Afrasianet - Mariam Bah - A mile from the Manhattan prison where sex convict Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in 2019, a modest gallery in the Tribeca neighborhood (at 101 Reed Street) has been transformed into a physical archive of cases related to the scandal-plagued financier.
There, more than 3.5 million pages of law enforcement documents published by the U.S. Department of Justice were printed, then whipped and stacked in 3,437 volumes that covered the walls of the room from floor to ceiling.
The exhibition, called the Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, was organized by the Basic Facts Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on transparency and anti-corruption.
The room is an attempt to highlight Epstein's many cases that never went to trial, after he was arrested on charges of human trafficking for sexual purposes in July 2019 before hanging himself in his cell a month later, denying victims the opportunity for judicial redress.
A city of paper and silence burdened with memory
The shelves hold documents released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, along with timelines, letters written by visitors, and a memorial space dedicated to the victims. Since opening two weeks ago, the fair has attracted a steady stream of visitors, especially survivors of the network.
Among them was Lara Bloom McGee, who was just 17 when Epstein assaulted her, who visited the room last week and said, "I found something in the Trump-Epstein Room that hurt humanity, proof that our lives were valuable enough to be collected, documented and finally seen." She described entering the room as "a city of papers" that shocked her as a physical slap, but what stuck in her memory the most was the silence.
The silence was heavy with memory. Row after row, each volume here represents a life, a name, and a day that should have happened if the U.S. government had acted when the FBI reported it in 1996
The sheer size of the archive is intentional, as organisers say the physical nature of the documents forces visitors to confront both the scale of the crimes and the number of lives they have taken, after thousands of victims have been identified, including prominent survivor Virginia Joffrey, who died by suicide in April 2025.
Privacy breach
One of the exhibit's co-founders, David Garrett, says the project is centered around victims, survivors and accountability, describing it as part of an effort to create "temporary museums on the ground" to generate public pressure to confront corruption and institutional failures, with the goal of stoking outrage to pressure Congress and the Justice Department.
But the process of compiling the archive itself was chaotic: Garrett reveals that the organizers uploaded the files from the Justice Department in March, believing they had obtained documents that withheld sensitive information, only to discover after printing that the names of many survivors remained exposed, while the names of witnesses and accomplices were hidden.
Garrett angrily adds, "It seems that the Justice Department has modified the search feature instead of actually blocking names. They brazenly violated the law."
Finding a venue for the exhibition was another battle, as several venues retreated for fear of controversy or reprisals, with the Tribeca exhibition becoming the fifth venue the organizers are knocking on.
Still, advocates were quick to embrace the project, and the gallery recently turned into a 24-hour file reading site in a live broadcast led by survivor Danny Pinsky, in which she read excerpts from the white folders to ensure that the documents were never buried in silence again.
Showing up doesn't mean justice
Throughout the place, visitors leave flowers and notes overflowing with grief.
Garrett recalls a woman who spent hours wandering around in silence before revealing to organisers that she was a survivor of sexual assault, saying the archive helped her feel like she had become "visible".
For Bloom McGee, this feeling carries both relief and frustration: "For years we have been told to shut up and accept compromises, and to see our facts in a public archive seemed like a long-awaited acknowledgment of our pain, but documentation alone is not justice."
"These files give hope because the record is undeniable, but at the same time they draw a map of systematic failure; appearing without consequences prolongs the wound, and we need a government that moves and prosecutes so that 'to finally see' turns into 'finally being safe.'"
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In the same vein, a personal assistant to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein testified that she was "violently raped" by him and that he even abused her via Skype while serving a prison sentence for sex crimes.
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Sarah Killeen — who was known as Epstein's "lieutenant" and named as a potential accomplice in his generous 2007 federal plea not to prosecute him — has now revealed that she has in fact been a victim of "trapped inside Jeffrey Epstein's world" for more than 20 years.
Killeen, now 46, told the U.S. House Oversight Committee last month, according to a recently published transcript: "He lured me, physically and psychologically abused me, controlled me, manipulated me, dominated me, and psychologically deceived me until I could no longer distinguish between my thoughts and his thoughts."
"For me, it was like living in a permanent VR headset," she continued.
Killian, who stated that she was raised as a "Jehovah's Witnesses," where women are "asked to submit to and obey men," testified that she first undressed in front of Epstein when he tricked her into thinking she was being considered for a promising job opportunity as a lingerie model.
"I had just put on my bra and underwear, and it made sense since it was a Victoria's Secret audition, and I remember doing a little spin, I turned around so he could see my body," she recalled.
Killian noted that she eventually began working, initially unpaid, as an assistant to Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell, who was "mean and disrespectful" but was equally afraid of that terrifying child molester.
"I was witnessing how she was crying Ghislaine, who I thought was the strongest and coolest woman I ever met," she said.
"Epstein, after months of unpaid work, ordered me to prepare a bathtub for him on his [private] island, and then ordered me to take off my clothes and go in with him. He said: "The job is yours."
