Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / Mega Edition: The Sarah Ransome Deposition From The Maxwell/Virginia Roberts Lawsuit (Part 5-7) (5/30/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
- 0:04In this episode, we're gonna pick up where we left
- 0:06off with the Sarah Ransom deposition. So let's dive right
- 0:11back in, shall we. Manager, Approximately, how many times do
- 0:17you recall being paid to spend dinner with a gentleman
- 0:20in New York when you were living here in late
- 0:22two thousand and six? Ransom? I can't remember, Manager ten times,
- 0:27mister Gergis objection, Ransom. It could be it wasn't yet.
- 0:33It could be that it wasn't really to this, She's
- 0:36interrupted by Manager. Apart from that income, did you have
- 0:39any other source of income? Mister Gergis, I'm sorry. Off
- 0:43the record for a second, and off the record discussion
- 0:46is held. Manager gets back to it. I think there's
- 0:49a question pending requested. Portion of the record was read back. Ransom, Yes,
- 0:55I did. Yes, Manager. What were the other sources? Ransom, Epstein, Manager,
- 1:02any other sources? Ransom? No? Manager? Who introduced you to
- 1:06Jeffrey Epstein? Ransom? Redacted? Manager? And how did you meet redacted? Ransom?
- 1:12I met her in a nightclub? Manager, do you know
- 1:15which nightclub? Ransom? I can't remember the exact name. It
- 1:18was a rock club. The owner of the club, his
- 1:20name is redacted. Yeah, his name. It's quite a well
- 1:24known club. If you google the name redacted, you'll find
- 1:27the name redacted, the nightclub's owner. He's quite famous in
- 1:31New York. Manager, do you know where in New York
- 1:34the club is located? Ransom? I can't remember. I don't
- 1:38know the exact location. Manager. Were you there socially or
- 1:42were you working Ransom socially? Manager? And were you there
- 1:47with anyone? Ransom, I can't remember. I would have been
- 1:50with an acquaintance or something, but I can't remember who
- 1:53I was with. Manager. Were you able to make some
- 1:56friends with people here in New York when you moved here, Ransom? Yes,
- 2:00redacted and redacted, a girl name redacted. There were a
- 2:04few others I can't remember there. They weren't close friends,
- 2:07they were just acquaintances. You don't really make friends in
- 2:10New York. Manager, tell me about your meeting of redacted Ransom.
- 2:15She was very attractive, I think redacted, very friendly, very
- 2:19beautiful girl, very friendly, very beautiful girl, very We clicked immediately. Yeah,
- 2:25she approached me. I wasn't Yeah, I didn't go out
- 2:27of my way to meet any friends in a nightclub,
- 2:31so especially girls. Menager, What do you mean she approached you, Ransom?
- 2:37So when I go to the club, I don't really
- 2:39speak to girls. I speak to guys. So redacted approached
- 2:43me and came on to me. Manager. Where were you,
- 2:46Ransom in the nightclub? Manager? Where in the nightclub? Ransom?
- 2:51I can't I can't remember the exact location. Manager. Were
- 2:55you at the bar area, on the dance floor, in
- 2:57the bathroom, Ransom? I would say she pretty much hit
- 3:00on me everywhere in the club, Menager. Was there a
- 3:03dance floor, Ransom, Yes, there was, Menainger. Was it a
- 3:08one floor club or two floors? Ransom? I can't remember
- 3:12how many floors, Menager? And what did she do to
- 3:15hit on you, Ransom? She befriended me, Yeah, she kissed me, Menager.
- 3:21Where did she kiss you, Ransom on the mouth? Menager?
- 3:25Anywhere else? Ransom? Ken is that in general or at
- 3:29that Menager? I'm just talking about the first time that
- 3:32you met her, Ransom. The first time we met, Menager, Right, Ransom,
- 3:37I can't remember if we had sex the first night
- 3:39we met, but we definitely were intimate the first time
- 3:42we met. But I can't remember if we had sex
- 3:44on that first night, Menager. Okay, was that consensual sex? Ransom? Yes?
- 3:50It was with redacted? Menager? And where did you have
- 3:54consensual sex with redacted? Ransom? In the club the first
- 3:58time we're in the club? Ransom? In the owner's office.
- 4:03Manager was the owner present? Ransom? Yes, the owner was present?
- 4:08Manager redacted and redacted? Ransom? Is that? I don't know
- 4:11his surname? So is it redacted? I can only give
- 4:14you a description of redacted if you want, Manager, Sure,
- 4:18this whole next section is redacted. Menager. Okay, So you
- 4:22and redacted and redacted had consensual sex in redacted's office.
- 4:28Mister Gergis objection. Ms McCauley, objection. Manager, is that right? Ransom?
- 4:34That's correct? Manager? Did I get that wrong in any way?
- 4:37Mister Gergis, here's the question, Sarah Ransom, Yeah, that's correct. Manager.
- 4:44Was anyone else present? Ransom? No? Manager. Did you have
- 4:48any alcohol that night? Ransom? I did? Manager? How much? Ransom?
- 4:53Not enough to forget or blackout? So not much. I
- 4:55was able to make decisions? Menager. Do you recall what
- 4:59you were wearing? Ransom? No, I don't. Menager. Did you
- 5:03have any cocaine that night? Ransom? I don't remember. Menager.
- 5:06Did you use cocaine during the fall of two thousand
- 5:09and six? Is that a real question? Who didn't use
- 5:11cocaine in the two thousands, especially if you're a model
- 5:15and you're out at clubs? Ransom? Yes, I did, Menager?
- 5:20And where did you get that cocaine? Ransom from redacted
- 5:23and redacted? Menager? Anywhere else? Ransom from Redacted's best friend,
- 5:28a guy named redacted. I don't know how to spell that.
- 5:32Menager anywhere else? Ransom, no menager? Did you pay for
- 5:36any of the cocaine? Ransom? No menager. Did you use
- 5:39any of the controlled substances in the fall of two
- 5:42thousand and six? Ransom? No menager? Did you take any
- 5:47prescriptions in the fall of two thousand and six? Ransom?
