Julia Molchanova on Escaping Jeffrey Epstein’s Cult-Like World (Part 1) (9/9/26)

0:00What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. When it comes to survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, there have been many that have come forward. But the vast majority of women who were abused by Jeffrey Epstein still have not told their story. And a lot of these women come from places like Eastern Europe. And it's very difficult for them to come forward and talk about what happened to them. And of course, that's due to societal pressure and also going against very powerful people in a place like, oh, I don't know Latvia or Estonia or Russia is probably not the best idea. So when we talk about the girls with no names, we're talking about these girls from Eastern Europe and everywhere else in between. And in this episode, we're going to be hearing from this woman named Julia Malkanova, who

1:03was 22 years old when she first met Epstein and who is now telling her story for the first time. So today we have an article from the Wall Street Journal and the headline. How one woman was caught in Epstein's cult and escaped. This article was authored by Kadeja Safdar. Early in 2019, Julia Malkanova opened a credit monitoring app on her phone. It showed credit cards and spending that she didn't recognize. She had spent years as one of the young women Jeffrey Epstein called his assistance. A cover of Malkanova said he used to hide his sexual abuse. She started to suspect that Epstein was also using accounts set up in her name for his own purposes and decided to challenge him for the first time. And that all tracks too, because once Jeffrey Epstein was in control of their immigration status, then he was in control of everything they had going on. And don't think for a second that's not a factor.

2:06I don't think people understand how lucky we are to live in the United States. Even with all the problems, with all the bullshit, with all the nonsense, and with the terrible leadership, we're still lucky as hell. And I don't say that as somebody who's never left the United States. I've been through Mexico. I've been through Central America. I've been to South America. I've been to Brazil. I've been to Faveles. And let me tell you, the vast majority of Americans have no idea how good they have it. Now that doesn't mean everything's perfect far from. But all you have to do is take a quick trip down South and you'll see real poverty. And I'm not even talking about like Tijuana. I'm talking about real poverty. Honduras, Guatemala, Peru. And then you have somebody like Jeffrey Epstein or Glenn Maxwell or Jean-Luc Brunel, show up in a place like that. And they offer you a brand new life. These girls are going to try and do whatever they can to get out of the circumstances they're

3:07in. Jeffrey Epstein knew that and he used it as a tool. I feel uncomfortable to discuss the future. Malkanova wrote to Epstein on April 4, 2019, sweat soaking into her shirt as she nervously typed the message. She told Epstein she didn't know anything about an entity that he'd set up in her name and that she wanted to have my normal life. In interviews with the Wall Street Journal, Malkanova publicly discussed her ordeal for the first time, revealing that she was the lead Jane Doe plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Bank of America. And good for her. I'm glad she's getting a bag. Anybody who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein or his associates should get paid. That's not even a discussion. I mean, that's the only ramifications that we've seen so far. And if anyone's going to benefit from it, it should be the women who were abused. And I've said from the beginning that the vast majority of this money should go to the

4:11survivors and the United States government for all the bullshit they were involved in, they should wave the taxes on any of the estate money that's being pieced off to the survivors. Because at the end of the day, they're the ones who suffered and they're the ones who should get these funds. Do you know expensive therapy is putting your life back together? Not exactly something you can do with a minimum wage job. I'm going forward to prove that women have a voice and the ability to rebuild themselves, move forward and do good things in life, said the 37-year-old who recently started a fashion brand and plans to advocate for crime victims. The lawsuit filed last year said Jane Doe was abused by Epstein for several years and held accounts at Bank of America that Epstein used to facilitate his sex trafficking. The lawsuit accused the bank of ignoring suspicious transactions. Oh, there's no doubt that they did. Every single bank he banked with, they were all up to the same bullshit.

5:14And that's why every single bank that's been involved here has ended up paying out a gigantic amount of money because they're all culpable. Just like I've told you from the very beginning, if you're looking for a boogie man here, it's the financial sector. And let me be crystal clear. I don't mean your local bank teller or the local branch manager or even like a VP or whatever. I'm talking about the movers and shakers, people like Jess daily, Mary Ardose, people like Jamie Dimon. Those are the people that are really in control of everything. Hugh controls the purse, controls the day, right? And where do you think all these people are getting money? Politicians, etc. Can you just grow on trees? Or are they going to banks to get it? Malkanova said the legal process was grueling, including sharing private medical history, but she said she feels good knowing it may have spared other victims.

