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New Mexico's Lawsuit Filed Against Epstein Executors Darren Indyke And Richard Kahn (Part 3) (10/22/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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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. In this episode we're going to dive right
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  Speaker 1: back into that lawsuit filed by New Mexico against Darren
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  Speaker 1: Indyke and Richard Kahn. D. Zorro Ranch. Epstein Zorro Ranch
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  Speaker 1: was located at 49 Zorro Ranch Road near Stanley, New
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  Speaker 1: Mexico in Santa Fe County. In 1993 Epstein acquired the
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  Speaker 1: land and approximately 7,600 acres that would become Zorro Ranch
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  Speaker 1: from the family of the sitting governor of New Mexico,
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  Speaker 1: Bruce King. That same year, Epstein also acquired grazing leases
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  Speaker 1: from the state that gave him a wider buffer of
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  Speaker 1: control and privacy around his property. Epstein acquired Zorro Ranch
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  Speaker 1: through the Zorro Trust, an Ohio-based trust, of which Epstein
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  Speaker 1: was then a trustee. The nearest city to Zorro Ranch,
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  Speaker 1: Santa Fe, is over 30 miles to the north. and
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  Speaker 1: the closest neighbors to the ranch are miles away. Epstein
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  Speaker 1: began construction of the main residence at Zorro Ranch after
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  Speaker 1: purchasing it in 1993, and eventually added eight guest houses
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  Speaker 1: upon completion. The main residence alone was over 28,000 square feet.
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  Speaker 1: The entrance to Zorro Ranch was off of New Mexico
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  Speaker 1: State Road 41 down a dirt road approximately a half
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  Speaker 1: mile in wild country with lots of open space and rattlesnakes.
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  Speaker 1: Access to the property was gated with security controlling admission.
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  Speaker 1: As one of the Epstein Enterprises survivors testified during the
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  Speaker 1: trial of Epstein associate trafficker and girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, it
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  Speaker 1: was this giant ranch, sort of, in the middle of nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: and it seemed very empty on the interior, meaning there
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  Speaker 1: really wasn't other people around. Another survivor describes Oro Ranch
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  Speaker 1: as its own miniature town that housed its servants and groundkeepers,
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  Speaker 1: with Epstein calling the main house... his castle. The Zorro
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  Speaker 1: Ranch also featured a private airstrip and hangar and helicopter
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  Speaker 1: landing pad. According to one source, Epstein spent approximately 50
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  Speaker 1: days per year at Zorro Ranch and maintained five to
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  Speaker 1: six full-time staff members as well as seasonal employees at
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  Speaker 1: the ranch. At times, Epstein would arrive at Zorro Ranch
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  Speaker 1: with only 24 to 48 hours notice and stay for
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  Speaker 1: two to three weeks at a time. After Epstein's 2019 death,
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  Speaker 1: Zorro Ranch was sold by the estate to a private
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  Speaker 1: party in 2023. Defendant Kahn oversaw Zorro's sale. E. Survivor
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  Speaker 1: Accounts Jane Doe 1 In 2006, the FBI interviewed Jane
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  Speaker 1: Doe 1, who recounted interactions she had with Epstein and
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell in New York and on Zorro Ranch in 1996.
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  Speaker 1: The interview was conducted in connection with Southern District of
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  Speaker 1: Florida's investigation of Epstein. Jane Doe One recounted that she
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  Speaker 1: was underage when Epstein and Maxwell first assaulted her at
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  Speaker 1: Zorro Ranch. Jane Doe One met Epstein during her junior
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  Speaker 1: year of high school through her older sister, who was
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  Speaker 1: employed by Epstein. Epstein expressed interest in supporting and assisting
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  Speaker 1: Jane Doe One with her college application and tuition fees.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein recommended that Jane Doe One consider traveling abroad to
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  Speaker 1: participate in volunteer work in Asia. which he advised would
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  Speaker 1: increase her qualifications for college applications. He offered to assist
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  Speaker 1: in paying for the trip. Jane Doe One's mother was
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  Speaker 1: contacted by Maxwell while Jane Doe One was a junior
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  Speaker 1: in high school to arrange a trip for Jane Doe
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  Speaker 1: One to visit New Mexico. Jane Doe One was led
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  Speaker 1: to believe the trip was intended for Maxwell and Epstein
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  Speaker 1: to get to know her better and finalize her summer
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  Speaker 1: plans for traveling to Thailand. Epstein and or Maxwell agreed.
