EXCLUSIVE: Key Epstein Accuser Caught Lying in BBC Documentary & Contradicting Claims Against Maxwell
A woman who starred in the BBC docuseries 'House of Maxwell' has some serious holes in her story...
Born in South Africa, Juliette Bryant claims that in September 2002, at 20-years-old, she was at a cocktail lounge in Cape Town when an associate of Jeffrey Epstein, Naja Hill, approached her and offered to introduce her to a rich guy, Jeffrey Epstein, with the promise that the mysterious billionaire could help advance her modelling career (Hill has publicly denied this).
Bryant alleges that Epstein went on to abuse and rape her repeatedly over several years - on his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, at his homes in New York, Paris, Palm Beach, and at his Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.
But Epstein’s island has been the main setting of her horror story.
Her allegations about her trips there have been parroted verbatim across the world in sensationalised mainstream newspaper headlines and in factually inaccurate Daily Beast blog articles written by controversial journalist Kate Briquelet.
Briquelet, who befriended some of the accusers, has a history of writing, and presenting as fact, many wild claims relating to the Epstein case that have since been debunked as pure fiction.
One of them involves Bryant, whom photographs released to the press depict as enjoying herself on Epstein’s island.
In a 2022 Daily Beast article, Briquelet wrote:
Bryant was whisked off to the money manager’s home in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he raped her repeatedly over two weeks before taking her to Palm Beach to continue to the assaults. The sexual abuse would continue at Epstein’s homes around the globe until 2004… During her two-week stay, she witnessed another girl perform oral sex on Epstein as they watched a movie.
Please now join me in taking a few mental notes.
We’ll start with two takeaways from Briquelet’s shoddy reporting:
Claim: Bryant said that she spent two weeks on Epstein’s island during her first visit.
Claim: She was sexually abused by Epstein right through to 2004.
In recent years, Bryant has repeatedly doubled down on these claims, even embellishing her story on popular podcasts, on Piers Morgan Uncensored, and in the fact-resistant 2022 BBC2 docuseries House of Maxwell.
In House of Maxwell, the BBC allowed her (completely unchallenged, and evidently without input from any of the fact-checking chaps over in the broadcaster’s BBC Verify team) to say the following of her alleged abuse on Epstein’s island:
“I was completely trapped and there was nothing I could do… It was just like a factory. [Epstein] was running a machine, and Ghislaine Maxwell was the one operating it. Ghislaine was running the girls and would tell us when we needed to go to his bedroom, you couldn’t say no, there was just no option.”
Claim: Bryant witnessed Maxwell managing an abuse ‘factory’ and saw her sending girls to Epstein’s bedroom.
Following Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial in late 2021, victim impact statements were required to be submitted to the judge overseeing her sentencing. Those documents were intended to ‘prove’ the suffering of Maxwell’s accusers and directly influence the judge’s decision as to the length of prison sentence handed down.
To write those victim impact statements, lawyers selected seven ‘survivors’. Only two of them had testified at the trial. The rest consisted of a group of accusers who had seemingly been deemed so lacking in credibility that they were not chosen as prosecution witnesses at all.
Bryant was one of them.
Her statement was signed-off by David Boies’ ‘right-hand woman’, Sigrid McCawley, who began her covering letter by writing:
“Dear Judge Nathan: I am counsel for Juliette Bryant, and I am providing the following victim impact statement for the Court’s consideration with respect to Maxwell’s sentencing. Pursuant to the Crimes Victims’ Rights Act, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3771, Ms. Juliette Bryant qualifies as a victim as the Defendant participated in her trafficking from 2002 to 2004.”
Bryant’s victim impact statement was the shortest of all seven:
“Simply put, Ghislaine Maxwell is a monster. Ever since she and Jeffrey Epstein got their hands on me, I have never felt okay. Thinking about them still gives me frequent panic attacks and night terrors. All of the victims, including myself, are eternally grateful for everyone that has helped expose these criminals. I appreciate Your Honor imposing the maximum sentence available.”
Claim: Ghislaine Maxwell is ‘a monster’ who was directly involved in the abuse of Juliette Bryant.
Subsequently, partly influenced by Bryant’s statement, Judge Nathan decided to punish Maxwell with 20 years behind bars.
