All language subtitles for [English (auto-generated)] Stories behind the rich and powerful named in the Jeffrey Epstein court files _ 60 Minutes Australia [DownSub.com]

Would

you raise your right hand, please? Do

you solemnly swear the testimony you're

about to give in the matter now pending

shall be the truth, the whole truth, and

nothing but the truth?

Yes, ma'am.

Would you please state your full name?

And Jeffrey Edward Epstein, and my

residence address is 6100 Red Hook

Boulevard in Virgin Islands.

Have you ever been convicted of a crime?

Yes.

The [music] sex crimes of millionaire

financia Jeffrey Epstein are appalling.

I was unaware that I was going to be

alone with him. I thought I was going to

die.

More than 100 vulnerable [music]

teenagers and young women trapped in his

depraved web.

He starts searching [music] himself.

Tonight, the Epstein files. The latest

on who knew what in the biggest sex

trafficking ring [music] in history.

His

elite circle of the wealthy and powerful

[music] on notice as thousands of

damning new court documents are

unsealed.

They will contain the names of people

associated with [music] Jeffrey Epstein.

Prince Andrew and the former president

Phil Clinton have been named.

More are expected to come out.

In the last few weeks, [music] they've

linked Epstein to some very famous names

and exposed some very sorted details.

There are videos that exist.

We've been investigating this scandal

since Jeffrey Epstein's death in 2019.

This is where Jeffrey Epstein served his

sentence. That he can still shock is

extraordinary. [music]

I won't stop fighting. I will never be

silenced.

As you'll see, this monster's tentacles

continue to reach

from beyond the grave.

What?

Refusing to answer lawyers on the

grounds he might incriminate himself,

Epstein thought his own silence would

protect him forever.

With his death by [music] suicide in

2019 and the jailing of his former lover

and right-hand woman, Galen Maxwell 2

years ago, Epstein's associates [music]

may well have thought the scandal was

over.

But after a decade of legal wrangling,

more than 150 people have been publicly

identified, [music]

linked to Epstein and his sex

trafficking network.

He was a brilliant manipulator

not just of vulnerable girls and women.

He was a brilliant manipulator of

powerful

men. a really heinous crime on an

absolutely massive scale that was

allowed to continue and continue and

continue

on my own island. I can think the

thoughts I want to think. I can do the

work I want to do. I can see explore as

I see fit.

Jeffrey Epstein's [music] vast wealth

gave him access to whatever he wanted.

As we now know, the globe trotting

multi-millionaire created a network

[music] where young women were supplied

to him wherever he went. I realize what

I am. I'm very comfortable in my own

skin. What I'm really free to do is I'm

free to follow my own personality.

And with his own plain and plush

properties all over the world, he felt

free to abuse [music] in the privacy of

his various homes.

This is New York. This is Palm Beach.

This is California. This is Paris. This

is London. This is wherever Epstein was

touching down. He needed to have girls

on constant call in every single state

or every place that he goes to. He's

already got people lined up and makers

making that happen.

None of this would ever have seen the

light of day if it wasn't for Virginia.

Her allegations of [music] sexual abuse

against Epstein, Maxwell, and famously

Prince Andrew have fascinated [music]

and repulsed the world.

In 2015, Virginia sued Maxwell for

defamation.

These latest documents are in the main

sworn statements [music] collected for

that case.

It's hard. It's really hard being back

here.

We met Virginia 5 years ago when she

bravely returned for the first time to

the Epstein [music]

mansion in Manhattan.

I was abused by

people that I can't even mention here.

There there's a lot of scars hidden

behind those walls.

It should be ripped down. It should be

burned to the ground.

Some of my worst memories are from this

place.

I continue to be shocked by just how

awful this story is. The damage that was

done to these women is incredibly

hard to even express. This has been

completely lifealtering for them. It's

incredibly unfair that this was allowed

to happen with impunity for so long.

Luchia Osborne Crowley is [music] a

journalist and author who has long

covered the Epstein case.

