Vicki Ward

I never really wanted to hear his name again.

I had a complicated pregnancy when I was dealing with him.

And the irony is that, you know, I'd been assigned to actually profile him because my boss thought it would be easy for me.

He lived in New York.

I lived in New York.

I wouldn't have to get on a plane.

I'd done some financial journalism before this.

You know, I know how to sort of, I know I understand money and wealth management and things like that.

And so nobody expected that this man would turn on me and start threatening me and threatening my unborn children and tell me that he knew where I'd be giving birth and telling me to get my husband fired.

You know, some of the threats were stupid, but some of them were really...

Horrible.

And I did end up going into labour much too soon.

And I did then have my two babies who, you know, weighed two pounds and two and a half pounds, you know, in the hospital.

We had to ask for security for them for two months because I really was terrified that Jeffrey Epstein would be coming to harm them.

And so after all of that, to be honest...

I wanted to forget about Jeffrey Epstein.

I wanted to sort of normalise the whole thing in my mind.

But then...

The years ticked on and I began to realise that it wasn't just the farmers, that the scale of this thing was potentially enormous.

And I did feel, to be honest, that the idea of Jeffrey Epstein walking into the office of my boss, Graydon Carter, behind my back, it was during the fact-checking process, I'd by that time been put on bed rest,