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Former Model Alleges Grooming Pathway Led to Encounter with Epstein (5/6/26) · 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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Epstein Chronicles. A few weeks back, we were talking about
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one of Jeffrey Epstein's the Led Recruiters, a man named
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Daniel Ciodd, who was a French modeling scout who was
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very very close to Epstein and Jean Luke Brunel. Well,
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now we're hearing from former models that he was a
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recruiter for Jeffrey Epstein and in fact lured several women
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into his clutches, including the woman that we're going to
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hear from today in this article. So it's really interesting
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to me when people try and claim that Jeffrey Epstein
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was a lone wolf when there's so much evidence that
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contradicts it. This guy was obviously running a human trafficking enterprise.
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Now if you want to argue the scope of it,
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that's fine. We don't have all the evidence one way
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or the other. So yeah, you can argue the scope.
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But what you can argue is that it was happening,
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because according to numerous people we're talking in the hundreds,
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it most certainly was. So today we have an article
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from the Southwest Iowa News and the headline X model
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accuses French scout of groominger for Epstein, and this first
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appeared on the Associated Press and the author of this
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article is Clara Wright. Former French model Juliet g says
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it took years to make sense of how she ended
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up in a New York bedroom with convicted sex offender
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Jeffrey Epstein. The forty three year old model is one
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of two ex models who have accused Daniel Sayed, a
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French modeling scout with close ties to the late US financier,
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of having groomed them with the aim of introducing them
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to potential abusers. And Epstein had plenty of people like
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this around the world. Anybody that was working with Jean
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Luke Brunell, in my opinion, is somebody that probably engaging
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in human trafficking. You know, fellow travelers and all, well,
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you think that you're going to show up and you're
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going to work for Brunel and you don't know what's
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going down. Their stories came up as part of a
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wider reckoning with rape and sexual assault in the wake
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of the global Me Too movement in recent years that
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has seen a number of accusations in France and beyond.
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I don't really know if this has to do with
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me too. At this point, I think this has to
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do with a reckoning that's been a long time coming.
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And I was around during the Glenn Maxwell trial and
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the me Too movement was nowhere to be seen. There
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were no hats, nobody showed up, nobody was backing up
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these women. In fact, everybody wanted to act like they
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didn't exist. I identified quite a few stages that led
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me there. Juliet told AFP, these men, through manipulation, conduct
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tests to see how far a young women will give in.
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For Juliet, who was asked to withhold her surname to
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protect ribacy, it all started in two thousand and four
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when she was twenty one. Now people are gonna say
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she was an adult, she should have known better. Well,
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I'll counter with, even if you're an adult, you can
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be trafficked, you can get groomed, you can be manipulated,
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you can be dog walked. Now it's harder to prove,
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as we saw with Diddy, But let's not act like
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it's not something that happens, and let's not act like
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somebody like Daniel say Ed wasn't out here recruiting and
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grooming people adults and otherwise. Probably that was Epstein's mo.
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It wasn't just one thing, right, His operation was layered. Syed,
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who denies the accusations against them, approach you're in Paris Avenue.
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She calls this his targeting stage. And that's what they
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would do. They'd find somebody, they'd approach and they'd make
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small talk. Right, Oh, you're a model, you're this, you're that. Well,
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I got a friend, let me tell you he can
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hook you up. Why don't you give me your number
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and I'll put you on contact with Epstein or Brunel, whoever,
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and they'll take care of you. Yeah, this guy runs
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Victoria's Secret. Are you kidding me? Right now? He's gonna
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hook you up. Let's get that number. Then, of course
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they make them feel comfortable, then they normalize the abuse,
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and then they're off and running. He asked her if
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she was a model, and she said she would be
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interested in professional opportunities in the United States. I think
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he was trying to gauge whether I would accept without
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asking too many questions, which I did. I let things
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stay vague so I wouldn't come across as difficult, she said.
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And that's what they're looking for. They want people that
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are gonna comply, whether that's through fear, whether that's through
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you know, getting some kind of benefit if you will work,
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permit jobs, as a model, whatever it is, all of
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that's going to end up being used as a device
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to control these people, and Epstein, in his operation, mastered
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the art of control. She was soon sent a plane
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ticket to New York and an address in the city.
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She had no other information, but she felt reassured when
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her modeling agency said that they knew Syed in New York.
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She headed to an address on Madison Avenue, where she
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briefly met Epstein, whose name Syed had not mentioned until then.
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The financier would be convicted in two thousand and eight
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of soliciting sex from girls as young as fourteen, So sayed,
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knew what Epstein was up to. Knew what he was doing.
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Now he's going to deny it, of course, right, but
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the proof is in the pudding, and with these women
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coming out and accusing him, I'm guessing that old Daniel
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here is going to have some restless nights. Epstein asked
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her for her passport. This, she explained, was the second
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stage of her grooming hostage taking without her passport, she
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couldn't leave. And this is what Epstein did. They took
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the passports. They controlled these women from other countries, and
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if they didn't play ball, they threatened to send them
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back to wherever they came from. Epstein then announced that
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he did not have time to see her that day,
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but gave her one hundred and twenty dollars and said
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she could use his limousine to go shopping. And there
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it is right the hook. If you roll with me,
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I'll take care of you. Oh, come work for me.
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I got you taken care of. We're gonna make sure
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you're in the limo. You're living the life. You're going
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to get great modeling gigs, only to end up being abused. This,
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she said, was the third step. Now, despite never having
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asked for money, she was in his debt. I was
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ashamed for a long time. Years later, I even thought
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about paying them back, she added. The following day, she
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returned to the Madison Avenue building, hoping for a professional interview. Instead,
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he showed her around the premises, walking through a gym
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decorated with photos zooming in on women's intimate body parts. Normalization.