She believes the [music] significance of

the new Epstein files can't be

overstated.

It's really important that we understand

the difference between having these

allegations swirl around and seeing that

that people were willing to swear to

them under penalty of perjury. It's an

incredibly hard thing to do and they

were all willing to do it and to swear

to the truth of it.

Luchia also had a front row seat when

victims [music] testified against

Epstein's co-conspirator, Galen Maxwell,

when she was convicted for [music] sex

trafficking in 2022.

A lot of what Jeffrey Epstein got away

with, uh, he wouldn't have been able to

do without her helping to recruit,

groom, and entice underage girls.

But she wasn't just the organizer, was

she? She was also an abuser herself.

Yes. So, we also heard at trial um from

multiple victims um that she was in the

room when the abuse was happening and

that she engaged in the abuse herself.

But the documents [music] released by

the court put the spotlight on the role

played by others in Jeffrey Epstein's

[music] inner sanctum. The most

controversial revelation comes from

emails sent by Sarah Ransom, who was

abused and trafficked [music] by

Epstein.

Those emails claim she has seen [music]

video recordings made by Epstein of an

unnamed friend having sex [music] with

Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and Richard

Branson.

All three men vehemently refute the

allegation. [music]

And in the past, even Sarah has denied

the existence of the tapes. But just two

[music] weeks ago, she stood by her

original claim in a Zoom call with Good

Morning Britain. It's no secret that

everything was recorded. I've also seen

recordings in his office. There are

videos that exist.

The people that know they exist

um I'm sure are very frightened [music]

of them being released.

Fear [music] may also explain the

resounding silence from others named in

this recent mass release of documents.

According to thousands of pages of sworn

statements by women abused by Epstein,

the men now in the headlines are

potential [music] witnesses. They place

them at the locations where the abuse

commonly took place.

The vast majority um including all the

names that we're hearing about the most.

There are no allegations of criminality.

Um they are just listed as potential

witnesses. If these people are not being

accused of any wrongdoing, why have they

been named?

The question is what they saw, who they

met, what questions they asked

themselves about why girls of that age

would be in any of the Epstein homes.

And if they didn't ask themselves

questions about that, why didn't they

ask themselves questions about that?

The documents also shed light on the

alleged dark motivation of Epstein's

[music] sex trafficking to get dirt on

some of the world's most influential

people.

There is for the first time the idea

that he was quizzing the girls he sent

to famous people for details of what

happened for blackmail purposes.

That has [music] always been the

suspicion that this man had cameras

everywhere that he kept blackmail tapes.

That was his [music] leverage.

So I heard about Jeffrey Epstein [music]

sort of on the social upper east side

grapevine

in New York for a couple of years around

the end of the 1990s

and early 2000s.

You know he was a figure of mystery

[music] in that all people really knew

about him was he had kind of out of

nowhere known to be [music]

unconventional. People thought he was

very good-looking and the only thing

that people really knew about him, his

sort of connector to the outside world

was somebody I knew. [music] It was

Gilen Maxwell.

With her link to English socialite

Gillen Maxwell, Vicky Ward was the ideal

journalist to profile Jeffrey Epstein.

Her task in 2002 was to investigate the

man behind the $500 million fortune.

My then boss at Vanity Fair magazine,

Graden Carter, phoned me up [music] and

said, "You know, I've been hearing about

this guy for years. Nobody knows who he

is, where he got his money from, what

his deal is, and that was how it all

began."

But what started as a business story

quickly turned sinister.

He liked to have parties with young

women, but given that he was a very

wealthy [music]

at the time, you know, good-looking

bachelor in his 50s, that didn't seem

[music]

in itself on the surface so peculiar.

But then I [music] met this woman, Maria

Farmer, and she told me that she had

[music] worked for Jeffrey Epstein.

