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Peggy Siegal was not a peripheral figure in Jeffrey Epstein's world.

For four decades she was the most coveted publicity power broker in film. Studio heads called her when they needed Oscars buzz. She hosted exclusive screenings and dinners that mixed Hollywood with New York's cultural elite. Her rolodex had more than 30,000 names, organized by industry, importance, number of houses owned, and whether they were voting members of the Academy. She worked for Steven Spielberg, Harvey Weinstein, Barry Levinson. She was the woman who decided who got into the room and who didn't.

She was also, according to more than 5,000 emails now released by the Department of Justice, in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein from 2009 until three months before his final arrest in 2019. A decade longer than she had previously admitted.

The emails show Epstein paying for her trips to Cannes, Kenya, and various film festivals. He gave her $100,000 for her 70th birthday. His team tracked down her unpaid invoices without her asking. He brought in his lawyers to fight a three-year inheritance dispute with her brother. In return, she secured his invitation to the Met Gala, added him to exclusive dinner lists, and quietly brought him to events when she thought hosts might object to his presence.

In 2011, Epstein asked her to find him a "baby mama" with "great genes."
She did not decline. She did not express concern. She sat down and wrote out a detailed profile of the ideal candidate.

The profile describes someone young, without much of a career. A professional student. Someone without much family. Someone who could be kept. A European, she specified, who would understand the arrangement.

She signed it "xoxo Peg" and told him she was looking.

This is not the behavior of someone who believed Epstein had changed his ways, as she later claimed. This is the behavior of someone who understood exactly what kind of man he was and what kind of woman he was looking for.

When the New York Times exposed her connection to Epstein in 2019, Netflix, FX, and Annapurna Pictures cut ties immediately. She sold her apartment. She says she has been completely destroyed by the association.

In a recent interview with New York Magazine, she said of the victims: "At the end of the day, I have felt so victimized myself that I have neglected to say that the real victims were the girls."

In a follow up text, she noted that if her lawyers were as good as some of the victims', she wouldn't be so vulnerable.

Sources: DOJ Epstein Files / New York Magazine, March 2026

This email exchange shows up in the DOJ's January 30, 2026 document dump released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. It's dated December 3, 2015. The recipient's name is redacted, but the context points to a young woman in Epstein's circle who wanted to get into modeling.

When this email was sent, Gigi Hadid was 20 and Bella was 19. They'd already broken out as stars through IMG Models and built huge social media audiences. The recipient saw what they'd accomplished and couldn't figure out how they made it, thinking they came out of nowhere.

Epstein's first reply was vague. Then he made crude s*xual allegations about what the sisters supposedly did to reach success in modeling. When the woman wrote back "If they can, why couldn't I?", Epstein answered: "Because they follow directions, it's that simple."

Outlets including Thought Catalog, Yahoo, and The Tab have confirmed the email is real. It's in official DOJ records you can find at justice.gov.

Nothing in the Epstein files, victim statements, or any investigation links Gigi or Bella Hadid to Jeffrey Epstein in any capacity. There's no evidence they ever met him, spoke to him, or had anything to do with his crimes. This is the only time their names appear in the entire release. They've publicly said they had no connection to him.

What this email actually shows is how Epstein manipulated people. He used the same pattern with young women who wanted modeling careers: tear down successful women in their field, treat s*xual exploitation like a normal part of the business, present himself as the gatekeeper with all the access, and frame s*xual compliance as just the cost of making it.

The recipient clearly had no idea about the Hadids' real story. Yolanda Hadid modeled professionally in the Netherlands and across Europe during the 1980s and 90s with agency contracts and editorial credits. She went on to star in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills from 2012-2016, which gave the family serious visibility in LA just as her daughters were taking off. Mohamed Hadid is a wealthy Palestinian-American real estate developer known for building high-end homes in Los Angeles. The family had financial resources, industry ties, and the usual advantages in modeling.

Both sisters joined IMG Models around 2013-2014. Gigi's career blew up in 2014-2015 with campaigns for Guess and Tommy Hilfiger, major runway shows for Chanel and Versace, and huge Instagram traction at the perfect moment. Bella came up right behind her. By the time this email went out in late 2015, they were already walking top shows and landing magazine covers.

The modeling world does have real, documented problems with s*xual exploitation and transactional power dynamics. Epstein absolutely went after models using his ties to Victoria's Secret CEO Les Wexner. But this email doesn't prove a thing about the Hadid sisters. It proves how Epstein turned industry rumors and women's insecurities into grooming tools.

For Epstein, women could only succeed by s*xually submitting to men with power. He reduced two young women's real careers to vulgar gossip so he could convince the person reading his message that s*xual submission was her only option, too.

The email's blowing up right now because it captures his grooming process as it happened: separate the target from reality, tear down her self-worth, make exploitation seem standard, then position yourself as the answer.

https://www.narcissisticabuserehab.com/juliette-bryant-on-jeffrey-epsteins-factory-of-s*x-crimes/

Juliette Bryant on Jeffrey Epstein's 'Factory' of S*x Crimes Former model Juliette Bryant describes the psychological terror she allegedly suffered in Jeffrey Epstein's 'factory' of s*x crimes.

