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Juliette Bryant, a 20-year-old aspiring model when first introduced to Jeffrey Epstein, has spoken in the past about the horrors of the time she spent with the paedophile.
Last week, as part of the BBC documentary series House of Maxwell, Bryant (pictured above in a still from the series) detailed a sex trafficking operation she likened to a “factory”.
39-year-old Bryant is in the news again this week after giving an in-depth interview with The Daily Beast, where she spoke about being invited to a dinner with Epstein, Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker.
She says that seeing Epstein socialising with the former US president gave him “credibility” and made her trust that his offers to further her modelling career were legitimate.
For brevity, we’ll get the basics via The Independent:
She recalled that as she arrived at the restaurant, the former president stood and shook her hand, holding on to her as he began speaking to another dinner guest.
“He just kept holding onto my hand,” Ms Bryant [below] said. “It was like a dream. It was so bizarre.”
…[Bryant] said she saw Mr Clinton again the next day after being invited to show her modeling portfolio to Epstein.
She was invited to join Epstein on his private jet, the Lolita Express, as he and Clinton flew across Africa on a humanitarian tour.
She also added that Spacey was “standoffish” at the dinner while Tucker was “friendly but kept his distance”.
As we now know, a flight on the Lolita Express could mean sitting next to a number of famous faces en route to the US Virgin Islands, where Epstein owned an island the locals dubbed ‘Paedophile Island’.
In addition to that dinner, Bryant claims that Epstein and Clinton actually shared a hotel suite while in Cape Town.
The Daily Mail with more:
[Bryant says] she first met Epstein in Cape Town in September 2002 when he was touring South Africa with Clinton and that both were staying at the Cape Grace luxury hotel…
Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña denied claims that the former president shared a suite at the Cape Town hotel with Epstein, saying the president instead flew out to Johannesburg, South Africa.
With Epstein dead and Ghislaine Maxwell behind bars, Bryant says she continues to speak out to back up the accounts given by other girls, saying, “I was a witness to it. Every piece of the puzzle matters, no matter how small the piece.”
[sources:independent&dmail]
