to New York.
The plane was ready on the
tarmac when I got there,
and I took a seat.
Then our our guests arrived.
It was Bill Clinton,
Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker.
I was
blown away, like, "Oh, my God!"
It was surreal.
But the trip was about
the AIDS organization
that Clinton had started.
This trip to Africa is
probably the single most
amazing moment of my life.
And I remember having
this false belief that
the abuse had stopped because
nothing had happened in Africa,
thinking that maybe it just
wasn't going to happen anymore.
But after the Africa trip,
the abuse started all over again,
and it never stopped after that.
It never once occurred to me that
I was being paid for anything more
than being a masseuse. I
really kept it separate.
I was there for a job,
and this man was also sexually
assaulting me on the side.
It was two separate things for me.
I definitely didn't have
the mature mindset of a
normal 21, 22, 23-year-old.
My mom had fled an extremely
abusive relationship,
and so when we fled, I was
taking care of my sister.
Years later, my then 17-year-old
sister was living with me.
On one random weekend, Jeffrey
and Ghislaine flew to L.A.,
and they just invited me for lunch.
Ghislaine was like, "Bring
her along," you know,
and it never occurred to me
that this was maybe a bad idea.
I never thought that he was
doing this to other people.
I really didn't.
So
I brought my sister with me
and it was decided right then and there
that they were going to
send her to school in Spain
to study language and to pursue
her dream to be a translator.
It wasn't until April of
2005, almost two years later,
that I learned that he was
also doing this to my sister.
She came back home
with an eating disorder.
She was rail-thin and
looked horrible, and
she confessed that Jeffrey had been
sexually assaulting her
basically since they sent her to school.
I never knew until
she came home that day.
My sister thought that Jeffrey
was the most powerful
man she'd ever meet
and knew that he was friends
with celebrities and
and, you know, wealthy people and
There was an altercation that took
place in Jeffrey's Paris apartment
with Harvey Weinstein.
My sister came running from the room,
freaked out at whatever
he'd said and did in there,
and immediately, Harvey
Weinstein's assistant got involved,
trying to remedy the situation
by sending flowers and apology notes.
Jeffrey and Harvey are
both very disgusting people
who used their power
to manipulate and abuse.
I let Jeffrey know that I knew
what he had done to my sister
and that I didn't want to, you know,
have anything to do with him anymore.
And he told me that
if I thought I could
get anywhere in life
without his help that I was wrong,
and basically hung up on me after
that, and we never spoke again.
I still feel
an immense amount of guilt because
I was responsible for her and I
let her s move to a different
country under the pretense
that she was going to get
this amazing education,
and she came back traumatized
at the same hands of the
person who was traumatizing me
for the last three years and
Um
How could she not be angry?
You know? I would be angry.
There's definitely still a lot of
guilt and anger that I have
and feel that I don't
know will ever go away.
[RANSOME] Jeffrey found
out where your weakness was.
When I was 14, I had been raped.
That one rape will affect
you for the rest of your life.
Part of being sexually trafficked
is you're coerced right from the start.
Once you've opened that door,
they then shut that door
so you can't get back out.
Jeffrey put me up in his
apartment in New York.
He gave me enough money to buy food.
He was, um, organizing
my transportation.
He was going to be
paying for my education.
My whole life was based through Jeffrey.
It was eight and a half months
that I had Jeffrey in my life.
This is as an abusive
relationship physically and
and mentally as it gets.
But I left and I disappeared.
So when I fled New York,
I fled for my life.
You're either going to live or die.
That's That's That's simple.
[FISTEN] Jeffrey Epstein, after
he got released on probation,
he goes to New York.
The first thing he does is have a party.
All these people
showing up at this house.
The Prince is there.
Woody Allen's there.
After everybody knew
a large number of
underage girls were abused,
people continued to
associate themselves with him.
[EPSTEIN] I'm just looking
to, you know, get my life back.
Go into my philanthropy.
I must have given away
like $14 million last year.
I've collected some of the
world's smartest people.
I've funded some of the world's
greatest cutting-edge science.
I mean, I have lots
of Nobel Prize winners
come here and they end up, you know
getting funded for some things
that it's difficult
to get funded for now.
Quantum computing, for example.
Evolutionary code theory.
[RUSH] Mm-hmm.
So you're not, um you're
not engaging in any sort
- of illegal massage or ?
- [EPSTEIN SCOFFS] No. I'm afraid not.
Most of the scientists who come
here are in their 70s and 80s,
and they're probably
They're not that attractive.
[MARC FISHER] Epstein,
uh managed to maintain
a very good reputation
in many, uh, circles
by being a very generous donor to
universities, to research centers.
He would show up at academic
conferences, at medical conventions,
and not only write them a check but
want to be part of the discussion.
[ANNIE FARMER] It was really
troubling how quickly he was just,
you know, brought back into
the fold in his in his world
and the celebrities that felt
like it was just fine, you know,
to socialize with him
and be in public with him.
It felt like there was
just really no consequence
and people didn't care
about his behavior.
It was really disheartening.
[MUSGRAVE] I think that is one
of the tragedies of the case,
is Jeffrey Epstein was allowed
to just resume business as usual.
His victims struggled, you know?
They had had, you know,
this horrible experience.
Nobody had taken them seriously.
And you know, yeah, for years
I think a lot of them struggled
and still probably to this
day are still struggling.
[WILD] Being so young at 14, being
introduced to Jeffrey Epstein,
you know
having this sexual relationship
with a guy that gives me money.
It was too much.
I just dropped out of high school.
It wasn't pretty. It was, um you
know, drugs, money, sex, fast life.
