Epstein survivor Juliette Bryant says she was trafficked to South Africa and quickly realized “it’s not a modeling opportunity, I’ve been kidnapped”

Juliette Bryant says she met for the first time Jeffrey Epstein when she was 20 she was a psychology and philosophy student in Cape Town, South Africa, who modeled occasionally.

His first interaction with the late American wrestler was by chance, when he was approached by a girl on his night out asking to introduce him to a man she described as American royalty.

“He said he knew a man who was here who was ‘the King of America,’ and he was here with Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker. He told me that his best friend Leslie Wexner is the owner of Victoria’s Secret and it would be a great idea for me to meet them because it would help my modeling career,” Bryant told CBS News on Sunday. “So we went to a restaurant where they were having dinner down the street. And sure enough, there they were. Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, Jeffrey Epstein, and several government officials from South Africa.”

Bryant does not accuse Clinton, Spacey or Tucker of any wrongdoing, and said his interaction with the men at the table was brief, lasting only five minutes.

But the next day he got a call from the girl who made the introduction, telling him that Epstein would like to see his modeling portfolio.

“Epstein said he thought I would be successful at Victoria’s Secret, and they left that day, but his office started calling me and arranged for my visa and tickets and everything,” Bryant told CBS News. “You know I didn’t have any money or anything but they said don’t worry they will take all my expenses out of the money I was earning.”

Bryant, who is of South African descent, said he was surprised at how quickly Epstein was able to plan his trip to the United States.

“They arranged for me to get a visa to come to America. It was like a tourist visa … and they arranged these visas very quickly, which is unusual in South Africa. It’s usually very difficult to get a visa here. And basically within three weeks, I was in America,” he said.

Many emails in the category of Documents related to Epstein released by the Department of Justice and reviewed by CBS News appears to show a pattern of Epstein helping or getting legal advice on how to secure visas for young women to come to the US, including from Eastern Europe.

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Earlier this month, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that the Polish government will create an analysis team to examine whether Polish children were abused by criminal networks linked to Epstein. Tusk also said that “connections between Epstein and the entire circle of people who abuse children and the Russian special services will be investigated.”

Bryant said that when he first arrived in New York, he was told that he would be heading to the Caribbean, to Epstein’s private island.

“I thought it was for modeling purposes,” she said. “We went to the Teterboro airport and they were waiting for the plane there, and you know, nothing was ever checked at any of these airports. They didn’t check our passports, our luggage, nothing.”

Bryant said his passport was taken from him while on board, and he was sexually assaulted.

“As the plane takes off, he [Epstein] he started to forcefully touch me between my legs, I was shocked. I realized this is not a modeling opportunity, I was kidnapped,” Bryant told CBS News. “They took me to an island and I got stuck there. They never planned any modeling opportunities, I was completely tied down. “

Bryant said that for the next few years of his life, he was trafficked by Epstein. His account of his first encounter with Epstein coincides with the time when Epstein loaned his plane to former President Bill Clinton as part of a Clinton Foundation trip to Africa.

Bryant was eventually compensated as part of both Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program in 2020 and different stay with JP Morgan Chase in 2023.

Civil aviation logs reviewed by CBS News show that Clinton went on a nine-day trip to Africa with actors Spacey and Tucker, on Epstein’s private jet, in September 2002, visiting Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa.

KFF Health News reported at the time that Clinton, Tucker and Spacey were on a Clinton Foundation trip “to promote efforts to combat HIV/AIDS and economic development.”

In a sworn statement to the House Oversight Committee in January, Clinton said Epstein promised to use his private jet for himself, his staff and his Secret Service credentials to support the Clinton Foundation’s philanthropic work between 2002 and 2003.

Clinton denied ever visiting Epstein’s private island in the US Virgin Islands, where many of the late financier’s crimes took place, and insisted she had no contact with the convicted man for more than a decade before his 2019 arrest.