Agent ‘begged Epstein to have sex with a model’
A model agent exchanged hundreds of emails with Jeffrey Epstein, promising to introduce him to ‘girls.’
American model agent Ramsey Elkholy and the paedophile financier appeared to keep in touch over email for years, including after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting sex from a child.
The messages were revealed in the latest batch of the Epstein files released by the US Department of Justice.
The pair discussed women and their bodies in a derogatory way over a slew of emails.
In one creepy exchange, dated July 2011, Elkholy, referring to a model, told Epstein: ‘Jeffrey PLEASE just try her in bed, she says she is really good.’
‘I also think it would be good to get her to know what it is like to get really f****d. She is much older than she told you,’ Elkholy wrote.
In another email from that year, the model agent described a woman as ‘desperate for cash.’
He said he has been ‘working on her’ and getting her to agree that ‘posing in lingerie is part of her job and she told me she would have no problem to do that w you.’
Elkholy went on to describe the woman as a potential ‘ongoing project.’
‘For me it’s a great experiment, taking a girl who hadn’t been w [sic] a guy until she was 23 (!) and then getting her to this point,’ Elkholy wrote.
The former agent appears to have been aware of Epstein’s liking of younger women.
In an email from 2009, Elkholy mentioned a ‘very hot blonde.’
‘I know 23 is on the old side for you,’ he said. Epstein was 56 at the time.
In a lengthy email dated 2009, Elkholy told the convicted sex offender he is a ‘solid person’ and ‘that means the world to me.’
‘Let me know when you want to see [name redacted], or any of the other girls, and I’ll set it up,’ he wrote to Epstein.
The emails also contain several exchanges between Elkholy and one of Epstein’s assistants, Lesley Groff, with the pair appearing to make arrangements for visits to see Epstein in New York.
The emails do not imply any wrongdoing by Elkholy.
Elkholy, who now works as an anthropologist and a musician, told the BBC he regretted the language in some of the emails and his association with Epstein. He said he had not been aware of his abuse of women.
Metro made an attempt to contact Elkholy.
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