Epstein’s latest dossier exposes FBI-recorded disturbing solicitations involving underage girls and includes new photographs, though many files are still kept secret
A 2019 interview disclosed clear hiring preferences, including criteria related to age and race.
The documents released Friday by the Department of Justice detail Jeffrey Epstein’s specific demands to those he sent to procure children for his sexual exploitation.
They shed further light on the actions of Epstein and those around him who were attempting to acquire young women and underage girls for the disgraced financier.
They were part of a long-awaited release of documents from Donald Trump’s Justice Department, which has been criticized for the release being only partial and heavily redacted.
However, one document, labeled EFTA00004179, contains a formal FBI evidence cover sheet and 13 pages of handwritten investigative notes from an interview conducted on May 2, 2019. The subject of the interview and some of the content have been redacted.
Nevertheless, themes emerge: the recruitment of girls, sexual encounters under the guise of “massages,” and Epstein’s specific preferences regarding age and race.
According to the notes, the witness said, “[Redacted] friends of friends. Big Brazilian group. Tough times.” “Running out of girls.” The notes clearly refer to Epstein as “JE.”
During these “desperate times,” a “dark-skinned Dominican” was brought in, but “JE didn’t want any Spanish or dark-skinned girls,” the notes state. The document redacts the initials of the person who brought underage girls to Epstein.
This individual told Epstein that they were “bringing young girls” to him, but Epstein complained that they “weren’t Black.”
The witness said she wasn’t sure if Epstein had paid the buyer for the “service,” but she said he had paid the girl.
The notes then mention the bathroom and “breasts and vagina near the bathtub… He went into the shower and told her he couldn’t bring girls he didn’t like. … Told her to keep finding girls.”
The notes state, “At one point, [redacted] saw him asking a girl for her ID; he wanted to make sure she was under 18 because he didn’t trust them since [redacted] had messed up by bringing older girls.”
The notes include descriptions of sexual encounters by the witness, such as Epstein making “crazy noises” and touching the victims “roughly.”
The document contains photographs of girls aged 14 to 17, shown walking around the city and on the beach in bikinis. The notes reference New York locations: “41st Street apartment” in Manhattan, Rochester and Brighton Beach, and a high school prom.
The witness’s identity is unclear. These notes align with Epstein’s known interest in Brazilian children.
Brazilian immigrant Marina Lacerda, identified as “Minor-Victim 1” in the federal indictment, was a key witness who spoke publicly for the first time in September.
She detailed the abuse she suffered at Epstein’s hands starting at age 14 and said she saw Donald Trump with Epstein on more than one occasion, although Trump has denied knowing about any of Epstein’s criminal activities.
Her testimony ultimately led to Epstein’s indictment. Epstein later killed himself in a New York jail cell in 2019.
Jean-Luc Brunel, who had started a modeling agency with Epstein’s support, was arrested by French authorities in 2022 on suspicion of trafficking and raping underage girls. Brunel was accused of supplying more than 1,000 girls and young women to Epstein for sex.
According to a source who met him in Brasília in April 2019, Brunel visited a Brazilian agency with which his company had previously worked to find new models to bring to the US.
Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s convicted confidante, was also spotted on the Brazilian Riviera shortly after Epstein’s death. On February 19, 2022, Brunel took his own life in a prison in Paris.
A woman who once worked for Jeffrey Epstein filed a complaint with the F.B.I. in 1996 about his interest in “child pornography,” nearly a decade before investigators began investigating his violent behavior.