Um For a very long
time, I went down that road.
And that did lead me into incarceration.
It was a dark time, for sure.
[LICATA] I started going down
this really depressing road.
I hated myself.
I wanted to inflict pain on myself.
So I would just take like a knife,
and I'd just like
Just cut it right here on my arm.
If I was the one doing the pain
then it wasn't anybody
else doing it to me.
I wanted to to know that I could
always have control of a situation
because that situation that I was
in made me feel like I was helpless.
Things only got worse after that.
I was doing drugs.
Started out with pills
and then mushrooms
acid
heroin.
Gotten to a point and just
I [SIGHS] I'm just gonna kill
myself doing these drugs and
why would it matter?
There's days when I
don't get out of bed,
and I don't feel like
I'm going to make it.
I lost a lot of friends. I
had to quit a lot of places
because I was being bullied at work.
I struggled.
Even though I was a
minor when I met him,
I wasn't protected.
My name was thrown out there.
I was definitely vilified, humiliated.
They released my name.
They released my pictures.
They released a lot of
personal information.
I was a victim, just
like the other girls.
I was, um, preyed upon
by Jeffrey Epstein,
the same way the others were.
I do think about the girls that
I brought, that I recruited
and I think this is probably the
hardest part because of the guilt.
That's what destroys me every day.
[GIUFFRE] Being lent out
and being abused by Epstein,
I was in a bad way.
I was very scared,
and I was very alone
and I knew that I had to get out.
I didn't know what that
opportunity was going to be
when I started packing those bags,
but I really felt
like this was my break.
I'm in Australia now
and I have been for 17 years
since I escaped from Jeffrey Epstein.
It was 2002, just
before my 19th birthday.
I'd been with Jeffrey just
over two years at that point.
We went for a snorkeling
day on his island
and Ghislaine's like,
"I wanna talk to you
about something kind of serious."
And I thought, "Oh, God, what are
they going to ask me to do now?"
And she goes, "Well, Jeffrey
and I, we want to have a baby.
We want you to have the baby for us,
but it's not really going to be your kid
because we need you to sign
over that child's rights to us."
It was gut-wrenching. I
just I knew I had to get out.
But I was afraid to say
no, so I said, "Okay, well,
you guys did promise me
that I'd get an education.
So could you at least let me
get my massage certificate
and we'll do it."
And not even a few weeks later,
Jeffrey gives me these
tickets booked to Thailand
Um
And he says, "Happy
birthday. This is for you.
You're going to go get a certificate."
So I get to Thailand, and I'm like,
"I have an opportunity here to escape.
I've got to tell somebody what's
going on. I've got to leave."
Nearly immediately, I met Robert.
We fell in love.
It was the first moment in my life
where I said I can take
control of my own life.
He got on one knee.
He proposed, just like that.
He said, "Come back
to Australia with me."
Seven days later, we were married
in a Chiang Mai Buddhist temple
in the mountains.
It was the happiest moment of my life.
I called Jeffrey. I
didn't know what to say
or how to say it, but I said
I just blurted out, um
"Jeffrey, I just got married
and, um, I'm not coming back."
He said, "What do you mean?"
And you could tell he
was pissed, well pissed.
And I'm scared. I'm scared to death.
I said, "Jeffrey, I'm
Just I've started a new life.
You know, that's it."
And he hung up the phone.
I felt free. I mean, I immediately
felt like the chains broke off.
It was a powerful moment for me
but one of the first things
that I said to my husband was,
"Robbie, enough's enough.
We've got to do something. He
needs to be brought to justice."
Then I said, "Okay, let's
hold them accountable."
And that's when we decided
we're going to go get them.
We're gonna go get them all.
[MAN SIGHS]
- [WOMAN] Raise your right hand, please.
- Yes.
[WOMAN] Do you swear your
testimony will be the truth,
whole truth and nothing but
the truth so help you God?
- Yes, I do.
- [WOMAN] Thank you.
This is Jeffrey Epstein in his
first deposition in my case.
I represented the original
girl that was brought to police
and gave her story that
started this investigation.
[LAWYER] Is it true, sir, that, um
you have what's been described
as an egg-shaped penis?
[LAWYER] I had hired psychologists
to do a psychological
profile on Jeffrey Epstein.
What type of person he was
and what would actually
get under his skin.
What made him tick was
that he was a narcissist.
He had no ability to feel empathy
and saw himself as the "Master
of Puppets," so to speak.
[LAWYER] Sir, one witness
described your penis as oval-shaped
and claimed, when erect, it
was thick towards the bottom
but was thin and small
- towards the head portion
- [EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] Sorry.
[LAWYER] and called it
egg-shaped. Those are not my words.
I apologize, but as
[EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] This
meeting is now adjourned.
[LAWYER] As Mr. Kreighton
has stated that this is a
- [INDISTINCT DIALOGUE]
- [EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] All right.
[LAWYER] I'm willing to continue.
[INDISTINCT DIALOGUE]
[LAWYER] He tries at all times
to be the master of his domain
and in control of his world.
As soon as he feels
he's out of control
it's unsettling to him.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[MICHAEL REITER] When we first
turned the case over to the FBI,
they identified additional victims,
and early on, we in the
Palm Beach Police Department
helped them doing that.
But after nearly two years
there was very little information
flowing from the
federal side back to us.
In fact, they reminded
us on several occasions
that this was not a
cooperative investigation.
It was their investigation.
[LAWYER] All of a
sudden, I had gotten a tip
that Jeffrey Epstein was gonna
be there at the courthouse,
but we didn't know why.
As I'm going through security,
he was actually going through security
with his lawyers at the same time.