6:14The man was supposed to be in jail. It was the system that failed us, she said. And if I was somebody that was abused by Epstein after the first time around, I'd be pissed. And I'd be suing the federal government. 100% because she's not wrong. They failed. Their job was to stop Jeffrey Epstein and instead they helped him out. A federal judge recently approved $72.5 million settlement with Bank of America that'll be distributed to dozens of Epstein victims. The judge said the case brought actual justice, although partial for the women. Yeah, financial justice. But what about the people that made the decision on the onboard Epstein? What about the people that ignored all of the transactions? Never any penalties for them, right? Oh, we'll pay a fine, but we'll keep it moving. Do you really think $72 million means anything to Bank of America? Brad Edwards, an attorney who represented Malkanova and other Epstein victims in the

7:16lawsuit, said she has every reason to protect her privacy and move forward quietly with her life. Instead, she chose to stand up, not only for herself, but for hundreds of women whose names the world may never know. And look, there are going to be so many women that never come forward. That's something I've told you from the very beginning. When you're talking about over a thousand women, I mean how many of them, unfortunately, have passed on. How many of them don't want anything to do with this story ever again? How many of them are still terrified? Epstein's sexual exploitation didn't end with this 2008 conviction in Florida as many of his famous associates later said they believed, but continued until a second arrest in 2019. They all knew, stop. The difference is Epstein stopped going after young girls, under age, and instead started bringing girls in under age rather wise from other countries.

8:16He just flipped the script, and that's because he had way too much exposure doing it locally. So he had to bring in girls from Eastern Europe and Central America and other far-flung places because he knew nobody cared. He knew there wasn't going to be any detective recory. He knew there wasn't going to be any big investigation into what's going on with girls from Russia. The truth is, nobody cared. And Jeffrey Epstein knew it, so that's why he started bringing these girls in, because he knew he can get away with it. After 2008, he targeted young women who were over 18 like Malkanova, but looked like teenagers, often seizing on vulnerabilities to draw them in. Facts, 100% and I told you that at the time. Like this is not new to us. We've been talking about this for how long? Jeffrey Epstein was a lot of things, but he most certainly was crafty, and he was shrewd, and when you couple all of that, with all of the money he had, the power, the protection,

9:19he was a very, very dangerous man. Malkanova described how Epstein's methods became sophisticated after he was caught in Florida getting sexual massages from teenage girls. Epstein registered in LLC in Malkanova's name, presenting the business to her as her own design company, but she said he used it for his own activities. He was a very manipulative man. She said. It was an illusion that you have something. In reality, I had nothing, and it was only beneficial for him. You know, anybody under the illusion that Jeffrey Epstein cared about anybody else besides himself is crazy. This is the most one way, dude, in the history of one way people. You know, there's a lot of people out there that only care about themselves, but Epstein took it to the next level. There was nothing this man wouldn't do if he wanted something. And there was no life he would not ruin to get there. Malkanova said she was 22 when she first met Epstein in December of 2011 on a trip to New

10:23York. She was living in Russia at the time and spoke little English. He spotted her on the street near Barney's on Madison Avenue, said something about her blue eyes and directed her to his nearby townhouse as if he was pointing out a tourist attraction. While imagine she comes from Russia has no money really, doesn't really speak English, and this dude shows up with this townhouse. She must think she hit gold, right? Oh man, Victoria's secret, big time townhouse, this guy knows the guy from MC squared, we're in business until they're not. Inside there were several people and through a young Russian woman who translated for him, Epstein invited her to breakfast the next morning. When she returned, he asked a steady stream of questions, all of them translated by the woman. What did she want? What did she dream of doing? Malkanova, a design student in Russia, told Epstein she was interested in fashion design. Epstein said she offered the helper in role at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New

11:24York City. That was the hook, she said. Back in Russia, she signed up for extra classes to learn sewing and preparation for a fit program. The money for the sewing classes came from Epstein. And this is one of his favorite moves. What do you want to do with your life? Oh, I can help you with that, and the trap is set. And unfortunately, a lot of these women got caught up. Epstein learned her to New York in January of 2012 to show her a fit and put her in an apartment he controlled where he kept many of his victims. On this trip, he sexually abused her for the first time. When she expressed her discomfort, she said he told her that the sexual openness was part of American culture and that she'd have to change to assimilate. Oh, yeah. Part of American culture for us to molest you when you come over here. What a fucking embarrassment. What a fucking black eye and the fact that our feckless ass do nothing government knew about this for years and did nothing about it is just disgusting.

12:26So people can look for foreign boogie men all they want. But until we have our yard cleaned up right here in America, how can we look over the wall and cry about the neighbor's yard? And that's why I say until we fix this problem until we address it, then nothing else even really matters, right? How can anyone take the institution seriously? How can anyone take the government seriously if they refuse to address this? What really closed the trap she said was to trip the Paris the next month. She went there with her boyfriend in the middle of an argument with her boyfriend that turned abusive, she got scared and texted Epstein who happened to be in Paris too. Epstein helped her escape her boyfriend and put her on a flight home to Russia. Alright folks, we're going to wrap up episode one right here and in the next episode we're going to pick up with it was like a cult. All the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.