(6 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Los Angeles – 6 August 2025
1. Mid of attorney Gloria Allred and Epstein accuser Alicia Arden sitting at table to start press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gloria Allred, Attorney:
"In 1997, Alicia Arden, who is here with me today, filed a police report with the Santa Monica Police Department alleging that Jeffrey Epstein committed a sexual battery against her when she met him at the Shutters (On the Beach) Hotel in Santa Monica, California, Mr. Epstein said that he was a representative of Victoria’s Secret and that he was interviewing and auditioning models to appear in the Victoria’s Secret catalog. When Alicia realized that Epstein was using his position to touch her in a sexually inappropriate way, she left and reported him to the police."
3. Allred and Arden speaking in front of large poster of police report
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gloria Allred, Attorney:
"Unfortunately, no prosecution ever took place. Alicia alleges that she would have been willing to testify against Jeffrey Epstein if the criminal case had been filed, but that never happened. Alicia feels that if Epstein had been forced to face the consequences of his criminal behavior at that time, perhaps many other women and children could have been spared from the sexual abuse and sex trafficking that many were forced to suffer."
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ARCHIVE: New York – 2 July 2020
5. STILL of poster board showing Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at news conference to announce charges against Maxwell ID – 25217586411784
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Los Angeles – 6 August 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Arden, Epstein Sexual Battery Accuser
"And I believe, yes, the (Epstein) files should be released. I’m tired of the government saying that they want to release them. So please just do it."
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ARCHIVE: New York – 2 July 2020
7. STILL of Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, pointing to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a news conference in New York ID – 25217412045027
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Los Angeles – 6 August 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Arden, Epstein Sexual Battery Accuser:
"Ghislaine Maxwell should not be pardoned. She was convicted of sex trafficking of children. This is a terrible crime."
9. Allred and Arden speaking in front of large poster of police report
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Arden, Epstein Sexual Battery Accuser:
"Do you want Ms. Maxwell to testify? I don’t know. I’m not sure. 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 her and what she actually said to him."
11. Mid of Allred and Arden seated at table
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Arden, Epstein Sexual Battery Accuser:
"How do you feel about seeing Jeffrey Epstein in the news every single day and every night all the time, and the story in the newspaper almost every day, every day and night? It’s very upsetting to me, and I cry with tears like I am now, in my living room, watching this all the time, when I see it on the news, every single day. Jeffrey’s in my brain and I see him again and again, and I remember what he did to me in that hotel room And I feel pain in my heart for myself and all for the other other victims everywhere, and I see it every single day on the news."
13. Allred and Arden at close of news conference
STORYLINE:
Arden also weighed in on the Epstein case.
"Jeffrey is in my brain and I see him again and again, and I remember what he did to me in that hotel room,"
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