“Are you interested in massages?” None of the underage girls who heard that subtle, seemingly harmless question would have believed it would be the gateway to hell. And it was. Many of them interpreted it as a good job opportunity that would take them far away from where they came from. In reality, however, it was a sentence of deception and abuse. Most of these teenagers came from humble backgrounds or had experienced situations of abuse or mistreatment. This was how Ghislaine Maxwell, partner of Jeffrey Epstein, lured her victims into horror.

The promise of a better life or a great career was enough to walk through the doors of the Palm Beach mansion. Once inside, Epstein would ask them questions like, “Do you take birth control?” or “Describe what your first time was like”. These were more than questionable questions in a professional context, but they couldn’t risk losing the opportunity. And so they answered. This is how Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, described it in her book ‘Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice’. When she accepted the job, she couldn’t even imagine the future that awaited her, nor the ending that lay ahead.

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The Empire of Abuse: The Epstein Ring

An X-ray of the case in legal, political, sociological and psychological terms.

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