No one immediately recognized how

significant Maria Farmer would become in

the Epstein story. Certainly not [music]

the authorities when in 1996, she was

the very first to report Jeffrey Epstein

[music] and Glenn Maxwell to the FBI.

Gilan came in to get me one evening.

Gilan escorts me to Jeffrey's room and

he's lying there and he goes, "Well,

here, sit down." You know, and so right

next to him and then Gilean sits on the

other side and they began assaulting me.

But really, while I was lying there the

whole time, I'm thinking, "My sister's

been around these people. My sister was

16. She's been around them alone."

Maria's fears were well-based. her

younger sister [music] Annie had also

been abused by the pedophile pair

and it was the worst thing that's ever

happened to me.

But in a pattern that would be set in

the decades ahead, Maria's complaint of

sexual abuse against her and [music]

Annie to police was ignored.

They just kept it all quiet but in the

bottom drawer and they were so

dismissive that I just felt daunted and

I stopped.

For more than 25 years, Maria Farmer has

been filling her canvas with the Epstein

story, a tale of horror that began in

1995 when, as a gifted [music] student

at the New York Academy of Art, she met

Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell.

Epstein gave her a job to buy art for

his New York mansion.

As well, she became an unwitting witness

to a steady [music] stream of teenagers

and young women through Epstein's front

door.

And shockingly, she had direct evidence

of Maxwell [music]

scouting girls for the insatiable

millionaire.

What did you [music] witness?

So several times, um, I was in the car

with her and she would ask the driver to

stop the car and she'd dash across to

the school or the park or wherever she

was going and she would like write down

her phone number for a child, a young

girl. And then I'd see that child at the

house and she'd say, "They're

auditioning. You know, I found a model

in the park and I thought it was really

strange because I did see a couple girls

in braces and I've never seen a model

with braces.

Do you reflect on how different life

would be for so many women today [music]

if the FBI had investigated your

complaints in 1996?

Yeah,

they Yeah, I think about it all the

time. I do. And it hurts a lot. and I

never had children because of it because

[snorts] I didn't feel like they would

be safe.

It would be another 6 years before the

farmer sisters would again contemplate

speaking openly about their experiences

[music] with Jeffrey Epstein.

When they met with journalist Vicky Ward

in 2002, Maria [music] and Annie were

nervous. Did it take a lot for you to

convince them to open up to you to

[music] talk on the public record?

It did. There's no question they were

very afraid of these very powerful

people and I felt

that at least Vanity Fair magazine was

also powerful by us publishing their

allegations that would afford them

protection.

And so I think that we all proceeded

under that premise and unfortunately

that premise got exploded

uh in the worst possible way.

What blew it up? What happened? Well,

what happened as this piece was going

forward and I had to finally put all the

allegations

both of the business staff but and the

farmer's allegations to Jeffrey and

Gilen. They in their different ways went

completely berserk.

Epstein was instantly menacing. A man

prepared to bully [music] and intimidate

to save himself.

He treated

the entire thing as a game,

a really dark, twisted game. He even

said to me at the beginning, "Okay,

let's play chess. I'll be black, you be

white, you get the first move." And

from there, it descended into a sort of

horrific game of cat and mouse. He would

phone me every day. And then he told me

that if he didn't like

what I was going to write, he was going

to have his witch doctor place a curse

on my unborn children and that that was

off the record. Then he told me he was

going to sue me and ruin me

personally and I was just really

frightened of what this [music] man

could do.

Yeah. So even though the threats he was

making against you were quite

preposterous, you took him seriously.

Like you you you were genuinely

frightened.

Yeah. Because at the end of all of this,

at the end of months of digging, meeting

the pharmacisters,

[snorts] there was still this question

mark, who is this guy?

But it only got worse when Epstein made

a personal visit to Vickiy's boss at the

time, the editor-inchief of Vanity Fair.

Epstein got the result he demanded.

Maria and Annie Farmer's allegations

were cut from the story that went to

print in late 202.

