Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / Inside the Interview Room: The FBI 302 Detailing Allegations Against Leon Black
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
- 0:03Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. When the Epstein Files were first being released,
- 0:08Speaker 1: I told you that the three O twos were going
- 0:10Speaker 1: to be very, very interesting to get a look at. Well,
- 0:14Speaker 1: in this episode, we're going to take a look at
- 0:16Speaker 1: a three to two, which is an interview with the
- 0:19Speaker 1: FBI by somebody claiming that they were abused by Leon
- 0:23Speaker 1: Black in conjunction with Jeffrey Epstein. So let's dive into
- 0:28Speaker 1: this report and see what this three O two says.
- 0:34Speaker 1: FBI Date of entry, nine thirty, twenty twenty one. Redacted
- 0:40Speaker 1: was interviewed at two ninety Broadway in New York, New York.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Present for the interview was redacted, Attorney redacted, along with
- 0:47Speaker 1: ausa redacted, essay redacted, and Detective redacted. After being advised
- 0:53Speaker 1: of the identity of the interviewing agents and the nature
- 0:56Speaker 1: of the interview, Reacted provided the following information. Redacted is
- 1:02Speaker 1: redacted years old and was born and redacted. She came
- 1:05Speaker 1: to the United States around when she was redacted years
- 1:08Speaker 1: of age. She was pregnant and had a son in
- 1:11Speaker 1: the United States when she was redacted years old. Redacted,
- 1:16Speaker 1: she just finished law and business school she went or redacted.
- 1:20Speaker 1: She has completed two masters in the last four years.
- 1:23Speaker 1: Prior to that, she traveled a lot to hide from him.
- 1:26Speaker 1: She was raped in twenty fourteen. When she first came
- 1:30Speaker 1: to the United States, she was a model in Los Angeles.
- 1:33Speaker 1: Then she moved to New York for work. To be
- 1:35Speaker 1: a model. She worked for Redacted. She was twenty five
- 1:38Speaker 1: years old when she met Leon Black. At the time,
- 1:41Speaker 1: she was living in New York. She was single from
- 1:44Speaker 1: her son's father. From the outside, it looked like her
- 1:47Speaker 1: life was glamorous. She worked and traveled and met Black
- 1:51Speaker 1: at it Redacted in two thousand and eight. There was
- 1:54Speaker 1: about thirty people there. Black approached Redacted and they talked.
- 1:58Speaker 1: He walked her home the next day. He sent her flowers.
- 2:02Speaker 1: They met for lunch a few times, and he tells
- 2:05Speaker 1: Redacted that he wants to help her with work and
- 2:08Speaker 1: her son's school. When Redacted moved to the United States,
- 2:12Speaker 1: she did not speak English. At the time, she was
- 2:15Speaker 1: taking English and acting classes. Black said that he could
- 2:19Speaker 1: help with the business. Redacted thought that he was genuine
- 2:22Speaker 1: and didn't think he was trying to take advantage of her.
- 2:25Speaker 1: She was used to objectification being in the modeling industry,
- 2:29Speaker 1: Redacted never thought that he would force it if she
- 2:33Speaker 1: didn't want it. At first, it was not sexual, it
- 2:36Speaker 1: was professional. He proposed to rent an apartment for Redacted
- 2:40Speaker 1: and her son to help them. They made a deal
- 2:43Speaker 1: that Black wasn't allowed in her apartment. He rent them
- 2:47Speaker 1: an apartment at redacted. It was not a sexual relationship,
- 2:51Speaker 1: yet he bought her furniture. Black then came in to
- 2:54Speaker 1: Redacted's apartment to see the furniture. Redacted felt scared and
- 2:58Speaker 1: he had no boundaries. Redacted says, this is the last
- 3:01Speaker 1: time he is to come here. Black was very convincing
- 3:06Speaker 1: that he knew people and he could still help her.
- 3:09Speaker 1: Redacted and Black would meet and would always talk about work.
- 3:13Speaker 1: This was once every couple of weeks. At first. Redacted
- 3:17Speaker 1: soon became more vocal because Black was not helping her
- 3:20Speaker 1: with work. Then he became more frightening and violent or vindictive.
