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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document674 Filed 06/24/22 Page 15 of 29 Sarah Ransome — Vietin Impact Statement for Ghislaine Maxwell It bas been a long journey to bring Maxwell to justice for the homific crimes inflicted on me and hundreds of other girls and young women. Sadly, the accurate count of victims will never be known. My book Silenced No More chronicles my “journey to hell and back". Although I have - physically escaped the trap set by Epstein, Maxwell ond their minions, [ continue, now 17 years ister, to suffer from the horrific trauma it caused. I was born into a dysfunctional family. My parents divorced when I was three-and-a-half years old. My mother, with whom I lived during most of my youth, was a chronic alccholic, and my fiuber was largely absent after the diverce, My vulnerability and brokenness made mo a prime I came to New York when I was 22 years old, wanting to start my life over after an incredibly ebusive relationship, and hoping to attend FIT and work in the fashion industry. Those dreams Soon after arriving, ! met an Epstein/Maxwell recruiter named Natalya Malyshev ina club. She befitended me and, soon after that, arranged for me to meet “Jeffery”. She described him as a kind philanthropist who could help me get into FIT and provide much-needed support, something which was alien to me. Over the next seven to eight months, I became, against my will, nothing more than 9 sex toy with 4 heartbeat and soul used to entertain of Epstein, Maxwell aed ethers. Sometimes I was subjected to his sexual predation multiple times per day, both in his New York mansion and on his private istand St. Lite James in the U.S. Virgin Islands, aided by Maxwell and others. On one visit to the island, the sexual demands, degradation and humiliation caused me to try to escape by jumping off a cliff into shark-infested waters; 1 was caught by Maxwell and company moments Rod ae dng nt tat cxtmemely risky scope seemed more appeatng tan being one more As the evidence at the Maxwell trial proved, and my own experience confirms, Maxwell was his righthand woman, She was the Five Star General of several recruiters and many othera who provided the means and cover for Epstein’s predation. Epstein and Maxwell were masters ot finding young, vulnerable girls and young women to exploit. Upon targeting a vulnerable gir/young woman, they would ingratiate themselves to hes, iradiceniteretleen chara rts sega a le were lcep tics to i: e, ee a A Ste CEES es SNL Ese Sly mga ore iets rams reality or However, coon after tulling me and others into a false sense of comfort and security, they pounced, ensnaring us in their upside-down, twisted wortd of rape, rape and more rape. Like Hotel Colifomia, you could blindly check into the Epstein-Maxwell dungeon of sexual hell, but you could never leave. Jeffery and Ghislaine made sure of that, a DOJ-OGR-00010677