- 5:50I did, Menager? What did you take? Ransom? Jeffrey psychiatrists
- 5:55prescribe me lithium riddle in, and there was a bipolar
- 5:58prescription drug that was also prescribed to me by Jeffrey
- 6:01Epstein's psychiatrist. I can't remember the exact name of the
- 6:05bipolar drug, but I was started off with lithium and
- 6:08Riddlin Meninger. Okay, what was the name of the psychiatrist, Ransom,
- 6:14I can't remember her name, Meninger. It was a woman, Ransom,
- 6:18it was a woman. Manager. And where was she located? Ransom,
- 6:22I can't. I can't remember the exact location of her office. Manager,
- 6:26can you describe the office in any way? Ransom? I
- 6:30can't remember, Menainger. Did anyone go with you? Ransom? No,
- 6:34I went on my own, Menainger. Where did you go
- 6:37to get your prescription filled? Ransom? A pharmacyior Jeffrey Epstein's
- 6:41apartment that I was living in at the time. I
- 6:44think it was Dwayne Reid. Manager. Were they in your name? Ransom? Yes,
- 6:50they were Menainger. Were you taking these in the fall
- 6:52of two thousand and six or in two thousand and
- 6:55seven or both? Ransom? Jeffrey first put me in touch
- 6:59with his kiatrist. It was before it was Yeah, it
- 7:03was well before December, so it was the fall of
- 7:06the fall winter going into winter of two thousand and six. Manager.
- 7:10Do you recall what month you came to the US, Ransom?
- 7:14It was September of two thousand and six. Manager. Did
- 7:17you leave and come back in October, Ransom. I think
- 7:20I may have. I may have made a trip to
- 7:22London or like a quick brief trip. Manager. Who paid
- 7:26for that, Ransom? I can't remember, Manager, Why did you
- 7:29go back, Ransom? I can't actually remember why I went back? Manager,
- 7:35So you think you came in September, Ransom. I know
- 7:38I came in September, Menager, and you said you could
- 7:41only stay for three months, Ransom. And then I left
- 7:44the country briefly for a day. Then I came back
- 7:47in again. Manager, When did you do that? Ransom? So
- 7:50if you look at my passport when I entered, you've
- 7:53got my passport. So I arrived on the first, I
- 7:55think of September, and then it was just before the
- 7:58three months were up, and then I left. I think
- 8:01that was the trip that I made to London in
- 8:03October November. October November, yeah, so I was. I left
- 8:08before the due time that my tourist visa was up,
- 8:11and I spent the summer and I came back. Manager.
- 8:15Where did you go, Ransom? I think it was London.
- 8:18I went to I went to London, and then Jeffrey
- 8:21paid for a flight for me to visit my family
- 8:23in South Africa in February. Menager. Okay, so there's two
- 8:27trips to London we're talking about. There's one you went
- 8:31and you came right back. Ransom. I only recall one
- 8:35trip to London. I didn't really kind of catalog every
- 8:38trip I made. I did a lot of traveling during
- 8:40my time in the US. So, Menager, have you traveled
- 8:43a lot before you came to the US? Ransom, Yeah,
- 8:47I spent my whole life traveling, Menager. How were you
- 8:50able to do that? Ransom through savings, through waitressing jobs,
- 8:53that kind of thing. Menager. Did your family ever pay
- 8:56for you to go on trips? Ransom? No, Menager, never,
- 9:01Ransom No, Menager. Does your family travel? Ransom? Yeah, they travel.
- 9:06They go on holidays overseas, they go on holidays. Managers.
- 9:11So you said you got a passport your whole life.
- 9:14I think you said, right. Ransom. Well, I can't remember
- 9:18the specific date when I was, like from three to
- 9:20five when I got my passport. I didn't arrange my
- 9:23passport at three years old. My mom kind of did that.
- 9:26So I've always grown up with a British and South
- 9:28African passport. I had dual nationality right from the get
- 9:32go Manager, right. So when you were a child, did
- 9:36you travel internationally? Ransom? Yeah, I did to visit my
- 9:39family in Scotland, Menager. And apart from the UK and
- 9:43South Africa, did you go anywhere as a child, Ransom.
- 9:47We went on holidays and Africa. Maybe I went to
- 9:50Scotland to visit my family. Yeah, possibly, I don't remember, Menager. Okay, Ransom.
- 9:56They weren't photo happy in my family, Menager. They were
- 10:00what Ransom, they weren't photo happy. So Maxwell, So back
- 10:04in the fall two thousand and six, you were here
- 10:07for three months and then you left, Ransom. Yeah. I
- 10:10didn't want to go over my visa and get in
- 10:12trouble and I wasn't making much money anyway, and Jeffrey
- 10:16was with FIT so he was going to organize me
- 10:18at visa so I could stay. So I didn't do
- 10:21anything wrong or illegal with my visa. Just to clarify, Menager,
- 10:25I understand. I'm just trying to get the timing of
- 10:27when you were here and when you left and then
- 10:30you came back, Is that right, Ransom? So the duration
- 10:34that I was here, I arrived in September and I left.
- 10:37I think it was the first of May. So during
- 10:40that time, there was a trip that I made to
- 10:42South Africa to visit my family, and there was a
- 10:45trip to London. I don't recall. I don't remember any
- 10:48other trips that I made during that duration of time
- 10:51away from Jeffrey and Glane. If you understand on my
- 10:54independent own Menager, Right, So if you came in September
- 10:58and you could stay for three months, Ransom? Uh huh? Manager,
- 11:02so you left in December McCauley objection, asked and answered Ransom, September, October, November. Yeah,
- 11:09I did. I did make a trip too. I don't
- 11:12recall those specific dates, but I did make a trip
- 11:14to London and I did make a trip to South
- 11:16Africa in February, so I don't manager. Did you go
- 11:19from London to South Africa? Ransom? I don't remember the
- 11:22exact trip itinerary, but yeah, I flew to South Africa
- 11:26on a plane Manager from London, Ransom from New York Menager. Okay,
- 11:32so your recall having been on two trips independently between
- 11:35September two thousand and six and May of two thousand
- 11:37and seven, Right, one to London and one to South Africa.