- 3:25Speaker 1: First they would talk about work at lunch and who
- 3:28Speaker 1: he knows, but that he could use his power against
- 3:31Speaker 1: her if she talked about their relationship, which was sexual
- 3:34Speaker 1: at the time, Black would bite her. During sexual experiences,
- 3:39Speaker 1: Redacted would say no and stop. Black would bite her
- 3:43Speaker 1: harder and harder until Redacted stops. Then he would get
- 3:47Speaker 1: on top and bite redacted on her private parts. Prior
- 3:50Speaker 1: to sex. Black is big and tall. He would make
- 3:53Speaker 1: sudden movements and crack his knuckles. That was scary to redacted.
- 3:57Speaker 1: He never hit her. The biting prior to and during
- 4:00Speaker 1: sex was the only thing violent against redacted. Black bit
- 4:03Speaker 1: Redacted during about half the experiences. Sometimes he helped to
- 4:10Speaker 1: pay the rent, and sometimes he didn't. Sometimes Redacted would
- 4:13Speaker 1: tell Black that she didn't want to have sex, and
- 4:16Speaker 1: then he would transfer money or set up an appointment
- 4:18Speaker 1: with someone. This happened over ten years. He would make
- 4:22Speaker 1: sixty thousand dollars transfers. The biggest transfer was two point
- 4:25Speaker 1: six million. He tells he redacted that he pays people
- 4:28Speaker 1: to threatn redacted. Redacted leaves the country because she thinks
- 4:32Speaker 1: she was drugged and raped. Redacted leaves four redacted. Black
- 4:38Speaker 1: keeps calling her, implying that he's behind this, then tells
- 4:41Speaker 1: her the money he gave her in twenty fifteen was
- 4:44Speaker 1: to sponsor her visa in Redacted. Black was giving her
- 4:48Speaker 1: money since the beginning. Sometimes it was like he did
- 4:51Speaker 1: something very wrong and he wanted to make up for it.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Black never said that Redacted had to have sex with
- 4:57Speaker 1: them to get the money. In two thousand eleven, Redacted.
- 5:03Speaker 1: In twenty thirteen, Black says he can let her stay
- 5:07Speaker 1: in this country if she continues to have sex with him.
- 5:10Speaker 1: Redacted how to student visa and a working visa. Black
- 5:14Speaker 1: says that he can help her with getting the visa.
- 5:16Speaker 1: He gives her two school loans four four hundred and
- 5:18Speaker 1: eighty thousand. Redacted then gives a copy of the loan
- 5:22Speaker 1: agreement in twenty thirteen. In twenty fourteen, people started randomly
- 5:26Speaker 1: approaching redacted. Black said that he was paying Jeffrey Epstein
- 5:30Speaker 1: and Harvey Weinstein to take care of redacted. Black files
- 5:34Speaker 1: redacted to Palm Beach in two thousand and eight. Redacted
- 5:38Speaker 1: and Epstein. We're at the Palm Beach house. Redacted says,
- 5:41Speaker 1: these guys are sex addicts and you have to let
- 5:44Speaker 1: them do what they want or else they are very powerful.
- 5:48Speaker 1: Redacted introduces herself as redacted. Redacted later learns the name
- 5:52Speaker 1: to be redacted. Black brings redacted to lunch. They go
- 5:57Speaker 1: to the airport, and he brings her onto the place
- 6:00Speaker 1: with a pilot. Black says they're going to meet his
- 6:03Speaker 1: friend Epstein. Redacted had known that he was a sex
- 6:07Speaker 1: offender and she was scared. They go right to the house.
- 6:11Speaker 1: This is a police guard outside the house who says hi,
- 6:14Speaker 1: Redacted and Epstein are inside. Redacted ass redacted for her email.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Redacted tells redacted that she has to let them have
- 6:22Speaker 1: sex with her, even if it's a lot of guys. Redacted, redacted,
- 6:26Speaker 1: Black and Epstein are in the room in front of them.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Redacted says that they are sex addicts. Redacted says to
- 6:33Speaker 1: them that with addiction, you tend to need it faster
- 6:36Speaker 1: and more until it affects your life. Epstein asked redacted
- 6:40Speaker 1: if she's looking for love. Black was angry when they left,
- 6:44Speaker 1: and he was force feeding her because she didn't want
- 6:46Speaker 1: to eat. He was giving her sushi and jung food,
- 6:49Speaker 1: some sort of punishment. The abuse was progressive. Redacted told
- 6:54Speaker 1: Black all the time that she did not want to
- 6:57Speaker 1: have sex with him, and he would get mad. He
- 6:59Speaker 1: would say, he's powerful, and you don't want to cross him.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Redacted knew he was possibly a billionaire. She heard he
- 7:06Speaker 1: was powerful. Redacted met Epstein about one to two times. Briefly,
- 7:10Speaker 1: Black tells were Redacted that he's best friends with Epstein.