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Let's see how she deals with it. Bring her in,
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let her see the pictures, let's see the reaction. But
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for most people, once you're in that situation, what are
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you gonna do? People just go with it. Oh, it's
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obviously normal. Look at all these other pictures. Look at
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all these other people that did the same thing. Was
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it a subtle test of tolerance, she said, to see
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whether I would leave or accept being in such a
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surprising environment. Then he led her to a bedroom. My
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internal alarm went off, she said. I felt the need
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to say I'm warning you. I'm not going to do anything,
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she said. He told her not to worry, but that
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he needed to see her body, including her breasts, to
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be able to recommend her to modeling agencies. I hesitated,
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But I'd spent seven hours on a plane and they'd
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paid for my ticket. I did it, she said. Epstein
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groped her, she said, then declared her body was not
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up to the standard and she would need three more
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to get back into shape. Imagine this dude telling anybody
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that they need to get into shape, or they're not
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good looking, or they are too fat or whatever. Brother,
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do you have a mirror? I mean, the audacity of
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somebody that looks like Epstein telling these girls that they're
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not good enough. Juliette pretended to multi offer, but demanded
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he give her back her passport. She said he rummaged
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around in a pile of some twenty passports and returned
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it to her. Juliette escaped. Epstein died in custody in
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twenty nineteen while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges involving minors,
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but Juliette said that she was speaking out to help
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investigators looking for the convicted offender's accomplices. YO, I'm telling
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you there's plenty, and I think Daniel said should definitely
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be brought in and talk to and if France doesn't
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do it, then we should do it here in America.
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But unfortunately we know the DOJ does not have the desire. Sayed,
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who was under investigation in France, is just one of
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several French men who have been accused of aiding Epstein
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to traffic and to abuse women. French authorities in the
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late twenty twenty arrested modeling agent Jean Luke Brunel after
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allegations that he procured women for the US billionaire. He
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was found dead in prison in twenty twenty two. Brunell
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was so much more than that. He was a key cog,
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one of the og pieces of Epstein's operation, and somebody
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that really moved the needle. He was integral to what
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Epstein was doing. He wasn't just some recruiter. He was
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Epstein's number one guy, number one buddy, and they were
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up to some very vile shit together. And fifteen women
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in March urged France to investigate Gerald Marie, the former
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European head of Elite, a modeling agency known for managing
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supermodels Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Cindy Crawford, among them.
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Former Swedish model Eba Carlson has accused Sed of groominger
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for Marie. Look. A groomer is a groomer, whether it's
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for Jel Marie, Jean lu Brunel or Jeffrey Epstein. The
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results the same, And all these people were dick as thieves. Epstein, Marie,
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we know about Brunel, and so the whole entire disgustingness
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of the modeling world Dove tells directly into what Epstein
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was doing, especially considering he was sitting at the top
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of Victoria's secret for a very long time. Maybe you
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know not name, but certainly had the keys to the kingdom. Carlson,
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now fifty six, said Syed approached her in Sweden in
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ninety she was twenty years old. He was very talented,
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she said, describing how we would push a person to
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see how vulnerable they are. He would attach to their desires,
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their longings and betray himself as some kind of savior,
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she said, promising he could make them a very famous model,
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and they were hooked. She said. When you play on
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people's desires their dreams and you offer those to people,
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they're going to want to think that it's true, and
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a lot of people they are just going to fall
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into the trap. Carlson said she followed Syed to Monaco
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and then to France, but the modeling jobs he had
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promised never materialized. Without money, she became more and more
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dependent on them. Carlson said that one evening in a
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poolhouse near Canns, Syed raped her. In the days that followed,
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she said, she announced he had found her a job
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with elite Syed via his lawyers, mena Arab to Green
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rejected the accusations. She said that she hoped her client
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was not being made to bear responsibility because he's still
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alive for the actions of other men who have died.
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Same excuse Maxwell used didn't work out so well for her. Buddy,
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you were a part of this and now that bill
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has come and due. Carlson then met Marie in his
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office to discuss working for Elite. Why is he closing
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the blind? She said. She thought he flattered her. You
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were so beautiful, she said. He told her you could
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go so far, she said, He added, introducing the idea
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of her starring in a movie. Then suddenly he put
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his fingers into me. She said. It was to remove
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my powers, she added. Carlson said she later attended an
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audition at his home, where she was among about ten girls,
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most appearing younger and speaking little English or French, to
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be told to pray topless. She pretended to accept the job,
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but flew back to Sweden and never returned. Marie's lawyer,
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Celine Beckerman, denounced what she called unfounded attacks against her client.
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She said the ray probe against Marie had been dropped
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in twenty twenty three. She accused Carlson and other plaintiffs
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of choosing to ignore this and establish far fetched links
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between Gerald Marie and cases he has nothing to do with.
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Carlson said that she was speaking up about the grooming
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and abuse so we can stop that behavior and teach
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young people how to avoid it. And I want you
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to keep this stuff in mind when you hear people
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saying that Jeffrey Epstein was a I'm a human trafficker.
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It's obvious he was, and I think the evidence backs
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it all up. And I'm very interested to see what
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comes of this investigation as the French authorities continue to
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dig around looking for evidence of Jeffrey Epstein and his
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criminal empire. All right, folks, that's going to do it
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for this one. All the information that goes with this
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