So, as the journalist who had uncovered

these allegations and convinced these

sisters to go public, what was your

reaction to see that your work was not

in your article? Well, I remember

bursting into

tears and saying to my the direct the

person who was directly my editor, we've

exposed these poor women. I mean, this

is unconscionable.

But was it a a reflection also of an

abuse of power? I mean, if Jeffrey

Epstein walked into the editor-in

chief's office,

he wasn't there to say hello. Of course,

2002 was was an era in which Jeffrey

Epstein and other predators, you know,

Harvey Weinstein were were running the

world and women everywhere weren't

speaking up. The idea that two men would

have a meeting [snorts]

after which these allegations would

would get pulled. I mean, you know, in

the world we live in now, that is it,

you know, it's it's monstrous.

Vickiy's boss, Graden Carter, denies

being influenced or intimidated by

Epstein. But either way, the Vanity Fair

story didn't go anywhere near exposing

the depths of Epstein's depravity.

I only got the very, very, very tip of

[music] that iceberg. I didn't get to

the den of iniquity that we now know was

really going on behind Jeffrey Epstein's

closed walls in the mansion in New York

and on his island and in [music] Palm

Beach

around that that mansion. [music] That's

where this part of the sex trafficking

ring really kind of came [music] to

life.

Palm Beach, Florida is home to some of

the wealthiest people in America. An

exclusive enclave for the rich and

powerful, including former President

Donald Trump.

Jeffrey Epstein's luxurious home here

graced the foreshore. Its white walls

and inscrable exterior hiding a dark

truth. a place where it's estimated more

than a hundred girls were tricked and

abused. Their lives changed [music] in

an instant.

At 14, I was still in middle school. I

was straight A student. Never even got a

B. I played the first chair trumpet. I

was the captain of the cheerleading

squad. And then after I met Jeffrey, I

just completely quit.

This is where you were living for a

while.

Yes. This is where I was living when I

met Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein was 48 when [music] a teenage

Courtney Wild entered his orbit in 2001.

At the time, she was living in this

trailer park, one of West Palm Beach's

poorest communities.

Do you believe that Jeffrey Epstein

targeted areas like this? Yeah,

definitely targeted, you know, children

like myself that were vulnerable to him

and his money and um we felt like we

were being helped and saved by him when

ultimately he was just praying on us.

As Courtney told me in 2019, her

experience started when she was brought

to the millionaire by another [music]

14-year-old to make much needed cash.

The trap had been set. What were you

expecting to happen? What Why did you

think you were coming here?

Well, I knew that I was coming here to

give a guy a massage and to make $200. I

did know that. Um,

it was never told to me that I would be

molested by this man or anything like

that.

Inside, Courtney very soon discovered

the massage was cover for a terrible,

wellrehearsed crime. We were taken

upstairs. It was like a circular

stairwell that led to a hallway [music]

that led to his bedroom which the

massage table was in his bedroom

bathroom. You know, he asked us to get

comfortable to just, you know, take our

clothes off to be in our bra and

panties. Were you abused during that

session?

And so we would massage him for about 30

minutes and then whenever he was ready,

you know, rolled over and asked the

person that brought me to [music] go

downstairs and wait. And once that

happened, then that's when the sexual

abuse happened. Yes.

You you're 14 and in a completely alien

situation, an incomprehensible position.

How did you react? I just remember

afterwards how I felt walking down the

stairs and I just felt so [music] dirty

and so um like just like a piece of me

had been taken dirty. I felt it was like

my dirty little secret.

Virginia Du Frey's experience was eerily

similar, except her recruiter was not a

fellow teen, but the sophisticated and

seemingly trustworthy Galen Maxwell.

Virginia was 16 and working at Donald

Trump's Mara Lago resort when Maxwell

spied her reading a textbook on massage.

She just seemed very nice and she said,

"I've got a person that I know who's

actually looking for a traveling

masseuse and uh if you want, I can get

you an interview with him. If he likes

you, we can get you educated. You'll be

a real masseuse and you'll get to travel

and see the world." And and you know,

like she made it sound like it was a

dream come true and it wasn't.

