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You get a job you're hired to work for. Arguably depends on who you ask. One of the most powerful but most mysterious men who seemingly has a lot of connections. And I mean connections. I mean his contact list on his phone has people such as Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton. Now what he does for work and exactly how does he have so much money? No one really knows. But as far as your job description goes, pretty much be available at his beck and call. You're working behind the tall metal gates of his sprawling Palm beach mansion, only one of his multiple lavish properties around the world. This guy who hired you has been described as a Gatsby like figure of mystery. In New York, you get a task assigned to you one day to deliver flowers to your boss's girlfriend. Easy enough, shouldn't be a problem. So you get the bouquet of roses, you grab the car keys and head to your destination. But it isn't until you get there that you realize your boss has sent you to a high school to deliver a beautiful bouquet of roses to his 14 year old girlfriend. She had to be called out of class to come and receive the bouquet because she wasn't only young, she was a child. Your Boss, he was 48 years old at the time. Welcome to episode three of I Wish you were here. Today we're talking about Jeffrey Epstein and the terrifying man that he is. We're going to talk about everything that started with a massage table in a mansion and somehow ended with a global web of power secrets and silence. And guys, you might want to go grab not only something to drink, but probably a three course meal because there's a good chance that we are going to be sitting here for a while. Thank you in advance for spending time with me today. I have been so eager to talk about this one with you because I want to know all your thoughts and opinions. But let's get into it. It was March of 2005 in Palm Beach, Florida. The kind of wealthy ocean towns where secrets were meant to stay hidden. But one secret was about to come out. A 14 year old girl sat in her school counselor's office. She looked shaken, maybe scared. She wasn't hurt, not physically, but there was something inside of her that made her visibly uncomfortable. When the counselor asked the student what was wrong, the girl started talking. She said she'd been taken to a mansion in Palm beach by an older girl, someone that she knew, someone that she thought she could trust. And she had shown up to that $18.5 million mansion overlooking the water in Palm beach with intentions to make a quick buck, the girl had summer travels coming up. She wanted and needed money to be able to buy a flight. And she had been made aware of this guy, a man called Jeffrey Epstein, who girls honor around her age, frequently visited on her drive there. She was told, when they ask you how old you are, you have to say that you are 18 years old. Even though she was 14 years old and she honestly looked 14, she was told to make sure that when she answered that question, she had to say that she was 18 years old when she walked inside of that mansion. She knew what she had to do to make her money. And what she had to do was give this man a massage. In and out. That was it. It was supposed to be a fairly quick experience. Her friend had done it, Other girls had done it. In fact, when she got there, her friend was handed cash, a couple hundred dollars. And the girl realized that her friend was being paid for bringing her along. Her friend made money in seconds just for bringing her along. One Epstein's victims would later speak out on the fact that Epstein essayed the girls who visited his mansion, but also encouraged them to bring their friends over. That victim is sure for a fact that Epstein knew that none of them were over the age of 18. One of the girls who did bring friends along to introduce them to Epstein said she never once brought anyone over the age of 18. She actually says that one time she did bring a girl who was 23 years old at the time, but claimed that Epstein seemed to be uninterested in her. Epstein said the younger the better, and the more they would do, the more that they would let him touch them, the more money they would make. The girl is taken upstairs. She's sitting there, she's waiting. She's looking around this mansion, and it's very weird choices of decor. And that's when she saw him. Epstein. He stood there in a towel, wearing only a towel, and he held eye contact with her as he dropped the towel, revealing himself, he looked at her and said, take off your clothes, get on top of me and massage my back. The massage turned into something else. It pushed the boundaries of what the girl was comfortable with by a lot. It was traumatizing. But when it was over, Jeffrey handed the girl 300 and told her to come back, even saying, bring your friends next time. As soon as the school heard this that day in 2005, they called the Palm beach police department to report it. Jeffrey Epstein was the eldest of two children born to his parents, who themselves were descendants of Jewish immigrants. His Mother stayed at home to take care for the family while his father worked as a groundkeeper and gardener for the New York City Parks Department. They lived in a middle class neighborhood called Seagate, located on the western edge of Cuney island in Brooklyn, New York. From a young age, Epstein showed a strong talent in academics, specifically in math. He was very good with numbers. He was a driven guy, very dedicated to working hard to building the life that he wanted for himself. He attended Lafayette High School in Brooklyn and graduated in 1969 after skipping two grades because of his academic abilities. That same year, Epstein attended college at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and art. In 1971, two years later, he transferred to NYU. He spent three years there, but ultimately did not complete his degree. In 1974, when he was around 21 years old, although he had not completed his college degree, Epstein started teaching physics and mathematics at the exclusive Dalton School in Manhattan. And this was purposeful. The school was a private institution known for educating children from some of America's wealthiest family. And that's where Jeffrey Epstein wanted to be. He wanted to surround himself with the right people. He wanted to have access to the rich and the well respected. During