A former model accused of being a co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein was asked during a deposition by attorneys for one of the sex offender’s accusers whether she was aware that the billionaire had transported minor girls from Turkey, according to newly unsealed court documents.
During the 2010 deposition, lawyers for Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s victims, questioned former model Adriana Ross about the alleged sex-trafficking ring of the sex-offender billionaire.
Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008. He took his own life in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
Ross was asked whether she was aware that Epstein and his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, had obtained and purchased passports for the then-15-year-old Giuffre “to transport her to Palm Beach, New York City, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, San Francisco, St. Louis, as well as Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa.”
Following this question, a lawyer asked Ross whether she was aware that “Epstein transported other minor girls from Turkey, the Czech Republic, Asia, and other countries.”
Ross refused to answer the questions, which included inquiries about whether former President Bill Clinton’s national security advisor had tipped off Epstein about a federal raid.
The exchange is found in the unsealed court documents that followed a cover sheet introducing Ross’s 2010 deposition, on page 34, though many pages of that deposition were not included in the documents or were out of sequence.
Ross, who is from Poland, has been accused of assisting Epstein in his sex trafficking. She was never charged with a crime but was named as an unindicted “possible co-conspirator” in Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement when he pleaded guilty to solicitation in Florida.
The court documents were released Friday as part of a civil lawsuit Giuffre filed in 2015 against longtime Epstein associate Maxwell.
A US District Court judge released hundreds of documents from the lawsuit this week.
In 2021 a woman born in Turkey filed a lawsuit accusing Epstein and Maxwell of raping her in front of her eight-year-old son and trafficking her for sex with other men. The lawsuit claims the incidents took place in 2008 in Florida.
" The woman, identified as Jane Doe, arrived in the state of Florida from Turkey in 2001. The woman comes from a devout Muslim family" pic.twitter.com/yBMKPuOZvs
— İmdat Oner (@im_oner) January 10, 2024
Some Turkish media outlets that reported on Ross’s deposition falsely attributed it to another alleged Epstein co-conspirator, Nadia Marcinko, while some pro-government media outlets embellished the story with conspiracy theories, including alleged trafficking of minors from Turkey after a major 1999 earthquake in the country that killed thousands.
Some outlets even used a photo of then-President Clinton holding a baby during his visit in the aftermath of the earthquake.
Jet Pilotu itiraf etti : Deprem sonrasında Türkiye'den kız çocuklarını ABD'ye kaçıdıkhttps://t.co/U64LAaOSLC
— ABC Gazetesi (@abcgazete) January 10, 2024
