EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on charges of solicitation of prostitution in 2006, after the stepmother of a 14-year-old girl reported to police that an older man had molested her stepdaughter.1 In Florida, local, state, and federal law enforcement investigated the case for years, compiling extensive evidence from dozens of victims. But, under pressure from Epstein’s stable of prominent attorneys, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Alexander Acosta negotiated a non-prosecution agreement under which Epstein served only 13 months in jail on state charges of solicitation of prostitution and solicitation of a minor.2 Signed in 2007, the deal shielded Epstein and “any potential co-conspirators” from future federal prosecution by Acosta’s office for a set of sex crimes.

Bank records and other documents reviewed by the Committee show that Acosta’s non-prosecution agreement allowed Epstein to continue and expand his trafficking operation.

After his 2008 conviction, Epstein shifted his sex trafficking operation from its hubs around his Florida and other U.S. residences to a global network, usually targeting women in their late teens and early 20s.

These trafficking operations built on Epstein’s existing control of MC2 Model Management, which was founded in 2005, and lasted until his arrest in July 2019.

Epstein’s trafficking network consisted of modeling agents, women deputized to recruit other women, lawyers, and other Epstein staff. Together, these individuals enabled Epstein’s payment, transportation, and abuse of women from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and other areas. Epstein paid for these women’s schooling, medical bills, and other expenses in exchange for their recruitment of other women into the network, sexual photos and videos, and in some cases traveling to meet him at his homes and properties.

To facilitate the movement of these women, Epstein guided some of them through the process of arranging fraudulent marriages and acquiring U.S. visas. These visas, often obtained under false pretenses, were then exploited by Epstein and his associates as a means to keep women under their control and within the trafficking network. Epstein appears to have connected some women in this network to wealthy and powerful men.

The Committee’s findings come after a detailed review of the documents related to Jeffrey Epstein released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2025 and 2026, as well as records produced to the Committee under subpoena by various financial institutions and Epstein’s estate.5 Despite DOJ’s claims to the contrary, the Committee’s findings demonstrate the need for further law enforcement investigation of Epstein and his international network.

The Committee will continue to investigate and seek justice for the survivors of Epstein’s crimes.

1. ACOSTA’S SWEETHEART DEAL PERMITTED EPSTEIN TO DEVELOP AN INTERNATIONAL TRAFFICKING OPERATION.

From 2005 through 2007, law enforcement officials in Florida investigated Epstein’s web of alleged crimes in and around Palm Beach. Investigators amassed an 82-page prosecution memo and a 53-page indictment, which were based on evidence from 34 victims.7 However, Epstein’s attorneys spent a year negotiating a secretive and highly controversial non-prosecution agreement (NPA) with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, led at the time by Alexander Acosta.8 The NPA protected Epstein and “any potential co-conspirators” from federal prosecution under the condition that he plead guilty to state charges of soliciting prostitution and soliciting prostitution from a minor, serve an 18-month sentence in a Florida jail, and register as a sex offender.9 The NPA was signed in September 2007 and Epstein pleaded guilty to the state charges in June 2008.10 The U.S. Attorney’s Office did not share any information about the NPA with the survivors until well after it was signed.

In the end, Epstein only served 13 months of his sentence, much of that on a work release during which he continued to abuse women.12 After his release from jail, Epstein expanded his trafficking operation internationally and paid associates to recruit young women into his network, including some as young as 18.13 In many cases, the women he targeted were aspiring models or artists.14

Documents reviewed by the Committee show that Epstein paid for their education, living expenses, and travel in exchange for sexually explicit photographs, recruiting other women, and traveling to meet him for sex.

In some cases, Epstein encouraged women to recruit other women into creating sexual content for him.

