Well I’ll be. Missed this in the deluge, as you do (slow, retrospective meticulosity). Sarah Ransome is the very intriguing & vocal South African Ghislaine/Epstein survivor (trafficked, raped, abused, threatened) who will be familiar to those acquainted with the saga (she appears in Netflix’s Filthy Rich, attended Maxwell’s trial, & has contributed to many news broadcasts on the subject as well as shouldering solidarity with the Epstein/Ghislaine survivors’ sisterhood).
I had no idea that she had authored an entire book, so when I stumbled upon it, I immediately acquired a copy.
I was anticipating a standard read for the Epstein horror, further corroboration of the obvious – & hopefully – a few more morsels of titbits & intel on the whole ghastly engine & it’s staff to file away.
Having destroyed the book in two-days-flat (it was difficult to desist reading), I can attest that it dramatically exceeded my expectations.
Firstly, & in separation from Ghislaine & Jeffrey’s malign pall, Ransome cuts a very interesting figure. Her life is quite fascinating, & her intensely exposed & bold account, which neither recoils nor diminishes the tragic & traumatic events (which includes a shocking & violent rape by an adult when she was just eleven-years-old) is a powerful, brave & engrossing affair. What’s more, Sarah seems determined to learn & evolve from her experiences, as well as share them for the purpose of a greater understanding & awareness on the difficulties & tribulations she (& others) has experienced. Her writing is extremely self exploratory, with her frequently comparing, debating & resolving these issues & phenomena against parallel theory & expertise on the travails & personal complexities she has faced.
It’s very compelling & informative reading & her writing method is also excellent.
Her life is also quite extraordinary, with her dealing with severe family dysfunction & richly conflicting themes & conditions of “class” (she is the heir to a British (or was that Scottish?) Baron, but struggles against episodes of acute immiseration & poverty).
Her wildly varying globe trotting & survival measures entails her residing in South Africa, remote & rural Scotland, France, New York, London, & Spain. Her angle again on class is further elaborated by her being raised in part within apartheid South Africa (Ransome was very clearly opposed & fiercely critical to this system of racism).
In short, it’s a very gripping read, & could easily be read purely as a life memoir, independent of the Jeffrey & Maxwell freak show.
It’s in her very early twenties, when Sarah decides to flee to New York that she falls into Maxstein’s snare. Athletic (Ransome was a highly accomplished competitive swimmer), fashion conscious & with an elegant face, she began modelling.
Sarah eventually ends up being “recruited” (that’s tricked/fooled) by one of Epstein’s female “scouts”(as we now know well, Maxstein would compel girls he abused to “recruit” other victims to be sexually assaulted & trafficked, with rewards of money, scholarships, housing etc etc) called Natalya Malyshev (possibly a pseudonym).
& here is where Sarah’s story really comes into a dimension of its own, alongside that of Virginia Giuffre (now, tragically deceased). Sarah is tricked/trafficked onto “Little St. Jeff’s” island.
Here she is “held” with a group of other girls & mercilessly raped by Epstein.
She gives an extraordinary & highly detailed document into the inner workings of “Pedo Island”. Along with Maxstein, there is also the mysterious Jean-Luc Brunel, & an assortment of Maxstein’s “lieutenants”, Sarah Kellen, Nadia, Lesley Groff, & Jennifer Kalin (another elusive female “lieutenant” of Epstein’s – Nicole Junkerman – is absent from the Ransome experience).
this is, totally essential reading to the Maxwell-Trump-Epstein-Wexner kompromat operation, & the monumentally brazen “broad daylight” cover up that Donald J. Trump is trying to effectuate right in front of the world’s face.
“I just wish her well, frankly.” – Donald Trump on a detained Ghislaine Maxwell
“Has she said anything about me?” – “Is she going to talk? Will she roll on anybody?” – Donald Trump on a detained Ghislaine Maxwell
Ghislaine & Jeffrey were a pivotal appendage & core of Donald’s world & life.
the sick bastard probably had his fill of sexual favours from Ghislaine, & she, along with Jeffrey, sold & trafficked to him his current wife Melania, even providing the venue for their first ever sexual intercourse consummation (onboard The Lolita Express), as well as other women & probably children, as the fiend has a penchant for that, including his own daughter Ivanka.
The three sordid sexual offenders where a criminal triune, & where so enmeshed in each others lives & sexual habits that they might as well have been conjoined.
JOINT ENTERPRISE.
Now, Trump is trying to do everything within his power to free, abet, coddle & protect the legendary sexual abuser & convicted child sex trafficker.
He knows she has irrefutable evidence/footage of his sick, criminal misdeeds.
Clearly they are with another powerful (more than likely foreign) blackmailing actor that will release them should Maxwell die like Jeffrey or Jean-Luc whilst incarcerated.
They, colluding with Maxwell, will release parts of the blackmail if she is not “rescued” by the criminal rapist president.
Maxwell, a convicted child sex offender, blackmailer, Mossad agent, sex trafficker, & callous serial sexual abuser & rapist now “exonerates” Trump – from prison – of any/all impropriety/criminal conduct during his highly intimate & deeply embedded decades “cavorting” with two of “the most notorious rapists/sex traffickers in modern history”.
This desperate act of fantastical folly & corrupt conniving only compounds the reprobates guilt & turpitude.
Watch his appalling criminal vassals such as FBI Director Kash Patel scuttle to cover the heaving decay & filth, only to make it all the more obvious & even more inculpating.
One thing that Ransome makes very clear, is that Ghislaine Maxwell was as powerful – if not not even more so – than Jeffrey Epstein. She was his peer. She also, like most of the other survivors, feels strongly that Maxwell was even worse than Epstein. This is particularly poignant as Sarah was raped repeatedly & brutally by Epstein.
Trump is a rapist. Trump is a paedophile. Trump is a sex trafficker & trafficked children (Trump Modelling Agency, abruptly dissolved when he became president, & considered the worst of the worst & “emulated” by Epstein himself with Jean-Luc Brunel). Trump has had incestuous relations with his own daughter Ivanka & quite conceivably trafficked her to others in his detestable entourage of heinous sexual predators & perverts.
Trump allowed Epstein & Maxwell around his family & young children, & he “gifted” a thirteen-old-Ivanka to his “hunting buddy” & business partner – the paedophile John Casablancas of Elite Models who also partnered to run the notorious Look Of The Year underage modelling pageants in 91 & 92 at Trump’s properties in NY with the likes of infamous, felow sexual predators Gerald Marie & Jean-Luc Brunel.
“I wish her well” … of course you do you sick partisan fuck. & he has now, harnessing completely criminal overreach resulting from his presidency, transferred her to a cushy “posh penitentiary” with “minimum security”, which will probably be followed by her backdoor release, fleeing to Israel on Donald’s new Qatari private jet & set up for the Knesset along side convicted traitor & spy Jonathan Pollard (also freed under Trump & permitted to abscond to Israel to a “heroes welcome”).
You couldn’t make this shit up, the question is, are the American public & “the world” going to swallow this sickness?
But I digress.
This is a very important book & document in the Maxrumpstein crime files, alongside the likes of Barry Levine’s indispensable – The Spider – & Craig Unger’s American Kompromat.
It also contains some rare & important photography that Sarah managed to smuggle from “Pedo Island”, including of the curious (& now dead) Jean-Luc Brunel.
Sarah Ransome, 2021, HarperOne (Harper Collins), 261-pages