- 11:41Ransom yeah, that's correct, Menager. And the one to London
- 11:44you recall being a brief trip to then allow you
- 11:47to stay in the country longer. Ransom. I don't remember
- 11:50why I went. I don't even remember the trip. Okay,
- 11:53I really don't recall. I probably visited my mom or whatever.
- 11:57I just know that I made two trips during that duration,
- 12:00and I know that I did not go over the
- 12:02three month thing. So I made those four specific reasons, Menager. Okay, Ransom,
- 12:08but those I just wanted to make clear that those
- 12:11were the only two trips I made independently without Jeffrey aiding,
- 12:15and I would like to make that clear. I made
- 12:17multiple trips with Jeffrey, so independently I did those two, Menager.
- 12:22Were any of your trips with Jeffrey International Ransom? No, Menager,
- 12:27Can you tell me when in your stay in the
- 12:29US you initially met redacted Ransom? It was pretty soon
- 12:33after I arrived. I can't remember the exact timeframe. I
- 12:37think it was about maybe two three weeks after I arrived, Menager.
- 12:41Were you living at redacteds Ransom? Yes, Menager. Did you
- 12:45consider yourself in a relationship with redacted Ransom? No, we
- 12:49were just having fun and she was really friendly. And
- 12:53I didn't know anyone in New York, so, and you know,
- 12:56I wanted to make friends. She was a girl and
- 12:59she was just very friendly pretty. Manager. Was she also
- 13:03involved in the fashion industry at all? Ransom? I don't recall.
- 13:07I just recall her working for Jeffrey. Manager. What did
- 13:10you observe her doing for Jeffrey Ransom? The exact same
- 13:14thing she did with me. She recruited me and she
- 13:17was paid for it. Manager. Okay, did you see her
- 13:20get paid Ransom? No? Manager, how do you know that
- 13:23she got paid ransom? The girls told me Manager. Who
- 13:27were the girls? Ransom? I can't remember their names? Menager, Okay,
- 13:32so the girls told you that redacted got paid by
- 13:34Jeffrey Ransom. That's correct. Manager. So what did you see
- 13:39redacted do for Jeffrey? Answer by Ransom, Well, she recruited me.
- 13:44I think she recruited other girls for Jeffrey. Manager. Did
- 13:48you see her do that, Ransom? No, but I met
- 13:51some of the other girls that had been introduced to
- 13:53Jeffrey Englaine via redacted. Manager got it? So you were
- 13:58recruited by redacted? Correct? Yes? Or no? Answer by Ransom. Yes, Menager,
- 14:03and you met other girls who knew were adacted and
- 14:06Jeffrey correct, Ransom, Well, all the girls knew each other, really,
- 14:10all the girls kind of Menager interrupts her. Are these
- 14:14the same girls that are in the apartment building or
- 14:16a different set of girls, Ransom, A different set of girls, Menager? Okay, Ransom,
- 14:22you know there was a constant flow of women girls, Menager.
- 14:27So where did you see these other girls? Answer? In
- 14:30Manhattan with Jeffrey. A few social occasions that we went
- 14:33on the island on the plane, Jeffrey Epstein's plane. I
- 14:36met girls everywhere every time I went with Jeffrey. Well,
- 14:40not every time, but he was always surrounded by new girls.
- 14:43I couldn't keep up with the names, to be honest,
- 14:45That's why I can't remember any of them. Menager. Getting
- 14:49back to or redacted. You met her at the nightclub? Ransom?
- 14:52Uh huh? Menager? Did she work as a model at all? Ransom?
- 14:56I wasn't quite clear what she actually did, To be
- 14:59honest with you, I absolutely have no idea Manager. Do
- 15:02you know where she lived? Ransom? No, I didn't. I
- 15:05don't know where she lives. Meninger, did you ever go
- 15:08to her apartment. Ransom. No, Menager, when is the last
- 15:11time you talked to her? Ransom? I haven't, I think
- 15:15before I left New York. All right, So we're gonna
- 15:17wrap up this part right here, and in the next episode,
- 15:20we're gonna pick up where we left off. All of
- 15:23the information that goes with this episode can be found
- 15:26in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome back
- 15:30to the Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're gonna pick
- 15:34up where we left off with the Sarah Ransom deposition.
- 15:38So let's get right back to it, shall we. And
- 15:42once again it's Laura Meninger who's asking the questions. Menager,
- 15:47did you have a cell phone when you were in
- 15:48New York? Ransom? Yes, I did, Menager. Do you recall
- 15:53who your cell phone provider was? Ransom? I don't remember, Menager.
- 15:59Do you know your cell phone number? Ransom? I have
- 16:02no idea, Menager, when you were living in New York?
- 16:06Were your parents living in South Africa? Ransom? My dad
- 16:10was living in South Africa, my mom was in the UK. Menager,
- 16:14can you tell me about your first conversation with her redacted? Ransom?
- 16:18I can't remember my first conversation with her. Menager, can
- 16:22you remember any conversation with her? Ransom? Yeah, I can.
- 16:26I can remember chatting. She was my friend. I mean
- 16:29we spoke about everything. We spoke about life with Jeffrey.
- 16:32We spoke about Golaine, we spoke about the other girls.
- 16:35We spoke about redacted. She was a really nice girl
- 16:39as well. Like we often got coffee with each other,
- 16:42lunches and dinner. Menager, Okay, do you remember any specifics
- 16:47of your conversation McAuley objection, asked and answered, Ransom. We
- 16:53spoke very frequently about the faces Jeffrey used to pull
- 16:57when he used to masturbate over the girls, which she
- 17:00was quite funny. We spoke about Glaine quite a lot,
- 17:03and what a monster she was. She's really not a
- 17:06nice person. So yeah, I mean we spoke about all
- 17:09kinds of things and them a lot actually, Menainger, Okay,
- 17:14so you spoke about the faces Jeffrey made when he
- 17:16would masturbate over the girls, Ransom, and the way he
- 17:20spits on his hands when he masturbates. It's really gross.