Documents indicate that Daniel Amar Siad, an international modeling agent, was a key associate of Epstein. Epstein’s relationship with Siad appears to have begun around 2009, via a business agreement between Siad and Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent.17 Epstein and Brunel founded a modeling agency, MC2, together in 2005.18 By that time, Brunel had been publicly accused of sexual assault of aspiring models and of “procuring girls for wealthy men.”19 Brunel died in a French prison in 2022 while awaiting trial for the rape and trafficking of minors.20

In 2009, Siad reached a deal with Brunel to recruit models for MC2 in exchange for a flat fee of €3000 a month for six months and 5% commission on the models’ earnings.21 Brunel provided the details of this arrangement to Epstein shortly after the deal was reached.22 Throughout the 2010s, Siad recruited models for Epstein and MC2 and frequently reported back to Epstein via email on girls and women he scouted from Europe and elsewhere.23 At least one woman, an aspiring model, told French authorities that Siad had approached her about modeling opportunities in Paris in 2013 but then introduced her to Epstein as a masseuse.24 The woman stated that Epstein hired her as a masseuse and Siad later told her that she should recruit more girls for Epstein.

Epstein sent Siad thousands of dollars between 2013 and 2017 for his recruiting activities.

In 2017 and 2018, Deutsche Bank employees raised questions about the purposes of the payments and whether they were being made for legitimate, legal activity.27 Epstein’s accountant, Richard Kahn, claimed the payments were to “buy photograph” and a “loan to a business associate.”28 These documents raise questions about whether Kahn misrepresented the business relationship between Epstein and Siad to banking institutions in order to evade scrutiny of the operation.

Epstein also maintained close relationships with adult women he used as recruiters, paying for them to travel and find other women to exploit.

In one example, a French woman (Female Associate A) worked for Epstein for roughly seven years, ostensibly procuring furniture and art for his various homes.30 In reality, she appears to have spent most of her time and effort finding women for Epstein.31 According to bank records produced to the Committee, between 2013 and 2019, Female Associate A received

Epstein, totaling roughly €175,000, or $205,600 at 2026 exchange rates.

In one exchange with Epstein, Female Associate A explained that her job was to “deal with the girls” and find Epstein “new pussy.”33 In another exchange, Epstein coached her through the process of finding women to exploit, writing, tell them it’s “always a good idea to find massage girl” and coaching her to explain that they would be “getting 250 [euro] for an hour.”34 In one instance, Female Associate A asked Epstein what he wanted her to say to a woman and Epstein replied, “she should be open, and learn , there are so many giirsl that want a job she is perfect but if she behaves like achild. i will choose somenone more opeen.”35 Epstein followed up saying, “even if she is uncomfortable she wont die.”

In another example, documents indicate that an Eastern European woman worked for Epstein for several years, recruiting young women from places like London, Milan, Paris, Ukraine, and Moscow for sexual activities.37 In a similar role to Female Associate A, this woman acted as an intermediary between Epstein and other women. She helped Epstein organize visas and travel plans for the women to visit Epstein and, at Epstein’s request, even told them when to see a gynecologist.

According to Deutsche Bank records reviewed by the Committee, Epstein made eight payments to this woman between 2017 and 2019, totaling almost $40,000.

In many of the cases in which Epstein paid women to recruit others into his network, he also paid for or demanded sexually explicit photos and videos. This system mirrored Epstein’s pre-conviction crimes in Florida and New York, in which he and Maxwell encouraged, pressured, and threatened minor girls to bring their friends and classmates to Epstein’s homes, where he molested them.40 In one instance in 2018, Epstein solicited an explicit video from a woman and said it “would be better if you found a cute friend.”41 Financial records indicate that Epstein sent the woman close to $20,000 over three years.

In some cases, Epstein paid for medical treatment of women he abused. Bank records reviewed by the Committee indicate that Epstein paid various medical professionals, including doctors and dentists, likely for treatment of women in his network.43 In 2019, Epstein arranged dental care in New York City for a woman whom he had previously paid at least $26,000 to meet with other young women.44 Epstein also funded the woman’s travel to New York.45 That woman later came forward as a survivor of his sexual abuse, according to documents released by the DOJ.46 In yet another instance, Epstein offered to pay for and arrange cosmetic surgery for a woman to adjust the size of her breasts; Epstein asked her to send him topless photos so that he could forward them to a specialist.

Epstein also paid for women to travel to meet him in the U.S., France, and other locations. Documents released by the DOJ show Epstein’s associates arranging travel for women from Russia and Eastern Europe to various locations in the U.S. and Europe.48 In many cases, when traveling to New York, the women were housed in apartments controlled by Epstein in a building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.49 In London, Epstein housed multiple women in at least four apartments he rented; six of those women have come forward as victims of his abuse.

