A series of photos revealed in newly unsealed court documents shows girls and young women posing on Jeffrey Epstein's private Caribbean island, including Also included were some of the late pedophile's madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, nicknamed “Mama Bear” by one of his victims.
A series of photos provided by Epstein accuser Sarah Ransom were taken on the sex offender's Little St. James Island in 2006, according to the latest cache of court documents released Monday. That's what it means.
Some images show groups of girls hugging each other while smiling for the camera.
One of the women in the photo is Nadia Marcinkova. The blonde model-turned-pilot was once known as the “Global Girl” in the Epstein saga, court documents say.
Other photos show a casually dressed Maxwell relaxing in a chair with her feet on the dining table.
Another image shows Maxwell sitting on a sofa next to Epstein's friend Jean-Luc Brunel. Brunel was a French model scout who committed suicide in a Paris prison in December 2020 after being accused of raping an underage girl.
The court filing also included a photo of Ransom posing in what appeared to be a towel.
Mr. Ransom handed over the cache of images as part of a subsequent settlement in 2015 of a defamation lawsuit filed by Epstein's accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre against the ailing Madam.
The accuser, who was one of those who testified during Maxwell's sex-trafficking sentencing in Manhattan federal court, attended a deposition in the Giuffre case and described how the madam lured young girls. I explained how I would invite them.
“You know, all the girls reported to Ghislaine. Ghislaine was like a mother bear, if you know what I mean. She made the decisions. Ghislaine I had to listen to him,” Ransom testified, according to court documents.
“And Ghislaine was Jeffrey's right-hand woman, so anything Jeffrey wanted went through and filtered through Ghislaine.”
The trove of photos are included in 17 documents, totaling 327 pages, released on Monday that revealed last week how Epstein used his connections to the rich, powerful and famous to cover up It will be added to the cache of information that has been deleted. his crime.
Thousands of pages of documents in the lawsuit had already been made public, but some sections and names had been redacted due to privacy concerns.
The complete cache of documents was ordered released last month by Manhattan federal judge Loretta Preska.
Ransom did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday.
