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Campbell. I was so over-joyed with excitement, what girl my age with a background like mine was attending socialite parties and globetrotting the world. It only made it harder for me to see beyond the elusive walls I had put up to protect myself from the appalling truth. We left in early April first going to London, Paris and then our final destination being St. Tropez in Southern France. If Hallmark had a postcard, St. Tropez would definitely be on the front of it. It was beautiful spring weather and every where you looked women were dressed in bikini tops branded with some kind of designer label embedded into it and the men were following them around like harping dogs in heat. In all of the elegance of the Mediterranean, “La Bastide De St. Tropez” was an impressive landmark. Jeffrey and Ghislane were staying in one of the private cottages, on the park on the grounds, while Emmy and I stayed in separate quarters inside the hotel. The old style cobblestone streets were lined with boutique shops and beauty parlors. It was the hedonistic stomping grounds of the beyond rich and famous. The next day we went out to lunch at the grand opening of the infamous Nikki Beach Club, where a cheap glass of champagne costs around two hundred dollars and if your not keeping the alcohol consumption flowing like water, you’d be asked to leave to make way for the constant flow of prospectus patrons. That’s where I first got to meet Naomi Campbell. She was wearing the typical attire strutting around southern France, a D&G bikini top and a wrap around mini skirt to go over the swimsuits bikini. She was so tall and stunningly beautiful. Her charisma was energetic, funny, and everyone seemed to hang off of her every word and laugh at her every joke. Ghislane and Jeffrey kissed her cheeks and wished her a happy birthday, and then I was introduced and followed in their suit. She was surrounded by a league of assistants, friends and fans, which didn’t make it easy for us to all converse but she got enough time in to invite us abroad a yacht of a fellow she was “kind of seeing” at the time for the before party ahead of tonight’s event. We went back to the hotel and I gave Jeffrey a massage in his room before we all headed down to the pool to soak in some of the year’s first sun’s rays. I loved wearing my new ball gown and feeling like a princess. It was absolutely sensational and made me feel as if I floated in the dress. I swept up my long hair in a twisted clip, only letting down a few curly strands and layered on the mascara. Receiving many compliments throughout the evening when we eventually left the Yacht to make our appearance at the main birthday bash, I couldn’t help but feel excitement for the party to come it was the first celebrity birthday bash I had ever been to. Being introduced to model after model and the rich men that followed them around became dizzying. Jeffrey sat back and watched as I buoyantly worked the dance floor, coming back to the table where he 65 |! Copyright Protected Material CONFIDENTIAL GIUFFRE004 198 was, only to grab another glass of champagne every now and then. Every so often he’d introduce to me to someone new, pulling me aside to show off his eager young masseuse to his fellow pedo’s. These people had so much money pouring out of them. I don’t know why he even thought they’d care in the first place. It made me feel good though. At least I knew I made him proud to have me in his company. Being surrounded by so many of Jeffrey’s colleagues and his likeminded people that were considered the most sophisticated and the highly esteemed of today’s world nearly made the way I was living lately more fathomable, at least to myself. 1 thought if everyone looks up to these people and they are all accepting of it, it must be just the way the world turns. I danced with a young prince that night and with all of the help from the bubbly champagne [ couldn’t remember his name for the life of me. On one of my trips back to the table for another glass, Jeffrey leaned over to quietly whisper in my ear that it was a prince that I had actually been dancing with and | didn’t phase me in the least way. | went back to the dance floor and continued to let my hair down. [t was a fun bash, the entire crowd sang “Happy Birthday” to Naomi and by the time we got back in the car to retreat for the night, I was giddy from the drinking and dancing all evening. We had a guest in the car, and apparently we had already been introduced, but I couldn’t even remember his name in the first five minutes of our meeting again. He was the hotel owner of some large chain in America called “Hilton”. Staying at one of the cottages near Jeffrey, he saw it quaint to loan me out for a night’s massage to ruin an “almost” perfect evening. Jeffrey told me to come back to his room after I was finished with Rick, thankfully he reminded me of his name but also odd | thought, being so late 1 would’ve never imagined Jeffrey could stay up this late but | never made a fuss out of his requests. I gave him affirmation of my understood instructions and headed off with this stranger into the darkness. I dimmed the bright lights in his bedroom to a softer tone as if it might aid the vision of this short, balding man with straggling remnants of curly brown hair left to show for the remaining bits of youth left in him. | had to ask him to undress and lay on top of the towel that I had picked up from the neatly folded pile at the end of his bed and spread it over the duvet. I didn’t want to waste a second in his place, getting right to the very reason I was even there. Turning around while he was getting undressed, being our first time together, I wanted to give him the impression I was actually a therapist and not a finale to the end of the nights entertainment. Not exactly what he had in mind though, given that my impression was already made for me when Jeffrey arranged for our meeting in the first place. His chuckle to my response was condescending as he came up behind me and unzipped my dress which floated to the 66 (1 Copyright Protected Material CONFIDENTIAL HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021177 GIULE REGO 199