Khaberni - Narratives, words, and voices of the victims of American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were revealed for the first time through millions of files published by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Perhaps these narratives are summarized in a personal blog written by one of them: "It is indescribable horror." They recorded their memories of assault in these files through personal diaries, private letters, and confidential legal interviews, with the names of all survivors redacted in this material.
In one of the snippets dating back to around 2007, a young woman documents her encounters with Epstein, including details of their trips around the world and her intimate thoughts about their relationship. It starts by saying: "Once upon a time, there was a little girl who knew nothing... then what does he do? He wouldn't do it. Hmm... stretch."
In interviews conducted by Palm Beach police, unidentified victims recounted their experiences with Epstein and his then-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker. One of them, named Charlotte, spoke about her visits to Epstein's house in November 2005 and how he would lure hesitant girls.
The investigator noted that Charlotte talked about her first meeting with Epstein when she was seventeen, looking to make money like other girls. About her experience at the house, she said the situation seemed very strange with other girls present, where he asked her to come up to the massage room to massage him.
When Epstein offered her more money to take off her shirt, she initially refused, but returned three or four times fearing he might do something. With each visit, he offered her more money to do more things, until the third time when she took off her shirt for three hundred dollars.
Another survivor named Kimberly documented in her diary with a simple code her painful emotional journey in Epstein's world between 2001 and 2004. Kimberly wrote about feeling completely lost and how Epstein treated her as private property.
She also expressed her hatred towards three other girls, describing them and Epstein's friends as "disgusting pigs" wherever they were, whether on the plane, the yacht, New York, Washington, the farm, the island, or Palm Beach. She complained about the physical and emotional exhaustion because of the sick and twisted game.
Later in her diary, Kimberly detailed her shocking experiences with multiple pregnancies, expressing her physical and emotional pain during a bloody painful procedure. She talked about reaching the twentieth week of pregnancy with Epstein's child in the Bahamas without a clear plan due to a dispute between Epstein and Maxwell about the procedure.
She desperately wondered why everyone was failing to help her, considering that the company used by Epstein did not protect children but used them to find them everywhere, ending with a painful question: "Will I ever be free?"
In another testimony given by a survivor to investigators in September 2019, she revealed details of her experiences with Epstein and Maxwell from the age of thirteen until adulthood. She first met them while sitting at a picnic table with her friends, where Epstein started a conversation with her pretending to be interested in giving her scholarships.
Maxwell was always present like an older sister, taking her to the movies. At the age of fourteen, she traveled with them for the first time to New York to watch The Lion King movie, with other girls around her.
During the shopping trip they took, they picked out white cotton underwear for her that made her look like a small child. Since she was a virgin wanting to keep her underwear, Epstein convinced her to skip the matter to be good with her future boyfriend, while Maxwell laughed and encouraged her to do so.
The girl was unaware of other girls being involved until Epstein's arrest in 2008, thinking she was the only one. She received continuous instructions, without being asked for anything, to engage with other females.
When she watched his arrest on TV in 2007-2008, then learned about his house arrest, lawyers contacted her and told her that her name was brought up in front of Epstein who responded saying she was grateful to him and would not speak.
These documented memories are not just isolated stories, but form a recurring pattern in the lives of Epstein's victims, as authorities continue to comb through the files to reveal more.
