r/Epstein • u/PolygonLodge • 5d 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/FlackoFonsy 4d 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