One of Jeffrey Epstein’s many victims says she felt safe with the rapist and Wall Street financier because one of his bosom pals was former President Bill Clinton.
South African Juliette Bryant, 39, told The Daily Beast that she met the disgraced president the same night she met Epstein.
Epstein, who supposedly committed suicide in his jail cell after his arrest, did to her what he did to all the girls recruited by the likes of Ghislaine Maxwell: he raped and abused her and held her captive. Maxwell is accused of being Epstein’s recruiter and faces federal sex-trafficking charges.
Bryant’s interview sheds more light on just what a pervert Epstein was:
Clinton Wouldn’t Let Go of Her Hand
Bryant told the Beast that an Epstein recruiter met her at a bar and offered to introduce her to Epstein and Clinton, who were dining at a nearby restaurant.
“According to Bryant, when she arrived at the restaurant, Clinton stood up to shake her hand and didn’t let go, even when he began speaking to someone else,” the Beast reported. “He just kept holding onto my hand,” Bryant told us. “It was like a dream. It was so bizarre.”
Bryant saw Clinton aboard Epstein’s sex jet, the Lolita Express, and says Clinton and Epstein even shared a hotel suite in South Africa. Credibly accused of rape himself, Clinton denies that claim and says he knew nothing about Epstein’s nefarious activities.
Clinton was famously photographed while receiving a massage from one of Epstein’s victims.
Clinton aside, Epstein’s willing disciples convinced Bryant and her mother that Epstein would change her life by turbocharging her career as a model. But it was a career as a sex slave that Epstein had in mind.
Bryant flew to New York to begin that new life, the Beast reported, and it was Clinton’s fast friendship with Epstein that convinced her she’d be safe:
But moments after she set foot on American soil, Bryant was whisked off to the money manager’s home in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he raped her repeatedly over two weeks before taking her to Palm Beach to continue to the assaults. The sexual abuse would continue at Epstein’s homes around the globe until 2004.
“I was completely conned,” Bryant said. “I wouldn’t go with some random man to the Caribbean. He seemed legitimate. Clinton gave him credibility.”
Bryant’s problem was that she was still a girl, as a practical matter, with no way to get away from what would become a nightmare.
“Epstein’s driver brought her to the Manhattan apartment, and within minutes of setting down her luggage, the room’s telephone rang” the Beast reported. An Epstein factotum was on the phone. “Pack your things,” she ordered. “You’re going to the Caribbean.”
Of course, Bryant had to comply:
She embarked on a flight out of Teterboro with passengers including Epstein and [his assistant Sarah] Kellen. When she sat down, Epstein began groping her crotch area in a sexual manner, and Kellen allegedly laughed at her.
Bryant says she immediately realized Epstein wasn’t the benefactor he professed to be but some sort of sexual predator.
“They didn’t put my name on that flight log so if I vanished, my family would think I’m in New York,” Bryant told us. “I think I’d realized by that point that I’d been conned. I realized if I didn’t do what he wanted, my days were numbered. It just completely freaked me out.”
At Epstein’s Virgin Islands lair, Bryant says she was “trapped,” without any means of contact with the outside world. “I started being called to his bedroom,” Bryant said. “He never mentioned modeling again.”
Stockholm Syndrome
Epstein abused the poor girl thrice daily, she told the Beast. He used “massage devices,” forced her to perform oral sex, and raped her repeatedly. He also forced her to watch as other girls serviced him.
Epstein threatened her by telling her he worked for the CIA, and would put her and her family on a “list.” A girl who accused him of rape landed in prison after he planted drugs in her apartment, he said. Bryant wasn’t the only girl so threatened.
She also “believes she and the other young women in Epstein’s orbit were stuck in a sort of ‘Stockholm Syndrome,’” the Beast reported:
“We’d all be sitting there and he’d call whichever one he wanted,” Bryant said. “He tried to create jealousy. It was almost Stockholm Syndrome, you start to side with your captor because you’re petrified.”
“Obviously we were raped, molested, but there’s more to it: mind control,” Bryant added.
“It was a very difficult situation to be trapped in as such a naive young girl.” …
While Epstein offered Bryant $4,000 a month to work for him, and even more money to recruit new victims, she says he never paid her a dime. Her dreams of modeling, something she’d been working toward since age 14, were dashed.
“He tried to make us feel like we were worthless,” Bryant said of Epstein. “I don’t even know how to explain it. We were so scared of him.”
“Epstein used to poke me in the stomach and say I was fat,” she added. “He was controlling in a subtle way.”
After she broke free of Epstein, he continued to contact her to help him find new victims, she said.
Federal authorities arrested Epstein in July 2019 on sex trafficking charges. A month later, he was found dead in his cell; supposedly, he hanged himself.
Almost exactly one year later, federal authorities arrested Maxwell after tracking her to a posh estate in Bradford, New Hampshire.
A recently published book says Maxwell and Clinton had an affair.
H/T: Daily Mail