"It was only after Jeffrey was sure that I was going to be sexually abused that he started paying me," she said of her start as his assistant in 2001, noting that she was "only paid $25,000 a year for non-stop, 24/7 work, for months on end without days off," adding that Maxwell called her "their slave and followed."
"I understood the calculation accurately: I was paid, in part, to be raped," she told the committee.
The abuse continued for years, including on Epstein's infamous private jet known as the Lolita Express and his private island, Little St. James. "This was not a vacation destination, it was complete isolation," Killeen explained.
Killin reported a particularly disturbing assault at a gym in Palm Beach, where "Epstein turned up the music too loud for anyone to hear, strangled me and violently raped me."
Shockingly, she stated that Epstein's abuse continued even as he served his 18-month sentence in 2008 for inciting a minor to prostitution.
Commenting on the call, which came "without warning" while Epstein was in a room with "plain white walls," she said, "He spoke to me via Skype from a computer inside the Palm Beach County Jail and ordered me to undress in front of him on camera."
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She noted that the child molester — who was allowed to serve most of his sentence in an office — "received special treatment while behind bars."
Epstein "eliminated any source of independence" she had, Killin said, acting like a dictator: "He forced me to cut my hair, my hair color... He was very, very demanding, and he had no sense of reality about what it took to get things done," she said, noting that her years with him left her suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
"As a result of years of abuse, constant sleep deprivation, and the coercive control imposed by Jeffrey and Ghislaine, mental health conditions have hindered my ability to identify my own feelings, distinguish between reality and reality that Jeffrey manipulated, and paralyze my will to make decisions or demonstrate that will when it mattered most."
This shocking testimony was the first time Killeen said she had been sexually assaulted.
Previously, she was called "lieutenant" and was said to have "acted as a coordinator of his agenda and recruiter/recruiter for girls," according to a 2010 file later released by the Justice Department.
Jeffrey Epstein was a wealthy and prominent American financier who became a convicted sex trafficker and assault of underage girls. He established a vast network of relationships with influential figures in politics, business, and society. He died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on serious federal charges, leaving behind a series of ongoing scandals and investigations, and sparking a wave of conspiracy theories about his death, which was classified as a "suicide."
Shocking allegations of horrific crimes on Epstein's ranch: raping men, strangling women to death, kidnapping children!
A shocking documentary has revealed shocking and shocking allegations of men being raped and women strangled to death in violent sex toys at the Zorro farm owned by the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Attention has now turned to the billionaire convicted of child sex crimes farm in New Mexico, which has been described as a "kid industry" farm, after several survivors and witnesses made chilling claims.
The allegations include moral corruption on an "industrial scale", cold-blooded murder, and even a "human farm" where his partner Ghislaine Maxwell was kidnapping newborns from their mothers' arms.
In a series of shocking interviews on Australia's "60 Minutes", participants painted a picture of a desert castle where even men were subjected to vile sexual assaults, while the FBI allegedly ignored reports of bodies buried in the dirt.
In the explosive new documentary, "survivor" Chaunta Davies — who was trafficked by Epstein via his holdings in the Caribbean, New York, Paris and Saint-Tropez — said Zorro's farm was the scariest of all time.
"I spent a lot of time in my room like a rat in a trap, waiting for a knock on the door and someone saying, 'Jeffrey is ready to massage him now.'"When asked what that meant, Davies replied: "Rape, full-fledged rape, forced rape."
There is an allegation that has never been made before, that several men were drugged and raped on the farm. Democratic Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury, who is now leading the effort to bring justice to survivors, told the documentary: "There is a man who actually claims to have met
Jeffrey Epstein and was taken to the farm where he was drugged, and he describes in detail a scene in which several young men were raped on the farm in front of him after he was drugged."
But corruption went far beyond that, with the two most serious allegations coming in a leaked email from an employee, in which he referred to the deaths of two women on the farm.
The complaint, which was sent to the FBI in 2019 but ignored for years, said the two were strangled by Epstein and Maxwell during "violent sexual practice."
Previously, The Sun revealed how a former police officer told the FBI that Epstein had built a "suspicious" barn that he feared was hiding a crematorium on his secluded farm.
The investigation intensified after the U.S. Department of Justice released more than three million documents under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Davis, who was recruited by Maxwell, is deeply haunted by Zorro's memories, saying that no matter how loudly she screamed, no one would have heard you: "Zorro's farm was probably the most eccentric, huge and quiet, literally in a completely secluded place, miles and miles of mountains and dirt."
Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, is a British heiress and social figure, best known for her role as a close partner and former mistress of Jeffrey Epstein. She was convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking and conspiracy to pay and recruit minors to sexually assault Epstein.
She was sentenced to 20 years in prison, and is considered the key to understanding Epstein's criminal network. The Trump administration moved her this summer to a comfortable, low-security prison in Texas without offering a public explanation for the move.
