Epstein Accuser Testified Financier Threatened Young Victims
A young victim of child trafficker financier Jeffrey Epstein expressed her fear of speaking with authorities about his vile actions due to overhearing him threatening others.
According to court documents, the victim was around 16-17 years old when she first met the deceased billionaire. She was questioned about her 2005 statement to Palm Beach police during which she related her discomfort with talking about Epstein’s vile actions.
She said she overheard him making statements to others such as, “You’re going to die; you’re going to break your legs.” These accusations were revealed in a deposition concerning the 2016 defamation lawsuit filed by accuser Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell.
A deluge of documents from the case were made public last week after being unsealed by a New York judge.
An attorney said Epstein was known for issuing threats. The victim, however, told authorities she did not remember specifics because she was attempting to move past the disturbing experience.
The unidentified woman said she tried to ignore his threats: “I do remember hostile conversations where he was upset with people, and I assumed that it was business and none of my business.”
In her deposition, she spoke of being invited to Epstein’s Palm Beach estate by a school friend to give him a massage.
However, when she arrived, “all of a sudden, something horrible happened to me.”
In other documents that came to light on Friday, another alleged victim told one of Epstein’s suspected recruiters about a disagreement she had with the notorious criminal. Sarah Ransome related to the woman, reportedly Natlya Malyshev, that she’d “had a bit of a fight with Jeffrey.”
Ransome said she looked for Epstein’s assistance in being admitted to the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Documents showed she emailed his executive assistant, Laura Goff, asking “what the plan is as I can’t apply online and need to apply ASAP.”
The young woman said Epstein promised his assistance before advising her to lose weight to get into the school.
More unsealed materials revealed investigators rummaged through Epstein’s trash to get girls’ names and phone numbers. Palm Beach detective Joseph Recarey, who died in 2018, said the searches were critical to determining the identities of the businessman’s victims.