- 17:24It's quite funny, Menager. Any other conversations with here redacted
- 17:28that you remember, Ransom? I remember I didn't really get
- 17:32on with Glaine, as I said, she in my opinion,
- 17:36she's not a nice person. I didn't really get her,
- 17:38and Jeffrey Epstein promised me going to fit, so we
- 17:42frequently spoke about just every day things, you know, redacted
- 17:46and I redacted. Really, Jeffrey Epstein and I once had
- 17:49a fight, and redacted patch things up between us because
- 17:53I didn't want to speak to Jeffrey anymore. I often
- 17:56spoke to redacted about why Glaine didn't like me, and
- 17:59why the other girls didn't like me. Redacted didn't like me,
- 18:03Golaine didn't like me, or redacted definitely didn't like me. Yeah,
- 18:07that kind of stuff, menager, how is it that you
- 18:10came to meet Jeffrey Epstein ransom through redacted manager? Tell
- 18:14me about that ransom. I first met Jeffrey. Redacted introduced
- 18:19me to Jeffrey. She kind of described them to me.
- 18:21She knew I wanted to go back to school to
- 18:23get a degree, and I was really battling financially because
- 18:27at that time I wasn't really modeling material. So yeah,
- 18:31she told me about this guy who was really wealthy,
- 18:34a philanthropist, you know, really enjoyed you know, he really
- 18:37cares about people, and he really wants to help them,
- 18:40and he was a really good, decent guy. Then we
- 18:44he was helping her at that time, as well as
- 18:47redacted and other girls. Menager, that's what she told you, Ransom. Yes, Menager,
- 18:53Where were you when redacted was describing Jeffrey Ransom? I
- 18:57can't remember the location, but I mean she first described Jeffrey.
- 19:01I think it was the second time we met, because
- 19:04I had discussed with her that I was struggling financially
- 19:07because of my modeling career hadn't really taken off as
- 19:10I had hoped it would, so I was, yeah, she
- 19:13wanted to help, Menager. And you don't remember where you
- 19:17had this conversation, Ransom, No, not specifically the exact location, Menainger.
- 19:23Was it in person or was it over the phone? Ransom?
- 19:26It was in person, Meninger. Was anybody else there, Ransom?
- 19:31I think redacted could have been and redacted could have
- 19:34been there too. A few other people could have been there,
- 19:37various people. She was quite open about it, Menager. And
- 19:41do you know when this was in the fall of
- 19:43two thousand and six, Ransom, It was very close to
- 19:47after I had first arrived, So it was quite soon
- 19:50after I arrived. I don't know specifically if it was
- 19:53three weeks or two weeks, but it was quite soon
- 19:56after I first got to and then to this. Menager
- 20:00interrupts her. Okay, so did you meet Jeffrey? Did you
- 20:03agree to meet Jeffrey? What happened next? Mister Gergis objection
- 20:08to form? Menager? What happened next? Mister Gergis objection to
- 20:13that one too, Ransom? I agreed to Yeah, I met Jeffrey. Menager?
- 20:18How Ransom, we went to the first meeting I had
- 20:22with Jeffrey was at the cinema. There were about ten
- 20:25other girls with him. Menager, How did that meeting get arranged?
- 20:31Ransom redacted arranged it and said she had spoken to
- 20:34Jeffrey and Jeffrey wanted to meet me. Manager. And what
- 20:39movie did you see? Ransom? I can't remember what the
- 20:43movie was. Manager. Did you sit with him? Ransom? Yeah?
- 20:47I did? Manager next to him, Ransom, I can't remember
- 20:50if it was next to him, but I was close by, Ransom.
- 20:54You redacted ten other girls and Jeffrey Ransom. I don't
- 20:58know if it was exactly ten, but or were there
- 21:00were many other girls there. There was like a big
- 21:03group of us, Menager. And where was the theater Ransom?
- 21:07I can't remember the exact location, but it was quite
- 21:11a prominent. It was a big cinema. It was like
- 21:14a huge like one of your main cinemas. Somewhere is
- 21:17there a cinema on Lexington? Maybe? I don't know. Sorry,
- 21:20navigation is not my strong point. I'm going to stop speculating.
- 21:24I'm sorry, Okay, I said it for you. I don't know, Menager.
- 21:28It was somewhere in New York, Ransom. It was in
- 21:31New York, Menager. And you went with redacted ransom? Yes, Menager.
- 21:35How did you go ransom by cab? Menager? From your
- 21:39apartment with redacted ransom? Yes, Menager, And tell me about
- 21:44your experience at the cinema Ransom. I bought popcorn and
- 21:48sweets and juice, and I had an awesome time watching
- 21:52the movie with a bunch of new people, Menager. And
- 21:55you don't remember the name of the movie. Gergiz Objection Ransom, No, Menager?
- 22:01And what happened after the movie was over, mister Gergis
- 22:04Objection Ransom. I got in a taxi, Menager, and Gurgis objection, Menager,
- 22:10what's the objection? Gurgis the objection the question and objection
- 22:15to form. That's a good objection, Ransom. I went home, Menager.
- 22:21When was the next time you met Jeffrey Ransom? I
- 22:24can't remember specific I can't remember. I think I met
- 22:27him again. I'm not trying to speculate. I think I
- 22:30met him in New York again. I can't remember the meeting.
- 22:34I then met him again on his private plane. Manager,
- 22:38So you believe the third time you met him was
- 22:40on the private plane, Ransom. That's correct, Menager. And do
- 22:44you remember anything about the second time that you met him? Ransom? No,
- 22:48I can't remember, Menager. And do you know how long
- 22:52after the first time you met him the second time?