his time there, several former students reported that his behavior always felt inappropriate. Mostly because it was clear that that Epstein paid excessive attention to the female students. In 1976, during a parent teacher conference, Epstein paid a lot of attention for the way that he presented himself to his students parents. Because this meant that he was in a room filled with people who had money, who likely had power too. So he looked at them as the people that he could use as connections. And it worked out for him because at that conference he was able to impress a student's father. So much so that the guy looked at him and asked him have you ever heard of Bear? So Stearns? Bear Stearns was a major American investment bank and financial services firm at the time one of Wall Street's largest and most influential firms. It was also the end that Epstein needed to be introduced to a whole world that he had never been a part of. It was what he had been searching for. It was what he needed to get into New York's elite social circles and what he needed to start making the kind of money that he had only ever dreamt of. Epstein worked as a trader and a financial analyst at Bear Stearns for five years and he ultimately left the company in 1981 in order to run a business of. He was around 27 years old when he left. He had no degree, no certifications and no Wall street title to lean on. But what he lacked in credentials, Jeffrey Epstein made up for in charm, ambition, and connections. As far as what he did next, it's kind of blurred and it could kind of sound confusing. But when Epstein was asked what his job was, his answers were always kind of vague. He would say things such as, I'm a financial consultant. I only work with billionaires. I manage money for the people who don't want anyone to know that they're rich. So I guess you could say that. To the public, Epstein was a financier or a wealth manager. But very little was ever verified. He had no client list, no employees for that, no office, and no official records of any investments. So Epstein did not manage a hedge fund in a traditional sense. Instead, he helped people with their taxes, assisting them in paying less than they would have to pay the government and help them manage their wealth in private. Some of the people that Epstein worked with and alongside of during the 1980s would say that Epstein referred to himself as a bounty hunter. A person who recovered stolen money for the ultra wealthy. And that's what he did for Anna Obrigan's father. Anna was a beautiful Spanish actress model and her family was rich, rich, rich with a capital R. In 1982, Anna's father experienced major financial loss. This was following the collapse of Drisdale Government Securities, a brokerage firm that went under due to fraud. At the time, Jeffrey Epstein was running his own consulting business called Intercontinental Assets Group. And he helped Anna recover the money that her father had lost. He found the money, it was being held in a bank in the Cayman Islands, recovered part of it, if not all of it, got it back to Anna's father, and in return he received a fat commission check. In 1988, Epstein launched his own consulting firm, Jay Epstein & Co. A business which specialized in managing finances for clients with fortunes exceeding $1 billion. One of his most prominent and long standing clients was billionaire Leslie Wexner. Leslie Wexner, a longtime CEO and found of L Brands, the retail empire behind Victoria's Secret Bath and Body Works, Abercrombie and Fitch and other major clothing and personal care brands. Leslie Wexner hired Jeffrey Epstein to manage his money. But their relationship turned into a whole lot more than that. They really became buddy buddy with one another. And over the next two decades, Epstein gained control over a significant portion of Wexner's assets. And that ended up turning into a relationship that greatly contributed to his own financial success. And Epstein was now being seen in elite circles with access to the wealthiest of the wealthy. And thanks to his close, almost inexplicable bond with Leslie Wexner, Epstein now had unusual access to the Victoria's Secret brand and to the Victoria's Secret models. Epstein presented himself as a scout for Victoria's Secret. And with his charm and his money, he would use this claim to approach young women, many of them who were aspiring models. And the thing about Epstein that really made him sound attractive to these young girls was Epstein's promise that he could help them in their career. Bringing in underage girls from out of the country by promising to help them. He would promise them modeling contracts and he would be like, you could trust me, I'm successful and I'm buddy buddy with the literal owner of Victoria's Secret. I have the wealth and the power and I can make all of your dreams come true. And to a 13, 14, 15 year old girl, I can imagine that would sound like a dream opportunity. He would have these girls stay at one of his many properties because he owned properties in New York, in Palm beach, in New Mexico and in Paris. And he slowly but surely would introduce them to the world of, call it what it is, trafficking. Jeffrey Epstein would put these girls in the worst, most uncomfortable, awful positions all of the time, leaving them feeling like they lost a part of themselves in the disgusting mess that was Epstein's world. He gave so many victims trauma that they may never heal from. And so many of them have said that the worst thing that has happened to them in their entire life was meeting Jeffrey Epstein. And actually, while we're on the topic, the things that happened to these girls, it wasn't just a bad thing that happened to them. For many of them, if not all of them, it was the worst thing in the entire world that ever happened to them. For a lot of those girls, it's their most vulnerable, private story, but at the same time, it's spoken about by everyone in the entire world. And I think to some degree, it is human nature to be curious about what happened in the Epstein mansion and to know the details, but keep that in mind that these people that we're talking about it, this changed their life forever in the most negative way possible. So if you choose to ever express your thoughts or opinions. So like in the comments section on my TikTok page, just please keep in mind that these are real people that matter. And remember that it can be triggering