JEFFREY Epstein lured some of his victims into his orbit by making them audition as models, newly-released videos suggest.
Footage shows young women and girls who appear to be strutting down a makeshift catwalk and twirling in front of the camera – in varying states of undress – for the monster.
Buried in the latest tranche of three million documents released by the US Justice Department, the evidence backs the theory that the sex offender posed as a Victoria’s Secret talent scout to coax his victims.
It also exposes the global extent of Epstein’s sex trafficking web – and his tactics.
The videos are filmed in various locations across the world, indicating that Epstein trafficked his victims from multiple countries.
In one of them, a woman is heard speaking Russian to a man who is filming her in the back seat of a car.
Other videos show victims posing in front of famous artworks.
In one clip, a woman is seen in front of “Morning in a Pine Forest,” the 1889 renowned Russian oil painting housed in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
In another, a woman is being ordered by a man with an Australian accent to try and “look a little happier” for the photograph.
Another depicts a victim dancing to a rendition of Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black, wearing black stockings and tinsel.
Other clips show young women posing for the camera topless, just in their underwear.
All faces and identifying features have been redacted before the release of the files, so the age of the women is unclear.
Some of their voices are also muted to conceal their identities.
Epstein has long faced allegations that he targeted women and girls by posing as a modelling scout.
He did this to Alicia Arden, a model who he assaulted in Santa Monica in 1997.
Her attorney, Gloria Allred, described their encounter last year, saying that Epstein posed as a representative of Victoria’s Secret and said that he was “interviewing and auditioning models” to appear in the company’s catalogue.
Arden told The New York Times in 2019, before the financier’s death, that he had invited her to audition.
When she arrived, Epstein tried to undress her and said he wanted to “manhandle” her.
The victim fled in tears and reported the incident to the police the following day and again a week later.
Her testimony remains one of the earliest known police records of an allegation of sexual misconduct against Epstein.
Other bombshell revelations from the documents show that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaked trade envoy reports to Epstein.
The disgraced royal passed on an email containing at least four assessments in 2010 when acting as a UK global trade envoy.
The files have also reignited explosive claims that the paedophile secretly worked as a foreign intelligence asset.
Messages reportedly include references to Israel’s spy agency Mossad and secret surveillance equipment allegedly installed across Epstein’s homes.
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