- 22:54Was Ransom? Pretty soon after? Menager? What does that mean
- 22:58to you? Ransom? Couple days? Manager. Where did you meet
- 23:02him that second time? Ransom? In New York? Menager? Where? Ransom,
- 23:08I can't remember. Menager at his house? Ransom, No, it
- 23:12wasn't at the house, Menager. Was anyone else there the
- 23:16second time you met him? Ransom redacted? Menager? Anyone else? Ransom, No,
- 23:21not that I recall, Menager, anything memorable about that event? Ransom. Nothing,
- 23:26nothing memorable, Menager. Anything sexual happen at the second meeting, Ransom,
- 23:31no Menager. At the first meeting, Ransom, no Menager. How
- 23:36did the flight meeting become arranged? If you know? Ransom?
- 23:40So it was a pretty last minute thing. Redacted phoned
- 23:43me and said that Jeffrey Epstein would very much like
- 23:46to have me go to his island. It was going
- 23:48to be so much fun. It was going to be
- 23:50a girl's week. There were lots of other girls going.
- 23:53We were going to have so much fun. Et cetera,
- 23:55et cetera, et cetera. Menager. And what did you do,
- 23:59mister gergis subjection? Ransom. I went on the I went
- 24:03with them to the island, Menager. Where was the plane located? Ransom.
- 24:08I can't remember the exact airport. I think it was
- 24:11either Newark or JFK. Menager. Did you fly commercially or private? Ransom? Private? Menager?
- 24:18Was it Jeffrey's plane? Ransom? Yes, Menager? Who else was
- 24:22on the plane? Ransom? Redacted and redacted? I would like
- 24:26to say redacted, but I can't remember her specifically being
- 24:28there on the first trip, So redacted and redacted. We're
- 24:32definitely there. Menager. Had you met redacted before? Ransom? No? Menager,
- 24:39and you don't remember anyone else? Ransom, No, it was
- 24:43I mean there were always new people around, Jeffrey and Glaine,
- 24:46so I don't really to this. Menager interrupts her, Well,
- 24:50you just said en Glaine. Was Glaine there? Ransom? No,
- 24:54not the first time, Menager. And do you recall what
- 24:57month this was, Ransom. I can't remember what month it was, Menager.
- 25:01It was sometime during your first three month period, Ransom. Yeah,
- 25:05it was within that first three months, Menager, So sometime
- 25:09between September and December, Ransom. That's correct, Menager. And did
- 25:14you have a camera with you when you went, Ransom?
- 25:17I did, Menager? Did you take pictures? Ransom? I took
- 25:21a couple. Menager described for me what happened on the
- 25:24plane ride. Ransom redacted, walked in, sat down in front
- 25:29of me, redacted. We all buckled up, We took off
- 25:33the rest of the passengers in the I think it's
- 25:35towards the front of the plane where all the seats are.
- 25:38All the guests were fall asleep. I pretended to be asleep.
- 25:42Jeffrey then went Jeffrey went to his was in his
- 25:45bed on the plane having open sex with redacted for
- 25:48everyone to see on display. Menager, did you participate in
- 25:52that sex at all? Ransom? No, I did not, Menager.
- 25:56Did anyone ask you to Ransom? No? Menager. Did you
- 26:00in redacted have any sexual relationship on that plane the
- 26:03first plane ride? Ransom? No, Menager. Were you still having
- 26:07an occasional sexual relationship with redacted at that time? McAuley objection, Ransom,
- 26:14I can't remember, Meninger. What types of sexual relationship did
- 26:18Jeffrey and redacted have on the plane in your presence? Ransom? Well,
- 26:22Redacted with straddling Jeffrey for quite some time. I watched
- 26:25them both ejaculate with each other. They were having quite
- 26:28a good time together, Menainger. How long was the plane ride, Ransom, gosh,
- 26:34A few hours? A few hours, Meninger. Did you say anything, Ransom, No,
- 26:39I was a guest. I thought it would be quite inappropriate, Menainger.
- 26:43All right, Can I ask if you could just draw
- 26:46a layout of the plane. I'm going to reach over,
- 26:49just kind of describe where everyone was sitting and the
- 26:52bed area. Ransom, I don't remember if it was the
- 26:55back or the front. The front of the plane. I
- 26:57think there was around there was like around bed. At
- 27:00the back of the plane, there was seating. Pilots are there.
- 27:04Redacted walked in with her Louis Vuitton handbag. She sat
- 27:07there in front of me at the side of the plane,
- 27:10so there was seating there, Meninger, can you just write
- 27:13redacted next to that? To this, Ransom says, okay. Then
- 27:17Meninger interrupts her, so I will remember later, Then Ransom
- 27:21interrupts her. Redacted sat there when she first walked in,
- 27:25and I remember her specifically with a Louis Vauton handbag
- 27:28that she had a black one. Meninger, Okay, and where
- 27:32were you sitting, Ransom? I was sitting opposite her, and
- 27:36then I think we changed positions or there was I
- 27:39just remember at the front there was seating here, Okay, Meninger, Well,
- 27:43where was redacted sitting? Ransom, I don't remember where she
- 27:48was sitting. Meninger. Can you just put where the other
- 27:50seats were if you don't remember who was in them, Ransom,
- 27:54I remember there was seating here. I think there was.
- 27:57I'm speculating here, but I can't remember if they were
- 28:00sitting on the other side of the plane. I can't.
- 28:03I just remember that I sat on a seat in
- 28:05the front of the plane and there were people opposite me. Meninger.
- 28:09When you say opposite, do you mean in the front
- 28:11and back of you, or are you saying to the
- 28:13sides Ransom in front of me? Meninger, okay, Ransom. So
- 28:18it's like a seating Meninger. Is it one seat in
- 28:21a row? Ransom. I can't remember the specific layout of
- 28:24the seating on the aircraft, but I know there's a
- 28:27big fat round open there's a bed on the back
- 28:30of the plane. Meninger, okay, Ransom, which there is no doors,
- 28:35so you can quite easily have sex and show the
- 28:37whole plane, which is how it's designed. I'm guessing Meninger, okay, Ransom,
- 28:42because there's no privacy around the bed. Meninger, I understand.