for a lot of people. So just something to keep in mind. In 1998, when he was in his mid-40s, Jeffrey Epstein purchased his private island, Little St. James in the U.S. virgin Islands, which he liked to refer to as Little Saint Jeff's. The island spans about 70 to 78 acres. He reportedly bought it for around $7.95 million. And just in May of 2023, actually, the island was listed for sale at $125 million, but it was ultimately sold for 60 million. Anyway, after acquiring it, Epstein developed the island extensively. He imported 40 foot tall palm trees, a private helipad, a dock, a tennis court. Not only did he have the main house, but also three guest cottages, a caretaker, a groundkeeper's cottage, and the now infamous blue and white striped temple like structure that might be the creepiest looking building that I've ever seen in my whole entire life. Multiple swimming pools were scattered around the island. The island as well was filled with staff members, and it was just about as private as you could get. And Epstein eventually bought the island next to his, probably to make sure that nobody ever got near his island unless he wanted them to. Also allegedly, and this could very well just be a rumor, but there's talk that Jeffrey Epstein reportedly had sea urchins placed around his private island, allegedly as part of a security tactic. It sounds so silly, honestly, now that I'm saying it out loud, but this comes from former staff members and locals. They've said that he had strategically placed sea urchins in the waters near the shoreline of his island to discourage people from swimming to or from without being noticed. Sea urchins, if you don't know, can pierce through human skin, leaving behind painful stings. So in his head, I guess he thought, should anyone try to swim up or sneak into this island, they will suffer from the damage of the sea urchins. And that is a really strange way of thinking and a really weird thing to do if he did do it. But Jeffrey Epstein is a really weird guy. Jeffrey Epstein had staff members on his island for all kinds of things. He had staff members like housekeepers, maids, cooks and groundskeepers. They were tasked with maintaining the island's appearance, which always had to be pristine. They were in charge of cleaning guest rooms, preparing meals, tending to the grounds. We know that they were told not to look or not to ask questions about anything, but especially about Epstein's guests, many of whom were young girls or women. And staff members would more often than not see underage girls coming and going, often by helicopter, his private jet, or a boat. It wasn't clear or not, I guess to them exactly how old they were, but they looked young and allegedly as well More oftentimes than not, the girls got off his helicopter wearing college attire. So did he make them put on clothing with names of colleges for them to appear older than they were? Who knows? But again, a really weird thing to do. Epstein also had pilots and staff who helped him with transportation. He had private pilots who were in charge of flying guests to and from the island on his private jets. And those flight logs later revealed many names of celebrities, politicians, and wealthy individuals who were said to visit the island. And just to give you an idea of just how much traffic the island had, the flight log that has been released. So I don't know if there's more. There probably is, but the one that has been uncovered was 118 pages long, and it only covered April of 1991 to January of 2006. 118 pages. Is that to say that every name on there is guilty of something? Absolutely not. But is it interesting to hear what names were on these logs? Absolutely. So let's name off some of the names on that list, shall we? Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Chris Tucker, Barbara Walters, Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Ivonne Trump, Leslie Wexner, Courtney Love, Rupert Murdoch, Joan Rivers, Janice Dickinson, David Blaine, George Hamilton, Liz Hurley, Ted Kennedy Jr. Christopher Lambert. And the list goes on. Some pilots also later confirmed that a lot of young women appeared to be underage, were routinely flown in and out of the island. There were also security guards on the island. Their job was to patrol the island, and they were allegedly ordered to stay at specific posts away from certain areas where guests were guests were present because no guests were to ever see staff members working around them. The guards, of course, like many other staff members, were told not to speak to the girls or speak to any visitors. And they were forbidden from entering certain buildings, including the temple like structure. Creepy building, which by the way, we still do not know what happened inside that building and we probably will never know. But look at the information that we do know. I cannot even imagine the secrets that are still hidden within that island. It's. It's so, so scary to me. But just to make it a point, it has been rumored that they were sacrifices and rituals of children happening inside the building, which is the most terrifying thing I have ever heard. But back to the security guards. Their job, in other words, was not really to protect and provide safety, but it was more so to control access and maintain privacy. Lastly, one of the most important jobs Epstein hired people for were to play the roles of his assistants and his schedulers. Guys, kind of a abrupt break in here. My neighbor's dog, dog is barking so loud and I really hope that you can't hear that. Apologies if you can. A very significant person who took leadership of this role was Ghislaine Maxwell, who we will talk about shortly. Do not worry. But she was one of the people who helped recruit and manage girls who were invited to the island. They would do everything from coordinating travel to scheduling massages. Massages which were later revealed to be cover for sa. Some female employees allegedly helped to facilitate the essay that took place in the island by grooming or supervising new arrivals. Ghislaine Maxwell. She was Epstein's supposed girlfriend, but she was way more than that. She was his right hand woman. Ghislaine was born in France and she was born into wealth. Her father was Robert Maxwell. He owned the daily near newspaper and built a million dollar publishing empire. All she ever knew her entire life, literally from the day that she was born, was