And they were kind of rushing him
through security to get upstairs.
The courtroom was packed,
and obviously, at that
point, I started realizing
that something was happening here
that was bigger than
just a routine hearing.
[MUSGRAVE] It was a
very hush-hush hearing.
It was scheduled at the last minute
despite all the time that had elapsed.
[SPENCER KUVIN] There was a
point where Mr. Epstein's lawyers
then took a sidebar and went up and
talked to the judge about something
that the rest of the
courtroom couldn't hear.
He was ushered over to the
bailiff where he was fingerprinted
and a DNA swab was done, and he
was then taken out of the room.
Somehow, his lawyers
had worked out a deal
with the US Attorney's office.
I mean, the whole thing was shocking.
[REITER] No one told us in the
Palm Beach Police Department
that any of this was happening.
Our lobby was full of the news media
because they knew
about it before we did.
Two years now after his arrest
for soliciting prostitutes,
Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey
Epstein pleaded guilty today.
[FEMALE REPORTER] The guilty plea
and deal end a year's long process
that could have sent
Epstein to jail for 15 years.
He agreed to serve a total of 18 months
in the Palm Beach Detention Facility.
[BRAD EDWARDS] It was outrageous.
That's when we learned
for the first time
there's not a deal about to happen.
A deal actually already happened.
It's already done. The case is
over, and my clients are going,
"How is the case over
when it hasn't started?
This doesn't make any sense to me."
I told them, "None of
What doesn't make sense to you right now
also doesn't make sense to me."
Alex Acosta, the acting US Attorney,
should at least have to explain.
Why did you do what you did?
And give us the real story,
whatever it is. Just tell us why.
Give me some explanation for
why this fucking happened.
[MALE REPORTER] News Channel
5's Dori Robau is live today
at the Palm Beach Police Department.
When the police chief here heard
that Epstein would be charged
with solicitation of prostitution,
he thought that the charges
ought to be much more serious,
and Palm Beach police chief Michael
Reiter believed a strong case
had been made that Epstein
had sex with children.
It's the only case I was
involved in, in my entire career,
that I felt as though I really
could not protect the victims.
[MAN] I've been working
together with Brad Edwards
on Epstein civil cases
for over a decade.
Jeffrey Epstein was given immunity
from any other state charges,
and immunity from all federal charges,
both for himself and for any of his
named and unnamed co-conspirators.
It is inexplicable to me
that any prosecutor
could ever have entered
into this kind of plea deal.
In 45 years of practice,
I have never heard of anyone ever
entering into a plea agreement
that not only granted immunity
to the target of an investigation,
but
handed out "get-out-of-jail-free" cards
to everyone of that
person's co-conspirators,
named and unnamed.
[EDWARDS] All unknown co-conspirators
somehow also got immunity.
There was no way that
anybody could look at this
and think this was okay.
[ALAN DERSHOWITZ] The
outcome of this case,
whether people agree
or disagree with it,
doesn't require a conspiracy
between government
officials and wealthy people.
Everything that we negotiated
for had to be approved by Acosta,
by the Assistant Attorney General
in charge of the Criminal
Division in Washington,
by the Deputy Attorney
General of the United States,
ultimately by the Attorney
General of the United States.
This went through various levels.
It was a very tough negotiation.
Acosta mostly sat at the end of
the table and asked hard questions.
The issue was whether or not the
federal government could make a case
based on the evidence they had of
the commission of a federal crime,
and my job was to try to persuade
them they could not make that case.
[KUVIN] Jeffrey Epstein and his
team was just this huge train
of money, power, and influence
that was just barreling down on
the State's Attorney's office,
the US Attorney's office,
just trying to get their way
and eventually getting their way.
[DERSHOWITZ] In the end, they
decided that they'd be better off
getting a bird in the hand
versus two in the bush,
and they agreed to have him plead guilty
to State charges, get a sentence,
and then make massive compensation
to the alleged victims.
I can tell you one
interesting thing: at the end,
Jeffrey Epstein didn't think
we made a very good deal.
He was pretty upset with us. He
thought he could have done better.
Hi, uh Jeffrey. It's George Rush.
- [EPSTEIN] George, how are you?
- [RUSH] Good.
[RUSH] Do you want to say
anything just about the way
your agreement has been
characterized as a secret,
back-room sweetheart deal
that somehow, through the political
connections of your lawyers,
they obtained it.
[EPSTEIN] George, it's total bullshit.
On closer examination, you'll
find my penalty was harsher,
not less, harsher than anyone
else who's ever been charged
- with solicitation of prostitution.
- [RUSH] Mm-hmm.
[EPSTEIN] No girl ever came to my house.
First of all, I never left my house.
So any girl who came to my house
was coming to my house to get money,
to earn money.
New York, by the way,
you should understand,
for the same charge,
- it it's a $100 fine.
- [RUSH] Mm-hmm.
[EPSTEIN] That's the charge
in New York for this behavior.
- Now so.. It's two charges.
- [RUSH] Yes.
[EPSTEIN] So we're clear, one charge
was solicitation of prostitution.
That's nothing to do with minors.
Simply solicitation of prostitution.
The other charge that related to
a minor was procuring a minor
for engaging in prostitution.
So that was the only two
and none of those None
Neither one of the
charges nor any allegation
of alleged sexual intercourse
at any time or any type.
The state charge is simply
a procurement charge.
It has nothing to do with sex.
It's a procurement for prostitution.
[RUSH] Well, what
[EPSTEIN] If you look, even
up until six months ago,
soliciting a 16-year-old prostitute
was a Class D misdemeanor,
which was a fine of $100,
similar to jay-walking.
