Sex Tape Allegations on Epstein's island: will we ever learn the truth?
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
One of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged trafficking victims has stood by her claim that sex tapes exist of Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton on Little St James Island, and has painted a lurid picture of Donald Trump's sexual activities.
Sarah Ransome - who was in her twenties at the time - had accused Epstein of filming guests on his island in compromising situations, only to then withdraw her testimony and say she made it all up. But today, as court documents disclosed her allegations, she confirmed her original testimony to ITV's Good Morning Britain. Is she a credible witness who's faced intimidation or a fantasist?
A spokesperson for Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group said on Monday: “We categorically reject all allegations made by Sarah Ransome. In 2016, Ms Ransome retracted her claims and then in 2019 after settling her claims with Epstein and Maxwell, she also admitted to The New Yorker that the “tapes” had been “invented”. The allegations are baseless and unfounded.
“The actions of Jeffrey Epstein were abhorrent and we support the right to justice for the many victims impacted by his abuse.”
Donald Trump's spokesman also said Sarah Ransome's claims about the former president were "baseless", "simply false and have no merit".
And with regards to Virginia Guiffre, Prince Andrew said he has never met her and has denied her allegations.
We talk to an investigative journalist at the Miami Herald, Ben Wieder, who forced the court to make those documents public.
Also today, where does the Post Office saga lead us now? And are politician's able to force a change of the law?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | We are hearing today about a series of sex tapes. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, you heard that right. |
| 0:18.8 | Sex tapes featuring the Duke of York, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson, possibly even Donald Trump. |
| 0:27.1 | The curious thing is, we do not know for certain whether these tapes exist, but they are part of a cache of documents that the courts have just released about |
| 0:40.5 | Geoffrey Epstein and the island where young women were forced to have sex with very rich, |
| 0:48.1 | very well-known, very important men. This is Sarah Ransom, who claims those tapes exist. |
| 0:57.4 | There are videos that exist. The people that know they exist, I'm sure, are very frightened |
| 1:04.4 | of them being released. Epstein, Gillesne Maxwell, amongst others, were regularly enforced that if I ever did come forward, |
| 1:14.7 | myself and my family would be harmed. |
| 1:18.2 | That was Sarah Ransom speaking on Good Morning Britain today, standing by her story. |
| 1:24.6 | A few years ago, she withdrew the allegations, having earlier told the court that this |
| 1:30.2 | sex tape existed and some of the behaviour, particularly allegedly by Donald Trump, was frankly |
| 1:37.9 | horrific. But it has thrown open again. All that went on in that island, the risks that these men took, |
| 1:48.1 | the appalling exploitation of these young women, dare I say young girls, |
| 1:55.0 | what happened under Geoffrey Epstein. |
| 1:57.3 | And it's still casting a long shadow today over people whose reputations are still |
| 2:05.6 | more or less intact. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 2:13.3 | The newsagents. It's Emily. It is John. And the allegations that have come out in this cache of |
| 2:21.1 | documents that have been released by the court in New York that heard the whole Gillian Maxwell trial, |
| 2:27.7 | just show the extent, I don't know whether Treasure Trove is the right words to use to describe |
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