- 7:14Speaker 1: Black implied that Epstein was doing things to Redacted. The
- 7:17Speaker 1: schools and the police were all under his control. Lots
- 7:20Speaker 1: of strange people call redacted saying they knew Epstein. Later on,
- 7:25Speaker 1: Redacted is introduced to Glenn Maxwell, Prince Andrew, and the Dubans.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Black did not want Redacted to have sex with other
- 7:31Speaker 1: men until later on. In twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, Redacted
- 7:37Speaker 1: graduates Redacted. While at school, she redacted to be not
- 7:42Speaker 1: be attractive. She was seeing a therapist and unhappy and stressed.
- 7:45Speaker 1: She had a hard time talking to people. Black would
- 7:48Speaker 1: take Redacted to a museum around this time and wouldn't
- 7:51Speaker 1: talk much. There was not much sex happening. Later, he
- 7:55Speaker 1: tells her if she continues to have sex, he can
- 7:57Speaker 1: help her stay in the country. Random people would be
- 8:01Speaker 1: mean to her, and Black would take the credit for it.
- 8:04Speaker 1: Black would give her Redacted loans and tell her he
- 8:06Speaker 1: knew that other people that she would go out with
- 8:09Speaker 1: who were from Epstein's circle. Glenn Dubin's brother took Redacted out.
- 8:13Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerman took her out. Weinstein shows up at her
- 8:17Speaker 1: apartment and says that he wants to give her a job.
- 8:20Speaker 1: Redacted had met him at Redacted prior to this. On
- 8:24Speaker 1: this occasion, which was around twenty thirteen twenty fourteen, Redacted
- 8:29Speaker 1: had just come home from a run and he was
- 8:31Speaker 1: in her apartment. She tells him that she's going to
- 8:34Speaker 1: shower and he walks into the shower. Redacted kicks him
- 8:38Speaker 1: out of the shower. Weinstein asked her to be involved
- 8:41Speaker 1: with his new reality show. He tells her that Black
- 8:44Speaker 1: owns all of the movie theaters and then he leaves.
- 8:47Speaker 1: Redacted would come to Redact it on vacation and try
- 8:50Speaker 1: to hang out with her. For Alan Dershowitz's deposition, it
- 8:54Speaker 1: was said she gave him a massage on Epstein's plane.
- 8:58Speaker 1: Redacted felt like they were all trying to frighten her.
- 9:01Speaker 1: Redacted state, She's not giving guys what they want. She
- 9:04Speaker 1: felt it's her fault. Redacted was not romantically involved with
- 9:08Speaker 1: anyone else at the time. She's sure that she had
- 9:11Speaker 1: sex with someone, but was not in a long term relationship.
- 9:15Speaker 1: From twenty thirteen on, Black would meet with Redacted or
- 9:19Speaker 1: reach out to her to say that he was behind
- 9:21Speaker 1: whatever is happening. Redacted is introduced to Prince Andrew. Black
- 9:26Speaker 1: implies that he knew what Redacted was wearing, as if
- 9:30Speaker 1: he was spying on her. They meet occasionally. Redacted tells
- 9:34Speaker 1: them she does not want to be sexually active with
- 9:36Speaker 1: them anymore. In two thousand and eight, they flew to
- 9:39Speaker 1: Epstein and Black says if she tells anyone, people will
- 9:42Speaker 1: find drugs on her or heroine. He was making jokes
- 9:46Speaker 1: that they can tamper with evidence and plan drugs. It
- 9:49Speaker 1: was a threatening conversation. She meets him for dinner once
- 9:53Speaker 1: and he tells her he feels weird that they're not
- 9:55Speaker 1: going to be able to have sex. Then he leaves
- 9:58Speaker 1: Redacted and Redacted feels sick. The next couple of days,
- 10:02Speaker 1: Redacted thought that she was poisoned. She had strange drinks
- 10:06Speaker 1: with a new person named Michael. Around July fourth, twenty fourteen,
- 10:11Speaker 1: Black comes to Redacted's old department when she's home and
- 10:14Speaker 1: not feeling well. He rings the bell. She tells them
- 10:17Speaker 1: that she would come down, and she opens the door
- 10:20Speaker 1: and he's already at the door and he walks in.