money. And she had the personality of a person that would be a billionaire's daughter. She grew up att lavish parties, surrounded by the rich and the powerful. The house that she grew up in honestly looked way more like a castle. It had 51 bedrooms, a massive swimming pool and a tennis court. She was the youngest of nine children and she was a daddy's girl. She was obsessed with her father. Oh my God, was she obsessed with him. And from a very young age, something really important that her father taught her was that women's sole purpose in life was to serve and please men. Women were only there to be seen as objects and to be passed around as objects for men to either talk to or engage in acts with solely for their pleasure. When she was in her 20s, her father would walk around with Ghislaine wrapped around his arm and he would almost just walk around with her to show her off at his lavish Gatsby like parties. Ghislaine was only there to talk to his friends and she was expected to bring her own friends to entertain her dad or her dad's friends. It was like she was playing matchmaker with her friends and her father's friends. The most alarming thing being that the girls were in their 20s and the men they were expected to spend the night with were in their 40s, 50s, maybe even 60s. But that's just how it went in Ghislaine's world. That's just how things worked. Everything changed for the Maxwells in 1991 when Robert Maxwell, the father, mysteriously drowned off of the coast of the Canary Islands after a fall from his $15 million yacht. He was found dead, wearing nothing, floating in the water near his yacht. Some people will say that his death was an accident. Others speculate that somebody was responsible for his death. The idea that someone was out to get him was supported by the fact that a few weeks after Robert's death, Maxwell empire caught fire and burned to the ground. After his death as well, investigators discovered that he had stolen hundreds of millions from employee pension funds. And as you can imagine, that absolutely demolished the Maxwell reputation. Everyone in London now looked down on the Maxwell name and Ghilaine felt like she had no other option but to leave and start fresh. And that's exactly what she did. In 1991, she moved to New York. She got a place on the Upper east side and started hosting big, lavish parties. She had been attending these parties her entire life. It was the one thing that she knew how to do, and she did do it well. And just because her father was now gone, that does not mean that Ghislaine's connections went with him. No. She had a lot of high profile friends. She was super close with members of the British royal family, including Prince Andrew. And immediately when she got to New York, she quickly embedded herself in elite social circles, a move that eventually led her to her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. It's unclear what year Ghislaine and Jeffrey met, but it is clear that they were once romantically involved and that she became Epstein's closest associate. She was always there, helping manage his home, scheduling his appointments, and recruiting young girls under false promises. Multiple survivors of the two of them have testified that Ghislaine Maxwell was the one person who first approached them. She would put on this face of acting like the older sister that you never had, acting like she could help you, like she wanted to help you, like having a relationship with her would only ultimately benefit you. But what she was really doing was grooming, coaching, facilitating, and even participating eventually in the SA herself. From the outside looking in, she could have been perceived as a British woman who arranged parties, mingled with royals and made connections behind the scenes. However, what her most important role really was was was helping maintain a pipeline of victims for Jeffrey Epstein. When Ghislaine and Jeffrey met, they dated, but then they were no longer romantically involved and just became quote, unquote, best friends. But she was obsessed with him. She would do anything for him, really, including basically shop around for young, underage, vulnerable girls with some kind of need or desperation for money. And those were Epstein's preferred victims. Maria Farmer was the first victim to accuse Epstein and Ghislaine of SA in 1997. But her accusations were never taken seriously. Maria was a 24 year old art student at the New York Academy of Art when she met Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at a school art show. Epstein approached her immediately, showing interest not only in her, but more importantly in her art. He was admiring her work. He introduced himself as a powerful man who was very passionate about art. He was charming, wealthy and appeared overly interested in what she had to say. Next to him standing that day, was Ghislaine Maxwell, looking elegant, confident and beautiful. Maria's first impression of them was, wow, they really seem like a power couple who very much have the resources and connections that could help me launch my art career. Because the two of them, Epstein and Ghislaine, would frequently mention their connections. They would name drop celebrities, people of power with a lot of money, and they would talk about how much potential Maria had, not just as an artist, but as someone that they could quote, unquote, help. Epstein and Ghislaine offered Maria a job. The job was to help Epstein manage his art collection, to live in his mansion full time and to help him buy artwork. Artwork. It felt like a dream opportunity. It really did. And Maria accepted right away. But when she got there, she realized that her job was not what she had been promised at all. The expectations of the job that she was hired to do really had nothing to do with art whatsoever and everything to do with just greeting people at the front door and recording and logging every visitor that came and went from the mansion. And of course it was obvious, but at the same time really confusing for Maria why so many of the people coming to and from the mansion seemed to be high school girls. She thought it was weird because why were there so many of them and what exactly were they there to do? Well, when she brought it up to Ghislaine, Ghislaine explained that Epstein was really close friends with Leslie Wexner, the owner of Victoria's Secret. And she said the reason why so many young