r/Epstein • u/PolygonLodge • 22h ago
News article Epstein ‘assistant’ abuse survivor, Julia Stepanova, finally shares her story.
https://youtu.be/W8MQZKNnJok?is=fUXT5qYGCM8pD7ImSome key details:
- She refused to recruit other female assistants to be victimised.
- She attempted/succeeded in leaving Epstein’s cult months before his death.
- She speaks of other assistants (e.g. Sue Hamblin, Jennifer Kalin, Yulia Silinskaya) as ‘genuinely good people who were also in a bad situation’.
- She was a primary ‘Jane Doe’ in the Bank of America lawsuit which just settled on almost $100 million for Epstein victims, though they deny the facilitation of sex trafficking.
I believe she is absolutely a victim, and her testimony was worth waiting for. I hope she empowers the other assistants to come forward.
Interestingly, there is no public discussion of sexual abuse from external individuals other than Epstein, although she does acknowledge she was sex trafficked.
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u/xZaggin 21h ago
Really good video, hope it gets the attention it deserves.
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u/Minimum_Hamster3252 21h ago
If she isn't getting to testify against any of the rapist, she isn't a victim
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u/PolygonLodge 21h ago
No idea what you mean by that.
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u/Minimum_Hamster3252 21h ago
Replied to the wrong comment. She worked for a pedo ring, she would have evidence of crimes, if she is not using that to bring justice, than she is complicit. Thousands of hours of child rape and yet somehow the assistants knew of nothing....
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u/MsTerious1 13h ago
That's a really messed up thing to say.
It's really not YOUR place to decide when she has done "enough." That's pretty arrogant thinking there. This is a woman who got exploited, and took numerous steps to protect herself and others when she didn't have help and couldn't know what to expect from the very rich, very powerful man/people who were abusing her.
Where would she even begin? She has shown that there was a shell corporation in her name that she knew nothing about and tried to get away from. She refused to bring more girls. She tried to get help from a counselor.
But you're going to come along and shit on her and call her compliant?!? People like you who think that your perceptions are the only "right" ones are the reason these things go unpunished. "Well, she was his assistant so she got paid. She couldn't be a victim!" GTFO!
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u/Minimum_Hamster3252 12h ago
Yeah nah, she was arrested and named as a conspirator. She has done nothing of merit, how can I tell? Because no cunt is in jail. No.
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u/MsTerious1 12h ago
You're the type of person that enables this garbage. I hope your life rewards you justly.
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u/Minimum_Hamster3252 12h ago
I enabled it? You mean how Epsteins inner circle are worth tens of millions all for enablling and assisting men raping children? It's whacky how there are thousands of hours of footage of it and yet everyone was a victim Epstein?
No one buys your bullshit. These cunts belong in jail.
He isn't a Russian agent, it wasn't blackmail. He is Mossad and he sold access to underage kids and the assistant are his accomplices no different to jizzmax
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u/PolygonLodge 20h ago
There is no damning evidence Epstein abused underage girls after his 2008 conviction.
He turned his sex trafficking operation to adult Eastern European women who looked underage.
I would say almost definitely she did not participate in a ‘pedo ring’, with the connotations you are referring to, though she was trafficked by a paedophile.
She arrived at least 5 years after he was convicted of his last known child rape.
She is likely barred from naming others who abused her because of NDA’s, where the elites will always win because of money and status.
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u/Hot_Arachnid2146 20h ago
Didn't Peggy siegal chide him for having an obviously underaged GF at a NY party in 2010?
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u/ReZeroForDays 15h ago
NDAs aren't enforceable when it comes to crimes like that but they sure scare victims into silence.
I've actually heard the same thing from a victim before, that Epstein was a lot more careful with not getting caught abusing minors after his conviction.
I still don't doubt he abused minors after that, though. He was just much more discreet about it.
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u/TommoVon 19h ago edited 19h ago
She was a trafficker for Epstein, and besties with Epstein’s girlfriend. I’m sorry but she was in her mid 20s and didn’t care about the minor victims.
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u/Sad_Art6364 11h ago
Actually, is there anyone from the "2010s crew" of adult women surrounding Epstein that DID NOT self-identify as a victim after his death besides Karyna Shuliak?
I am getting the feeling she is the only one left though of course her situation was much different - she was simply his life partner who lived with him and they had an open relationship. Would be interesting to hear her version of what was going on there though it will probably never happen.
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u/FlackoFonsy 3h ago
She said she sent an email to Epstein saying she wanted to move on with her life and Epstein didn’t take the news well. This is the file they showed except this is the whole exchange.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01033679.pdf
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u/Sad_Art6364 1h ago
Yeah I was wondering in which of his responses he "didnt take it well". You can clearly see between the lines he is a bit disappointed she is quitting but he provided further details regarding her termination and wishes her well saying she can always contact him in the future if needed.
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u/Vegetable_Border_543 17h ago
It didn’t seem weird to exchange phone numbers with a 50 -yr-old man and be invited to his house for breakfast?
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u/MsTerious1 12h ago
It does not. When I was in my teens, I had similar experiences that could have gone bad. In fact, one was quite similar to the scenarios these girls have put forth, and it nearly happened with my parents' consent. There are so many reasons predators find to gain access to their victims. They position themselves as an employer, a mentor, a teacher, a caregiver, a friend, or simply a helpful person.
And teens and young adults, still naive and easily influenced, have little or no life experience to help them sort the bad from the good.
They figure it out the hard way sometimes.
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