CNN – When a cache of photos seized from Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail account and laptop was made public last week, one in particular stopped Dani Bensky in her tracks.
It was a photo of Epstein in his office — a room that held many dark memories for Bensky.
She remembered the large mahogany desk and a picture frame — though not the art that was in it. She also found herself looking for signs of a taxidermied tiger that Epstein had kept in that office.
Sharlene Rochard immediately recognized one of the rooms in another batch of photos released earlier this month, taken on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean.
At the same time that Rochard was transported back to the abuse she had suffered on Little Saint James years ago, other more seemingly trivial details stood out to her too, like a table that wasn’t in the same spot as she had remembered.
And for Jess Michaels, seeing Epstein’s infamous 50th birthday book had triggered a disturbing flashback. In it was a drawing of several women massaging various parts of Epstein’s body.
It prompted her to remember Epstein telling her in the early 1990s that there are parts of the world where a man can get massaged by three women at a time — one at his head, one at his feet, and one in the middle.
“It brought me right back to that moment when he said that to me,” Michaels said.
Looking back, she says she now understands that sexual jokes like that were all a part of Epstein’s strategy of slowly grooming her …
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