But I caught up with Juliette Bryant in 2023 - after the trial, her interview with the Daily Beast, and her stint on the BBC.
I asked her a series of very straightforward questions and, via email, she supplied me with very straightforward answers.
Now let’s revisit our four mental notes one-by-one, and compare them to the truth that Bryant so casually stated to me:
Claim: Bryant said that she spent two weeks on Epstein’s island during her first visit - stated by Bryant, the Daily Beast, and the BBC.
I asked Bryant how many times in total she had really visited Epstein’s island.
Her answer: “2 times - both for about 5 days”.
Claim: She was sexually abused by Epstein between 2002 and 2004 - stated by Bryant, the Daily Beast, the BBC, and Sigrid McCawley.
I asked Bryant for the time period over which she claims the abuse took place.
Her answer: “October 2002 - February 2003” (Maximum 5 months. Nothing in 2004… and she has in fact since confirmed that she only spent up to a maximum total of 8 weeks in Epstein’s company).
Claim: Bryant witnessed Maxwell managing an abuse ‘factory’ and saw her sending girls to Epstein’s bedroom.
Claim: Ghislaine Maxwell is ‘a monster’ who was directly involved in the abuse of Juliette Bryant.
I asked Bryant if she had ever witnessed Maxwell recruit anyone for Jeffrey Epstein.
Her answer: “No. But I did see her in the kitchen when girls came to give Epstein massages in palm beach. I didn’t have much to do with Maxwell and only saw her at lunches and dinners really.”
I asked Bryant if she’d ever witnessed Maxwell engage in the sexual abuse of anyone.
Her answer: “No.”
And finally, I asked Bryant if Ghislaine Maxwell had ever abused her.
Her answer: “No.”
It is difficult to understand why Juliette Bryant was ever chosen to write a victim impact statement to influence Maxwell’s prison sentence. So too is it difficult to explain why, other than for the purpose of deceiving the public and to falsely portray her as a credible witness, the press and media, including the BBC, have chosen to hide the following additional facts about Bryant from you, and continue to invite her on their shows:
In a 2022 interview with conspiracy theorist Gareth Icke, Bryant stated that she believes Epstein may not really be dead and that a clone was sent to prison in his place. “They can clone pigs, they can clone sheep, they can clone human bodies,” she said, “so the body that we saw might not even have been him.”
Bryant has shared tweets promoting the debunked ʻadrenochromeʼ conspiracy theory that purports world elites kidnap children and extract a life-extending drug from their blood.
After a recent appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, the show’s official account on X posted a short clip of the interview, beneath which Bryant added her new bizarre claim that Epstein had been ‘stealing victim’s eggs’.
In January 2023, she self-published a book on Amazon, titled Epstein The Dragon, The Apple, & The Butterfly. Bryantʼs book, which I would later read with growing scepticism, contains her own version of abuse allegations that journalists and editors have intentionally omitted from their documentaries and articles. In it, she makes numerous bizarre claims, the wildest being that she witnessed a UFO on Epstein’s island, was abducted by aliens and beamed aboard a spaceship when at his ranch, and witnessed Epstein shape-shift into a ʻdragon-like alienʼ.
This week, Bryant gave another interview, this time with conspiracy theorist podcaster Owen Shroyer, during which Bryant repeated allegations that have already been thoroughly debunked, but confirmed again that she did not witness any women being trafficked.
During my five year investigation into the Epstein Scandal, I was surprised to discover that Bryant wasn’t the only one to have huge contradictions and fabrications in her allegations against Maxwell and other individuals.
I was also frankly shocked and appalled to learn that there were multiple victims in this case that continue to be ignored by the press - victims like Carolyn Andriano, whose genuine story of being recruited as a school girl by Virginia Giuffre has been overshadowed by sensationalists and false accusers seeking financial gain and fame; who were adults at the time and willingly went back and forth to Epstein, some as escorts, some as aspiring models, and most simply viewing Epstein as a sugar daddy. Some of these women, I unearthed, were in fact groomers and traffickers who remain unpunished.
My findings, including new evidence and exclusive interviews with most of the key witnesses in the case, will be released in my upcoming book, NAKED LIES: The Epstein Scandal That Rocked the Royals and Troubled Trump.