2. EPSTEIN EXPLOITED THE U.S. IMMIGRATION SYSTEM TO TRAFFIC AND CONTROL WOMEN, ARRANGING FRAUDULENT MARRIAGES AND VISAS.

The Committee’s investigation has also confirmed the broad international reach of Epstein’s post-conviction operations.

In documents produced to the Committee by Epstein’s estate, Committee investigators identified 55 international passports and identification cards belonging to young women from 16 different countries.

The documents include many images of visas granted to young women: ten to the U.S., one to the U.K, two for the Schengen Area of Europe, one to France, and one to Morocco.

Obtaining and maintaining visas was a frequent topic of conversation between Epstein and the mostly European women he interacted with, whether for them to visit Epstein or to facilitate other women visiting Epstein.

At least some passports and visas reviewed belonged to women known to be Epstein’s “assistants,” a category from which some women have come forward as survivors.

One immigration lawyer, Mehmet Arda Beskardes, worked closely with Epstein from 2013 to 2018, helping Epstein to arrange visas and other immigration documents for the women in his network.54 On one occasion, Beskardes may have facilitated an illusory marriage between Epstein’s then-girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, and one of Epstein’s victims, apparently to provide Shuliak a legal basis to continue residing in the United States. In a personal statement provided to Epstein’s estate, the survivor explained how Epstein forced her into the marriage and that she was “shocked to learn after the ceremony that Karyna’s deportation hearing was going to happen just a few days later.”56 Epstein’s accountant, Richard Kahn, also wrote a letter to immigration authorities in support of the marriage, later acknowledging that the letter was “embellished.” On another occasion, Female Associate A messaged Epstein, “I hope your friend Arda will be able to help…Cant wait to go back to the States.” According to bank records produced to the Committee, between 2014 and 2018 Epstein paid Beskardes for immigration work on 12 separate occasions, totaling almost $50,000.

Epstein’s personal attorney, Darren Indyke, and accountant, Richard Kahn, also assisted in the coordination of visas for women in other ways. In one exchange from September 2017, a woman in Epstein’s network emailed Kahn about documents he was to provide for her application to Glion, a hospitality school in Switzerland. She requested a “sponsorship letter that says that you’re willing to pay for my tuition on the terms that I’ll be working for you in the future. A full scholarship. ( a fake one obviously).”60 Kahn then forwarded the email to Epstein, asking him to “please advise” and confirm that he should “be using HBRK [one of Epstein’s entities] as a sponsor.

When asked about this exchange during his March 11, 2026, deposition before the Committee, Kahn claimed that he “would never write such a letter.”62 But in an email sent to Epstein two days after the initial exchange about the same woman, Kahn wrote that he “can do letter today,” referring to drafting “a letter from HBRK saying they will sponsor tuition and offer her job.”63 The following month, emails show Epstein’s staff arranging travel for the woman from New York to Glion.64 In November of 2017, Epstein’s assistant Lesley Groff arranged the woman’s return to New York.65 She was housed in an apartment controlled by Epstein at 301 East 66th Street, where he housed many of his victims. Between March and June of 2018, DOJ and bank records show that Epstein sent the woman thousands of dollars.

On several occasions, Indyke exchanged emails with Epstein and his associates regarding visas for women with whom Epstein appears to have been sexually involved. On one occasion, Indyke emailed with someone discussing Japanese visas for “the girls.”

In another exchange, Indyke forwarded a letter from Beskardes to a redacted individual noting that they were trying to find an interior designer to sign a letter to increase the chances that a visa would be approved by immigration authorities.68 The redacted individual forwarded this letter to an interior designer, saying “I’m trying hire someone to help me with my ‘interior design’ business who is South African,” and further explained that they were having trouble getting the woman’s visa approved.69 Several of Epstein’s “assistants” were employed by “interior design” companies registered to the women or to Epstein.70 According to Kahn, those design companies were used to acquire furniture for Epstein’s own homes.71 It appears Female Associate A used her employment for Epstein in “interior design” as a cover for her recruitment activities.

In one exchange in July 2019, Epstein discussed travel with a woman whom he had paid to recruit other women and who later came forward as a survivor of his abuse.73 The woman asked Epstein to send her “a letter of invitation” to “provide…at passport control not to be suspected,” which Epstein agreed to provide.