- 28:47Can you just draw where the other seats are? Though
- 28:49mcaulay objection, asked and answered, Ransom, I don't remember where
- 28:54the other seats are. I remember me sitting in a
- 28:56specific airplane seat at the beginning, you know, at the
- 28:59front of the plane. I don't remember the decor of
- 29:01the plane. I remember there was a bed, it was open,
- 29:04it was an open plan, Menager. Were there are bathrooms
- 29:07on the plane? Ransom? Yes? Menager? Where were they? Ransom?
- 29:12I can't remember where the bathrooms were located on the aircraft, Menager.
- 29:16Do you know what kind of plane it was? Ransom?
- 29:19It was nice, big plane. Yeah, it was a plane,
- 29:21a plane, Menager. Had you been on a private plane before, Ransom? No? Menager.
- 29:27Do you know how many people it carried? Ransom? I
- 29:30just know it's a plane, Menager? Can we mark that?
- 29:33Can you mark that as defendants? Exhibit one? Gurgis, have
- 29:37you seen it before you want to market? Menager? It's
- 29:40really bad. Do you want me to redraw that? It's
- 29:42really embarrassing. I'm not an artist or anything. It's really bad.
- 29:46Mister Gergis just handed over defendants Exhibit one, hand drawn
- 29:51picture marked for identification. Was there a kitchen on the
- 29:55plane that you recall, Menager? Ransom answers. I can't remember
- 30:00any no, Menager. Was there an office area? Ransom? I
- 30:04can't remember the layout of the plane. I remember the bed.
- 30:08The only thing I remember is the open plan bed
- 30:11where I watch redacted and Jeffrey have sex, Menager. Apart
- 30:15from the Louis Vaton bag. Do you remember what redacted
- 30:19was wearing, Ransom. I just remember she had a black
- 30:23Louis Vauton handbag, and I don't remember what she was wearing. No,
- 30:27but I remember the black handbag because I liked it
- 30:29so much I bought the red colored version a few
- 30:32years later. It was really nice. All right, folks, we're
- 30:35gonna wrap up this episode here and in the next episode,
- 30:38we're gonna pick up where we left off. All of
- 30:41the information that goes with this episode can be found
- 30:44in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome back
- 30:48to the Epstein Chronicles. We're gonna pick up where we
- 30:52left off with the Sarah Ransom deposition. So let's get
- 30:56back to it. Menainger, How long did you stay on
- 30:59the island during this first trip? Ransom? A few days? Menager?
- 31:04Was it a week or two days? Ransom? I can't remember. Manager,
- 31:09apart from redacted and redacted Jeffrey in yourself, is there
- 31:12anyone else you recall being on that first trip, mister
- 31:16Gergis objection Ransom on that particular first trip, I can't remember.
- 31:21I just remember redacted, redacted, Jeffrey myself on the first trip. Manager,
- 31:26when you got to the island. Was there anyone else there? Ransom? Yes,
- 31:31there was a lovely couple from Zimbabwe somewhere in Africa.
- 31:34I think they were either South African or from Zimbabwe,
- 31:38but they were a really lovely middle aged couple. Chef
- 31:41like staff, really nice staff on the island. Manager, any
- 31:45other guests, Ransom, No, not the first trip. Manager. Did
- 31:49you engage in any sexual acts with Jeffrey Epstein on
- 31:52your first trip? Ransom? Yes? Manager. What happened? Gurgis objection? Ransom?
- 31:57It was I had to give him a massage in
- 32:00his bedroom, Menager, And how did that come about? Ransom?
- 32:04So the entire basics were explained to me. There's this
- 32:06wealthy dude, this philanthropist, loves women, loves getting massages, and
- 32:11this was a nice way to make extra cash, which
- 32:14is great. I got to the island. Oh, I was
- 32:16made to massage Jeffrey on the plane. Sorry, That's where
- 32:19I gave my first massage to Jeffrey. So my first
- 32:22massage started with him on the plane with his feet
- 32:25and his hands. On that trip, I was I had
- 32:28to give him other massages like legs, arms, feet, hands, heads, shoulders,
- 32:33and it wasn't straight away, but they got more sexual.
- 32:37Then I was called to his bedroom. Menager. Okay, I
- 32:40just want to make sure we're talking about the same timeframe.
- 32:43There was a massage you gave on the plane on
- 32:46the way down there, Ransom, Yes, Menager, that was not sexual. Ransom,
- 32:52that was not sexual. No, Menager, was that before or
- 32:55after he was having sex with redacted in the open
- 32:58bed in the plane area? Ransom? It was before. It
- 33:02was before they had sex, because we all fell asleep Meninger, Okay.
- 33:06And then how did the massage come about? Ransom on
- 33:09the island or Menager. No, on the plane, just on
- 33:13the plane, Ransom. Jeffrey asked me in a massage, the menager.
- 33:17So you were asleep and Jeffrey woke you up. McCauley, objection, Ransom.
- 33:23When we first got on the plane, we sat down,
- 33:25you know, like when you first get on an airplane,
- 33:27you settle in and chat and Chad and Chad and
- 33:30I massaged them. And then it was after that we
- 33:33kind of all fell asleep. And then I woke up
- 33:35and I saw Jeffrey n redacted. Meninger, Okay, Ransom, So
- 33:40in that effect, I was probably sitting. I was facing
- 33:42the bed, Menager, You were rear facing Ransom. Yeah, Menager,
- 33:47can I just hand you back defendants Exhibit one? Is
- 33:50it still in your recollection the same place? Ransom? Yeah,
- 33:53we switched seats a few times, Menager. So where was
- 33:57Jeffrey when you gave him the massage on the airplane? Ransom?
- 34:01He was seated at the front manager, in front of
- 34:05where you were. Ransom. We weren't really all seated throughout
- 34:08the entire duration of the flight, so as soon as
- 34:10the flight took up, we took our seat belts off
- 34:13and kind of moved around freely. Because it's not a
- 34:16commercial flight. You can do that on a private plane,
- 34:18So we weren't in our seats the whole entire time.