- 10:22Speaker 1: Someone let him in downstairs. Redacted tells him that she
- 10:26Speaker 1: thinks that she has been drugged. And she does not
- 10:29Speaker 1: want to have sex. He grabs her breast. She tells
- 10:32Speaker 1: him that she has to lie down. He comes to
- 10:35Speaker 1: her room and has sex with her. He almost carried
- 10:38Speaker 1: and pushed her inside the room. Redacted had no energy.
- 10:42Speaker 1: She sort of collapsed. Black took off his clothes. Redacted
- 10:46Speaker 1: with sick for days prior. She was perhaps wearing leggings
- 10:49Speaker 1: and some cotton top, but she's not sure. She is
- 10:53Speaker 1: sure that he took off her clothes. She told him
- 10:56Speaker 1: she didn't want to do this. She was upset and
- 10:59Speaker 1: wasn't really fully present. She couldn't move or do anything.
- 11:04Speaker 1: She had not eaten. She was on her back and
- 11:07Speaker 1: he had vaginal sex with her. He was on top
- 11:10Speaker 1: of her. He finished, gets up and says, now I
- 11:13Speaker 1: fucked you. He gets dressed in leaves. He removed all
- 11:17Speaker 1: of his clothes for this. He did not use a
- 11:19Speaker 1: condom and never used a condom. She told him that
- 11:22Speaker 1: she thought she was drugged and that she is going
- 11:25Speaker 1: back to redacted. He sarcastically says that he didn't expect that,
- 11:29Speaker 1: and then she leaves the country. She gives some of
- 11:32Speaker 1: her belongings away and puts it in storage. Black still
- 11:36Speaker 1: calls her. He says watch out for her son while
- 11:39Speaker 1: she's away. He says that he will be able to
- 11:41Speaker 1: do things to her while she's away. Black would reach
- 11:44Speaker 1: out to redact it until she would sign an NDA.
- 11:46Speaker 1: Redacted did not pay him back for the loans. The
- 11:49Speaker 1: money that she had when leaving the United States was
- 11:52Speaker 1: from Black. She signed another loan when she was leaving
- 11:55Speaker 1: the country, which he made her sign. He was threatening her,
- 11:59Speaker 1: so she didn't know why he gave her the loan.
- 12:02Speaker 1: She thinks it's because he was financially in control of
- 12:04Speaker 1: her life. Redacted still paid even after leaving after the rape.
- 12:09Speaker 1: When Blavotnick calls redacted and asks how she's feeling, she
- 12:14Speaker 1: tells him better. Black sends her flowers. Blovotnik invites Redacted
- 12:19Speaker 1: to a party and redacted. Then, when in redacted, Blavotnik
- 12:23Speaker 1: talks about the poisoning and it's a good thing to
- 12:25Speaker 1: stay out of New York and never go back in Redacted,
- 12:29Speaker 1: Black calls redacted. Redacted meets people from a circle, and
- 12:33Speaker 1: she moves to redacted. Six months later, people from a
- 12:36Speaker 1: circle try to talk to her. They first try to
- 12:39Speaker 1: convince her to talk to Black. Black sends redacted to
- 12:43Speaker 1: interviews in redacted and redacted. Redacted meets Black and redacted
- 12:48Speaker 1: after this, and he tells her he pays for her
- 12:51Speaker 1: to be threatened in her redacted and redacted. He tells
- 12:55Speaker 1: her that he can stop it if she takes the
- 12:57Speaker 1: money and signs the NBA. She tells them that she
- 13:00Speaker 1: doesn't want to pay. One month later, they meet and
- 13:03Speaker 1: he brings a document from a lawyer. He tells her
- 13:06Speaker 1: he will put her in prison if she doesn't take
- 13:09Speaker 1: the money. It was millions. He says that he will
- 13:12Speaker 1: support her for five years, then says he will support
- 13:15Speaker 1: her for ten years. He wanted her to meet with
- 13:18Speaker 1: lawyers to assign the NDA. Redacted was scared. She thinks
- 13:22Speaker 1: maybe he was recording her. Redacted never said anything about blackmail.
