One of the victims of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his sick partner Ghislaine Maxwell has revealed the “sexual abuse factory” that was their home in the Caribbean.
In the new BBC program, House of Maxwell, Juliette Bryant spoke for the first time about how the tycoon tricked her into going with him to retirement on Paedo Island and sexually assaulted her.
The documentary consists of three parts and will be broadcast from next Monday, in which Bryant explains how she felt trapped by the late Epstein and Ghislaine on Little St James Island, near Puerto Rico.
Both were close friends with Prince Andrew, who this month reached an out-of-court settlement with Virginia Giuffre, after she accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was only 17 years old, and claimed that they had met through Ghislaine and Epstein.
Juliette, a South African national, says in a trailer for the documentary: “I was ordered to go to her room at least three times a day. At that time there were even more girls. At that time I saw at least 60 girls coming and going, at least.”
Bryant says she was 20 years old then, but that there were several girls younger than her, even minors. “It was like a factory, I was running a machine and Ghislaine Maxwell was the one operating it,” says the victim.
The woman claims that Epstein was manipulative and dangerous, to the point that she even threatened her family if someone told something.
“He said he had my family's name on a list, so I did what he told me because I was petrified of him, who he was. I knew crossing it would be a very, very bad idea,” Bryant said of an interaction that occurred after the first allegations against the pedophile millionaire.
Ghislaine now faces up to 40 years behind bars for sex trafficking for Epstein, whom she initially began dating in the nineties.
So she became his mediator to satisfy her hunger for young girls. But the tycoon was arrested in July 2019 and committed suicide in his cell a few weeks later, while awaiting trial.
“Ghislaine was in charge of the girls and told us when we had to go to her room. You couldn't say no, there was just no choice. You didn't want to make them angry, it would have been very scary to make them angry. Nobody ever tried to oppose them,” Juliette said.
“His room was completely dark and icy. I just disconnected from my body and let it do what I wanted because I didn't know what else to do,” he added.
The experience recalls her with great pain, saying that she had to find a room in her mind to escape and pretend that all that wasn't happening.
“Things happened there that scared me so much that I can't even talk about them,” he says. “It fed on terror, there was something in the energy of a frightened girl that she liked.”
Among the disturbing things that Juliette revealed to the British press was a very strange painting that was on the wall of the chalet where she was made to stay. It was a painting of a naked girl and there was a big walrus that looked like he was trying to rape her.
“It was a very disturbing image. I've never seen a picture like that. He had a lot of weird things in his house, there were pictures of naked girls everywhere, and there were also a lot of pictures of Ghislaine naked,” he said.
The documentary looks at Ghislaine's family, starting with media mogul Robert, who died under mysterious circumstances after falling off his luxury yacht in 1991.
He suggests that after his death, he increasingly turned to Epstein, whom he had met during his frequent trips to New York to help with the American branch of his father's business empire.
“When I met Ghislaine they told me she was Epstein's girlfriend. But the thing is, I never saw them holding hands or kissing once, or even giving each other a hug, to be honest. I've never seen them get that close, so it was definitely not a romantic relationship,” says Juliette.
Ghislaine's debt to Epstein was such that she began to serve as celestina, attracting young girls to the tycoon's homes with the promise of money or help with their careers.
Juliette recalls that just beginning her modeling career she met Epstein through Naja Hill, another American model who told her that her friend, owner of Victoria's Secret, would like to meet her.
“Then I thought, 'My God, all my dreams are coming true, 'I just couldn't believe it. What an opportunity! So we went to show Jeffrey my folder. I walked into the hotel room, sat in front of him, gave him my modeling book and glanced at it. He was like, 'Wow, you have the most incredible figure I've ever seen, '” he recalled.
Epstein liked what he saw and decided to take her from South Africa to New York, they paid for her plane ticket and got her a visa.
“But then his office called and said, 'Pack your suitcase, we're going to the Caribbean'. I assumed it was for a photo shoot. So I said immediately, yes. His island was the most beautiful place you had ever seen. The sea there is absolutely exquisite, the turquoise sea,” he said.
But things quickly turned ugly when other girls started arriving on the island, and she realized the true purpose of her invitation.
One day watching movies with Epstein they brought another girl who started doing oral sex while Juliette was still sitting next to him.
“I was absolutely petrified because I was so young and had never seen anything like it. So I ran out of the room and I was crying, I just didn't know what to do. There was no hope of escaping,” he recalled.
But she was in a foreign country, with no cell phone, money or media, but still, on an island, so she understood that she was completely stuck and there was nothing she could do.
“I never felt good after that. Everything just fell apart. It's very difficult to understand. I'm still trying to put it all together. I wanted to be calm and live my life and forget everything, but I can't forget that. I'm tired of being ashamed, I want to speak for people who can't speak anymore,” she added.
Juliette celebrated Ghislaine's conviction on charges of sex trafficking, something she thought would never happen, and she hopes that everyone involved in that child abuse ring will pay to justice.
“You have to keep them away so they can't hurt other people. People are realizing the truth,” he said.
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