Epstein survivor says agency boss sent her to his beach house at 18

Roza had been in the US about a month after arriving from Uzbekistan when MC2 Model Management's American branch sent her to Epstein's Palm Beach house. She was 18. At the time, in 2009, Epstein was serving a jail sentence for sex offences against a minor but was allowed to work each day from his home. The man running MC2's US arm then was Jeff Fuller, who now heads another agency, The Source Models.

The photoshoots led to Roza being hired as an assistant to Epstein — a role other survivors have described as a ruse he used to keep abusing young women. She says he went on to systematically rape her. An expense statement she showed the BBC suggests Fuller himself booked her flight home from Palm Beach after her second shoot. Fuller has previously said he did not know Roza was going to Epstein's house, and that he was unaware she was being abused. He has not responded to the BBC's allegations.

Documents released by the US Department of Justice show 10 models from MC2 met or were in contact with Epstein after his conviction. The files also reveal Epstein handed $1m (£742,000) to MC2 in 2005, even though the agency's owners told a US publication two years later that he had no involvement in their company. In a March 2012 email to Epstein, Fuller wrote of another model: had it not been for Epstein, they would have fired her months ago, adding that he would be careful as she blabs about things.

A month after Epstein's second arrest in 2019, MC2's US branch was dissolved and Fuller opened The Source Models, which still operates. The BBC found 50 models from MC2 moved across to it. The Source Models did not reply to requests for comment. Sigrid McCawley, the lead lawyer for more than 100 of Epstein's victims, says agencies and scouts were vital to him: he told people he wanted three different girls a day, she said, and the scouts were the ones identifying the type of woman he liked.

Testimony shared with BBC Eye also raises questions about two other industry figures the DOJ files show were close to Epstein. Former agent Ramsey Elkholy tried to connect 34 women to Epstein, including an 18-year-old still in school, and suggested one of Epstein's female assistants befriend a woman who says he sexually abused her at 19 in his New York townhouse. Elkholy told the BBC he rejects any allegation he knew of or facilitated abuse, saying he only knew Epstein's own account of his 2008 case, which he misguidedly believed. Another model, Simona, says Epstein raped her more than 200 times after she met him at 20; she says Faith Kates, then head of Next Management, suggested plastic surgery and sent a surgeon's details to Epstein. Lawyers for Kates say she was grossly misled by a master manipulator and never asked a model to have plastic surgery.

Last year the DOJ said it had found no evidence warranting further investigation against uncharged third parties. New York State senator Zellnor Myrie is challenging that with a proposed sex trafficking bill to give police more power to investigate Epstein's alleged enablers. If it becomes law, he told the BBC, anyone who sent models to Epstein knowing, or who should have known, what he was doing will be held accountable. Roza hopes speaking out brings others forward: there are many survivors who never speak because it is scary, she says, and to her sister survivors — you know my name, reach out.