In her victim impact statement, one of Jeffery Epstein’s victims detailed the violence she endured and said she attempted suicide twice while imprisoned in Ghislaine Maxwell’s cell during the British socialite’s trial.
In her victim impact statement, Sarah Ransome, 37, revealed that when visiting Epstein’s St. Little James private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, she once attempted to leap off a cliff.
She apologized to Epstein’s victims in a courtroom in Brooklyn on Tuesday, hours before Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and she claimed that the pedophile had also duped her.
She claimed, “[I] was nothing more than a sex toy with a beating heart and soul used to amuse Epstein, Maxwell, and others.”
The sexual demands, degradation, and humiliation I experienced during one visit to the island led me to attempt to flee by leaping off a cliff into shark-infested waters.
Just before I jumped, Maxwell and the others caught me. Being sexually assaulted once more didn’t seem as attractive at the time as that highly dangerous escape.
She arrived in New York at the age of just 22, according to Ransome, with the intention of enrolling at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
She said that an Epstein-Maxwell recruiter named Natalya Malyshev singled her out in a party and set up a meeting with a billionaire who supposedly promised to assist pay for her to attend her desired university.
Epstein and Maxwell were experts at spotting young, impressionable girls and young women to take advantage of, according to Ransome.
They pounced, entangling us in their upside-down, twisted world of rape, rape, and more rape, though, not long after lulling me and others into a false sense of security and familiarity.
The Epstein-Maxwell dungeon of sexual misery was similar to Hotel California in that you could check in but never leave. Ghislaine physically forced me into Epstein’s room where I was raped.
Despite being able to flee to the UK in 2007, Ransome claimed that she started drinking heavily because of the trauma she had experienced and her constant fear that “someday Epstein and Maxwell would harm me, my loved ones, and my family, as Epstein repeatedly told me would happen, if I ever dared to leave.”
The trauma choked Ransome to the point where she attempted suicide once more in 2018, while bringing a lawsuit against Maxwell and other Epstein colleagues, and again a year later when Epstein was going on trial.
Despite my best efforts, I have yet to reach the professional and interpersonal potential that God has given me, Ransome remarked. Even as a young girl, I have always wanted for children, but I have never been married.
I have trouble establishing new relationships and am uncomfortable around strangers because I worry that they might be connected to Epstein, Maxwell, and the enablers.
Even though she acknowledged that she still went to AA meetings, she continued, “I know that only by the grace of God do I continue to survive.” The same Maxwell I met over 20 years ago still lacks compassion and basic human decency.
Additionally, victims Annie Farmer and the lady only known as “Kate” will present their testimonies in person and confront Maxwell. Tuesday morning, Farmer was seen entering the Manhattan courthouse accompanied by her attorney, along with Ransome and the victim Elizabeth Stein.
Outside the courthouse, Ransome also spoke, declaring, “Ghislaine must die in prison.” The last 17 years have been spent in hell and back.
At the socialite’s sentencing hearing in New York on Tuesday, when the former madam was given a 20-year prison sentence, Elizabeth Stein read a victim impact statement in which she described the horrifying “trauma” she endured at the hands of the late billionaire Epstein and his 60-year-old ex-madam Maxwell.
In her statement, Stein detailed how Epstein and Maxwell, who died in jail in 2019, recruited her into their sex trafficking network by “seizing upon her vulnerability,” and how she was repeatedly abused, raped, and trafficked over the course of three years.
One of the men eventually caused her to become pregnant, and she made the decision to abort the child. Stein still doesn’t know how she got pregnant.
According to Stein’s statement, which DailyMail.com has seen, “I was abused, raped, and trafficked numerous times in New York and Florida throughout a three-year period.”
I once got pregnant (by whom I’m not sure) and had the child aborted. Things happened that were so traumatic that I can’t even describe them with words; I can’t even talk about them now.
Stein remembered how she had been drawn into Maxwell and Epstein’s terrifying world when she was a senior at FIT in New York City and employed as a sales associate at Henri Bendel, and how she had spent years trying to get away from them.
She first met the socialite there, who later that day at the Pierre Hotel introduced her to Epstein.
She admitted, “That was the beginning of many times they sexually abused me that night in the hotel.”
Stein claims that after graduating from college, she made a valiant effort to start her professional life at Bloomingdales and “leave Epstein and Maxwell and the cruelty they inflicted against me behind.”
She recalls how the socialite “immediately began befriending me once again” after Maxwell eventually found her in the department store in the fall of 1995.
After meeting Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, I experienced a sense of having the lights turned off inside of me.
Stein recalled, “She quickly started befriending me again and asked me to go out socially.”
I resisted at first, but she eventually got the better of me, and I started hanging out with them once more. They gave me the impression that they were my buddies and my era.
The two then snatched her up and took her to Florida, where they “insisted that she remain longer than intended,” which led to her losing her job at Bloomingdales.
They started selling me as a slave to their pals after recognizing their new weakness. I was stuck by that point,’ she confessed, adding that Maxwell and Epstein had threatened to kill her if she ever revealed what had transpired to anyone.
She said, “Epstein and Maxwell horrified me in the most literal way.” They threatened to kill me and those closest to me if I told anyone, saying that nobody would believe me.
When I first met Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, it was as if someone had turned off the lights in my soul.
The 60-year-old will now serve her sentence in prison until 2042, which means that after being released, she might resume living a life of luxury.
The sentence will put an end to the victims of Maxwell and Epstein’s decades-long quest for justice.
In court on Tuesday, Maxwell’s attorneys raised a number of arguments to the pre-sentence report, but Judge Nathan overruled them all.
The lawyers objected to various accusations in the report that involve details of money, sex acts and recruitment strategies.
Judge Nathan said the testimony revealed throughout the trial verifies the accusations in the report.
After Epstein hung himself while awaiting trial in 2019, their attention went to Maxwell who was arrested a year later and found guilty in December following her spectacular trial.
She has indicated she will appeal her conviction and alleges that she is being made a ‘scapegoat’ for Epstein.
Jurors debated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty of five of six counts.
Despite assertions by her lawyers that she had been losing weight and hair as a result of the unfavorable conditions in prison before to trial, Maxwell frequently hugged her attorneys in court and seemed to be in good health.
She informed the judge that there was no reason for her to testify because the government had not established its case beyond a reasonable doubt.
During Maxwell’s trial, four women testified against her: Annie Farmer, Kate, Carolyn, and victim known only as “Jane.”
Over the course of three weeks, the jury heard how Maxwell “served up” minors to Epstein at his Florida house and delighted in her role as the “Lady of the House.”
Maxwell served as Epstein’s “right hand” between 1994 and 2004, paying $200 for sexual massages or perhaps participating in the assault.
The jury was informed that the victims, some of whom were as young as 14, received a comparable sum of money if they brought acquaintances to Epstein.
Prosecutors called 24 witnesses during the trial to paint a picture for the jury of life inside Epstein’s houses, a topic of public curiosity and rumor ever since his arrest in Florida in 2006 in a child sex case.
A cleaner claimed that Epstein, a financier who made contacts with powerful politicians and business tycoons, wanted him to be “blind, deaf, and stupid” about his personal life.
Aboard the testimony stand, pilots mentioned famous people who flew on Epstein’s private jets, including Prince Andrew of Britain, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump.
The physical evidence that was shown to the jury included a folding massage table that Epstein had formerly used and a “black book” that included the contact information for some of the victims under the heading “massages.”
According to bank records, he transferred Maxwell $30.7 million.