They labeled us as underage prostitutes
and it's embarrassing
to be identified as that.
It's embarrassing. It's hurtful.
It's all kinds of things.
These girls were not prostitutes.
These girls were middle school
and high school kids Children.
The victims are left beaten and
destroyed and with no answers.
[MICHELLE LICATA] I was shocked when
I read that there was a plea deal.
I didn't know you could make
a deal with the government
and, you know, get a lesser sentence
just based upon how much
power and money you have.
[COURTNEY WILD] Justice wasn't served.
Everybody looked the other way.
And we find out that what
the government did was
they kept the victims in the dark
so we didn't have our day in court.
So, yeah, I was sexually
abused by Jeffrey Epstein,
but I was re-victimized
by the same government
that's supposed to protect us.
They muted our voices,
so I was Yeah, I was
angry. I'm still very angry.
[SHAWNA RIVERA] I think that this
is common for people like Jeff.
I think that they often don't have to
face the consequences for their actions.
I just wanted Jeff to be prosecuted.
I wanted him to, like, not be able
to dig his way out of it with money.
And then I found out
that this deal was made
where the records were sealed and, like,
my ability to do anything criminally
against him was was gone.
I was really upset about it.
I was mad about it and I didn't
know where to go from there.
[EDWARDS] Almost immediately
after the non-prosecution agreement
was secretly signed between
Jeffrey Epstein and the government,
I tell all of my clients
I have to fight this.
And the best thing that I can do is
to enforce your rights under
the Crime Victims Rights Act,
which ensures that
victims, in criminal cases,
um have certain basic
rights, which include the right
to confer with the
prosecutor on the case
before there's a resolution of the case.
We had to file a lawsuit.
[JACK SCAROLA] If a court says these
victims were entitled to be heard,
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,
Jeffrey Epstein, you
did enter into a contract
that was illegal from the outset.
It is going to be voided.
You have no immunity. The federal
government has the right
to prosecute you
and the right to prosecute
your co-conspirators.
One of the next things that we did was
we requested all of
the email correspondence
between the US Attorney's
office and Jeffrey Epstein
to support our allegation
that there was this concerted effort
to
arrive at a secret deal
without the victims knowing.
There were so many unusual occurrences
that went on in connection
with the negotiation
of this non-prosecution agreement.
There were hundreds
of email communications
that got exchanged.
[MIKE FISTEN] We found
out Marie Villafaña
was sending emails back and
forth to Jeffrey's lawyers
asking them if they
wanted to make any changes.
I mean, at one point in her emails,
she's telling Jeffrey's lawyers,
"Don't email me at the office anymore.
Here's my Gmail. Email me at my Gmail."
[SCAROLA] Mr. Acosta holds some meetings
outside the US Attorney's office,
outside lawyers' offices
in a room at the Marriott hotel
that were clearly intended to preserve
the secrecy of the negotiations
that were going on.
If any of the victims knew what
was going on in this conspiracy
between Jeffrey Epstein
and the government,
they could have blown
the whole thing up.
Before the plea deal, I think
the focus was really on Florida.
They didn't really realize it expanded
with victims being trafficked,
and traveled, and lent out
around the country and around the world.
[EDWARDS] I'm reading from the complaint
filed by Virginia Roberts against you.
Isn't it true, sir, that
a friend of yours sent you
three 12-year-old
females for you to sexually
abuse on one of your birthdays?
[EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] Form
argumentative, harassing,
- and irrelevant to this lawsuit.
- Excuse me,
but could you You're saying
that's part of the lawsuit?
[EDWARDS] Yeah, I'll read it directly.
[GIUFFRE] It was Jeffrey's
birthday one year.
I don't remember what year it was,
but I would say it's a good
year into our you know
our relationship,
our knowing each other,
and he was laughing about the fact that
his friend sent him
three 12-year-old girls
that he had purchased
from their parents.
[EDWARDS] "On one of
defendant Epstein's birthdays,
a friend of defendant Epstein
sent him three 12-year-old girls
from France, who spoke no English,
for the defendant to
sexually exploit and abuse.
After doing so, they were sent
back to France the next day."
- Isn't that true?
- [EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] Once again,
I'm going to move to strike.
Irrelevant, argumentative, harassing.
[EDWARDS] All right.
I would like to answer that
question. I really would.
However, today my attorneys have told me
I have to assert my Fifth Amendment,
Sixth Amendment, and
Fourteenth Amendment rights
under the US Constitution.
[EDWARDS] You're invoking
your Fifth Amendment rights
to each of these questions
because you know that your
answers will incriminate you
and you feel uh, that it will result
in you being prosecuted
for these crimes,
isn't that right?
[EPSTEIN'S LAWYER] Objection.
Argumentative, harassing,
and calls for a legal conclusion.
- [MAN] Answer.
- No, in fact the Supreme Court recently said
that the Fifth Amendment right
is there to protect the innocent,
so that's why I'd like to answer that.
[CHURCH BELL RINGING]
[RINGING CONTINUES]
[WOMAN] I love it here in Spain
because it's so far away
that Jeffrey Epstein
could never find me here.
My name is Sarah Ransome.
In 2006,
I was sexually trafficked
by Jeffrey Epstein.
I'd just turned 22 when I
decided to go to New York.
New York's where
everyone's dreams come true.
I packed my bags, really excited,
and I landed in New York
on the first of September.
However, I didn't know anyone.
I didn't have that much money.
I was there for about two weeks,
and one night I went
to a club called Quo,
and I met this girl, Natalya Malyshev.