girls were entering the mansion was because they were there to audition to be Victoria's Secret models. Ghislaine told Maria that she helped Epstein recruit these girls. She fit them into a schedule to audition and that if they were lucky, they would become Victoria's Secret models. Models. But Maria thought, this is weird. Something really weird is going on because these girls are showing up here alone. A lot of them aren't even developed yet. They are so young, like so young that they don't even have the bodies that you see in Victoria's Secret models have because they're not old enough to be fully developed yet, if you know what I mean. And a lot of the girls also had braces. And Maria was thinking, I've never once seen a Victoria's Secret model with braces. Obviously not that anything is wrong with that. But just to show how young they were. And oftentimes Maria would see these girls running out of bedrooms and crying, which Ghislaine would explain by saying that the girls were upset and crying because they didn't get the job that they were there to audition for. But Maria knew that something was off. And things only got weirder when she was made aware that all throughout Epstein's properties, there were hidden cameras. If you were in that house, you were being watched. Cameras were everywhere, in common areas, in hallways, in bedrooms, in bathrooms. Your every move was being watched by Ghislaine and Epstein, no matter what you were doing. Before the red flag started to show, Maria introduced her little sister, 16 year old Annie, to Epstein. This was when Maria first started to work for him. And while she still trusted Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell because they had promised to support her career, obviously at the beginning, Maria had seen this as an opportunity and she believed that they could do the same for her little sister, Annie, like he did with Maria. Epstein offered to help Annie with her college ambitions, saying that he would be a mentor for her. And not only that, but he would also offer to pay for her entire college tuition. Patience. Like many of his young targets, he used wealth, charm and fake concern as bait. And in the spring of 1996, Annie was invited to New Mexico to stay at Epstein's property. They pitched this to her, claiming that other students would be there, and said that it would be a fun educational trip, a chance for Annie to tour colleges to discuss her future and benefit from everything that Epstein had to offer. But when Annie arrived in New Mexico, she realized that she was the only guest. There were no other college students there. This was not a school trip, not any sort of educational trip. She was the only person there. And soon she would become a victim. One night, while Maria, the older sister, was working at Epstein's resident, quote, unquote, working, she was called by Ghislaine to go to Epstein's bedroom. Ghislaine was wearing a bathrobe and only a bathrobe. Epstein was sitting on the bed. Ghislaine instructed Maria to massage Epstein's feet. And Maria is thinking, what? This is weird. But they didn't really give her an option. It wasn't a question. It was more a command hand. Maria lifts the blanket to reveal Epstein's filthy feet and she starts massaging them already. Then obviously she's extremely uncomfortable, doesn't really know what's going on. She's thinking, what am I doing here and how do I get out of here as fast as I can? But then Ghislaine tells her to sit on the bed with her and Epstein. She doesn't know what else to do, so she sits in the middle of the bed, Ghislaine on one side of her and Epstein on the other. And they start touching her and it quickly escalates. Relates to SA Maria finds a split second of this living nightmare that she just got sucked into and she makes a run for it. She runs out of that bedroom, tears running down her face, and she runs as fast as she can back to her bedroom. Does she feel safe there? No. But she pushes heavy furniture to block the door and spends all night just waiting for the morning so she can quietly exit her room, escape the house of horrors and contact the police. Maria also later finds out that the kind of abuse that she was subjected to was the exact same thing that was happening to her little sister in New Mexico. Annie was forced to give massages to Epstein, during which he touched her inappropriately. He essayed her and made the trip that was supposed to be life changing. Still life changing, but in a way that scarred her and gave her trauma that would last a lifetime. As soon as Maria felt safe enough to do so, she contacted the New York Police Department, even speaking to the FBI, offering to share everything and anything that she knew about Epstein and Ghislaine and the parade of young women being brought brought to his properties. But nobody cared. Authorities did not have any questions. They even almost seemed unbothered to hear what she had to say. And nothing was done. Just recently actually, as in last week. In May of 2025, Maria Farmer filed a lawsuit against the federal government accusing the FBI of refusing to act on her claim since she first reported SA nearly 30 years ago. She's claiming that when she called the FBI to report the essay, say, they hung up on her and now she's suing them on one count of negligence and one count of negligence, infliction of emotional distress. In 1994, 21 year old Elizabeth Stein was working at a luxury department store in New York City. And one day in walk Ghislaine Maxwell during a shopping visit. Elizabeth and Ghislaine talked. Ghislaine probably doing the same spiel that she had ready for whenever she met a potential victim. And after picking out everything that she wanted to purchase, she asked Elizabeth to personally deliver her items to the hotel that she was staying at. Elizabeth was fine with that. And what she saw when she arrived at the hotel was a very poised looking Ghislaine sitting at the hotel bar with none other than her favorite person in the world, Jeffrey Epstein. The two of them invited Elizabeth to join them for a drink, and she accepted. And things were normal until Ghislaine suggested Elizabeth follow them upstairs to their suite. When they got there, the situation escalated into appropriate and non consensual acts, leaving Elizabeth feeling absolutely disgusted with these people, as well as confused and both extremely uncomfortable and scared. Do you see what I