Within hours, Virginia was at Epstein's

Florida mansion. Lured there by

Maxwell's promise. It ended in [music] a

devastating sexual attack.

So, put it this way. We did the back of

him. We did the back of Epstein. And

then when he turned over, um that's when

I was instructed to

um

to

[sighs and gasps]

when I was instructed to um get

undressed and um

and have sex with Jeffrey Epstein while

Gilan Maxwell was participating as well.

You want to take a moment?

No, I'm okay.

[snorts]

Okay.

So, you were abused by both of them in

your very first encounter.

Yeah, with both of them. I was abused by

Gilan and Epstein.

I don't mean to sound sexist in any way,

shape, or form, but I I expected it from

a man, but I didn't expect it from a

woman. And um

yeah, I think that's what hurts the

most.

[snorts]

Maxwell's role as Epstein's

co-conspirator, for which [music] she is

now serving a 20-year jail term, is well

known. But in truth, it went well beyond

Maxwell. The pair devised a scheme to

feed Epstein's voracious appetite.

They lured poverty-stricken girls in

with cash, fanning their dreams of a

better life. According to journalist

Luchia Osborne Crowley, by the time the

sexual abuse began, many were too

invested in their promises to get out.

This was a welloiled machine of finding

vulnerable young girls who really needed

someone to look after them. Um, and then

also using those girls to try and entrap

[music] younger and younger girls. And a

lot of that, it seems, was developed in

Florida.

How many girls do you think you brought

to Jeffrey Epstein? [music]

At the minimum minimum 50, but anywhere

from 50 to 70 girls.

And what were their ages?

The same ages of me. Um 14, 15, 16. I

just hold a lot of guilt and shame for

doing those things. And just to know

that I had any influence on that

happening to somebody else just, you

know, it really it's just devastating

and breaks my heart.

[music]

Epstein's vile pyramid scheme might have

continued unchecked if not for the

stepmother of one of his teenage victims

who called the Palm Beach Police

Department in 2005.

It was an incident that occurred maybe

like three three and a half weeks ago

with one of my stepdaughters. Found out

that um ended up being that they went to

Palm Beach to a gentleman's house and

they start off by giving this gentleman

a massage and he pays them. If he likes

them and he thinks that they're pretty

enough, he keeps them around to do other

things.

Okay. So, I was I wasn't quite sure if

there was an investigation or if you

guys had any word.

Well, this is the first I'm hearing of

it. That initial call was so alarming,

the police launched an investigation.

And it didn't [music] take them long to

uncover the revoling scale of Epstein's

network.

Did Jeff know anybody's real true age or

he didn't care?

I don't think he cared. He told me the

younger.

He asked me to take my shirt off, so I

took my shirt off.

Okay. So, were you in brown or were you

topless?

I Yeah, I ended up being topless. Yeah.

And he start getting a little excited

about it and he start touching himself

during the massage. Did he ask you to to

remove your pants or

Yeah.

Police interviewed a staggering 40

victims whose ages ranged from 13 to 16.

Their accounts were shocking enough,

but what they found in Epstein's home

was a creepy insight into his depraved

life, dozens of nude photos, a steam

room, and a massage room with sex toys.

Among the damning evidence were phone

message pads clearly showing a trade in

young girls scheduling them for massage

appointments and flight logs listing

girls being transported aboard Jeffrey's

private plane dubbed the Lolita Express.

I think it's really important to know

that is it is actually much much worse

than we think.

In 2006, much to the relief of police,

this predator was finally caught. A

wealth of evidence amassed against him.

But his own vast wealth and his [music]

immense influence saw him escape charges

that should have landed him in jail for

life. Instead, [music] he served a mere

13 months when prosecutors accepted his

guilty plea to the minor charge of

soliciting a child for prostitution.

