Khadija Safdar

He obviously was convicted in 2008, and the takeaway from that was that he was going to continue his sex trafficking operation, but he was going to find adults that looked like teenagers.

As long as they're of legal age, he felt that that would mean that the authorities wouldn't come after him.

And unfortunately, he was right that he didn't get as much scrutiny because he was sex trafficking adults.

And so that was how his scheme worked.

And he was actually running, I would say, an international sex trafficking operation where he was moving women from other countries to the U.S.,

There's a lot of complexity to the way Epstein operated, and there's more than meets the eye.

He was very manipulative.

And there's what you see on the surface, like in the emails, and then there's just like really what's happening behind the scenes.

She had real jobs at the time.

She was working with famous Italian fashion brands.

and she met an individual who built himself as a modeling scout who told her that she could get an audition with Victoria's Secret and that she had all the talents to be able to do that and that all she needed to do was meet a billionaire who had those connections and could get her this opportunity.

Early on, Epstein showed an interest in her book and made it sound like he was really gonna, you know, put her in front of people that were gonna give her these opportunities.

And he told her, you have to exercise.

You don't have the right body type right now, but you have to exercise and you can make it big.

And so she went back thinking, you know, that she's gonna gather her photos and she's gonna exercise.

She was doing basically everything he asked of her because she thought that this is what's gonna get her where she needs to go.

And then he would offer favors, too, or things that he would frame as favors.

For example, at one point, he offered her liposuction.

And he said that he was going to help her with her quest to, like, improve her body because he thought that she was too fat.

And she describes a lot of this as, like, where she thought he was the one who was being generous towards her, but it was, like, her self-esteem was just...