She immediately befriended me. She
became like my instant best friend.
She said that she knew this amazing
guy. He was a philanthropist.
This guy genuinely is a really kind guy,
and, you know, whatever my dream
is, he can make it come true.
Natalya said, "This guy
would really like to meet you.
We're going to the cinema."
It was Jeffrey, of course.
He was charming, charismatic,
friendly, um, caring,
where he actually listened to me.
And then I get a call, like,
I think it was the next
day or like two days after,
and it was Natalya going,
"You'll never believe it.
Jeffrey really thought you were cool."
This guy wants to help me
out, pay for my education.
He was going to get me into the
Fashion Institute of Technology.
Natalya said, "And he's
got this private island,
and we're going on his private
plane, and it's amazing.
It's like a tropical paradise and "
I'm, like, down for going to a
private island on a private plane.
It was on that first plane journey
that something peculiar happened.
Jeffrey started having hardcore sex
in front of everybody with another girl.
And everyone else was sort of
pretending to be asleep and ignoring it,
and I just found it really
odd that no one wa
no one was saying or reacting
So I just pretended to sort of nod
off. I didn't know where to look.
It was traumatizing. It's still
a very vivid memory for me,
and I should have known then.
I should have trusted
my instincts, but I
I didn't.
[SEABIRDS SQUAWKING]
[GORDON ACKLEY] The island
is, uh, approximately 75 acres.
From St. Thomas, it's
about a ten-minute ride
by passenger boat out to the island.
This is Mr. Epstein's,
uh, principal residence,
which is the island
of Little Saint James.
Mr. Epstein built little cabanas and
beach houses all across the island.
The blue roof
that is closest to the water was
Mr. Epstein's personal residence.
And the main house and the guest house,
that's where the guests would stay.
He is not representative of the
people of the Virgin Islands,
I can tell you that.
But being on an island by yourself,
I guess he felt he could
do whatever he wanted.
[GIUFFRE] The island, that was one
of Jeffrey's favorite places to go
because it was so isolated.
There's no doubt that it was beautiful.
It has a nickname,
the Pedophile Island,
but that wasn't the
nickname Jeffrey gave it.
It was Little Saint Jeff's.
That was his nickname for it.
But it really is Orgy Island,
because that's what happened there.
That was what that island meant to me.
I started working on the island in 1999
and worked until either the end
of 2005 or the start of 2006.
I was there for maintenance on
Jeffrey Epstein's telecommunications
and data equipment.
He wanted a private cellular network.
Privacy was very important
to Jeffrey Epstein.
I was on the island
probably a hundred times.
I was ultimately in every
[CHUCKLING] single building
that existed on the island at that time.
And I would say every other month
I would see guests on the island,
and the guests almost
always included young girls.
One time I went to the
Grotto, the little beach,
as it was coined,
and when I walked down
there was a gentleman who was
not Jeffrey and three girls.
The three girls were topless.
Um
The gentleman was, uh nude.
I left immediately.
Sometimes there were
other people on the island
that were important people.
I saw Alan Dershowitz on the island.
It was more of a business meeting.
Another time, I saw Bill
Clinton sitting with Jeffrey
on the living room porch area,
which was Jeffrey's favorite spot.
I saw no other guests
there at that time at all.
I just said, "Hey, you know, wow
Jeffrey's sitting with Bill Clinton."
[GIUFFRE] Not all the men took part.
I have, you know, seen
people on the island
that came for a lunch or a dinner,
and they didn't stay very long.
[STEVE SCULLY] Jeffrey
hung out with a lot of
powerful and well-known figures,
both politically and
financially, and I mean
British royalty.
It was probably around 2004,
I saw Prince Andrew. He was at the pool.
He was with, at that time,
an unknown girl to me.
She was young. She
didn't have any top on.
They were engaged in foreplay.
He was
grabbing her and grinding against her.
You know, you tell yourself
that you didn't know for sure.
You never really saw anything.
But that's just all rationalization.
Jeffrey Epstein, he was a guy that
concealed his deviance very well.
But he didn't conceal it that well.
One day, the pool guy's on
the island when I get there.
He said, "Why are you doing this?"
And I said,
"I don't know. I really The money."
And he said, "Do you have any children?"
And I said, "Yeah, I have
two daughters, 13 and 15."
And he said, "Would you let your
daughters come to the island?"
And when he said that,
I realized I wouldn't
let my two children
within five miles of that man.
And I quit the next day.
I don't believe Jeffrey
Epstein ever regretted
a single thing he did in his life.
I think that he's one of
those kinds of sociopaths
that could afford to
live out his perversions
in any way that he wanted.
[SARAH RANSOME] At
the US Virgin Islands,
you've got authorities going, you know,
"Hello, Mr. Epstein,
nice to see you again,"
welcoming him at the airport
as if he's some sort of celebrity,
with about five girls trailing behind,
and no one said anything.
And I think that they knew.
The airport staff knew.
The flight controllers knew.
The pilots knew. The landing guys knew.
The guys that are even
taking the luggage off knew.
They all knew.
From the very first day
that I arrived on the island,
the abuse started.
Natalya called me and
said that he, um
wanted to see me in in his room.
And there was this massage table,
and then I was asked to go on the table.
He just raped me.
It
It was like lying on a surgeon's table
and someone doing things to you
that you have no control over.
You're You're powerless.
I was trapped.
From the very first day,
I think I was in such shock
because I think the more he saw
you being damaged, the
more he enjoyed it
the more it excited him.
This area here reminds me of
the evening when I tried
to escape the island
after I had been raped
three times that day.
[VOICE BREAKING] And he would do things,
so [CRYING]
[SOBBING] It was Sorry.