- 34:21There was a lot of moving around. Menager. Okay, can
- 34:24you just draw on the defendants Exhibit one where he
- 34:26was when you gave him a massage? Ransom. I can't
- 34:30remember specifically on the seat or where I was facing
- 34:33that I gave Jeffrey as massage, So I'm not comfortable
- 34:36putting something because that's speculating. Manager. Do you have a
- 34:40general area at all? Was it in the front area, Ransom?
- 34:44The general area. The general area here is at the
- 34:46front of the plane, and then the bed at the
- 34:48back of the plane. Manager. So which of those two
- 34:52general areas was the massage? Ransom, So the massage was
- 34:55at the front, because I didn't give it to him
- 34:57on the bed. It was in the front of the plane.
- 35:00I don't remember what specific seat plan I gave him
- 35:03a massage, Meninger. Was he wearing clothes Ransom, yes, Menager,
- 35:07during the whole massage Ransom, during the whole massage, yes, Menager.
- 35:12What was he wearing Ransom, I don't remember, Menager. Did
- 35:15he have on shoes? Ransom? Yes, he had on shoes
- 35:18when he walked onto the plane, but then he took
- 35:21his shoes off to have the massage, Menager. And do
- 35:25you recall what he said when he asked you to
- 35:27give him a massage? Ransom? Yes, he asked me to
- 35:30massage his feet and massage him. Menager. Were you surprised
- 35:34by that request? Ransom? No, Menager. Why not ransom because
- 35:39Radakta told me that he liked to get massages from
- 35:41girls and that he paid them for him. Mener Did
- 35:44he pay you for that massage on the plane? Ransom? No, Menager.
- 35:48Did you expect him to ransom? Well, it was. It
- 35:52was the beginning of the trip, so I'm hardly going
- 35:54to I don't really know you. Can you please pay me?
- 35:57It's not something you really discuss. I don't think it's
- 36:00not really appropriate. It's not very business like. Menager. And
- 36:04you were clothed during the massage on the plane Ransom, Yes, Menager.
- 36:09Where was the second massage Ransom on his island? Menager?
- 36:13Where on the island? Ransom? So the second time I
- 36:16massaged them was probably on it was. I was then
- 36:20asked to massage them again later that day to massage
- 36:23him again in the open plan seating area on the island. Menager.
- 36:28Who asked you to do that? Ransom? Redacted? Menager? So
- 36:32redacted was on the island? Answer? Yes, Menager. Did she
- 36:35travel with you? Ransom? Not all. I can't remember specifically
- 36:39who who was traveling with us. I can't say that
- 36:42I one hundred percent remember her on that first flight.
- 36:45I don't. I can't visually see her there, but I
- 36:48know that she traveled with us pretty much every time
- 36:50with Jeffrey. She traveled everywhere with Jeffrey Menager. How many
- 36:55times did you go to the island ransom several, Menager?
- 36:59How many? Ransom? Several? Several times. There were multiple occasions
- 37:03that I went to the island, Menager. Three times, ransom several, several.
- 37:08I can't remember how many times specifically, Menager. I understand
- 37:13you don't have a specific answer. Ransom. Yeah, Menager. Do
- 37:16you believe it was more than ten times ransom? I
- 37:19don't think it was as much as ten times. No,
- 37:22maybe a little bit less, but not that many. Menager.
- 37:25Do you know how many times you went on the
- 37:27private plane versus a commercial plane? Ransom. I flew both,
- 37:31so I can't remember how many times I did commercial,
- 37:34how many times I did private? I mean it was
- 37:37I know that I did fly commercially at some times
- 37:40when the plane wasn't available, Menager. And the total number
- 37:44of trips to the island you think was less than
- 37:46ten times, mister gergis objection. Ransom. There was several times.
- 37:51I'm not sure if it was more than ten. I
- 37:53don't know the accurate number. It was several times, Menager.
- 37:57Did you go through any type of passport control when
- 37:59you I went to the island at all? Ransom? No,
- 38:02they didn't check passports oh, I bet you they didn't.
- 38:05If you want to have underage girls come in, can't
- 38:07be checking passports now, can you? Menager? How did you
- 38:11get from where the plane landed to the island ransom?
- 38:14Jeffrey speedboat? Menager? Was that the only method? Ransom? Also
- 38:19a helicopter? Menager? Who flew the helicopter? Ransom? I don't
- 38:23a guy, Menager? Was he cute? Gurgis? Objection? Ransom? I
- 38:28don't remember Gurgis objection? And I direct the witness not
- 38:31to answer, Menager. I'm learning about super yachting. I thought
- 38:35I would find out about the helicopter Gergis. I thought
- 38:38you were going to ask if he was taller than
- 38:40six feet or less than six feet. I thought that
- 38:42was the next series of questions, Menager. So you said
- 38:45the second massage you gave Jeffrey was on the island
- 38:48the same day you flew down there the first time. Ransom, Yes, Menager.
- 38:53And it was in the open plan area ransom, yes, Menager.
- 38:57And you recall redacted being the one to ask you
- 39:00to give the massage. Ransom. We were all sitting there socially,
- 39:03Jeffrey asked me, And that wasn't a sexual massage in
- 39:06the seating area on the island. The second massage, he
- 39:09was still training me to massage, so my standards weren't
- 39:12quite high enough. Meninger. How did he train you to
- 39:16massage them? Ransom? He let the girl's massage me in
- 39:19front of him. He showed me how to because his
- 39:21body's full of nots so and he likes his massage
- 39:24really hard, so when you really push on those knots
- 39:27that he has, you have to be quite firm with him. Menager.
- 39:31So he told you that he liked what he liked Ransom, Yes, yeah,
- 39:35and some of the other girls, sorry redacted, showed me
- 39:38how he liked his massages. Menager. Was he clothed during
- 39:41the second massage? Ransom? Yes? Manager? Were you clothed? Ransom? Yes? Menager.
- 39:47Did any sexual contact occur on the second massage? Ransom? No, Menager.
- 39:52When do you recall there being a third massage Ransom
- 39:56the next day? Menager? And what happened that gave rise
- 39:59to the third massage? Ransom? I was called to Jeffrey's
- 40:03bedroom to massage, and Menager? Who called you Ransom? I
- 40:07don't want to speculate, so I can't remember specifically who
- 40:10called me Menager. Okay, so the third person you don't recall, Ransom,
- 40:16It was a female. It was either redacted or redacted.
