Rosa had only arrived in the United States from Uzbekistan a month ago, when a modeling agency she worked for sent her to Jeffrey Epstein's home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Rosa was eighteen years old and went to participate in a photo shoot. She says that these sessions were the beginning of her work as an assistant to Epstein, who then raped her repeatedly over a period of three years.
At the time, Epstein was serving a prison sentence after being convicted of sex crimes against a minor, but was allowed to work from home.
Today, Rosa is demanding an investigation into the fashion agency that sent her to his house, and believes her boss knew he was putting her in danger.
“The company I represent was supposed to protect me, but they failed to do so,” Rosa told the BBC Documentary Investigation Division. “On the contrary, they put me in danger, and for that they should be held accountable.”
Rosa was working with the US branch of MC2 Model Management, which was then run by Jeff Fuller, who today runs another agency in the US, The Source Models.
During our interview with her, Rosa showed us an expense statement indicating that Fuller personally booked her flight back from Palm Beach, after the second photo session at Epstein's home.
Fuller had previously said that he did not know that Rosa was going to Epstein's house.
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Rosa recalls that the person who took the pictures during those photo sessions was not a professional photographer, but rather Nadia Marchenko, who was in a romantic relationship with Epstein at the time.
She describes the filming atmosphere as strange. There was no costume designer, and the photos taken of her were never used.
Rosa believes that Epstein and the MC2 agency were behind arranging those sessions.
She says that Epstein used her work as his assistant to continue assaulting her, an experience reported by other survivors who said that Epstein used hiring female assistants as a cover to continue assaulting girls.
Fuller did not respond to the evidence presented to him by the BBC. He had previously denied knowing that Rosa was being sexually exploited.
However, what the documents revealed indicates that the agency's relationship with Epstein was not limited to Rosa.
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We found in US Department of Justice documents that ten models from the MC2 agency met Epstein or were in contact with him after his conviction.
The documents also show that Epstein paid the agency one million dollars, or about 742 thousand pounds sterling, in 2005. But the owners of the agency told an American newspaper two years later that Epstein had no role in their company.
In an email dating back to March 2012, Fuller said of one of the models to Epstein: “If it weren't for you, we would have fired her months ago.”
He added: "We have to be careful, as she chatters a lot about some things."
A month after Epstein was arrested for the second time in 2019, the American branch of the “MC2” agency was closed, while Fuller later founded the “The Source Models” agency, which is still operating today.
We found out that fifty models who were working for MC2 have moved to the new agency.
We contacted The Source Models to request a comment on our findings, but did not receive a response.
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Sigrid McCauley, the lead lawyer for more than 100 of Epstein's victims, believes that modeling agencies were among the entities he used to gain access to women.
“Epstein told a lot of people he wanted three different girls a day,” McCauley says. “Think about that number. Modeling talent scouts were very important, because they were the ones who determined the types of women Epstein would like.”
But the investigation threads produced by the BBC Documentary Investigation Department did not stop at MC2.
Documents and testimonies led us to other individuals who worked in the fashion industry and had ties to Epstein, including former modeling agent Ramzi Al-Kholy, and former Next Management agency director Faith Cates.
Some of these relationships extended outside the United States, as we tracked the activity of another man who was searching for young women for Epstein in several countries, including Morocco.
From Paris to Morocco: The Journeys of Daniel Siad
In 2017, Daniel Siad, who worked as a model scout in Paris, was moving between Moroccan cities, including Marrakesh and Agadir.
His mission, as the correspondence we have found reveals, was to search for young women for Jeffrey Epstein.
This was about nine years after Epstein was convicted of sex crimes against a minor.
During our investigation, we examined thousands of emails and travel records contained in US Department of Justice documents.
We tracked nearly a hundred trips that Siad made in search of young women for Epstein, covering 21 countries, including Morocco. Records also showed his trips to Dubai.
In one of his letters from Morocco, Siad told Epstein that he was going to Marrakesh to continue his “mission,” as he described it.
In another message, he said that he would travel to Agadir and would inform him of developments in what he was doing.
Siad sent Epstein pictures and information about girls he met, and waited for his response.
In one correspondence, he talked about meeting girls outside schools.
Financial records reveal that Epstein paid Siad approximately $100,000.
Siad's relationship with Epstein was not limited to searching for girls.
We spoke to Anka, who was living in Paris when she met Siad, before he introduced her to Epstein.
