there was another woman there who appeared to be in a relationship with jeffrey epstein, namely miss maxwell, and because she helped to arrange some of their travel or recruited some of the girls or assisted in it, that, you know, she made it seem as though it was okay to travel, to be with mr. epstein and they could engage in the fantasy that he just wanted to help them with their education, they were just going in to give him a massage and get $200, which was a lot of money to an underage girl, especially some of these girls who are very vulnerable from poorer homes, single parent homes, and they seem to think it was okay because she was there. so none of those defenses worked. they attempted to discredit some of the victims because they were compensated by the epstein victims compensation fund. there is nothing wrong with that. they have a right to be compensated. they can prove they were the