But while he was technically an inmate

at the Palm Beach County stockade, he

really just slept there.

It was essentially a slap on the wrist.

He got 12-hour work released from prison

every single day. Other journalists have

described it as he just basically had to

sleep in a crappy motel for, you know, a

bit over a year.

For many, the most outrageous part of

Epstein's plea bargain was a seedy deal

he struck with the attorney general for

the Southern District of Florida.

It gave Epstein and any alleged

co-conspirators known or unknown

immunity from further prosecution

supposedly forever.

Worse still, none of his victims were

told about the deal. How do you feel

about that? to be sexually abused by a

man and have the government know and

then actually, you know, co-conspire

with the perpetrator to make sure

nothing happens with to him is just so

it just sounds unreal.

Why do you think the government did

that?

My personal opinion about that is, you

know, [sighs and gasps]

money, power,

and I think that there was a lot of

people involved in this, this underage

minor sex ring that they were running,

and I think everybody wanted it to go

away.

So, you believe that there was a

conspiracy at play here?

Oh, absolutely.

It really is a sorted story. Everything

that happened in Florida and the fact

that he authorities did know, did arrest

him, did charge [music] him, and he

still was able to continue.

And according to Virginia Dufrey, the

abuse didn't stop with Jeffrey Epstein

and Glenn Maxwell. She was [music] not

just their sexual play thing. She was

now part of their international sex

trafficking ring, lent out to whomever

they liked. I was traffic [music] to

other billionaires. I was traffic to um

politicians, uh professors,

even royalty. It was it was the [music]

elite of the world. It was the people

who run the world. It was the most

powerful people in the world.

Gilen was this sort of very exotic,

glamorous figure who would drop in and

to be honest name drop a lot of famous

names that she'd been hanging out with.

We heard about Bill Clinton and sort of

all sorts of other people. And we also

knew that she was very good friends with

Prince Andrew and that Jeffrey Epstein

would sometimes have Prince Andrew to

stay.

As a British expat in New York,

journalist Vicky Ward moved in similar

circles to socialite Gen Maxwell, the

daughter of disgraced mega rich media

tycoon Robert Maxwell.

Following her father's suspicious death

[music] aboard his boat in 1991, Galen

moved to New York where she started her

relationship with the millionaire

Jeffrey Epstein.

In 2002, Vicki was assigned to write a

profile of the mysterious financia for

Vanity Fair magazine.

When I began reporting this piece, I

actually ran into

Gilen Maxwell. And I sort of said

breezily, "Oh, Gen, yes, I'm writing

this story about Jeffrey and the money."

And I was really taken aback when she

started to cry.

like, why is this woman crying? This

doesn't seem to make

any sense. Well, I didn't obviously I I

didn't know that I was from her

perspective probably in danger of

pulling back the curtain on what was an

absolutely horrific criminal sexual

enterprise involving both of them.

[music]

Epstein and Maxwell complimented each

other perfectly. He had the money she

was used to. She had the contacts he

wanted. The most high-profile, of

course, being Prince Andrew, who is

famously accused of abusing the then

17-year-old Virginia Du Frry at Epstein

and Maxwell's invitation.

We went to Club and he danced with

me and and he sweats a lot and he smells

funny. Um,

and then and then we get in the car and

um, Gilen tells me in the car that I

have to do

what I do for Jeffrey for Prince Andrew.

And that's when I learned what was going

to happen.

There's a slight problem with with with

with the sweating um because

it was a claim and counter claim that

turned this royal's life upside down.

His ill-advised decision to appear on

the BBC in 2019 left him, if not

sweating, then red-faced. His attempt to

convince us he knew nothing of the

teenage Virginia fell flat when this

photo taken in 2001 in Maxwell's London

apartment resurfaced.

She provided a photo of the two of you

together.

Yes.

How do you explain that? I can't

because I don't I have no again I have

absolutely no memory of that photograph

ever being taken.

Your friend suggested that the photo is

fake.