Anka says she then spent years under Epstein's control.
According to her testimony, Siad was preparing a list of girls for Epstein to meet whenever the latter traveled to Paris.
Siad died in July 2026 after a heart attack, after he denied sexually assaulting any model.
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Ramzi Al-Khouly: 34 women and an encounter in New York
In another aspect of the investigation, we found that Ramzi Al-Khouly, who previously worked as a model agent, attempted to arrange contact between Jeffrey Epstein and 34 women.
Among them was an 18-year-old girl, who is still studying in school.
Correspondence from the US Department of Justice reveals that Al-Khouli suggested to Epstein that one of his female assistants approach that girl, before she later introduced her to him.
The BBCI team was able to speak to the young woman herself.
She said that Epstein sexually assaulted her during their first meeting at his home in New York City, when she was 19 years old.
This testimony raises questions about the role of female assistants who were communicating with women before they met Epstein, and the circumstances that led them to do so.
Ramzi Al-Khouli denies knowing about any sexual assaults or helping to facilitate them.
He told the BBC: “I completely reject any allegations that I knew about or facilitated any kind of exploitation... At the time, I was not aware that any exploitation was taking place. I only knew Epstein’s own account of his 2008 legal case, which I believed, unfortunately, unconsciously.”
He added: “Published records and reports indicate that the girls were often groomed by other women within Epstein’s inner circle. I was never part of that circle, nor did I participate in any such activity.
But lawyer Sigrid Macauley says that the female assistants who participated in luring other young women did not have the freedom to choose.
She explains: “These young women survivors were constantly being exploited, and their livelihood was threatened. So, they were forced to do what they were told.”
Simona: “More than two hundred attacks”
Among the women we spoke to was a former Eastern European model, whom we called Simona to protect her identity.
Simona says Epstein raped her more than 200 times.
She talked about the impact of what she was exposed to, and about the view of some of the women whose names were linked to Epstein, saying: “There is a belief that we got something, or that we agreed to this sexual exploitation in exchange for material gain or some influence, but this is not true. It left deep wounds in our souls.”
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Simona was 20 when she first met Epstein.
At the time, she was working with a modeling agency in New York, whose owner offered to introduce her to his “close” friend, Faith Cates.
Cates ran Next Management, one of the largest modeling agencies in the world.
Although she left her executive position in December last year, her name is still legally registered as a member of the company's board of directors.
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Simona says that during their meeting, Kates suggested that she undergo plastic surgery, and sent Epstein information about a surgeon.
After that meeting, Epstein convinced Simona to leave modeling.
Like Rosa, Simona became an assistant to Epstein.
She says he raped her and controlled her life for nearly two years.
US Department of Justice documents show that Epstein asked Cates to arrange meetings with five other models, although it is unclear how many meetings actually took place.
In response to the BBC's questions, Cates's lawyers said: "Jeffrey Epstein was a master manipulator. Cates was one of the subjects of his gross misinformation. If she had known then what she knows now and what everyone knows, she would never have had anything to do with him."
Her lawyers denied that she had asked any model to undergo plastic surgery.
We also contacted Next Management for comment, but did not receive a response.
Who will hold those who helped Epstein accountable?
The testimonies and documents we collected have raised the question of the responsibility of those who helped Epstein gain access to the girls, and the extent of their knowledge of the assaults he committed.
The US Department of Justice announced last year that it had found no evidence to warrant further investigation into “third parties who have not been indicted.”
New York State Senator Zellnor Myrey objected to this position. He presented a draft law related to sex trafficking, which aims to give the police broader powers to investigate those accused of facilitating these crimes.
Sarah Ziv, founder of the Model Alliance, supports this step, as her organization seeks to provide greater protection for workers in this field.
“Model recruitment agencies are often the problem,” says Ziv. “They are the link between the models and these monster men.”
As for Myrie, he told the BBC that if his bill was passed, it would be possible to hold accountable “everyone who was sending models to Epstein and knew what he was doing, or should have known about it.”
As for Rosa, the matter is not only about holding her attacker accountable, but also about investigating the role of the agency that sent her to his home.
She hopes her story will encourage other women to talk about what they have been through.
“There are many survivors who never speak out, because it is scary,” says Rosa. “So, my message to all my sister survivors: You know me now, and you know my name. I say but: contact me.”
Reporting contributed: Annika Grosser.
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