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Infamous sex offender Jeffrey Epstein used the secluded island to both wine and dime

the rich, and build a trap, where women and children as young as 12 describe rape, sexual

abuse, and trafficking.

The girls and young women went on the island with basic prisoners.

A CNN review of thousands of videos, photos, and emails in the DOJ files, written testimony

from victims and satellite imagery, paint the clearest picture yet of how Epstein transformed

this island into an elaborate crime scene.

The files show the signs of abuse captured on camera.

It was just for Jeffery's amusement.

Powerful guests publicly and repeatedly say they didn't see this abuse, but it was so

obvious and bold according to one victim that anyone spending significant time at any

of Epstein's residences would have clearly been aware of what was going on.

To do what he planned, Epstein used the island's seclusion.

This is my swimming pool.

No one's allowed to dock here.

My beach.

Helicopter or boat where the only way visitors could get to the island he purchased for

about $8 million in 1998.

In 2002, satellite images show the island Little State James was barely developed.

Just one main house here and a few small buildings on the northern tip of the roughly 70-acre

island.

Over the next two decades, you can see Epstein's building spree as he transformed it into

a luxurious vacation escape, expanding the main home to the north.

He built a larger pool, New Cabanas, upgraded rooms, a dental office for some unknown reason.

And this unusual looking building referred to in the files as a temple.

He also bought a $300,000 antique desk and statues worth about a hundred grand.

As Epstein developed his getaway, he wrote repeatedly in emails to business and government

leaders, come visit me on my island.

Even after Epstein was convicted in 2008 for sex crimes, including one involving a minor.

The visitors kept coming.

Lake LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, who explained on a podcast late last year that he briefly

went to the island while fundraising for MIT.

He was a masterful networker.

But beneath Epstein's business dealings, Virgin Island's prosecutors say Epstein coerced

girls as young as 12 into sexual activity.

One victim said she was trapped on the island.

I tried to escape Epstein and the others by trying to swim off after spending the day being

raped.

Epstein's home decor even showed signs of his crimes.

They were bunk beds.

And I said to him, oh my god, are you expecting grandchildren?

And he said, no, these are for the girls.

We spoke with architect and interior designer, Robert Couturier.

He was hired by Epstein to work on the island.

He backed out of the project after a few months and then told the FBI, this is what Epstein

instructed.

Especially for the bunk rooms, they had to be for girls.

They had to be for girls, hence pink and these sorts of things.

So there's no mistaking.

This wasn't for women.

There's no mistaking.

You don't put women on bunk beds, I'm sorry.

Unless you are in some youth hostel somewhere, but you don't have guest rooms with bunk beds

for ladies.

And inside the house, there was another little room with computers and I said, well,

what is this room?

And he said, this room is for the girls when they have fun.

And they play with their computers.

The whole house was very old because we were on the beach and the house had heavy dark

curtains everywhere.

The windows were never really open.

It felt terrible.

And he also asked me, said, I want to build a big TV room, a movie cinema underneath

the pool, and I will finish it with beds.

Everybody knew what was happening on that island, even his staff, people worked for him.

A former staffer said the main home had many pictures of young girls, some topless looking

about 15 to 16 years old.

In room after room of the island home, the files show visible signs of something off,

like Epstein and his kitchen chasing girls or young women.

And his staff noticed a former chef said every hour Epstein would take a girl down to

his master bedroom, then order his maid to clean up.

Another staffer worried about Epstein's guests.

He described seeing an unnamed man with girls who did not look 18 and they were all naked.

He also told the FBI he saw then Prince Andrew grinding against some young girl in the

pool.

UK authorities arrested Andrew last month, saying they're reviewing claims he shared sensitive

government information with Epstein.

Andrew was released and denies he did anything wrong.

Victim save visitors could have seen all this as early as a mid-2000s.

One victim described a 2007 visit by Google co-founder Sergei Brenn and then fiancé in

23-amie co-founder Ann Mojitski.

They observed that we did not speak and that we remained mute.

Sergei and Ann witnessed our souls and bodies riddled with fear.

They said nothing.

They did nothing.

A man who looks like Brenn about the same age as he was in 2007 is seen in this picture

in the DOJ files, though it is undated.

Former head of Victoria's secret, Les Wexner described his visit in a video deposition.

After Epstein's 2008 sex crimes conviction, an email shows a sultan from the United Arab

Emirates Ahmed bin Suleyam paid a visit.

The sultan separately traded lewd emails with Epstein, telling him he was going to sample

a fresh 100% female Russian at my yacht.

Letnik now trumps Commerce Secretary drop by in 2012.

He's seen here in this undated photo.

Letnik said last month, he saw nothing concerning.

We had lunch on the island.

That is true.

For an hour and we left with all of my children, with my nannies and my wife, all together,

we run family vacation.

What do you think about the people who did go to the island and say they never saw anything?

Listen, I think you can decide that you're blind.

You can decide that you only want to see what you want to see.

I think it's a decision that you make.

But the idea that a person would go to that island and not see something weird is impossible

to me.

For me, to see it, everybody else had to see it.

When you think back to how obvious it was to you, do you wonder about, you know, no one

saying anything back then?

I've been wondering for the last 16 years.

If in 2010 I knew it and we all knew it and I was interrogated, nothing happened.

And that he died in 2019, having perpetrated more crimes from 2010 to 2019.

And that we could have saved so many young women that wouldn't have had to go through

what they went through.

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