I think it's from the investigations

that we've done, you can't prove whether

or not that photograph is uh faked or

not because it is a photograph of a

photograph of a photograph. So, it's

very difficult to be able to to um to to

prove it, but

I don't remember that photograph ever

being taken.

So, as you know, Prince Andrew denies

the allegations against him. And he says

that this photo is a fake, that he was

never there, and that he's not his arm

and they're not his fingers.

Those are his fingers. That is Andrew.

This photo has been verified as an

original and it's been since given to

the FBI and they've never contested that

it's a fake. And I know it's real and he

needs to stop with all these lame

excuses. We're sick of hearing it.

This is a real photo.

And that was the first time you met him.

And that's the very first time I met

him. And that's right before I was

abused by him.

How many times were you trafficked to

him?

Three times.

Her allegations against Prince Andrew

are laid bare in the newly unsealed

court documents. The disgraced royal is

mentioned 69 times and [music] not just

by Virginia. Johanna Shoberg, who was 21

at the time, [music] claims to have had

her own traumatic experience with Prince

Andrew, and she says [music] she saw the

prince and Virginia together at the

Epstein mansion in New York.

According to British-based Australian

author Luchia [music] Osborne Crowley,

her account given under oath is damning

of the prince.

We also have an allegation from a

separate victim, Johanna, who has said

that she was groped [music] by Prince

Andrew. So that's incredibly significant

because we have sworn testimony from a

second person corroborating that he did

engage in illegal acts relating to to

minors.

Do you expect Prince Andrew to be under

further legal scrutiny? I think that

certainly Prince Andrew will be facing

many many many more questions given what

we've learned in these new uh documents

and it's really important I think for

the authorities to look at the fact that

there is a second person who's alleging

that he broke the law and whether they

need to speak to those victims and other

potential victims to see if there is

anything that they can or should be

charging him with.

I wonder if you have any sense now of

guilt, regret or shame about any of your

behavior and your friendship with

Epstein.

As far as uh my um association with him

was concerned, it had um uh some

seriously beneficial

um outcomes in areas that have nothing

or have nothing to do with with with

what I would describe as what we're

talking about today.

Prince Andrew has since found [music]

regret, but continues to deny all the

allegations leveled at him. He settled

with Virginia Du Fray on the eve of

their civil trial in 2022,

reportedly for more than $15 million.

In settling with her, the prince likely

thought the saga was over, but the

release of these latest documents once

again raises questions for him and many

other Epstein associates.

Those are very, very wealthy, powerful

people and so far they've escaped

without many questions being asked of

them.

Billionaire financier [music] Jeffrey

Epstein has been arrested,

charged with sex trafficking involving

underage girls.

He could face up to 45 years behind

bars.

It was a prized catch. In 2019, the roar

around Jeffrey Epstein's [music] sex

trafficking ring was so loud, police

were forced to act. Neatly befitting the

lifestyle of a jet setting millionaire,

Epstein [music] was nabbed on his

private plane as he landed back in the

US from Paris. For his most outspoken

victim, Virginia Duy, his arrest [music]

was a gift more than 20 years in the

making.

I never thought it was going to happen.

I honestly thought he was just going to

continue to get away with it over and

over and over again just like he proved

so many times. Um,

so yeah, it was it was like Christmas in

July

big time.

But the expectation that Epstein would

[music] finally face his crimes was

dashed when he was found dead by suicide

in his jail cell a month later.

Disgrace finance here Jeffrey Epstein

has taken his own life. The bombshell

development raising many new questions.

With Epstein dead, the charges against

him were dismissed, denying justice to

his many victims. And his

co-conspirator, British socialite Gen

Maxwell, became the most wanted woman in

the world as she went on the run.

So the idea that this woman could be

involved in something as depraved and

horrific as this, that was mindboggling.

As journalist Vicky Ward and the rest of

the world watched on in fascination,

Galen was tracked down to a luxurious

New Hampshire hideway after eluding

police for a year. Today we announced

the arrest of one of the villains in

this investigation.

