In her comments she said they would reveal who was 'regularly' involved in the 'Epstein world', she doesn't qualify that it will be a list of specifically who had sex or inappropriate behavior with those who are putting names on a list.
She was in her 20's when she says Epstein abused her, she wasn't a minor, she was trying to start a modeling career in NY. And when you're trying to do that and a connected billionaire promises to do that for you, what do you think a young woman would do? If he raped her back then, she should have filed charges. Now she's starting a podcast, so all of the notoriety and fame will boost her popularity. And she returned to NY a 'completely different person', but apparently still kept in contact with Epstein.
Not exactly who I would want to be representing me if I were a victim of his as a young underage girl. And after reading the entire article, I call bullshit that she was ever 'abused', I'm guessing she was rewarded for what she gave him both in getting signed as a model and monetarily.
Phillips' story is complex. She describes Epstein as her abuser, but also her mentor. He assaulted and manipulated her, but he also championed her career. She cried when he died in 2019, even though she hated him.
Phillips started modeling when she was 16. She had worked all over the world − South Africa, Greece, Miami, Los Angeles − before moving to New York, where she set her sights on signing with a prestigious modeling agency.
That agency, she says, rejected her, telling her she wasn't ready. On a shoot in the British West Indies shortly after, a fellow model said she had a friend on an island nearby. Phillips, then 21, went with her, and it was there she met Epstein.
"He was so charming and asked me all the right questions, made me feel seen and heard, and I had never had a man talk to me that way or show that much interest in me," she says. "He made me feel very special."
Later during her stay, Phillips says a woman approached her. She nonchalantly told Phillips that Epstein wanted a massage. Unnerved, Phillips obliged − and she says the massage turned into Epstein sexually assaulting her. Multiple women have alleged they were assaulted by Epstein in a similar manner, under the guise of a massage.
“Obviously I'm on an island, and I couldn't get away," Phillips says. "And so I went through with it.” When Phillips told the woman who passed along Epstein's request what he did to her, the woman brushed it off.
Shaken, Phillips says, she returned to the photo shoot and finished that job the next day. She returned to New York "a completely different person."
For several weeks after the assault, Epstein's secretaries called Phillips relentlessly, she says, pushing her to meet with him again. She refused every time. Then, Epstein himself called.
He said he remembered her dreams of modeling and acting. He said he could make those dreams come true.
She met with him, and he delivered on his promise: He introduced her to the head of the agency that had rejected her, and they signed her that day, Phillips says.
Phillips says she continued to endure sexual abuse from Epstein for years after that. She says the assaults mostly happened in Epstein's now infamous Upper Eastside mansion. “I would always meet him in his office and spend a good hour talking to him in his office and praying to God it doesn't happen," she says. "But usually it did.”
Despite the abuse, Phillips says, Epstein became like “a mentor” to her. It wasn't until she connected with other victims years later that she began to see Epstein for who he really was.
