Epstein's rape empire needed eager mercenaries

And not just Ghislaine Maxwell

Let’s face it, I was never going to make it as a teenage model. My early pictures are so wooden and awkward and hilarious that not even my baby face can make up for them. And the minute I stopped being awkward and started taking better pictures, my father came back from one of his business trips, realized that my plans were getting serious, and put his foot down. “THAT WORLD IS FULL OF PERVERTS.”

I was angry with him at the time. I was also angry at my agent. For the purposes of this story, I will call her Mandy (I have enough weird stalkers out there, though if anyone tracks her down and bothers her for any reason, they’ll likely take a shotgun blast to the face).

Mandy was a butch lesbian who could practically unhinge her jaw when eating a cheeseburger, drove stick, smelled like a motel room ashtray, and was strict with me. No going out in New York after dark. No trips to Milan unless I was properly chaperoned. Get away from that photographer, Nat, he has a reputation.

I had no idea that my father’s strictness and Mandy’s strictness came from a desire to protect. I was young, skinny, lonely, and desperate for approval and money of my own.

Reading the Epstein files many years later, I realize how lucky I was. Many misfortunes befell me in life, but there were many I was also spared. I was not equipped for the world I was trying to work in at all.

Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for procuring victims for Epstein, and I hope she stays there forever. Yet there were others too, including those who may have started out as victims.

One of the big misconceptions about the Epstein files is that everyone mentioned is either a victim or a villain. Sometimes, people are both. Also, Epstein had a vast social network into which people wandered in by chance, unaware of the monster he was.

It is also important to note that many unproven accusations, as sent in by tipsters, are in the files. It doesn’t mean that they’re all wrong.

It means it helps to be prudent with the information we have.

Look at this redacted email:

It was likely written by a foreign woman, judging by the syntax. Is it redacted because the person in question was also a victim at one point? Is it redacted for more sinister reasons? Both? We don’t have a way of knowing at this time, but you can see how Epstein twisted other people, and made them mercenaries in the sick games he liked to play.

In the spirit of being prudent, let’s take a look at some emails that are not so heavily redacted. Let’s take a look at Irina: