Julia Molchanova on Escaping Jeffrey Epstein’s Cult-Like World (Part 1) (9/9/26)

About This Episode

Julia Molchanova, a Russian woman who met Jeffrey Epstein in New York in 2011 when she was 22, described how he drew her into what she later called a “cult”-like system of control by exploiting her ambitions and vulnerabilities. Epstein initially promised to help her pursue fashion design and attend the Fashion Institute of Technology, paid for classes and helped her move to New York, but the promised career never materialized. Instead, Molchanova said he sexually abused her, pressured her to be