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  Speaker 1: purchased Jane Doe One a flight ticket from Phoenix, Arizona
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  Speaker 1: to Santa Fe, New Mexico. When she arrived in Santa Fe,
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  Speaker 1: the Zorro Ranch manager picked her up. When she arrived
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  Speaker 1: at the ranch, Epstein made it clear Jane Doe One
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  Speaker 1: would be staying as a guest at the ranch. Jane
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  Speaker 1: Doe One was the only guest at the ranch at
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  Speaker 1: the time. In New Mexico, Maxwell and Epstein intensified their
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  Speaker 1: efforts to groom Jane Doe One for abuse. Maxwell and
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  Speaker 1: Epstein took Jane Doe One to a movie and they
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  Speaker 1: went shopping. Maxwell and Epstein also discussed Jangdo Won's school
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  Speaker 1: classes and family. One evening at Toro Ranch, Epstein asked
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  Speaker 1: Jangdo Won would provide him with a foot massage. Jangdo
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  Speaker 1: Won was taken aback by the request, and Maxwell gave
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  Speaker 1: a demonstration. Jangdo Won proceeded to give Epstein a foot massage.
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  Speaker 1: During the foot massage, Epstein asked if Jangdo Won had
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  Speaker 1: ever had a massage. Jangdo Won replied that she had not.
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell stood up and stated, that she'd give a massage
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  Speaker 1: to Jane Doe 1. Maxwell led Jane Doe 1 to
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  Speaker 1: a room with a massage table and instructed Jane Doe
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  Speaker 1: 1 to get undressed and get on a massage table.
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  Speaker 1: Jane Doe 1 was made to undress in front of
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell and Epstein down to her underwear and remove her bra.
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell began massaging Jane Doe 1 and instructed Jane Doe
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  Speaker 1: 1 to roll over onto her back. After Jane Doe
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  Speaker 1: 1 did so, Maxwell then pulled down the sheet, exposing
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  Speaker 1: Jane Doe 1 to Epstein. who was nearby and continued
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  Speaker 1: to hold a conversation with Jane Doe One throughout the massage.
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  Speaker 1: Jane Doe One was very self-conscious and uncomfortable with Epstein
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  Speaker 1: looking at her exposed body. Epstein asked Jane Doe One,
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  Speaker 1: aren't massages great? Maxwell completed the massage by rubbing Jane
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  Speaker 1: Doe One's body to include her breasts. The next morning,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein entered Jane Doe One's room, got into bed with her,
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  Speaker 1: and stated he felt like cuddling. Jane Doe One described
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  Speaker 1: Epstein as spooning her. Maxwell entered the room and observed
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  Speaker 1: Epstein under the covers of the bed with Jane Doe One.
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  Speaker 1: In her interview, Jane Doe One recounted that later that night,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein again entered Jane Doe One's room and sat on
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  Speaker 1: the bed with her. She recalled that he stroked her
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  Speaker 1: hair and told her how pretty she was. However, at
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  Speaker 1: this point, Jane Doe One's interview, she became visibly disturbed
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  Speaker 1: and was unable to recall the remainder of events for
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  Speaker 1: that evening at the ranch. Jane Doe 1 was abused
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  Speaker 1: and trafficked by Epstein and his associates. Jane Doe 2
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  Speaker 1: Jane Doe 2 was a massage therapist who was interviewed
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  Speaker 1: by federal prosecutors in New York and spoke with the
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  Speaker 1: FBI and to media outlets about her interaction with Epstein
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  Speaker 1: and Maxwell on Zorro Ranch. Jane Doe 2 reported to
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  Speaker 1: the FBI that she performed massages at private homes. She
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  Speaker 1: served as a professional massage therapist at Zorro Ranch for
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  Speaker 1: three years, starting in 1999. Jane Doe 2 reported that
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  Speaker 1: the massages turned sexual with Epstein. Maxwell told her, if
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  Speaker 1: you have any more friends who want to come out,
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  Speaker 1: they have to be good-looking, pretty, young, no hairy pits.
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  Speaker 1: As with the others, Epstein used his power, influence, and
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  Speaker 1: money to lure Jane Doe 2 and coerced her to
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  Speaker 1: comply with his demands. Redacted. Approximately two years after Jane
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  Speaker 1: Doe 2 started going to Zorro Ranch, she was given
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  Speaker 1: a nondisclosure agreement but she did not sign it and
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  Speaker 1: stopped going to the ranch shortly thereafter. Jane Doe 3
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  Speaker 1: Jane Doe 3 testified in court in New York on
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  Speaker 1: August 27, 2019, about being abused by Epstein at Zorro
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  Speaker 1: Ranch in 2004. When Jane Doe 3 was 15, she
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  Speaker 1: flew on Epstein's plane to Zorro Ranch, where he sexually
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  Speaker 1: assaulted her for many hours. She stated, what I remember
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  Speaker 1: most vividly was him explaining to me how beneficial the
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  Speaker 1: experience was for me. and how much he was helping
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  Speaker 1: me to grow. She continued, I remember feeling so small
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  Speaker 1: and powerless, especially after he positioned me by laying me
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  Speaker 1: on his floor so that I was confronted by all
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  Speaker 1: the framed photographs on his dresser of him smiling with
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  Speaker 1: wealthy celebrities and politicians. She stated, after he finished with me,
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  Speaker 1: he told me to describe in detail how good my
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  Speaker 1: first sexual experience felt. She recounted, that was the first
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  Speaker 1: of many lies I was forced to carry for him.
