Khadija Safdar

the implication that she feels was that they're raising that to, like, imply that she wasn't really a victim, that she must be a spy, or, like, there's all these theories around Epstein because there's so many unanswered questions.

And so those were, like, the ways in which people were digging into this.

And she really feels like she and other Russian women have been singled out in a way that other victims who kind of had the similar experiences haven't.

I mean, when she came to me to say that she wanted to go on the record, she said to me, this is her quote, I am so exhausted.

I haven't slept or eaten properly for weeks.

I'd rather tell this embarrassing story myself and get it over with once and for all so I can finally be free and close this chapter.

People don't realize that any one thing that she's told me is like true of several other women.

But I think if you're coming at this cold, it's easy to like make her the focal point or singling her out or talking about her like Russian connections and all of that.

When I was speaking to one of the former prosecutors who has really looked at some of these cases before, she said to me that this is often not like a singular crime, like where you go in and you do something bad to somebody.

It happens over time.

When they examine these crimes, they look at like the extent and the comprehensiveness of their relationship and the power dynamics over time.

She actually took off from work.

Like, she couldn't concentrate anymore on her work.

And I've been in touch with her, and she's actually been, like, preparing...

materials for victims that she think could be helpful resources of dealing with, you know, the media.

And she's trying to like find a way to transform her experience into something positive, you know, and she doesn't want the idea that she went through all of this and it happened for like nothing.

She wants it to like somehow translate into something better.

She said that had Jeffrey Epstein told me during our very first meeting, come work with me, I will abuse you daily, not pay you for the first few years, then put you on a payroll to keep your visa valid.

I will force you to bring other women.

I would have told him to go F himself right away.