Former mannequin recollects being abused at Jeffrey Epstein’s non-public island

Lisa Phillips had large goals of turning into a high mannequin when she encountered Jeffrey Epstein.

The quilt woman, who stated she was abused by the late convicted intercourse offender on his non-public island, is talking out candidly in a brand new podcast, “From Now On.” It goals to lift consciousness of human trafficking and the way it can impression anybody.

“It took me a few years to get up to now,” Phillips, now a mannequin scout and agent in Los Angeles, informed Fox Information Digital. “I struggled with the confusion of what occurred to me years in the past.”

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Lisa Phillips is talking out about assembly Jeffrey Epstein. She claimed the late financier sexually abused her on his non-public island. (Brett Erickson)

“However as quickly as I began talking to different survivors, I began realizing that my story from so a few years in the past was the identical as these – each the underage women from Florida and the older women that have been 18-25,” she shared.

Phillips started modeling when she was 16 years previous. By 19, she was already heading to trend capitals, like London and Paris, making her mark. At age 21, she discovered herself in New York Metropolis, the place she had booked a photograph shoot within the British West Indies. 

It was there {that a} fellow mannequin informed her about an island close by – Little Saint James.

“We had an additional day,” Phillips recalled. “She stated, ‘Let’s get out of right here. Let’s do one thing. I’ve a buddy, a extremely good buddy. He’s superb. He owns an island shut by. Let’s see him. He stated he would ship us a ship, and we might hang around over there.'”

Lisa Phillips is seen right here heading to Little Saint James. (Courtesy of Lisa Phillips)

The ladies boarded a ship and headed to the island. Once they arrived, there have been different ladies already there swimming in a pool and “having fun with themselves.” 

At first, every part appeared “high-quality,” stated Phillips. That they had “an exquisite dinner” earlier than Epstein approached them and launched himself.

Lisa Phillips detailed her story within the podcast “From Now On.” (Courtesy of Lisa Phillips)

“He was very charming,” she recalled. “He was that kind of man who simply locked into you and made you’re feeling very particular, very protected and so keen on who you have been as an individual. I by no means had that spotlight from a person, not even from my father, expressing that a lot curiosity in every part that I used to be speaking about, what I used to be doing, what my aspirations and targets have been.”

“I all the time keep in mind that he made me really feel actually particular… That’s what he did for everyone.”

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Jeffrey Epstein’s former residence on the island of Little Saint James within the U.S. Virgin Islands. (Emily Michot / Getty Pictures)

Nevertheless, issues took a flip “fairly rapidly,” she claimed.

That very same evening, a lady casually approached her, saying that Epstein wished a therapeutic massage. A confused Phillips stated she didn’t know give one. The lady nonchalantly informed her to “simply chill.” After assuring her, Phillips adopted the girl’s lead. She felt protected along with her.

Phillips claimed that the therapeutic massage was Epstein sexually assaulting her within the room. 

“That was the duvet I shot the day I went to the island,” Lisa Phillips informed Fox Information Digital. (Courtesy of Lisa Phillips)

“It wasn’t a straight, ‘Let me pull you right into a room and abuse you,’” stated Phillips. “He eases into issues, like, ‘It’s only a therapeutic massage, proper?’ The woman went together with it and introduced me into the room to do that therapeutic massage with him. It was a gradual factor that escalated into abuse. The entire course of was very complicated to me.”

Lisa Phillips stated she returned to New York Metropolis feeling very confused and “full of disgrace.” (Courtesy of Lisa Phillips)

“I used to be on an island,” she stated. “I wasn’t in a home the place I might say, ‘Excuse me, I would like to depart,’ and seize my stuff. I used to be far-off from residence on an island I ought to by no means have been on.”

Phillips later realized that a number of ladies, like her, alleged that they have been assaulted by Epstein underneath the guise of a therapeutic massage.

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Lisa Phillips stated issues took a flip rapidly on the day she met Jeffrey Epstein. (Neil Rasmus/Patrick McMullan through Getty Pictures)

She returned to New York Metropolis full of disgrace.

“After that, my life spiraled,” Phillips admitted. “I began doing medication and consuming… I felt like I used to be tarnished, or one thing was incorrect with me that I didn’t rise up for myself… And everyone appeared as much as Jeffrey on the time. 

“Throughout these years, he wasn’t a playboy who frolicked within the scene. Folks talked about him extremely. Once I would deliver up his title to folks, they might say, ‘We love Jeffrey. He did this for me. He bought me a visa. He launched me to my husband. He put me via faculty.’ It was all the time these large issues that he did for folks. That was complicated for me.”

