Overview
- Juliette Bryant, a Cape Town woman who alleges Jeffrey Epstein trafficked her, posted a video Monday offering to testify under oath and urging Melania Trump and President Trump to testify as well.
- Her message answered Melania Trump’s prepared White House statement denying any relationship with Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell and rejecting claims that Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump.
- A group of 13 Epstein survivors publicly criticized Melania Trump’s remarks as a deflection of responsibility, and Bryant joined those pushing for direct accountability.
- The Justice Department in January released more than 3 million pages of “Epstein files” that include images, court records, and emails, with one thread referencing Melania in correspondence with Maxwell.
- Bryant has detailed meeting Epstein in 2002 in Cape Town, being flown to New York and then his private island where she says she was trafficked for years, and she later received compensation through the Epstein Victims’ Compensation Program in 2020 and a separate JPMorgan settlement in 2023.