{"id":2835,"date":"2026-02-15T06:01:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2026-02-15T06:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:01:06","slug":"epstein-survivor-says-women-who-recruited-her-laughed-as-she-was-sexually-assaulted-on-jet-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=2835","title":{"rendered":"Epstein survivor says women who recruited her ‘laughed’ as she was sexually assaulted on jet | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking ring extended all the way to Africa’s southern coast – held together by the invisible chains of psychological bondage that kept his victims ensnared for years at a time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Invisible chains is a good way to put it, it was like I was handcuffed invisibly,” says 43-year-old Juliette Bryant.<\/p>\n

“I’d never even told my family, I never told anyone about what happened with him until he died.”<\/p>\n

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Juliette was recruited from Cape Town<\/strong><\/a> by Epstein<\/strong><\/a> in 2002, as a first-year university student and aspiring model. At only 20 years old, she thought her life was about to change for good.<\/p>\n

“It just seemed like my dreams were all coming true because our family was struggling financially and I just really wanted to try and make a difference for my family.”<\/p>\n

Juliette was on a flight to New York on her first overseas trip outside of South Africa, three weeks after meeting Epstein for the first time at a Cape Town restaurant with Bill Clinton, who was there on an official AIDS awareness trip accompanied by actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker.<\/p>\n

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Hours barely passed after arriving in New York City when she was told she would be travelling on to the Caribbean. A driver dropped her off at a runway at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and she boarded a private jet where Epstein and the women she says initially recruited her in Cape Town were waiting to fly to his private island.<\/p>\n

“He patted the chair next to him… and then I went and sat there. It was such a confusing situation for a young person to be in.<\/p>\n

“As the plane took off, he started forcibly touching me in between my legs, and I just freaked out and I suddenly realised – oh my God, my family aren’t going to see me again, these people might kill me, you know?<\/p>\n

“They [the women] were laughing. I was really petrified.”<\/p>\n

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It is unlikely she was the only young woman trafficked by Epstein from Cape Town. Emails from the Epstein files<\/strong><\/a> show flight details for unnamed female travellers being shuttled from Cape Town to London, Atlanta and New York up until late 2018.<\/p>\n

Juliette says she was not trafficked to other men but raped by Epstein repeatedly.<\/p>\n

“I would see him at lunch, breakfast and dinner, and then I would be called to his room. Otherwise, I didn’t see a lot of him, he was always off working.<\/p>\n

“I spent a lot of time there on my own. I’d sit by the pool or read books, and I also found disposable cameras in the kitchen which I took to, so I took photos while I was there.”<\/p>\n

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Juliette’s photos flit between beaming smiles in the embrace of other young women and haunting portraits of desolation and loneliness.<\/p>\n

“There was no way of getting away, you know. They had my passport and by then we had landed on one of the Caribbean islands and then were taken on a helicopter to his island. There was just no way of getting away. I’m not strong enough to swim away. I wouldn’t be able to swim off there.”<\/p>\n

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