Jeffrey Epstein victimized at least 1,000 women and children, the Justice Department says. His survivors don't want that to be forgotten.
“I am one story of a thousand," said Danielle Bensky, who said she was 17 when she met Epstein in 2004. "Think of that number: 1,000.
“We are a representation of women across America," she said at a news conference Nov. 18. "We come from different backgrounds, we have different religions, we are different races, different creeds, different ethnicities, we have different political affiliations.”
Between a federal indictment, a police investigation, civil lawsuits and public allegations, Epstein is accused of running an international sex trafficking ring that recruited more than 1,000 girls as young as 14 to have sex with him, his associate Ghislaine Maxwell and other men.
Women have said they were abused all over the world ‒ in California, Florida, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, the United Kingdom and the Virgin Islands ‒ often under the guise of providing massage services to earn extra money or getting help with their modeling careers from a well-connected man.