mean now about Ghislaine literally being Epstein's right hand woman? She would go out searching for victims and she would bring them to Epstein on a silver platter. She liked to feel needed. She liked the control and the satisfaction she got from providing these vulnerable young girls to Epstein. And this is only my opinion, but I also think that she got satisfaction when people feared her. Do you remember what I said about Ghislaine liking to play the role and put this face on of being the sister that you never had towards her victims? Will that behavior of hers carry to the victims on the island? Many of the underage victims looked up to Ghislaine, because I feel like that's almost natural as a girl. If you're put in a weird situation with maybe possibly questionable men, I think it's a natural thing to look around to see if you see any other women or girls, and you might feel a little bit more at peace when you do. And because Ghislaine wasn't only just another female, she was extremely close to Epstein. I wouldn't be surprised if at first some of the victims felt safe when she was around, because I can imagine it almost felt like, okay, this is getting weird, but at least Ghislaine is right there and she won't let anything bad happen to me. Because remember as well, when Ghislaine approached these victims and pitched them, she sold them the dream. She would ask them about their hopes and dreams, what they wish to aspire, and she would only do that to use it against them. But with some of these girls being as young as 13 years old, I can imagine that it might have registered in their heads like, oh, this woman cares about me. Or at the bare minimum, she wants to help me in some sort of way. And that's exactly how 21 year old Shantae Davis felt. She was an inspiring massage therapist when she was introduced to Ghislaine Maxwell through her massage instructor, Dr. Ghislaine offered her a job to provide private massages to Epstein. And that led to traveling to Epstein's private island, Little St. James. Shantae was over the moon about this opportunity. It was the perfect job for her. It lined up perfectly with her career, with what she wanted to do in the future. It included her staying in a beautiful private island with a job that paid great money to her. It really felt like the stars were aligning. She could not have imagined a better position to find herself in. That was until she got a knock on her door. It was one of Epstein's employees letting her know that Epstein was ready for his massage. It was kind of late in the night, but she saw the lane so she thought, okay, this is what I was hired to do. It's what I'm expected to do. So she got ready to go and massage Epstein. But then Epstein came out wearing only a rope. He dropped the rope, he grabbed Shantae, threw her on top of him and essayed her. Shantae said the words that it was for her. The more that Epstein scene seemed to enjoy it. In minutes, her dream job became a living nightmare. And let alone the despicable, disgusting behavior of this man, Shantae could not believe that Ghislaine was just there. She was letting it happen as if this was normal, as if this was routine. And they did this multiple times a day, every day. When it was over, Shantae was so disgusted she threw up on herself and she ran as fast as she could back to her villa, feeling sick, disgusted and heartbreaking. Broken. As far as what Epstein and Ghislaine expected from their victims, they did expect for them to be there for either Epstein's pleasure or to pleasure his friends. But they also expected their victims to gather information from Epstein's quote unquote friends. The girls were expected to be ready to be intimate with either Epstein or any of his high powered bridge friends at any and all times if they weren't engaging in an intimate act. A lot of the times Epstein just wanted them to be around with wearing no clothing. He just wanted to stare at them naked. But if they were engaging in acts in the bedroom, the girls were told to pay attention to anything any of the men said and remember. Allegedly these men were politicians, celebrities, CEOs, people of power. And the victims were told by Epstein that they had to report Information back to them about these men so that Epstein could have something to hold over their head to use it as leverage. It's also been rumored that every inch of every property that he owns owned, including his island, were covered with hidden cameras and microphones. It's been said that there are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or engaging in. And that information is actually recent because the FBI claims to be working on uncovering previously hidden Epstein files. But will the question of who was in the videos ever be answered? If I had to guess, I would say no, because most of the victims were underage at the time that everything was happening. Happening. But maybe one day, inside of a courtroom, there might be a possibility that there's new information coming out. Whether new information will be released to the public or not, we don't know. I'm not really sure. It's been said, allegedly, that the main purpose of the cameras was so that Epstein could have blackmail on all of his friends. Because think about it. Epstein had dirt on so many powerful people, they wouldn't do him wrong. In fact, they may even owe him. And should any of them decide that they don't want anything to with do do with him or with his island anymore, Epstein had the power to ruin their lives. He had video footage of them in the bedroom with underage girls. He could ruin their reputation in seconds, and he made sure that they knew that even more so, not a single person involved would ever dare to admit to anything that happened on the island. Not only because it would ruin their reputation, but because it would be like a domino effect. If this person came out and told any version of the truth, then that would drive 10 people in, and then those people would drag 10 more people in. It was too much. They weren't too deep. Too many people. Power would get absolutely dragged in the mud. And quite frankly, I don't know. I don't know. It makes me sick to think about some of the people who allegedly were involved with Epstein in any way, shape, or form. Maybe I'm exaggerating, but I really don't think I am. And I'll end that little rant with some of Epstein's hidden files that are currently, as we speak, being in investigated by the FBI. Along with the flight log and the names on there that we talked about earlier, There are also two other documents. One of the dogs titled masseuses, which to me literally may as well be titled victims. But that list had 254 line items. 