[SOBBING] He did things that no
man should ever do to a woman.
And he did it all the time,
and, you know, that
day I'd just had enough.
My plan was just to swim away.
And I specifically went to
a remote part of the island.
Before I'd even gathered my thoughts
as to how I was going to climb down,
uh get into the ocean, swim
away, Jeffrey Epstein found me
almost immediately. He knew
exactly where I was, the location
Um
And I knew then that I was being
filmed. I was being watched 24/7.
There were cameras all over
the island, and he got me back.
[WOMAN] Jeffrey's Island:
it's like smoke and mirrors.
Some really bad stuff happened there.
I'm Chauntae Davies,
and I first met Jeffrey
Epstein at 21 years old.
I worked for Jeffrey as
a professional masseuse.
It was the end of 2001
when they said, "We're
flying to Jeffrey's island."
And here I was going to
this private island in
in the in the Caribbean and,
you know, just all this was just
so foreign to me that I just, you know,
I was I started to get very excited
because I was starting to really see
the perks of working for them.
They showed me around the island,
the various villas and
where I was staying.
So after dinner that night,
I went back to my room,
and then Sarah Kellen, their assistant,
came knocking on my door and said,
"Jeffrey is ready for his massage now."
[SINISTER MUSIC]
[CHAUNTAE DAVIES] It started
to feel like this is not
this is not okay.
This is not This isn't
going somewhere good.
I began the massage like I always did,
and then he flipped around,
and he threw me on the bed
by holding my wrists
together and raped me.
He jumped off the bed
and got in the shower,
and I just jumped off the bed
also, and ran out of the door,
and ran all the way back to my villa.
I'd left my shoes behind and
was barefoot running back,
and by the time I got back to my villa,
my feet were were a bloody mess,
and then I just cried myself
to sleep that night and
woke up the next day and tried
to pretend like it didn't happen.
Did I resist? Absolutely.
Did I say no? Yes, I did.
Did I fight? No, I didn't.
Um
You know, I was terrified.
[VOICE BREAKING] I was
isolated on a private island
in the middle of nowhere and
Um
[SIGHS]
Just didn't, you know
Just let it happen.
Jeffrey Epstein went to jail
just before 10:00 this morning.
He pleaded guilty in open court.
He agreed to serve a total of 18 months
in the Palm Beach Detention Facility.
[MAN] It was negotiated between
the federal government and the state
that Mr. Epstein would serve
his time at a county jail
which was ours.
Mr. Epstein stayed in T dorm,
which is located where
my finger is pointing.
Describing this as a jail sentence
is grossly misleading.
He served it in a
private wing of the jail.
[EDWARDS] His cell door was left open.
He was provided food that
other people didn't get to eat.
He was provided a TV room.
He got to meet with his
lawyers almost around the clock
when he was at the jail facility.
[MICHAEL GAUGER] Mr. Epstein
was given work release
that he qualified for
immediately upon his entry.
[EDWARDS] Are you released
from jail at some time?
Do you have to report back
to jail on a daily basis?
Yes, I report back to jail at 8:00 p.m.
[EDWARDS STAMMERS] Every single day?
Yes, sir.
[EDWARDS] And is it seven days a
week that you're out on work release?
No, sir.
[EDWARDS] How many days a week
are you out on work release?
Six.
[EDWARDS] And of those six days,
how many hours per day are
you out on work release?
Twelve.
For sex offenders to be on work
release makes no sense to me.
[GAUGER] Every other inmate
would be given the same privileges
if they met the parameters.
Mr. Epstein had to file for
a work permit application,
and that's what I have in my hand.
"Participants shall not engage
in or have contact with any person
that's engaged in illegal activities."
Part of the agreement
was an off-duty deputy
that he would be responsible
for the salaries of
that would be with him the entire
time of, uh at his office.
It was approximately $42 an
hour for a deputy to be with him.
So that's 12 hours per day.
Here are the payments
that were made by Epstein,
uh, with a total of $128,136.
[EDWARDS] At the office, he
was able to ask other females
to send him photographs.
He was able to fly girls in. He
was able to engage in sexual acts.
[GAUGER] We were given Mr. Epstein
under conditions that
we were not used to,
and we did the very best we could
under the parameters that we had.
[MUSGRAVE] It's hard to decide
which part of the deal is the worst,
but I think probably the biggest laugh
was that he was allowed to leave.
So he was just like,
he was staying at a really bad motel.
[RANSOME] He did jail, whatever that is,
but you know a Holiday
Inn. [CHUCKLES] Great.
So, I've been raped over and over again
because Alex Acosta didn't have the
balls or the courage to protect us.
[REPORTER 1] A few steps, a smile,
and a wave to the deputy at the door.
We watched Jeffrey
Epstein walk out of jail,
but only his attorneys heard from him.
He's very happy that his
jail sentence is over,
and, uh, he can begin a
new chapter in his life.
[REPORTER 2] Palm Beach billionaire
Jeffrey Epstein is waking up
in his mansion this morning
after serving just 13 months
of his 18 month sentence
for paying underage girls for sex.
[REPORTER 3] Epstein will
serve 12 months house arrest
at his Palm Beach home.
The 54-year-old will
be confined to his home
except for work and other activities
approved by his probation officer.
[FISTEN] In 2009, after
Jeffrey Epstein got out of jail,
victims' attorney Brad Edwards asked me
to follow Jeffrey to see if he
was abiding by his probation.
So we're about a block and a
half east of Jeffrey's house.
The street here, you get a good view
of who would come in
and out of his gate.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[FISTEN] There was a couple of occasions
where we knew Jeffrey was hiding
in the car when he left.
