(6 Aug 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: New York – 2 July 2020
1. Slow zoom on STILL of poster board showing Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at news conference to announce charges against Maxwell
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Los Angeles – 6 August 2025
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."
++WHITE FLASH++
3. 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."
++WHITE FLASH++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Arden, Epstein Sexual Battery Accuser:
"I believe, yes, the (Epstein) files should be released."
++WHITE FLASH++
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Alicia Arden, Epstein Sexual Battery Accuser
"Ghislaine Maxwell should not be pardoned. She was convicted of sex trafficking of children."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: New York – 2 July 2020
6. Zoom of 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
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Los Angeles – 6 August 2025
7. 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."
++ENDS ON A SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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