Epstein and his associates also used visas to control women they recruited under the guise of modeling work. The Committee has spoken with a survivor who was recruited in Central Asia by Jean-Luc Brunel. Brunel convinced her to come to the U.S. in 2009, during Epstein’s brief jail sentence under the terms of his non-prosecution agreement. After she arrived in Florida, the woman alleges that she was sexually abused by Epstein for several years.

Epstein and Brunel kept her trapped in their network with promises of modeling work, control of her visa, and exploitation of her need to support her family abroad.

3. EPSTEIN CONNECTED WOMEN IN HIS TRAFFICKING NETWORK TO PROMINENT MEN IN THE U.S. AND U.K.

The Committee’s investigation shows that Epstein introduced multiple women to prominent men in the U.S. and U.K.

In 2010, Epstein emailed Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the then-Duke of York, about a 26-year-old Russian woman, writing “I have a friend who I think you might enjoy having dinner with.” In 2012, Epstein and his associate Boris Nikolic introduced an American woman in Epstein’s network to Kimbal Musk, Elon Musk’s brother. In an email, Kimbal Musk thanked Epstein and Nikolic for the introduction and says they “both played a role” in facilitating the meeting.77 Nikolic responded that Kimbal “better be nice” to the woman, adding “Jeffrey goes crazy when someone mistreats his girls/friends.” In February of this year, Musk claimed that “Epstein did not introduce” the two.78

Musk and this woman dated for around six months.79 Anonymous sources told Business Insider in 2020 that the woman’s relationship with Musk was “genuine.”80 This woman later came forward as a survivor of Epstein’s abuse.81 She stated in documents produced to the Committee that Epstein made her “go out with other men, his friends” during the 14 years in which he abused her. She did not identify any of the men.

Epstein also connected billionaire and now-former New York Giants owner Steve Tisch to at least three women: a Ukrainian woman, a Russian woman, and a Tahitian woman. In an email to Tisch about two of the women, Epstein described the billionaire as “a new but obvio[u]sly shared interest friend” while describing one woman’s breasts and buttocks.83 Tisch responded by asking if one woman was a “pro or civilian.” In a separate email chain, Tisch asked Epstein whether the Tahitian woman was “a working girl.”

In an email to Tisch about the Ukrainian woman, Epstein wrote that “you did very well , she wants to go to the play,” but that “she is a little freaked by the age difference” and Epstein would “try to convince her not return to Ukraine.” Tisch responded “nice report.”

Epstein introduced women to others beyond these three men. In an exchange from January 2019, Epstein’s assistant Lesley Groff sent Neil Serebryany, an AI executive based in Washington, D.C.,87 the phone number for an Eastern European woman whom Epstein had paid on past occasions. By January 2019, Epstein had sent this woman almost $20,000 over three years; before his death he would send her another $20,000.89 Groff wrote to Serebryany that Epstein had asked her to send him the woman’s phone number; the purpose of the introduction was not clear.90

In May 2019, Epstein connected Harvard professor Martin Nowak with a woman in Epstein’s network. Epstein donated millions of dollars to a Harvard program led by Nowak, and the two men exchanged hundreds of messages after Epstein’s 2008 conviction.91 By the time Epstein introduced her to Nowak, Epstein had directly paid the woman almost $10,000 for her education and other expenses in exchange for explicit photographs.

After Epstein connected Nowak and the woman, she reported to Epstein that Nowak said she could “come to see him in Boston,” seemingly on a trip that Epstein funded

CONCLUSION

The NPA negotiated by Alex Acosta, with its narrow guilty plea and lenient sentence, enabled Epstein to continue his abuse and trafficking activities for almost another decade, shifting his focus to European and Central Asian women. DOJ releases and other documents produced to the Committee have revealed new details about just how widespread Epstein’s international trafficking network became after his 2008 conviction. Epstein took advantage of young women, using their immigration status, desire for education, or need for work experience to control and exploit them. The manipulation and abuse experienced by these women in multiple countries has been an underrepresented perspective in the story of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. The Committee seeks to uplift any survivors who wish to share these and other stories.

The Committee will continue to investigate the individuals and entities that enabled and participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s international trafficking operation. We are committed to ensuring that all aspects of this operation are exposed and that survivors receive justice.

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