Daily Mail, Wednesday, August 28, 2019 Page
QQQterday as, in an extraordinary
legal move, a federal judge encour-
aged them to say now what they
would have said back then. Pros-
ecutors have dropped the charges
against Epstein now he is dead.
Sixteen women stood up in court
and another seven had state-
ments read by their lawyers. Some
gave their names but others used
the pseudonym ‘Jane Doe’.
Many accused Epstein of steal-
ing their childhood. Anouska de
Georgiou, a British actress and
singer, said: ‘Jeffrey Epstein
manipulated me, corrupted me
and sexually assaulted me.’
Courtney Wild, one of the first to
raise the alarm, said Epstein had
‘robbed’ them of the chance to
confront him in court. She said: ‘I
feel very angry and sad. Justice has
never been served in this case.’
Sarah Ransome described her-self as ‘a victim of Jeffrey Epstein
and Ghislaine Maxwell’s interna-
tional sex trafficking ring’.
She said: ‘Please, please finish
what you started. For a long time
Jeffrey Epstein gamed the system
at every level.’
Annie Farmer, who claims she
was sexually assaulted by Epstein
and Maxwell at his New Mexico
ranch at 16, called for a ‘reckoning’
against the co-conspirators.
‘We all know he did not act
alone,’ she said, adding that it was
‘extremely important’ that ‘peo-
ple who were a part of what he did
are held accountable’.
As the courtroom drama played
out in New York yesterday, Andrew
was 3,600 miles away playing a
round of golf at an exclusive resort
in Sotogrande, southern Spain,
where he is on a break with his ex-
wife the Duchess of York.Day in court:
Attorneys Sigrid
McCawley (1) and
David Boies (4) with
accusers Sarah
Ransome (2),
Virginia Roberts ()
and Annie Farmer
(5) in New York
yesterday.
Inset: EpsteinPicture: JAMES KEIVOM2
3
4
5
British victim’s
nightmare that
lasted 7 years
A BRITISH actress yesterday spoke for the
first time of her abuse at the hands of Epstein
over more than seven years.
Anouska de Georgiou, who went to school
with the Duchess of Cambridge, said she met
Epstein when she was ‘young and full of the
foolishness of a teenager’.
He went on to abuse her for more than
seven years. ‘He could not begin to fathom
what he took from us,’ she said. ‘Jeffrey
Epstein manipulated me, corrupted me and
sexually assaulted me.’
She said the abuse ‘lasted several years’
and that it ‘affected my ability to form and
maintain healthy relationships, both in work
and my personal life’.
Miss de Georgiou, 42, said it was ‘tragic’
when anyone died, but added: ‘I am extremely
relieved Jeffrey Epstein will not be in a posi-
tion to hurt any more children or women’.
The actress, who starred in the 2004
remake of Alfie, studied at Marlborough Col-
lege at the same time as Kate Middleton.
She turned down the chance to read law at
‘I was sexually assaulted’: Anouska de Georgiou Oxford to concentrate on modelling.