- 13:27Speaker 1: She had a hard time understanding what he wants. The
- 13:30Speaker 1: NDA was to help her, and he will do lots
- 13:33Speaker 1: of terrible things if she didn't take the money. They
- 13:36Speaker 1: meet and redacted. He tells her to meet a lawyer
- 13:39Speaker 1: and talk about immigration. He starts yelling at her redacted
- 13:42Speaker 1: in public and says, I'll put you in prison. I
- 13:44Speaker 1: work for the FBI. I'll make your life miserable, Redacted
- 13:49Speaker 1: walks away. He then texts her that he will send
- 13:52Speaker 1: her money each month to help with her visa, but
- 13:55Speaker 1: she has to meet with him. She meets him again
- 13:58Speaker 1: and he brings paper about getting rid of the loan
- 14:01Speaker 1: and that she can never talk about him directly or implied.
- 14:04Speaker 1: He promises to give her money. The paper says that
- 14:07Speaker 1: they had a fight which was resolved. She never gets
- 14:10Speaker 1: a copy of the document in her Around twenty fifteen
- 14:15Speaker 1: was the last time that they had talked. After he
- 14:17Speaker 1: sent her to Ballet. They had texted. Redacted had been
- 14:21Speaker 1: getting money from him until Redacted. He had been sending
- 14:24Speaker 1: her one hundred grand every month. Redacted had speculated a
- 14:28Speaker 1: sex trafficking ring because he was friends with Jeffrey Epstein.
- 14:32Speaker 1: One of his girlfriends is redacted, who started an art
- 14:34Speaker 1: gallery called Redacted. Black wanted them to have threesomes. Around
- 14:38Speaker 1: two thousand and eight. There was another Redacted girlfriend who
- 14:41Speaker 1: was introduced to Black by Epstein. Black would brag until
- 14:45Speaker 1: Redacted that he had other girlfriends. Redacted is not sure
- 14:48Speaker 1: if he was abusive with them, but she assumed his girlfriend.
- 14:53Speaker 1: Redacted tells Redacted that she wanted out of this relationship.
- 14:57Speaker 1: They looked physically and emotionally, stressed on, healthy and worn down.
- 15:02Speaker 1: Redacted cannot vouch for the other woman being trafficked, but
- 15:05Speaker 1: she thinks they were. Black would tell Redacted he was
- 15:08Speaker 1: having sex with them and they were working. Her first
- 15:12Speaker 1: sexual encounter with them was in his studio and the
- 15:15Speaker 1: mattress was on the floor. This studio was in the redacted.
- 15:19Speaker 1: Black would demand that Redacted was loving in text messages
- 15:23Speaker 1: in which she wasn't, but he was. Redacted was on
- 15:26Speaker 1: the phone, and it's deleted. She may have some texts,
- 15:30Speaker 1: but not many because he called her more often. Redacted
- 15:34Speaker 1: told her she wanted to get out. Redacted met her
- 15:37Speaker 1: when she was seeing him and Redacted wasn't. It was
- 15:41Speaker 1: in a nightclub. She said she wanted to date another
- 15:44Speaker 1: man but couldn't stand the guy she was currently with.
- 15:46Speaker 1: She did not specifically mention Black, but says it's a
- 15:49Speaker 1: guy she met through Epstein. Black took Redacted to his
- 15:53Speaker 1: house in the Hamptons and Bedford. His wife would be around.
- 15:57Speaker 1: His wife was around with them at dinner. On one occasion.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Black kept an apartment across the street from his house.
- 16:03Speaker 1: His wife saw them going in there once he only
- 16:06Speaker 1: knew of this number for text. He reached out to
- 16:09Speaker 1: redact it after redacted and asked redacted to call him.
- 16:14Speaker 1: He asked her what she's doing, and she didn't respond
- 16:16Speaker 1: to this text. Then Black issued a statement to the
- 16:19Speaker 1: redacted all right, folks, that's going to do it for
- 16:22Speaker 1: the three to zero two of the accusations made against
- 16:25Speaker 1: Leon Black. All the information that goes with this episode
- 16:29Speaker 1: can be found in the description box.