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  Speaker 1: the weight of which proliferated my trauma. She stated that
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  Speaker 1: she felt powerless not merely because one man wanted to
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  Speaker 1: strip me of my innocence, but because I was the
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  Speaker 1: survivor of a system that just disenfranchises human beings, making
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  Speaker 1: them vulnerable to pedophilic exploitation. The night after she was molested,
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  Speaker 1: she and another girl took two of his ATVs and
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  Speaker 1: raced them across the mesa. She crashed hers and expressed
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  Speaker 1: concern that she would get in trouble. The other girl responded,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry, no one gets in trouble for anything here.
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  Speaker 1: Jane Doe 4 Jane Doe 4 reported that she was
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  Speaker 1: transported to and sexually abused at Zorro Ranch while under 18,
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  Speaker 1: in or around 2000 to 2001. Jane Doe 4 wrote
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  Speaker 1: about her experience and described having been flown to Zorro Ranch,
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  Speaker 1: comparing the property to Disneyland, and stating that Epstein referred
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  Speaker 1: to the main house as his castle. Jane Doe 4
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  Speaker 1: recounted being sexually abused by Epstein multiple times at Zorro Ranch.
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  Speaker 1: She recounted that on one occasion, Maxwell and Epstein abused
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  Speaker 1: her and another survivor, while she and another survivor performed
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  Speaker 1: massages for Epstein in the movie room at Zorro Ranch.
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  Speaker 1: Jane Doe 4 also testified in a deposition that on
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  Speaker 1: at least one occasion, she was trafficked to New Mexico
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  Speaker 1: to have sex with one of Epstein's associates. Jane Doe
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  Speaker 1: 5 stated she first met Epstein in New York when
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  Speaker 1: she was an aspiring ballet dancer. Jane Doe 5 was
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  Speaker 1: approached by a member of Epstein's enterprise and was eventually
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  Speaker 1: recruited to give Epstein massages. Jane Doe 5 alleged in
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  Speaker 1: a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the
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  Speaker 1: Southern District of New York that she began performing massages,
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  Speaker 1: which initially were not sexual, for Epstein more regularly, and
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  Speaker 1: that he spent much of the time asking questions about
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  Speaker 1: Jane Doe 5, her professional plans, and her problems. She
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  Speaker 1: alleged in her lawsuit that by the third visit, Epstein
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  Speaker 1: informed Jane Doe 5 that he had the resources that
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  Speaker 1: he would use to advance her career if she would
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  Speaker 1: do what he wanted her to do. He began to
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  Speaker 1: make the massages more sexual. During massages, Epstein would take
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  Speaker 1: business calls. On numerous calls, Jane Doe 5 heard Epstein
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  Speaker 1: using very angry and threatening tone and voice making it
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  Speaker 1: known to the other party that Jane Doe 5, that
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  Speaker 1: he had the ability to cause serious harm to powerful
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  Speaker 1: people and anyone who did not cooperate with him. Jane
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  Speaker 1: Doe 5 alleged that it was clear that Epstein was
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  Speaker 1: extremely powerful and could cause serious harm to her if
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  Speaker 1: she disobeyed. Epstein routinely paid Jane Doe 5 for the
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  Speaker 1: sex acts, which he called massages. Epstein regularly reminded Jane
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  Speaker 1: Doe 5 that she could afford her mother's rent, and
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  Speaker 1: her own groceries because of the money he provided for
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  Speaker 1: commercial sex. Epstein took Jane Doe 5 to Zorro Ranch
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  Speaker 1: a number of times between 2007 and 2010 when she
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  Speaker 1: was in her early 20s. At Zorro Ranch, she was
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  Speaker 1: coerced to have sex with Epstein and other members of
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein enterprise. All right, we're going to wrap up
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  Speaker 1: right here. And in the next episode, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: pick up with Jane Doe number six. All the information
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  Speaker 1: that goes with this episode can be found in the
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  Speaker 1: description box.