The Epstein/Maxwell Trafficking Ring

We have created a separate page for the Epstein/Maxwell files, partly because there’s so much information, but also because it covers so many areas that we focus on at CAAGe.

We don’t pretend to be the most complete source of information, and if there is anything you feel we should be including, please contact us.

We have taken the view that we will only focus on victim’s public testimonies where they’ve given interviews to the media. These women were young when they were sucked in, and are not there for our entertainment.

They are waiting far too long for justice, in part because of the wealth, connections and power of the perpetrators.

The grooming patterns we see are:

  • The lure - Career promises, such as modelling, acting, beautician, masseuse, furthering artistic careers: Maxwell and Epstein promised the World and delivered Hell; in some cases, they were promising

  • Complicity - Making victims complicit: getting them to do something they wouldn’t otherwise have done, be that recruiting others (Epstein’s operation worked like a pyramid scheme) or s*x

  • Fear - Ensuring that the victims had something to lose or be afraid for, be that threats to family or lost opportunities for themselves or loved ones

  • Disbelief and discreditting- when victims tell their stories, they are disbelieved because the perpetrator is rich and/or famous; grooming will often lead victims to drugs or alcohol dependency as a coping mechanism, which is then used to discredit them.

  • Victim blaming - in no other field is there as much victim blaming: they took the money, they went there knowingly, ‘slut shaming’, gold digging…. the list goes on.

  • Seeking justice can be as traumatising as events - justice systems everywhere are rarely kind to victims

  • Perpetrators hide in plain sight - even having been found guilty of being a paedophile, Epstein’s operation continued, often with the support of friends he had made along the way

  • The grooming of others as support - whilst some were complicit in what was happening, others found their names/connections used to offer credibility to the lures being offered

  • The ‘acolyte’ - there is often a wingman/wingwoman enabling the groomer, someone who knows but rather than speaking up, continues to offer suppoort to the offender

The following are victims’ public testimonies. We are not trawling through document after document and ‘outing’ victims. We. choose to believe them - they have corroborated each others’ stories. We need to listen to them, believe them. Whilst to develop a court case, there obviously needs to be evidence, there is enough here to believe the victims

Whilst many people still suggest ‘ innocent until proved guilty’ of many of the people involved, the sheer volume of evidence, even before some files were made public, backs up the victims’ recollections.

Releasing the files has been a process that indications suggest will take until 2027 to complete, pointing clearly to that fact that we must believe these women. It’s the fight that victims of grooming face - being believed, and groomers being excused on a regular basis.

Initially the whole Epstein/Maxwell case was predictated on the grooming of children, but Epstein and Maxwell groomed adults as well. Many of the women above would be over the age of consent in UK law, and many were in their early 20s when ‘recruited’ into their pyramid of abuse.

Their fight for justice is for all of us.

Epstein and Maxwell: The hidden in plain sight trafficking ring

Epstein/Maxwell Survivor Teresa Helm

Sarah Ransome talks to CBS Sunday Morning about her Epstein/Maxwell ordeal. (Her book, Silenced no More, is recommended reading

Carolyn Andriano gives her testimony against Maxwell

Victims describe the deprvity of Epstein and Maxwell on Good Morning Britain

Epstein victim Haley Robson sends a clear message to Trump

Epstein survivors, including Jenna Lisa Jones, speak out on Capitol Hill to demand justice and accountability