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Former Playboy Playmate Says Ghislaine Maxwell Threatened Her After Epstein Abuse (8/18/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. For the past couple of days, we've been
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  Speaker 1: talking about Hugh Hefner and the allegations he made to
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  Speaker 1: the FBI about Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged assault of
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  Speaker 1: Audre Christensen. Well, Audre Christiansen gave a interview to News Nation,
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  Speaker 1: and in this episode, we're going to dive into an
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  Speaker 1: article talking about that interview. So with that said, let's
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  Speaker 1: just dive right in headline ex playmate says Glenn Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: threatened her after Epstein assault. This article was authored by
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  Speaker 1: Diana Falzoni. In a wide ranging interview with News Nation,
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  Speaker 1: former playboy playmate Audre Christensen detailed the alleged sexual abuse
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  Speaker 1: and sex trafficking she says she endured from disgraced financier
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein in two thousand and four. You mean pedophile
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  Speaker 1: and degenerate Jeffrey Epstein, right, Are we even Cherry was
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  Speaker 1: a financier or is that just something people say. Christiansen
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  Speaker 1: said that she was contacted by Glenn Maxwell, Epstein's co conspirator,
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  Speaker 1: who is currently serving a twenty year federal prison sentence
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  Speaker 1: for the trafficking of minor females. Maxwell said that the
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  Speaker 1: then twenty four year old model should meet with Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: who had ties to Victoria's secret and could offer her
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  Speaker 1: opportunities in the fashion and entertainment industry. I believe we
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  Speaker 1: call that hook line and sinker right. Oh, you want
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  Speaker 1: to be a model, I can help you out, but
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  Speaker 1: first you got to do this. Basically, it was like
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  Speaker 1: she was pretending to be like an agent or like
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  Speaker 1: a manager, that she could introduce me to all these people.
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  Speaker 1: And I kind of ignored it because as a model,
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  Speaker 1: you get that a lot. You get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people who contact you and say they can make you
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  Speaker 1: a star. That's the big thing in Hollywood. And I
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  Speaker 1: found out that my information had been sold to her.
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  Speaker 1: Christensen said, okay, who sold it to her? You see
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  Speaker 1: when I talk about a network, this is what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: If you think that Gallaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were
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  Speaker 1: the only people engaging in this kind of bullshit, you're crazy. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they might have been at a higher level than a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, but this kind of thing goes on,
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  Speaker 1: and anytime you find a power imbalance, whether it's Hollywood,
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street or Jeffrey Epstein's townhouse. You're gonna find this
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  Speaker 1: kind of bullshit. And so she ended up calling me
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  Speaker 1: one day and I talked to her on the phone
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  Speaker 1: and she said, there's this guy coming into town. He's
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  Speaker 1: not normally in town. You have to meet him. He's
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  Speaker 1: really great. He has connections with Victoria's Secret. He has
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  Speaker 1: connections with producers and directors if he likes you. And
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  Speaker 1: this happened a lot in Hollywood. If you get a
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  Speaker 1: person to like you, they would push you to all
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  Speaker 1: of the producers. And what do you think they mean
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  Speaker 1: by push you to the producers? Just handing over your tape. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: here's the audition tape. She read this part and that part.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they mean. They're talking about Weinstein like casting
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  Speaker 1: couch type shit. Oh, go see producer so and so.
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  Speaker 1: He has a role for you. But first, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if there's anything that's more transactional than Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: And also, let's remember that the casting couch didn't start
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  Speaker 1: with mister Weinstein either. It's been going on for a
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  Speaker 1: very long time and Harvey Weinstein just ended up being
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  Speaker 1: the dude holding the hot potato. When the game ended,
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  Speaker 1: Christiansen said it was her lifelong dream to be a
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  Speaker 1: model and an actress, so she decided to meet with
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  Speaker 1: Epstein at a hotel in Los Angeles, which he said
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  Speaker 1: was not unusual in Hollywood. I tried everything I could
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  Speaker 1: to protect myself, and he made me very comfortable in
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  Speaker 1: that setting. We talked for like an hour, and everything
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be going great and really smooth, and I
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  Speaker 1: was excited about the possibilities of what he had to offer.
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  Speaker 1: Christiansen said, and that's how we always got these girls, right. Hey, look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm working for so and so, I'm representing so and so.