He would violate his probation
almost on a daily basis.
There's 11 pages here of
just different violations.
I think I myself
documented 66 different days
that he violated his probation.
On this particular day
- [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
- Epstein left his house
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
and drove to South Beach
where he met with Alan
Dershowitz at a hotel.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
[FISTEN] This is pictures
of his bodyguard, Igor,
outside waiting for them to come out.
That's his Escalade.
I had contacted the probation and
said, "Do you know where Jeffrey is?"
And she said, "Yeah,
he's home at his house."
I said, "No he's not. He's
at a hotel down in Miami."
I waited outside for Jeffrey to leave.
I just got out of my car with my
camera and I said, "Hey, smile."
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
- [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING]
- [FISTEN] He would go to New York
to his island.
He would go to the airport,
jump in his helicopter.
Who knows where he went
without telling anybody?
Every time I brought the
probation office a case,
they kept telling me the same thing.
"What would you like us
to do? He's a celebrity."
I mean, just think about this.
You have a pedophile out on probation.
To violate probation in the
state of Florida is illegal,
except for Jeffrey Epstein.
[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]
[DAVIES] In 2002,
Jeffrey's office asked me
if I wanted to go on a trip to Africa.
I was reluctant to go because
I was traumatized on the island,
but I developed the sort of mentality
that as long as I didn't
talk about the abuse,
it didn't really happen.
It was something that, you know,
I'd kind of been conditioned to
from my childhood. Just, you know,
there was so many tragedies
and traumas that happened,
and none of it was ever talked about.
So Ghislaine got on one of
the phone calls and said,
"This is a great opportunity,
and we'd love to have you."
I went from just the masseuse
to being asked to be a
personal assistant on this trip.
So I was blinded by
the opportunity of it.
I hadn't gone anywhere really
and to go to Africa was
like a dream come true.
I flew from L.A. to New York.
The plane was ready on the
tarmac when I got there,
and I took a seat.
Then our our guests arrived.
It was Bill Clinton,
Kevin Spacey, and Chris Tucker.
I was
blown away, like, "Oh, my God!"
It was surreal.
But the trip was about
the AIDS organization
that Clinton had started.
This trip to Africa is
probably the single most
amazing moment of my life.
And I remember having
this false belief that
the abuse had stopped because
nothing had happened in Africa,
thinking that maybe it just
wasn't going to happen anymore.
But after the Africa trip,
the abuse started all over again,
and it never stopped after that.
It never once occurred to me that
I was being paid for anything more
than being a masseuse. I
really kept it separate.
I was there for a job,
and this man was also sexually
assaulting me on the side.
It was two separate things for me.
I definitely didn't have
the mature mindset of a
normal 21, 22, 23-year-old.
My mom had fled an extremely
abusive relationship,
and so when we fled, I was
taking care of my sister.
Years later, my then 17-year-old
sister was living with me.
On one random weekend, Jeffrey
and Ghislaine flew to L.A.,
and they just invited me for lunch.
Ghislaine was like, "Bring
her along," you know,
and it never occurred to me
that this was maybe a bad idea.
I never thought that he was
doing this to other people.
I really didn't.
So
I brought my sister with me
and it was decided right then and there
that they were going to
send her to school in Spain
to study language and to pursue
her dream to be a translator.
It wasn't until April of
2005, almost two years later,
that I learned that he was
also doing this to my sister.
She came back home
with an eating disorder.
She was rail-thin and
looked horrible, and
she confessed that Jeffrey had been
sexually assaulting her
basically since they sent her to school.
I never knew until
she came home that day.
My sister thought that Jeffrey
was the most powerful
man she'd ever meet
and knew that he was friends
with celebrities and
and, you know, wealthy people and
There was an altercation that took
place in Jeffrey's Paris apartment
with Harvey Weinstein.
My sister came running from the room,
freaked out at whatever
he'd said and did in there,
and immediately, Harvey
Weinstein's assistant got involved,
trying to remedy the situation
by sending flowers and apology notes.
Jeffrey and Harvey are
both very disgusting people
who used their power
to manipulate and abuse.
I let Jeffrey know that I knew
what he had done to my sister
and that I didn't want to, you know,
have anything to do with him anymore.
And he told me that
if I thought I could
get anywhere in life
without his help that I was wrong,
and basically hung up on me after
that, and we never spoke again.
I still feel
an immense amount of guilt because
I was responsible for her and I
let her s move to a different
country under the pretense
that she was going to get
this amazing education,
and she came back traumatized
at the same hands of the
person who was traumatizing me
for the last three years and
Um
How could she not be angry?
You know? I would be angry.
There's definitely still a lot of
guilt and anger that I have
and feel that I don't
know will ever go away.
[RANSOME] Jeffrey found
out where your weakness was.
When I was 14, I had been raped.
That one rape will affect
you for the rest of your life.
Part of being sexually trafficked
is you're coerced right from the start.
Once you've opened that door,
they then shut that door
so you can't get back out.
Jeffrey put me up in his
apartment in New York.
He gave me enough money to buy food.
He was, um, organizing
my transportation.
He was going to be
paying for my education.
My whole life was based through Jeffrey.
It was eight and a half months
that I had Jeffrey in my life.
This is as an abusive
relationship physically and
and mentally as it gets.
But I left and I disappeared.
So when I fled New York,
I fled for my life.
You're either going to live or die.
That's That's That's simple.
[FISTEN] Jeffrey Epstein, after
he got released on probation,
he goes to New York.
The first thing he does is have a party.
All these people
showing up at this house.
