Epstein survivor says model agency put her in danger by sending her to his home

Roza Gilles told BBC Eye that MC2 Model Management sent her to two photoshoots at Epstein’s Palm Beach home in 2009, when she was 18 and had arrived in the United States from Uzbekistan about a month earlier.

She said the shoots led to a job as Epstein’s assistant and that he went on to rape her systematically.

“My agency’s job was to protect me, and they failed. In fact, they put me in danger. And for that, they should be held accountable,” Gilles told the BBC.

Gilles said MC2 and its then US president, Jeff Fuller, knew where she was going. The BBC reported that Fuller had previously said he did not know she was going to Epstein’s house or that she was being abused.

The broadcaster said Gilles showed it an expense statement suggesting Fuller booked her return flight from Palm Beach after the second shoot. The booking would not, on its own, establish that Fuller knew she had visited Epstein’s home.

Fuller now runs another agency, The Source Models. He did not respond to the BBC’s allegations, and the agency did not reply to its questions, the broadcaster said.

In 2009, Epstein was serving a jail sentence for a sex offence involving a minor, but was allowed to work outside prison under a work-release arrangement. Gilles previously described the photoshoot and subsequent abuse in an interview published by CNN in July.