Lisa Phillips has a podcast, “From Now On,” which goals to coach listeners on sexual abuse and human trafficking. (Brett Erickson)

Phillips additionally identified that the incident occurred within the early 2000s, lengthy earlier than the #MeToo motion the place victims of sexual abuse got here ahead publicly with their accounts. At the moment, she stated, “You’d by no means converse out about any person like that with that sort of energy.”

Phillips stated she “suppressed” the disgrace and confusion she felt as Epstein portrayed himself as a mentor wanting to assist.

“No one talked in regards to the creepy massages and what was taking place,” she stated. “It was all hush-hush… He was influential, and he was manipulative. He groomed you to consider that he was your mentor.”

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Jeffrey Epstein seems in {a photograph} taken for the New York State Division of Felony Justice Providers intercourse offender registry on March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters on July 10, 2019. (New York State Division of Felony Justice Providers/Handout through REUTERS)

In 2006, Epstein was arrested over allegations that he had employed teenage women to present him sexualized massages at his Florida residence. 

Two years later, prosecutors allowed Epstein to plead responsible to a cost involving a single sufferer. He served 13 months in a jail work-release program then quietly began rebuilding his community of influential pals, with the assistance of his socialite former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.

After a sequence of Miami Herald tales in regards to the plea discount that disadvantaged Epstein’s victims of justice, federal prosecutors in New York revived the investigation and charged Epstein in 2019 with intercourse trafficking.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre holds a photograph of herself at age 16, when she says Palm Seaside multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein started abusing her sexually. (Emily Michot/Miami Herald/Tribune Information Service through Getty Pictures)

Epstein reportedly created and maintained a “huge community” and operation from 2002 “as much as and together with” at the least 2005 that enabled him to “sexually exploit and abuse dozens of underage women” along with paying victims to recruit different women.

Prosecutors stated that victims can be escorted to a room with a therapeutic massage desk the place they might carry out massages on Epstein.

On the time of Epstein’s arrest, prosecutors stated they discovered a trove of images of nude and seminude younger ladies and women at his $77 million Manhattan mansion. Additionally they say extra victims have come ahead for the reason that arrest. He pleaded not responsible.

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Jeffrey Epstein is seen right here with Ghislaine Maxwell, who’s now serving her sentence at a low-security federal jail in Tallahassee, Florida. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan through Getty Pictures)

On Aug. 10 of that yr, Epstein was discovered useless behind bars. He was 66. The reason for dying was suicide. 

When Epstein killed himself in jail, prosecutors charged Maxwell with facilitating his illicit sexual encounters and collaborating in a number of the abuse. The 62-year-old was convicted and is serving a 20-year jail time period.

Phillips stated that whereas she hated her abuser, she cried after studying of his dying.

Lisa Phillips admitted she cried after listening to of Jeffrey Epstein’s dying, one thing that confused her. (Brett Erickson)

“I didn’t know why,” she defined. “He was a foul man, however I had good ideas about him too… I simply had this emotional breakdown of confusion. But when he was nonetheless alive, I in all probability would’ve had method an excessive amount of worry to talk out. I in all probability would have by no means spoken out. However… I used to be keen to lastly discuss what occurred to me. I wanted solutions.”

Phillips went on to testify in a 2022 civil case involving one other Epstein accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, USA In the present day reported. She additionally filed as a Jane Doe underneath the Grownup Survivors Act, citing abuse by an Epstein affiliate. In keeping with the outlet, she obtained a settlement in a case involving JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Epstein accusers.

“The ache is within the numbers,” she defined. “You may undergo some kind of abuse and cope with it by yourself… however if you begin listening to about different ladies who had the identical experiences with Jeffrey and others, it does one thing to your psyche,” she stated. 

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David Boies, representing a number of of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims, middle, arrives with Annie Farmer, second proper, and Virginia Giuffre at federal courtroom in New York on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. Epstein, a convicted pedophile, killed himself in jail earlier that month whereas awaiting trial on prices of conspiracy and trafficking minors for intercourse. (Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)

“… And after I began talking to the opposite survivors, that’s the place I felt validation… That’s after I felt protected to speak about my expertise with out folks shaming me. I wasn’t alone.”

In the present day, Phillips hopes her podcast will present a platform for different victims who’re therapeutic, like her.

“I need folks to know that there’s a spot the place you possibly can come and be heard,” she stated. “I additionally wish to educate folks on advocate for themselves, and look out for purple flags whilst you’re constructing your profession. As a result of this could occur in any sort of enterprise.”

Lisa Phillips desires her podcast to be a “protected area” for different victims of abuse to share their tales with out worry. (Brett Erickson)

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“I really feel totally different as we speak than I did yesterday,” she mirrored. “It’s getting higher. However I’m prepared to start out talking out. And I’m prepared to assist others converse out, too.”