254. Most of the information on their reads Redacted to protect victim identities, but 254 nonetheless. I will say when I first heard the number, I was like, oh, oh, that sounds like a big number. But then I watched an interview from a victim saying that she herself brought 50 to 70 of girls that she knew on her own. So I believe the real number is way higher than 254. There was also a contact book. The list of contact is 95 pages long. 95 pages. Epstein had access to anyone and everyone that he wanted to in any and every industry. It's disgusting with the blackmail stuff as well. There's one more thing that I want to bring up there, and that is one of many of Epstein's questionable art pieces. He had an art piece of Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress and pointing straight ahead, pointing at whoever was looking at the picture. And Epstein did have a lot of weird, and I mean weird, questionable art pieces of people around his properties. But that one of Bill Clinton in a dress is spoken about a lot because people believe that that was his way of sending a message, because it not only documented his social circle and the people that he had access to, but it also has been seen as, I don't know what the right word is, maybe humiliating a little bit kind of telling that Epstein had influence over people by potentially holding compromising material by having that art piece of Bill Clinton in a dress. It almost felt like control and secrecy. Like I know secrets that you don't and should I ever want to, to expose people of power, I have more than plenty of valuable information to do so. I don't know, you guys. Let me know what you think about that because I'm curious. But anyway, another high profile person that I do want to talk about is Prince Andrew and a victim by the name of Virginia. Virginia was spotted by Ghislaine Maxwell. She was at the pool reading a book on massages. She was approached by Ghislaine, who pointed out what she was reading and then said to her, you know, I actually know a person looking to hire a traveling massage masseuse. She told her that she could get her an interview with this mystery man, Jeffrey Epstein. They would meet, and if he liked her enough and he wanted to, he could offer her the job. They would help her with her training so that she could become a licensed masseuse. And she would have this great job of doing what she really loved to do, something she was passionate about while traveling the world. She really sold her the dream. But of course, it was just part of her manipulative tactics and Sadly, Virginia believed her and she got sucked into their dark world. Within hours, she was at Epstein's house being essayed by both Ghislaine and Epstein. In August of 2021, Virginia filed a lawsuit against Prince Andrew in the U.S. district Court for the Southern District of New York, accusing him of essaying her on three different occasions when she was 17 years old. Once at Ghislaine Maxwell's residence in London, once at Epstein's mansion in New York, New York, and once at Epstein's private island, Little St. James in the U.S. virgin Islands. When Virginia speaks about meeting Prince Andrew for the first time, she says that by that point she was already terrified of Epstein and Galaine. She knew the only purpose of them having her around was to be used for sex. She was aware, but scared that if she tried to escape, they would have her killed or abducted. She was told that she had to obey and do not only everything they wanted her to do, but also anything Epstein's friends wanted her to do to them and for them. When she was approached by Ghislaine and told that she was going to be meeting a prince later that day, she knew that she was meeting a member of the British Royal family. Epstein told her that she was meeting a major prince, that she had to exceed, quote, everything she had been taught, end quote. And to make sure whatever Prince Andrew wanted, she was to make sure that he got. Prince Andrew has done denied all allegations. He actually has denied ever meeting Virginia. He says, I don't know who that girl is, I don't know what you're talking about and I don't remember anything and I would remember, but I don't. So it's not true. However, there is literally a picture of Prince Andrew with 17 year old Virginia and Ghislaine standing in the background. In an interview where he again states that he has no clue who Virginia is, the person interviewing him states, there is a photo of Virginia at 17 years old Old and you're standing right next to her. How do you explain that? And his response is, I can't. So if you ask him, it's an edited photo, it's a fake photo, and it's not true. If you ask Virginia, she would say that Epstein introduced her to Prince Andrew the day that she met him. Epstein said that she was to obey Prince Andrew, to follow all of his orders, and to fulfill any and all requests that he had. Prince Andrew and Virginia settled that lawsuit out of court. Court the financial terms of the settlement were not officially disclosed. However, multiple reputable sources estimated the amount to be around $12 million. Okay, we're gonna backtrack for a second to March of 2005 in Palm Beach, Florida when the 14 year old girl sat in her school counselor's office and confessed to being essayed by Jeffrey Epstein. Following that claim, Epstein was arrested. Their investigations uncovered that that girl was not the only victim and he was charged with multiple, multiple counts of unlawful with minors and taken into custody by Florida authorities. He posted bail and he later was able to strike a controversial non prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors. The deal that he took, it allowed him to plead guilty to lesser state charges of solicitation of prostitution. In turn, the deal also limited the scope of the investigation. Jeffrey Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but he only served 13 months. Months but was allowed to leave to go to work for up to 12 hours a day, six days a week. Did he really serve time? I don't know. He sounds pretty free to me. Regardless. Ten years later, he would be rearrested and then found dead in his