Jeffrey Epstein: how much do we really know?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The financier Jeffrey Epstein was in a Manhattan prison awaiting trial for sex trafficking when he was found dead in his cell last weekend. The multi-millionaire moved in the richest social circles with people like Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew. But with his death, apparently by suicide, how much can we really know? And will his victims ever find justice? Nada Tawfik, the BBC reporter in New York following the case, tells us the details of Epstein’s life and crimes. And we hear from Spencer Kuvin, an attorney who represented some of Epstein’s victims. Producers: Harriet Noble and Jessica Beck Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.2	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:07.9	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.8	Every day we ask one question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today, how much do we really know about Jeffrey Epstein? Do you soundly swear the testimony about to give it be the truth, the whole truth and nothing by the truth to help you guys?
0:35.6	Yes, I do.
0:36.6	Could you please give us your name?
0:41.4	Jeffrey Epstein.
0:43.4	Saturday afternoon, and there's an alert on my phone.
0:46.1	It says Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide
0:49.3	at a Manhattan jail.
0:51.6	Epstein's this multi-millionaire who moved in the richest social circles.
0:55.8	He used to hang out with people like Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew.
1:00.9	And then a few weeks ago he was arrested, accused of sex trafficking
1:05.5	underage girls. But that wasn't when the Epstein story started.
1:10.4	All Jeffrey cared about was go find me more girls. His appetite was insatiable. He couldn't stop. He wanted new fresh young faces every single day.
1:21.0	It's a case that goes back over a decade and it's still
1:24.8	shrouded in mystery. The more you delve into Epstein's life and death, the
1:30.0	weirder and murkier it gets. It's also horrible. Hearing his victims talk about what he did, and we'll do a bit of that in the next 20 minutes, is disturbing.
1:41.2	By the time I was 16, I brought him up to 75 girls.
1:46.1	All the ages of, you know, 14, 15, 16, people going from 8th grade to 9th grade at just school
1:52.4	parties. It's where I recruit him from.
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