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One victim of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was afraid to talk to police about him because she’d overheard him threaten others, according to court documents.

The victim — who was around “16 or 17” years old when she first met Epstein — was asked about her 2005 statement to Palm Beach police, in which she admitted she didn’t feel safe speaking about the twisted financier because she had overheard him tell others things like, “You’re going to die; you’re going to break your legs.”

The threats came to light in a 2016 deposition the woman gave in a defamation lawsuit filed by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell.

The document is one of 191 court filings made public this week in the long settled case.

A lawyer, citing the then-teen’s statement to cops, said she confirmed Epstein was known to make threats — but the victim said she couldn’t recall specifics, because she was intentionally trying to put the traumatic experience behind her.

“I do remember hostile conversations where he was upset with people, and I assumed that it was business and none of my business,” said the victim, who was not publicly named in the document.

A schoolmate swayed her to go to Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion to give him massages, and when she got there, “all of a sudden, something horrible happened to me,” she said, records showed.


  A victim of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein said her abuser “wasn’t always friendly” toward others. SDNY / SplashNews.com A victim of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein said her abuser “wasn’t always friendly” toward others. SDNY / SplashNews.com

In other documents released Friday, another alleged victim, Sarah Ransome, fretted to one of the billionaire’s supposed recruiters about a recent fight she had with Epstein. 

“Had a bit of a fight with Jeffrey. Oh well what can you do?!” she emailed a woman named Natalie, most likely Natalya Malyshev, who introduced a 22-year-old Ransome to Epstein the year before.

The anxious note came as Ransome begged Epstein and his staff for help with applying to the Fashion Institute of Technology while she was traveling in South Africa, according to the emails. 


  The Epstein victim recalled the disgraced billionaire would have “hostile conversations” with others. SDNY The Epstein victim recalled the disgraced billionaire would have “hostile conversations” with others. SDNY

“Please can you ask Jeffery what the plan of action is as l cant [sic] apply on line and need to apply asap otherwise I definitely wont be able to study,” she emailed Epstein’s executive assistant, Laura Groff.

Ransome has previously claimed that Epstein promised he would use his influence to get her admitted to FIT, but according to the messages, the billionaire bizarrely pressed her to lose weight in order to attend the New York City school.

“Could you…please tell Jeffery to phone me on the number I gave ASAP as l am not prepared to go under 56kg [123 lbs] in order to study at FIT,” she wrote to Groff. 


  The document is one of 191 court filings made public this week in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Gregory P. Mango The document is one of 191 court filings made public this week in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Gregory P. Mango

Meanwhile, in an unsealed excerpt from a 2016 deposition, a Palm Beach detective described the “trash pulls” performed by law enforcement which ultimately helped authorities identify victims’ of Epstein and Maxwell’s abuses.  

Palm Beach detective Joseph Recarey said when sifting through Epstein’s trash, he and other officers unearthed message slips listing girls’ names and numbers.

“We would do our best to identify who that person was,” said Recarey, who died in 2018, adding the slips ultimately helped them identify a number of Epstein’s victims.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence for recruiting and grooming underage girls for the child sex abuser. 

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