The Prince is there.
Woody Allen's there.
After everybody knew
a large number of
underage girls were abused,
people continued to
associate themselves with him.
[EPSTEIN] I'm just looking
to, you know, get my life back.
Go into my philanthropy.
I must have given away
like $14 million last year.
I've collected some of the
world's smartest people.
I've funded some of the world's
greatest cutting-edge science.
I mean, I have lots
of Nobel Prize winners
come here and they end up, you know
getting funded for some things
that it's difficult
to get funded for now.
Quantum computing, for example.
Evolutionary code theory.
[RUSH] Mm-hmm.
So you're not, um you're
not engaging in any sort
- of illegal massage or ?
- [EPSTEIN SCOFFS] No. I'm afraid not.
Most of the scientists who come
here are in their 70s and 80s,
and they're probably
They're not that attractive.
[MARC FISHER] Epstein,
uh managed to maintain
a very good reputation
in many, uh, circles
by being a very generous donor to
universities, to research centers.
He would show up at academic
conferences, at medical conventions,
and not only write them a check but
want to be part of the discussion.
[ANNIE FARMER] It was really
troubling how quickly he was just,
you know, brought back into
the fold in his in his world
and the celebrities that felt
like it was just fine, you know,
to socialize with him
and be in public with him.
It felt like there was
just really no consequence
and people didn't care
about his behavior.
It was really disheartening.
[MUSGRAVE] I think that is one
of the tragedies of the case,
is Jeffrey Epstein was allowed
to just resume business as usual.
His victims struggled, you know?
They had had, you know,
this horrible experience.
Nobody had taken them seriously.
And you know, yeah, for years
I think a lot of them struggled
and still probably to this
day are still struggling.
[WILD] Being so young at 14, being
introduced to Jeffrey Epstein,
you know
having this sexual relationship
with a guy that gives me money.
It was too much.
I just dropped out of high school.
It wasn't pretty. It was, um you
know, drugs, money, sex, fast life.
Um For a very long
time, I went down that road.
And that did lead me into incarceration.
It was a dark time, for sure.
[LICATA] I started going down
this really depressing road.
I hated myself.
I wanted to inflict pain on myself.
So I would just take like a knife,
and I'd just like
Just cut it right here on my arm.
If I was the one doing the pain
then it wasn't anybody
else doing it to me.
I wanted to to know that I could
always have control of a situation
because that situation that I was
in made me feel like I was helpless.
Things only got worse after that.
I was doing drugs.
Started out with pills
and then mushrooms
acid
heroin.
Gotten to a point and just
I [SIGHS] I'm just gonna kill
myself doing these drugs and
why would it matter?
There's days when I
don't get out of bed,
and I don't feel like
I'm going to make it.
I lost a lot of friends. I
had to quit a lot of places
because I was being bullied at work.
I struggled.
Even though I was a
minor when I met him,
I wasn't protected.
My name was thrown out there.
I was definitely vilified, humiliated.
They released my name.
They released my pictures.
They released a lot of
personal information.
I was a victim, just
like the other girls.
I was, um, preyed upon
by Jeffrey Epstein,
the same way the others were.
I do think about the girls that
I brought, that I recruited
and I think this is probably the
hardest part because of the guilt.
That's what destroys me every day.
[GIUFFRE] Being lent out
and being abused by Epstein,
I was in a bad way.
I was very scared,
and I was very alone
and I knew that I had to get out.
I didn't know what that
opportunity was going to be
when I started packing those bags,
but I really felt
like this was my break.
I'm in Australia now
and I have been for 17 years
since I escaped from Jeffrey Epstein.
It was 2002, just
before my 19th birthday.
I'd been with Jeffrey just
over two years at that point.
We went for a snorkeling
day on his island
and Ghislaine's like,
"I wanna talk to you
about something kind of serious."
And I thought, "Oh, God, what are
they going to ask me to do now?"
And she goes, "Well, Jeffrey
and I, we want to have a baby.
We want you to have the baby for us,
but it's not really going to be your kid
because we need you to sign
over that child's rights to us."
It was gut-wrenching. I
just I knew I had to get out.
But I was afraid to say
no, so I said, "Okay, well,
you guys did promise me
that I'd get an education.
So could you at least let me
get my massage certificate
and we'll do it."
And not even a few weeks later,
Jeffrey gives me these
tickets booked to Thailand
Um
And he says, "Happy
birthday. This is for you.
You're going to go get a certificate."
So I get to Thailand, and I'm like,
"I have an opportunity here to escape.
I've got to tell somebody what's
going on. I've got to leave."
Nearly immediately, I met Robert.
We fell in love.
It was the first moment in my life
where I said I can take
control of my own life.
He got on one knee.
He proposed, just like that.
He said, "Come back
to Australia with me."
Seven days later, we were married
in a Chiang Mai Buddhist temple
in the mountains.
It was the happiest moment of my life.
I called Jeffrey. I
didn't know what to say
or how to say it, but I said
I just blurted out, um
"Jeffrey, I just got married
and, um, I'm not coming back."
He said, "What do you mean?"
And you could tell he
was pissed, well pissed.
And I'm scared. I'm scared to death.
I said, "Jeffrey, I'm
Just I've started a new life.
You know, that's it."
And he hung up the phone.
I felt free. I mean, I immediately
felt like the chains broke off.
It was a powerful moment for me
but one of the first things
that I said to my husband was,
"Robbie, enough's enough.
We've got to do something. He
needs to be brought to justice."
Then I said, "Okay, let's
hold them accountable."
And that's when we decided
we're going to go get them.
We're gonna go get them all.