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BROKEN: Jeffrey Epstein

The Recruiters

BROKEN: Jeffrey Epstein

Sony Music

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, News

4.23.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Epstein relied on a network of women to bring him new victims. Nearly 20 years later, one survivor tracked down her own recruiter. If you’d like to support survivors of sexual abuse, please consider making a donation to RAINN at fundraise.rainn.org/Broken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode talks about the sexual abuse of minors and may be upsetting to some listeners.

0:06.4

This is a witness list of

0:09.2

some of the people that I was lent out to and

0:13.5

the people that I was traffic to.

0:17.2

Yeah, that's Virginia Roberts to fray and her friend Marika Shartuni.

0:23.2

Both women say they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein around the same time in the early 2000s.

0:29.3

Wow. Yeah, the list is long. Marika's hand is shaking as she holds that single piece of white paper.

0:36.4

There are dozens of names on that list. Names of people who Virginia says Epstein forced her to

0:42.4

have sex with as a teen. Some have been typed out. Others are scribbled in different colored

0:48.2

eggs as Virginia remembers them. It's a heavy piece of paper.

0:54.6

I'm sure yeah. It's not easy. Your hand shaking. It's not easy to carry. It's not easy to look

1:02.0

yeah. It's almost like looking at a crime scene. It's almost it's really heavy. Yeah.

1:08.7

Yeah. Yeah, you don't know how much words can be, you know, have so much weight to them.

1:17.5

Just names can have so much weight to them and names that you recognize.

1:24.1

And if you take a look at that list, how many of those have been held accountable? None.

1:30.7

Absolutely none. You've heard Virginia's story earlier in this season. She's been in the public

1:35.9

eye since 2011 when she first came forward about her abuse. You're probably less familiar with

1:41.6

Marika, the person Virginia sometimes calls her secret weapon. Marika lives in Washington state. She's

1:49.6

a soft spoken former model with two kids. She was brought to Jeffrey Epstein's house two decades ago.

1:56.2

And the experience was so horrible, it changed the trajectory of her life.

2:01.0

She now spends a lot of time tracking down the people who many victims say helped Epstein

2:06.0

commit his crimes. It's kind of scary how easy to find people to be honest with you.

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