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  Speaker 1: I can get you into X, Y or Z. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these women they went along with it.
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  Speaker 1: They thought that this dude was respectable. They thought that
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  Speaker 1: he was somebody that, you know, famous, powerful people were
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  Speaker 1: congregating to. Meanwhile, Jeffrey Epstein was using all of those connections,
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  Speaker 1: using his standing, if you will, in society as armor
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  Speaker 1: as a shield. And that's a favorite method for people
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  Speaker 1: like Epstein. They have all this money, so they you know,
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  Speaker 1: do a couple of altruistic things and then they hide
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  Speaker 1: behind it. Oh well, I donated so and so amount
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  Speaker 1: of money. Look at me, I'm such a great person. Yeah, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the kids that you were abusing or
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  Speaker 1: the women that you were abusing, think you're a great
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  Speaker 1: person because you donated some money to some charity. But
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  Speaker 1: just listen to these idiots giving their testimony to Congress.
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  Speaker 1: How many them use that as an excuse. Well, I've donated,
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  Speaker 1: Nobody cares. Why were you hanging out with Jeffrey Epstein?
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  Speaker 1: What did you see and when did you see it?
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  Speaker 1: That's all we care about. And I was excited about
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  Speaker 1: the possibilities of what he had to offer, Christiansen said.
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  Speaker 1: The model explained that Epstein then briefly left the room.
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  Speaker 1: Then that's when he excused himself to go to the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom and came back with a robe, and my life changed,
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  Speaker 1: Christiansen stated, can you imagine how many other women and
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  Speaker 1: girls have the same story that we haven't heard from.
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  Speaker 1: How about all those women down in Peru or Brazil,
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  Speaker 1: or Lithuania or a Turkmenistan or insert you know third
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  Speaker 1: world country here. How many of those women were abused
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  Speaker 1: and are now being forgotten about. So always keep in
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  Speaker 1: mind that for every woman that comes forward, there's another
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  Speaker 1: ten that haven't told their story. Told News Nation that
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  Speaker 1: when Epstein returned he sexually assaulted her. I think that
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  Speaker 1: every woman, we all play through the scenario of what
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  Speaker 1: ifs in our head. And I had played the what
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  Speaker 1: if so many times in my head, and I thought,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a fighter, I'm vocal, I'm a fighter. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: somebody that usually gives up and submits. And it was
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  Speaker 1: really frustrating to have my brain telling me what to
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  Speaker 1: do and to run and to fight back and my
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  Speaker 1: body just would not move. Christiansen said, that happens. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody likes to think that in a certain situation they're
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  Speaker 1: going to act one way or another, and then that
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  Speaker 1: situation arrives and your body has other ideas. It was
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  Speaker 1: like there was a total disconnect from my brain to
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  Speaker 1: my body. And that's the hardest part. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: the hardest part for a survivor that's gone through that
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  Speaker 1: is that we knew that we should run, we knew
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  Speaker 1: that we should do stuff stuff to make it stop.
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  Speaker 1: But when you're in that situation, you just freeze, she described,
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  Speaker 1: And look, I can't talk about that one way or
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  Speaker 1: the other. I don't know. I've never been in that position,
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  Speaker 1: but it has to be terrifying. I can't imagine somebody
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  Speaker 1: dominating you like that, standing over you, hovering over you,
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  Speaker 1: implying that you better do this, that or the other thing,
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  Speaker 1: or there's going to be great pain to you or
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  Speaker 1: your career. I have no idea what that's like. Nobody's
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  Speaker 1: ever tried to flex on me like that, but it
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  Speaker 1: has to be terrifying, and I can't even imagine. But
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  Speaker 1: it's one thing to say, oh, I would do this
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  Speaker 1: in a situation, and then it's a whole less other
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  Speaker 1: thing to be in that situation. And until you're in
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  Speaker 1: that situation, you just don't know. After Epstein allegedly sexually
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  Speaker 1: assaulted her, Christiansen said she called Maxwell to report the abuse.
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  Speaker 1: She says that Maxwell then threatened her. I called Blaine
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  Speaker 1: and I was crying. I was sobbing, and then she
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  Speaker 1: was the one who was threatening. They get to you,
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  Speaker 1: they talk to you, they find out what your weaknesses are.
