Khadija Safdar
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And then she went on the website to like enter her name into the search bar and she saw that there was like many instances in emails of her name unredacted.
Epstein would actually require many of the women in his orbit to send him thank you or gratitude emails.
And they're like effusive notes thanking him for all the things he's done for them.
And that was an expectation that he had.
And so in the actual files, you'll see like all these effusive thank you emails.
And I think just reading that on face value may lead people to believe that he's just so generous.
He's being so nice to all these women.
But without the context that that was an expectation, it's hard to understand that.
I actually got calls from several victims like hysterically crying on the phone.
It wasn't just her.
It was like a similar story where they had rebuilt their life and they were trying to run away from this chapter of their life.
And in some cases, they hadn't even told their families like what happened to them.
And they were so deeply ashamed and embarrassed about it.
This was just surfacing, not just, you know, for them to have to tell their families, but for like the whole world to see.
It was devastating.
She was getting outreach, like repeatedly, from different journalists and bloggers and people digging into the files, citizen journalists, people like questioning whether she's a victim.
Well, one of the things with Svetlana is because she was in his orbit for such a long period of time, she had actually been photographed by paparazzi and like there's been news stories written about her.
So like she was somewhat on people's radar.
And for that reason, she became an easy target.
People started, you know, digging into her.