This day to me has been like one of the

best days of my life. I have not stopped

smiling and crying, happy tears, and I'm

just Yeah, I I'm elated to know that

she's where she belongs. [music]

Immediately upon Maxwell's arrest,

Virginia spoke for all the victims of

the [music] sex trafficking ring.

She ruined so many lives. She belongs in

jail. You want to hurt kids, that's

where you [music] go.

In 2022, Maxwell was convicted on five

sex trafficking counts. The then

60-year-old sentenced to 20 years in

jail.

She has lodged an appeal which will be

reviewed in March and continues to claim

her innocence from jail as she told her

brother Kevin Maxwell.

Everyone was always asking who is the

real G? Who's the real Gilen? It's

definitely not the person portraying it.

I feel completely divorced from the

person that

people reference and talk about.

And is that the biggest misconception of

you?

That I'm the crulest, meanest,

horriblest person who's done committed

crimes.

Yeah.

And I mean I I I literally haven't seen

any details that are accurate.

Luchia [music] Osborne Crowley was one

of the few journalists granted access to

the court to report on Maxwell's trial.

It was surprising that even at her own

federal sex trafficking trial, she

didn't appear to have a lot of humility

and still was incredibly confident. And

I certainly got the sense that she did

not expect to be convicted.

And certainly no remorse.

Certainly no remorse. She basically said

that she was sorry for the damage that

Jeffrey Epstein had caused them. And

that's all she said. [music] With

Maxwell behind bars and Epstein dead,

this case appeared to be resolved. But

the recent [music] release of these

court documents shows how little we

still know.

There are so many names that we are left

with question marks about. What was his

appeal? Why did some of the most

powerful men in the world [music]

[snorts] flock to him? What was Bill

Gates doing around [music] Jeffrey

Epste? I'd love to hear from Bill

Clinton what he saw in Jeffrey Epstein.

That would be great to know.

In all, more than 150 [music] names have

been linked to the disgraced

millionaire. But apart from some denials

of any wrongdoing, the silence from

those identified has been deafening.

We've got evidence of sworn testimony

where people are naming very, very

powerful people who would have been in a

position potentially to do something

about what was going on here. uh and

instead we had a sex trafficking ring

that went on for at least two decades,

possibly three with almost complete

impunity. And so that's the point that I

think we really all need to hold on to

about scale here is that not the

splashiness of these names, but just how

many there are, just how many people

there are that victims pointed to to

say, "This person can corroborate my

story. This person can be a witness.

This person met me on the island. This

person saw me." And those are very, very

wealthy, powerful people. And so far,

they've uh escaped without many

questions being asked of them.

We'd have to assume that they're just

running from this as far and as fast as

they can. [snorts]

Yes. Well, it I mean, I've I've been

quite surprised at the silence over the

last couple of weeks, if I'm completely

honest. I I would have thought that at

least some of these people would have

felt an obligation to to do some

explaining. At the very least,

association with Jeffrey Epstein raises

questions of judgment, right? Nobody

looks good for having hung out with

Jeffrey Epstein now knowing everything

that we know. Whether or not they should

be held accountable as to whether or not

there was any criminal activity. And

obviously, we just don't know. We I do

one has to hope that because

we now know so much more that there is

so much public scrutiny

on this that the wheels of justice will

turn in a way that they definitely

didn't for a very long time.

The legacy of Jeffrey [music] Epstein

and Glenn Maxwell is to expose a

darkness too awful to imagine. But as

difficult as it is to comprehend, it

would seem there's even more to be

revealed.

Certainly from what I know that there

are more people who aren't even on this

list that either knew or potentially

participated in what was going on around

Jeffrey Epstein.

Do you expect that others will be

charged that others will face

prosecution?

I very much

hope so. I think it's really important

to know it is actually much much worse

than we think and and that we're

comfortable accepting.

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