Stuart Pivar, co-founder of the New York Academy of Art, author of Lifecode: The Theory of Biological Self-Organization, industrialist, and who acted "[...] as a sort of art consultant to [Jeffrey] Epstein", opined, in reference to Epstein’s teen masseuses, in an interview with Leland Nally for Mother Jones:
For years, they went, came there time and time and time again.
He did stuff with underage girls who knew what the hell they were doing. By the hundreds [...] What Jeffrey did in comparison with the kind of stuff which gets exposed every day of people who are abusing children left and right and all kinds of institutions? Jeffrey never did anything like that. Everything he had to do with these girls was complicit.
In the Netflix documentary, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (e01), Haley Robson shared that when she was 16, after refusing to be Epstein's masseuse, she agreed to recruit teen masseuses for Epstein for which she agreed to be paid $200 per massage. Over an, approximately, one-year period, Haley recruited almost 30 teen masseuses for Epstein.
Haley, "I probably recruited maybe 24 [underage] girls."
(Haley related that she “didn’t feel comfortable” being touched in “inappropriate places” (i.e., “below the belt”). She said, “I refused to do that.” But after Epstein acquiesced to her refusal, she did not refuse Epstein's offer to recruit her classmates.)
Interestingly, Haley was recruited by a high school classmate at Royal Palm Beach Community High School. The schoolgirl informed Haley, “I know this guy, and he would give me $200 just to give him a massage.”
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| Haley Robson: Competitive Equestrian (Netflix) |
Haley's response was, “This is my ticket out of West Palm. This is my way out.” Haley’s response implied that she was underprivileged, but we know from the documentary that she was a competitive equestrian, her mother was a banker, and her father was a police officer.
Haley confessed to detectives that, before going to Epstein’s house, her recruits “knew everything” (i.e., Epstein would be nude, and they would be fondled by hand and/or by a vibrator.)
Detective, “The girl that was going knew she would have to massage him?”
Haley, “She knew everything.”
Detective, “How long have you been working for him?”
Haley, “I probably worked for him for a year.”
Haley even informed the detectives that her underage recruits recruited underage recruits!
Haley, “Those girls brought other girls, too.”
Detective, “Okay.”
Robson, “So, it's like a train.”
Detective, “Who else was underage?”
Robson, “Under 18? All of them.”
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| Haley Robson's Yearbook Photo (Netflix) |
And Haley recruited strategically by targeting friend groups whom she would drive to Epstein’s home, escort them directly to Epstein, and then wait by the pool to be paid.
Haley, "I would recruit girls that were friends. I would just casually bring it up. And we would drive together to his house. I would take them to the room, and then I would walk out. Sometimes I would wait out by the pool. When the girls would leave, Jeffery would come outside to pay me [...]"
Somehow, unlike Ghislaine Maxwell, Haley was never charged with a crime. This is despite the fact that a detective informed Haley that she clearly implicated herself in [teen] prostitution - a second-degree felony:
Detective, "At this point, you've clearly implicated yourself in a crime. Okay? You've taken girls to somebody's house for the purposes of [teen] prostitution [...] Now that's a pretty significant second-degree felony."
Haley said that she doesn’t feel guilty about being a (teen) madam, because she was 16 at the time. Does that mean that Haley feels that all self-implicated 16-year-olds should be free of being charged with felonies? What about 16-years-olds who live in New Jersey where the age of consent is 16?
But Haley’s freedom raises some additional (rhetorical) questions:
Unlike Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, why was Haley never charged with a crime as well?
Why does it appear that, unlike Stuart Pivar, most people (openly) opine that Epstein's masseuses were not complicit?
Why did the documentary give streamers the impression that Epstein's masseuses were impoverished when they were clearly not underprivileged schoolgirls?
Or were Epstein’s masseuses like the schoolgirl prostitutes from the wealthy district of Parioli, Rome in Netflix’s Baby whom simply did it for “easy money”?
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