A woman who says she filed a police report against Jeffrey Epstein in the late 1990s, after he allegedly committed sexual battery against her in a Santa Monica, California hotel room, called on the Trump administration to release the Epstein files.
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Alicia Arden appeared with her attorney, Gloria Allred, in Los Angeles Wednesday. Allred described their encounter, saying Epstein posed as a representative of Victoria’s Secret and said he was “interviewing and auditioning models” to appear in the company’s catalogue.
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Allred said if Epstein was charged when Arden filed the police report in 1997, “perhaps many other women and children could have been spared from the sexual abuse and sex trafficking that many were forced to suffer.”
Arden also weighed in on the Epstein case.
“I believe, yes, the files should be released,” Arden said. “I’m tired of the government saying that they want to release them. So please just do it.”
Arden also addressed the question of whether Maxwell should testify before lawmakers in Congress, and the recent meeting between Maxwell and Todd Blanche, a top attorney at the Department of Justice.
“I’m really not sure if we can even believe her. But I mean, I would like to know what the U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche asked and what she actually said to him,” Arden said.
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She also decried the idea of a pardon for Maxwell, and said seeing the Epstein case constantly in the news is so upsetting it brings her to tears.
“Jeffrey is in my brain and I see him again and again, and I remember what he did to me in that hotel room,” Arden said.
“And I feel pain in my heart for myself and all for the other other victims everywhere,” she said.