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  Speaker 1: My weakness is my family, my parents. My parents meant
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  Speaker 1: the world to me. She said, yeah, that's a red
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  Speaker 1: line for me. You go after my parents, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have big problems, big big problems. Ski Mask and Bush's
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  Speaker 1: kind of problems. Maxwell's attorney did not respond to a
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  Speaker 1: request for comment at the time of publication. To have
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  Speaker 1: my parents find out that happened to me, and to
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  Speaker 1: be threatened and have my career threatened, I thought, I'll
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  Speaker 1: never work in Hollywood again. I'll be blacklisted. And she
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  Speaker 1: made it very clear that from then on if my
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  Speaker 1: phone rang, I would have to jump at their whim.
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  Speaker 1: Christiansen shared and that's what they would do. Once you
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  Speaker 1: were caught up in the web, you were caught up,
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  Speaker 1: and then you were at the mercy of Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 1: to do whatever it was he wanted you to do. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there's some people that have overblown what was going on,
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  Speaker 1: Like I've told you, he wasn't Heidi Flies, he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: out here selling women. But that was part of it,
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  Speaker 1: and to select group of people were brought into that
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  Speaker 1: inner circle, if you will, and engaged in the abuse.
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  Speaker 1: But when we're talking about the way the network was built,
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  Speaker 1: it was traditional. Once you were caught up, then you
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  Speaker 1: were threatened, and you were controlled, and Maxwell played the enforcer.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've heard that from how many people. The
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  Speaker 1: then Playboy playmates said it was Maxwell's alleged threats that
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  Speaker 1: caused her to be ensnared into Epstein's sex trafficking network.
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  Speaker 1: Christensen said she was unable to escape the trafficking network
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  Speaker 1: and feared for her life, and she saw protection from
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  Speaker 1: Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. It was from Epstein and associates
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  Speaker 1: of his that I needed to be able to be
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  Speaker 1: sheltered from, she stated. Imagine running from one viper to
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  Speaker 1: the next. That's how bad Jeffrey Epstein was so bad
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  Speaker 1: that miss Christensen sought protection from Hugh fucking Hefner, the
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  Speaker 1: granddaddy of all diddlers and degenerates. It ended up happening
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  Speaker 1: during a Christmas celebrate that heff would have up the mansion.
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  Speaker 1: I was too scared to go home to my family
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  Speaker 1: because my family had been threatened, and it was the
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  Speaker 1: first Christmas that I had spent away from my family.
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  Speaker 1: And I told Holly Madison, his girlfriend aside at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and I said, Hey, I've got this really bad situation.
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  Speaker 1: I'm fearful for my life. Can you talk to heff
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  Speaker 1: Christensen said that the next week, Madison called her with
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  Speaker 1: a request from Hefner that she moved into the Playboy
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  Speaker 1: mansion for her safety. The very next week, Madison called
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  Speaker 1: me and said, hey, hef wants to offer for you
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  Speaker 1: to move in to the house for your safety were
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  Speaker 1: their security. Hefner then spoke with Christensen directly about her
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  Speaker 1: alleged sexual assault by Epstein. According to her, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think that gives you kind of an image of
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  Speaker 1: just how bad Jeffrey Epstein was. Heff went and sat
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  Speaker 1: down with me and we went over everything. I told
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  Speaker 1: him what was happening, and he had alerted the authorities,
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  Speaker 1: and the authority said that we needed to contact the
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  Speaker 1: FBI because of state line, she said. Christiansen said that
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  Speaker 1: Hefner became emotional after learning of her allegations against Epstein.
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  Speaker 1: When I told Heff he cried with me. He actually
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  Speaker 1: shed tears, and he was very remorseful for what had happened,
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  Speaker 1: and he wanted to try to do everything he could
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  Speaker 1: to help me and provide safety for me, she said.
