Revelations of Jeffrey Epstein’s Abuse Victims in London Flats

Fri Apr 24 2026 15:09:11 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

New evidence unearthed by BBC investigations reveals Jeffrey Epstein housed abuse victims in London flats, detailing the extent of his trafficking connections in the UK.

Investigations have revealed that Jeffrey Epstein housed numerous women in London, some of them possibly victims of his trafficking operation, following a decision by UK police not to investigate him. The BBC's comprehensive review of Epstein's files shows the established infrastructure of his operations in the UK, including coercion and recruitment of women for his schemes, despite prior allegations against him. Calls for accountability from UK authorities are intensifying.

Revelations of Jeffrey Epstein’s Abuse Victims in London Flats

Sex-criminal financier Jeffrey Epstein housed women who say he abused them in several London flats in the years after UK police decided not to investigate him, the BBC can reveal.

We found evidence of four flats, rented in the affluent borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in receipts, emails and bank records contained within the Epstein files. Six of the women housed in them have since come forward as victims of Epstein's abuse.

Many of them - from Russia, eastern Europe and elsewhere - were brought to the UK after the Metropolitan Police decided not to investigate Virginia Giuffre's 2015 allegation that she had been a victim of international trafficking to London.

The Met stated it followed reasonable lines of inquiry at the time, interviewing Giuffre on multiple occasions following her complaint and co-operating with US investigators.

Some of the women housed in the London flats were coerced by Epstein to recruit others into his sex trafficking scheme, as well as regularly transported to Paris by Eurostar to visit him, according to emails in the files. The BBC searched through millions of pages of records gathered by the US Department of Justice in its investigation of the disgraced financier, to piece together the most detailed picture yet of his operation in the UK.

Our investigation found British police had other opportunities to open an inquiry into the disgraced financier's activities in the UK, in addition to Giuffre's complaint that she had been trafficked and forced to have sex with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in 2001. Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied any wrongdoing.

Despite their desirable addresses, the flats were sometimes crowded with the women having to sleep on sofas. Emails reveal Epstein's angry responses when complaints were made about living conditions. He has also been linked to mishandling additional claims of human trafficking, raising broader concerns about complicit oversight by UK authorities.

As the investigation continues, survivor advocates insist on the necessity for public inquiries into the failures of law enforcement and judicial oversight. The ramifications of Epstein's operations and the systemic issues within policing in the UK continue to prompt calls for greater accountability.