cell. July 8th of 2019 was a Monday. Jeffrey Epstein hopped on his private jet in Paris and flew to New Jersey. As soon as he landed back on US soil. So many cars were, were sitting there waiting for his arrival. And when he stepped out of his jet, he was greeted and arrested by the FBI and nypd. He was arrested for conspiracy to commit trafficking and trafficking of underage girls in New York State. He was being held at the Metropolitan Correctional center in New York, oddly enough, currently where Sean Combs is being held as well. Epstein was awaiting trial and it's been said that he wasn't doing well. He was described as someone who, who looked to be losing their mind. It sounds like he was going mental in there, sitting in his cell, rocking back and forth, whispering things to himself. His mental health deteriorating every minute because of course it was. This was a man that was used to having everything that he wanted. At any second of the day he could snap his fingers and get what he wanted. Nothing was off limits. And now he's being held, awaiting trial, miserable, withdrawn, quiet, alone and just off. And then came off. August 10th of 2019, the day Epstein was found dead in his cell. Allegedly, Epstein had attempted to harm himself. In July of 2019, he was found semi unconscious in his cell with injuries to his neck and he was put on unaliving watch. Important to know, however, if you ask his brother, he said it's not an unaliving attempt. He was attacked by an inmate. Regardless, after that incident, Epstein was held in an observation cell but six days after he was released and sent back to a cell where he was supposed to have a cellmate. But In August of 2019, his cellmate was transferred and no new cellmate was put in his cell. So he was left all alone. By the time that he was found, it was ruled that he had been dead for at least two hours. He was found suspended. His death was ruled as an unaliving. His autopsy showing he had sustained multiple breaks in his neck bones. But no photos were taken of his body before it was moved. Moved. And his death is probably one of the most mysterious and questionable deaths out there. The first theory surrounding his death is the official ruling that he did it himself, he unalived himself. The New York City medical examiner ruled it as such. And people do believe this to be true. Because Epstein was the kind of man who would want the last laugh, who would want to leave on his own terms and take all of his secrets with him. The second most belief theory is that he was killed. That somebody, likely a person of power, hired an inmate to end his life. That this was a murder and it was covered up. Or at the very least that there was foul play involved. People believe this to be true because they think Epstein could very well have been murdered to prevent him from testifying or revealing damaging information about other powerful individuals. And as we know, Epstein did have ties to high profile figures such as politicians, royalties and billionaires snares. There's also the fact that the two guards that were supposed to be checking on him every 30 minutes fell asleep and admitted to later falsifying records, saying that they did check on him, when in reality they did not. And along with that, the camera surrounding his cell were not working. And there's also the fact that his attorneys were working on filing a motion that would argue his non prosecution agreement. Meaning that he would have a reason to stay hopeful of his outcome and to somehow manage to escape. Escape the possible sentence that he was facing. Or at the very least he would have been able to post bail and go back to his house. And people think that because of that, he would have wanted to stay alive and see it through. His own brother has said that he thinks Epstein was killed. He says nothing about his death makes sense. The way his body was found does not add up to an unaliving fact that the guards fell asleep, the cameras weren't working, and he wasn't given a cellmate. Adding to his suspicion, he claims he would think if there was even a chance of Epstein being released on bond, he would have waited for that hearing that was supposed to happen days after his death to hear the outcome before making the decision to unalive himself. And his brother also claims that as the family, they had the option to get a second opinion for an autopsy should they choose to do so. And they did. And they were told from the results of that autopsy that his injuries did not align with his death being an unaliving. And the last belief theory is that Epstein faked his own death and is still alive somewhere. People believe that because they think he would have had the resources to fake something of that degree and he was more than capable of getting anyone that he needed to help him do so. After Epstein was arrested, Ghislaine was on the run. But ultimately, Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested by the FBI. In 2020, she faced multiple charges related to her role in facilitating the abuse of minors by Jeffrey Epstein. In December of 2021, she was found guilty on five upstairs six federal charges including conspiracy to entice minors to travel, to engage in transporting a minor to participate in conspiracy and a minor. She is currently serving her sentence of 20 years at federal correctional institution in Tallahassee. Her Release date is 2037. Before she was sentenced, she addressed the court for the first time telling the victims that were present cousin in the courtroom that she was, quote, sorry for the pain that you've experienced, end quote. She also said, quote, I also want to acknowledge I have been convicted with helping Jeffrey Epstein with his crimes. It is the greatest regret of my life that I ever met Jeffrey Epstein, end quote. That is all I have on Jeffrey Epstein. Let me know what your thoughts are on this case. And again, thank you so much for spending time with me today. I hope you guys are having the best day. I have not go do something to make it the best day. Make somebody happy and I will see you in my next video. Massive kiss on the forehead to every single one of you. Thank you guys so much for tuning in to episode three of I wish you were here. I can't wait to talk to you already in episode four. As a reminder, you can listen to I wish you were here anywhere you get your podcast video version also available on YouTube. Love you guys.