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  Speaker 1: Christiansen said Hefner made repeated calls to the FBI, alerting
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  Speaker 1: them that she was an alleged survivor of sexual abuse
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  Speaker 1: and trafficking by Epstein and others around them. The bureau
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  Speaker 1: never reached out to her or investigated her allegations. Just
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  Speaker 1: another black eye for the FBI. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: many times we have to talk about it, but not
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  Speaker 1: exactly doing their job. Hefner reportedly notified the FBI in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and five regarding Christiansen's claims. Court records reflect
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  Speaker 1: She told News Nation on Friday that the FBI told
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  Speaker 1: Hefner they would investigate his tips about the disgraced financier
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  Speaker 1: into the five, but they never did. She claimed. I
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  Speaker 1: called again to the FBI in twenty twenty due to
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  Speaker 1: threats that were happening to our family. I've never been
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  Speaker 1: able to speak to the FBI. I even hired an
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  Speaker 1: attorney to speak to them, and they would not meet
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  Speaker 1: with her or I still nothing from the DOJ or
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  Speaker 1: the FBI. She said. My attorney was blown away that
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  Speaker 1: they didn't want to hear from me. Unfortunately, that's par
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  Speaker 1: for the course. See no evil, hear no evil, Speak
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  Speaker 1: no evil. If they don't talk to these survivors, then
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  Speaker 1: they can say that they don't have any information right.
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  Speaker 1: Christiansen said that Epstein allegedly prayed upon other playmates. I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the only playmate that had issues with perpetrators like
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  Speaker 1: Epstein or otherwise, they're too afraid to step forward, but
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  Speaker 1: it was a big deal back then. Hef was trying
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  Speaker 1: to keep us all safe, she said. In a legal
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  Speaker 1: complaint filed by thirty four Epstein's survivors against the United
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  Speaker 1: States in the Southern District of Florida, Christiansen's alleged abuse
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  Speaker 1: is detailed. The complaint was first reported by Miami Herald
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  Speaker 1: reporter Julie K. Brown. The court document said for about
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years, the FBI did not investigate Miss Christensen's tips
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  Speaker 1: or follow up on her allegations. Those documents also stated
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  Speaker 1: that Christensen said, shortly after meeting Epstein, before she knew it,
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  Speaker 1: she was naked and raped by Epstein and then trafficked
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  Speaker 1: for ten years. The FBI is trying to dismiss a
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  Speaker 1: case filed by thirty four Epstein survivors, arguing that they
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  Speaker 1: were too late to file since the alleged abuse was
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  Speaker 1: between ninety six and two thousand and seven. How pathetic
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  Speaker 1: loopholes and technicalities is it. Here's an idea, FBI, do
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  Speaker 1: your job and nobody is going to sue you. Hefner
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  Speaker 1: himself faced allegations of systematic manipulation and sexual misconduct. A
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  Speaker 1: docuseries in twenty twenty two alleges that he coerced and
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  Speaker 1: drug women into set at the Playboy Mansion. The publication
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  Speaker 1: issued an open letter after the allegations were made, saying
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  Speaker 1: that today Playboy is not Hugh Hefner's Playboy. A lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen accused Hefner of enabling comedian Bill Cosby
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  Speaker 1: to sexually abuse a model at the mansion. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know enough about that to talk about it, so we're
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  Speaker 1: just gonna move on. Christiansen said the lack of response
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  Speaker 1: from the FBI and DJ is a horrible signal not
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  Speaker 1: only to survivors a sexual abuse in trafficking, but to
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  Speaker 1: the nation overall. It's really frustrating, and it sends a
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  Speaker 1: horrible message to our country. It sends a horrible message
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  Speaker 1: to every survivor that's out there, every rape victim, every
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  Speaker 1: child that wants to come forward and speak their truth,
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  Speaker 1: that you may not be heard, you may not be believed,
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  Speaker 1: and you may not have any justice or anyone to
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  Speaker 1: come to your aid. So it's a big message to
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  Speaker 1: everybody that they may not get the help that they deserve.
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  Speaker 1: Rape victims and people who have been through abused deserve
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  Speaker 1: to be heard. She said. The FBI declined to comment
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  Speaker 1: when requested by News Nation, while the DOJ has not
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  Speaker 1: responded as of publication. All right, so what we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do is, afterw're done going through the Widen report, we'll
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  Speaker 1: dive into this and we'll take a look at this
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit and we'll see exactly what they have to say.
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  Speaker 1: But I think when we get to the end of
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  Speaker 1: the road here that the FBI is going to be
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  Speaker 1: on the hook and paying a big bag, just like
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  Speaker 1: they did with Larry Nasser. But I think that we're
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  Speaker 1: still a waves away from that, obviously, and the FBI
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  Speaker 1: is going to do everything in their power to get
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  Speaker 1: this dismissed. So, like usual, we'll keep an eye on
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  Speaker 1: it and when we have some new developments, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: them added to the catalog. All the information that goes
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