More than two decades after her encounters with Jeffrey Epstein, survivor Juliette Bryant says the fear she lived under left her feeling trapped by what she calls “invisible chains,” a psychological control that lasted long after she left.
Bryant, a Cape Town student and aspiring model, says she met Epstein in 2002 at age 20, believing he could help her career and support her struggling family. In an interview with Sky News, she said the abuse began shortly after she boarded a private jet to New York and continued after she was taken to his private Caribbean island, where she says her passport was held and escape felt impossible.
She alleges she was repeatedly sexually abused over two years and encountered other young women in Epstein’s circle. Bryant says she refused an offer to recruit girls for him and secretly took photos that later confirmed her presence at his properties.
Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a minor and died in jail in 2019 while awaiting federal sex trafficking trial.
Bryant says speaking publicly now is part of her healing process, though constant media coverage of Epstein still triggers distress, underscoring how the psychological impact has outlasted the events themselves.
