BBC Investigation: Uzbek Model Roza Says She Was Sent to Epstein's Palm Beach Home at 18 and Abused for Three Years
A BBC investigation has disclosed the account of a model from Uzbekistan, identified only as Roza, who says that at 18 she was sent by her modelling agency to the Palm Beach, Florida, home of financier Jeffrey Epstein and was then abused repeatedly over three years. The investigation is presented in the BBC Eye documentary The Model Trap: Exposing Jeffrey Epstein's Network, scheduled to air on BBC Two on November 16. Roza had previously testified publicly for the first time at a field hearing held in West Palm Beach by Democratic members of the US House Oversight Committee.
According to Roza's account to the BBC, she met French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel in 2008, at 18, and he promised her a modelling career. She came to the United States in 2009; a month into the work she had little employment and was falling into debt, and the US branch of MC2 Model Management twice sent her to Epstein's Palm Beach residence for photoshoots. At the time Epstein was serving a Florida sentence for sex offences involving a minor and was allowed out during the day to work. She says that after the shoots she was taken on as Epstein's assistant, that the abuse began within about a week of starting the job, and that she was raped repeatedly over the following three years. Brunel was later accused by multiple women of trafficking and exploitation and died in a Paris prison in 2022.
The BBC investigation also found that at least ten models from MC2 met or corresponded with Epstein after his conviction, and an expense document showed that Jeff Fuller, then president of MC2's US branch, had booked Roza's return flight to Palm Beach. Fuller had previously said he did not know Roza was going to Epstein's home; he did not respond to the BBC's latest questions. MC2's US branch was dissolved a month after Epstein's second arrest in 2019. Epstein died in a New York jail in August 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Roza's account above is her testimony as given to the BBC and to the congressional hearing.
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(Source: BBC)
Source: BBC
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Photo: 图：美国佛罗里达州棕榈滩沃思大道（资料图），爱泼斯坦在棕榈滩的住所即位于该镇。照片：Andyxox 摄，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Florida (file photo); Epstein's residence was in the town of Palm Beach. Photo by Andyxox, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
