Diabolical - The Epstein Files

Before we get into the deep stuff, let's just talk,

let's give some basics.

Remember, when you're answering these questions,

I'm not in the shot

and they're never gonna hear my voice.

Oh, boy. OK.

The first word that I would use to describe Jeffrey Epstein

other than a predator is 'mysterious'.

How did he become so wealthy?

How did he ingratiate himself into the exact right social circles?

How did he get away without being caught for so long?

I never could have anticipated

how diabolical Jeffrey Epstein was.

There's something deeply fucked up with you.

At least something.

We know there are things deeply fucked up

you will get through in this film, right?

Where I come from you don't kill my brother

and walk away from that.

What are the Epstein files?

The Epstein files are all the information that the government has

regarding Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators.

Photographic evidence, interviews of victims.

Emails written to him,

text messages.

Court documents, FBI reports.

And it is much more expansive than you had ever even imagined.

People want to see names.

They want to know who the sex traffickers are.

They want to know who the paedophiles are

and they want vengeance.

Do you know the names of powerful people

who have not yet been named publicly?

Yes.

Congressman Khanna! Hello, I'm Grace Tobin...

Nice to see you. ...from Australia.

Why do you think it's a fight that has united

a very divided political spectrum here?

You can't rape underage girls.

You can't cover that up.

Trump opened up Pandora's box.

He thought that he could crack it open slightly and shut it.

But the curse is not going back into the box.

I don't understand why the President fought it so hard.

Releasing the Epstein files is about revealing

all of that dirty, nasty, horrible things that happened.

Why would he cover this up?

I think he's protecting rich and powerful men

who participated in sex trafficking.

3 million pages,

180,000 images.

The latest dump from the Epstein files

after weeks of political pressure.

That moment created global shock waves.

A day of extreme jeopardy for Sir Keir Starmer.

Norway's Crown Princess is facing intense scrutiny.

Extraordinary news out of the UK.

The former Prince Andrew has been arrested.

The Epstein files are part of the Epstein story.

You have to understand how the Epstein files fit in

to what Epstein was doing,

and the failures of the US government in doing their job.

The Epstein story has one man at its centre,

one spider in the centre of the web.

But that web could not have been constructed

without complicity.

Do you think you're the devil himself?

No. But I do have a good mirror.

We are going to turn now to the debate in Washington

over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Today, a group of survivors of the Epstein controversy

will be here on Capitol Hill.

Urgent new calls for transparency from Epstein survivors,

24 of whom are now re-upping their demand

that Congress release all of the Epstein files.

It's an honour to stand here

for something America is finally united on -

the immediate release of the entire Epstein files.

There's approximately 1,200 women that were victims of Jeffrey Epstein

and they say other men.

They've wanted justice and they fought very hard for it.

We are more than victims.

We are mothers, daughters, sisters, friends.

And we will not be erased.

Some of these women have been at this 20 years.

Some of them had, I believe, almost given up.

But the fact that they were invited to the capital of the United States

to speak truth to power,

and that every media outlet,

you know, showed up, they're renewed in their efforts.

This is me when I met Jeffrey Epstein in 1991.

This is me when I met Jeffrey Epstein.

A lot of us, it was the first time that we had spoken publicly.

My name is Dani Bensky. This was me at 17 years old.

So we were just kind of standing in solidarity with each other

and saying to the world,

like, "There's more of us than you thought."

My name is Marina Lacerda. I was minor victim one.

My name is Gena-Lisa Jones and I was only 14 years old.

My name is Chauntae Davis.

My name is Laura Bloom McGee.

My name is Haley Robson. My name is Anoushka De Georgiou.

My name is Courtney Wild. My name is Lisa Phillips.

My name is Ashley Rubright

and I am a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

When you're a survivor of abuse from a serial predator,

you just have this bond with the other survivors.

We understand each other like nobody else can.

It's been a tremendous mountain to move to get here.

It took an incredible outcry from the public,

huge political will,

and it took the blood, sweat and tears of the survivors.

And that's many, many tears from the survivors to get here.

So we're just heading in to meet with Ashley Rubright,

who is a survivor of Jeffrey Epstein.

And she's only just started speaking out publicly

about what happened to her.

We're this house here.

Hi, Ashley. How are you? Good. How are you?

It's nice to meet you. So nice to meet you. Come in.

Thank you so much for having us. Of course.

Oh, it's still very Christmassy in here, isn't it?

Yes.

When did you meet Jeffrey Epstein?

So it was about 2002 to 2003

and I would have been... about 15.

I was going to Summit Christian School.

I was a cheerleader.

I was in dance, like jazz, hip-hop, ballet.

Um, I was working at a barbecue restaurant

and one of my coworkers,

he asked me one day in the restaurant

if I would like to give a man a massage for $200.

I thought about it for a second and said, "Sure."

I just remember pulling into his house in Palm Beach.

And we were led into the kitchen.

And then Sarah Kellen came in, his assistant.

Said it was time.

Then Sarah, she's the one that led me upstairs.

I didn't look around. I was just looking down.

So all I remember was the pink carpet on the spiral staircase.

And she opened the door and said, "Alright, I'll be back in an hour."

I was shocked when I walked into the bathroom.

But then I calmed myself down, thinking,

"Of course, he's naked because that's how people get massages

"and I should just not be so shocked."

He just kind of laid on the table.

And then he told me how to massage him.

Then he flipped over.

And...

That's... Things got...

...really way more inappropriate there.

And he asked me to...

...to take off my bra and...

...to pull up my skirt

and...

He was touching himself the whole time.

I was just trying not to look.

And he would grab me,

grab my behind and...

I was just trying to not be there, you know,

at that time.

And...

...he finished and hopped up.

And...

...then Sarah came in and led me back downstairs.

I felt shocked.

And then I remember...

...trying to rationalise it.

It had to have just been like a fluke, a one time...

...thing that he just couldn't control.

I did go back one more time.

The second time, it escalated.

I just remembered Jeffrey bringing over a basket

and asking me to pick one and asking me if I knew how to use it.

And...

...he had me sit on the bathroom floor

and he sat on the edge of the massage table.

And I remember what happened.

A basket of sex toys? Yes.

Thank you for saying that. Yeah. That's OK.

So this was 2000.

And these are all just, like, happy messages.

I read some of my yearbooks

and it was such a drastic change.

Right after Jeffrey,

the messages, even my face.

Everything had started to just look darker.

This one says, "We had fun when you're not so mad."

or, "You're sweet when you're not mad." Yeah.

I was angry, and I...

...I didn't care who got the brunt of it, at all.

Yeah.

I stopped cheerleading, I stopped dance.

And I kind of went from, like...

...trying to do good to just not caring.

Did you tell anyone what happened to you?

Just my friend Sean

but nobody else.

I didn't think there was a story to tell, really, you know?