- 40:19So I can't remember which of the two that called me,
- 40:22because they called me many times during the duration of
- 40:25my trip, Menager. So when you say they called me,
- 40:28what does that mean? Ransom? They come up to me
- 40:31and say, please go to Jeffrey's bedroom and massage Jeffrey.
- 40:34He is waiting for you. Manager. What time of day
- 40:37was it, Ransom? I think it was. I can't remember
- 40:40what specific time of day it was. Manager. Can you
- 40:44describe the island for me? Were there more than one
- 40:47building on it? Ransom? Yeah, there were multiple buildings. You
- 40:51had the main house, you had certain accommodation areas where
- 40:54the girls sit. There were a various buildings around the
- 40:57island where he used to have all him and his
- 41:01other guests, like beds and beds, like little shelter things
- 41:04where him and his guests used to have sex with
- 41:07the girls, like bed set up for instant sexual entertainment.
- 41:10So Menager on a beach area, Ransom all over the island,
- 41:15all over the island. So if you go on one
- 41:18of his squad bikes, and do a tour of his island,
- 41:20which I'm sure you guys have done. You will see
- 41:22multiple buildings around the island. Menager. And where were you
- 41:27staying during this first trip, Ransom? I was staying in
- 41:30one of the guest houses that redacted, the main guest
- 41:33house that all the girls shared, Menager. Were you staying
- 41:36in your own room? Ransom? No? Menager, who are you
- 41:41sharing a room with? Ransom? Redacted? I think redacted slept
- 41:45in the bungalow. She didn't stay there per se. She
- 41:48was explained to be Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend at the time, Menager.
- 41:52When you were asked to give Jeffrey a massage on
- 41:54the third occasion by a female, do you recall what
- 41:56words were used? Ransom? I can't remember the exact words, No,
- 42:01but it was generally it was can you please go
- 42:04and give Jeffrey it's kind of like your turn type
- 42:07of thing, Menainger. Did you know where his bedroom was? Ransom?
- 42:12I was shown to his bedroom, Menager? Who showed you
- 42:15to his bedroom? Ransom? I can't remember who showed me
- 42:18to his bedroom? Menager? All right, tell me what happened
- 42:22during the third massage, Ransom, So I went into Jeffrey
- 42:25Epstein's bedroom. His bedroom is like ice cold. It's always
- 42:29ice cold. He likes his bedroom very well air conditioned.
- 42:33There was a massage table laid out in his bedroom.
- 42:35He asked me to undress and that he wanted to
- 42:38give me a massage, and he asked me to lay
- 42:40down on the table. He then started touching my body.
- 42:43I was, I was. It didn't start off as a
- 42:46sexual massage. It was just, you know, it was just
- 42:48doing a normal massage. And then he started to touch me.
- 42:52He touched my vaginal region, and he touched me all over. Meninger.
- 42:56Were you draped with a towel? Ransom? No, Menainger for
- 43:00no part of the massage. Ransom for the I can't remember. Menager.
- 43:04Was anyone else present in the room? Ransom? No Menager.
- 43:08And after he started touching you while you were on
- 43:11the table, did you give him a massage? Ransom. I
- 43:14can't remember the specific sequence of events, but I remember
- 43:17the third massage. It wasn't for Jeffrey, it was for me.
- 43:21He performed the massage on me. Meninger. Did you tell
- 43:25him to stop? Ransom? No? I did not. Meninger. Did
- 43:28you have any sexual contact with him. Ransom. No, he
- 43:32just touched me and he was touching himself too. So Meninger,
- 43:35did you have an orgasm? Ransom? I did have an orgasm.
- 43:39He used a specific vibrator on me, which it was
- 43:41quite hard not to Menager. Can you describe it, Ransom? Yeah,
- 43:46it's quite big. It's not an actual vibrator. It's really good.
- 43:50You should get one if you don't. The witness sorry,
- 43:53I'm allowed to talk, Okay, sorry, Then Ransom goes on,
- 43:56it's all can I draw it? Can I draw it?
- 43:59I'll tell you the exact I can actually get you.
- 44:02I actually own one, so I can get you a
- 44:04photo of it. You know, it's also in the pictures
- 44:06in the dentist's chair in one of the photos. So
- 44:09it's like this, mister Gergis, you're fine, Miss McCauley, you're fine, Ransom.
- 44:15So it's actually a massager for the shoulders. It's got
- 44:18a long base, it's got quite a it's like a
- 44:21rubber white head. And yeah, it was really it's not
- 44:25used for sexual purposes. Meninger, it's not, Ransom, No, that's
- 44:29what I'm saying. It's not a vibrator. Meninger, Okay, Ransom,
- 44:33it was actually quite painful for me. Menager, Okay, Ransom. Actually, Meninger, okay,
- 44:39did you tell him to stop? Ransom? I told him
- 44:42to stop when he because he pressed the vibrator head
- 44:44on my clitteris and it was incredibly painful. It hurt me.
- 44:48That's a very sensitive area. And the strength of this
- 44:50specific device he used is it's not really meant for that. Menager, right,
- 44:55did he stop when you said stop? Ransom? No, Meninger.
- 45:00And how long did this massage? Ransom interrupts her until
- 45:04I orgasmed Menager? And then what happened? Ransom? He just
- 45:09stopped and I got dressed and I left. Manager. Was
- 45:12there any discussion Ransom? No, Menager. Did he give you
- 45:15any money? Ransom? No? Gurgis. Can we stop for a moment?
- 45:20The witness is crying. I think maybe we should take
- 45:22a moment, have a moment. Okay, mark that as defendants
- 45:26Exhibit number two, and then we'll take a break for
- 45:28ten minutes. All right, folks, We're going to break right
- 45:31here too, and in the next episode we'll pick up
- 45:33where we left off. All of the information that goes
- 45:36with this episode can be found in the description box