At 22, Russian design student Julia Molchanova met Jeffrey Epstein by chance on the street. She spent years trapped in his ‘cult.’

The Wall Street Journal has published a major new investigation into the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and sex offender who died in 2019. The article’s central figure is Julia Molchanova, a 37-year-old born in Russia. She spoke to journalists for the first time about her complic