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Susana Trimarco disguised herself as a madam and walked into brothels across northern Argentina, searching for her missing daughter among women trapped in s*xual slavery -- and in the process, she sparked a movement that would free over 3,000 s*x trafficking victims. It began in April 2002, when her 23-year-old daughter, María de los Ángeles Verón, left for a doctor's appointment in their city of San Miguel de Tucumán and never returned home. Frustrated by a police investigation she believed was deliberately sabotaged by corruption, Trimarco obtained the names of known pimps and s*x traffickers from police files and launched her own search.

She posed as a buyer interested in purchasing the captive women and girls -- some as young as 14, who could be traded for about $800. One r**e victim told her she had seen María drugged, with swollen eyes, in a trafficker's home that doubled as a holding place for newly abducted women. But by the time Trimarco could follow the lead, her daughter had been moved. Though María was never found, Trimarco's relentless pursuit transformed her into one of Argentina's most powerful human rights activists and forced s*x trafficking onto the national agenda. "The desperation of a mother blinds you," she says. "It makes you fearless."

Through this dangerous work, Trimarco discovered the full scope of s*x trafficking and the corruption within the police and judiciary that kept women trapped in forced prostitution. "The police would hand [the trafficked women] back to the criminals," she recalls. "They used to say: 'Don't leave me. Take me with you.'" Trimarco ended up becoming the personal guardian to 129 survivors of s*x trafficking, sheltering them in her home and helping them reunite with their families.

Trimarco's relentless advocacy forced change at the highest levels. Her work helped lead to the first law, passed in 2008, making human trafficking a federal crime; the subsequent reforms have led to thousands of people being rescued from s*x traffickers. These successes, however, have come with a high personal cost to Trimarco: she has suffered many reprisals over the years including countless death threats, having her house set on fire, and several attempts to run her over in the street.

As more trafficking survivors and families of trafficking victims reached out to her for help, Trimarco says, "It came to a point where I just did not have the capacity to help them all. That is when I decided to open a foundation." In 2007, she founded Fundación María de los Ángeles, a non-governmental organization focused on helping people escape from trafficking and lobbying for legislation to prevent it. Her efforts focused on her daughter's disappearance eventually resulted in trials for 13 people, including several police officers, in 2012; all 13 were acquitted, a ruling that prompted outrage by many and led to impeachment proceedings against three judges.

In December 2013, the Tucumán Supreme Court reversed the acquittals and convicted ten of the defendants, who received sentences ranging from 10 to 22 years in April 2014. But despite it all, Trimarco still hasn't found out what she wants to know most: what happened to her daughter. Some witnesses say she was murdered -- although her body has never been found -- and others say she was taken overseas.

Twenty-three years later, Trimarco's work continues in her daughter's name and for all survivors. Her foundation remains at the forefront of the country's fight against human trafficking, recently helping to dismantle trafficking rings in 2024 and 2025. In recent years, the foundation has expanded its role as a legal plaintiff in trafficking cases, ensuring survivors have representation throughout the judicial process. Now in her seventies, Trimarco remains internationally recognized for her work, though her search for answers about María's fate has never ceased. "Every woman I help somehow helps María," she reflects. "They represent hope in this new life of mine."

To learn more about her foundation, Maria de los Fundación María de los Ángeles, visit https://fundacionmariadelosangeles.net/

For a gripping memoir by a victim of the Epstein s*x trafficking ring, we highly recommend "Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice," visit https://bookshop.org/a/8011/9780593493120 (Bookshop) and https://amzn.to/4nZbSAZ (Amazon)

For an eye-opening book about an American teen girl who becomes trapped in the underworld of human trafficking, we highly recommend "The Life I'm In" for ages 14 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/the-life-i-m-in

For a moving memoir by a woman dedicated to ending the trafficking of girls in the U.S. as the founder of Girls Are Not For Sale, who herself is a survivor, check out “Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale” at https://www.amightygirl.com/girls-like-us-for-sale

For an excellent though challenging novel about one Nepalese girl's experience being trafficked into prostitution, we recommend "Sold" for readers 14 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/sold

For a powerful book for teen readers about how girls and women are fighting against child marriage, s*x trafficking, and gender discrimination around the world, we highly recommend "Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time," for ages 13 and up, visit https://www.amightygirl.com/girl-rising-book

For two inspiring books for young readers filled with practical advice on how to make change on issues they care about, we recommend "Start Now! You Can Make a Difference!" for ages 7 to 11 (https://www.amightygirl.com/start-now) and "It's Your World! Get Informed, Get Inspired, & Get Going!" for ages 10 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/it-s-your-world)

Okay, I just couldn’t resist the temptation to rant some more about the Epstein files and all that they represent. And the simple summary is this: r**e and s*xual exploitation are not some fluke of the system, they are the essence of patriarchy itself, the necessary rewards for an ideology designed to get men to brutalize each other and be willing to get brutalized, with control of women as the reward, and domination over other groups, like people of color and immigrants. And that requires a strict separation of s*x roles, with men being men and women being women, and woe to the man who exhibits any womanly traits, like empathy or nurturing. And double woe to q***r and nonbinary folks. Here’s the full rant—or at least, this week’s portion!
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