Jeffrey Epstein forced some victims to perform apparently semi-clothed catwalk auditions, video evidence suggests.
The serial sex offender and paedophile, discovered dead in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking trial, received multiple video clips showing young women and girls apparently auditioning as models.
The videos, believed seized from Epstein's computer by US authorities, feature in the latest three million file tranche released by the US justice department.
Authorities redacting all faces and identifying features before last week's release.
Whether those filmed were Epstein's victims remains unclear, though nearly all cases show blacked-out faces and many feature muted voices protecting identities.
The videos support theories that Epstein lured young girls through posing as a Victoria's Secret talent scout - a tactic he employed with model Alicia Arden, whom he assaulted in Santa Monica in 1997.
The footage additionally exposes his operation's global reach, with videos of young women filmed from worldwide locations appearing in his inbox.
One recorded a selfie video before a mountain range, while another spoke Russian to a man filming her in a car's backseat.
One clip shows a potential victim wearing high heels with bare legs filmed posing with a hand on her hip.
Another video displays a young woman approaching the camera as if on a catwalk, though full clothing status remains unclear due to redactions.
Additional clips show girls positioned before artwork, with one instructed by an Australian-accented man to "look a little happier" while posing in what appears to be a private apartment or house.
Another shows a girl posing in black leggings and trainers before the 1889 Russian oil painting Morning in a Pine Forest, housed in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery.
Further videos illustrate Epstein's sordid operation, including footage of one redacted victim dancing provocatively in black stockings and tinsel to an Amy Winehouse Back To Black rendition, plus another filming a topless selfie video in underwear.
Others filmed themselves in mirrors, while two women appear captured in the red-panelled study of Epstein's Paris residence - the centre of a criminal investigation into approximately six possible rape and sex abuse charges including minors.
Ms Arden previously disclosed the financier posed as a Victoria's Secret talent scout in the late nineties to lure her to his hotel room for an "audition" where he groped her.
She informed The New York Times in 2019, before Epstein's death, that he invited her to audition for the underwear brand's catalogue, but upon arrival attempted to undress her and stated he wanted to "manhandle" her.
She fled in tears and reported the incident to police the following day and again one week later, with her testimony remaining among the earliest known police records of sexual misconduct allegations against Epstein.
While the financier never worked for the famous lingerie group that produced numerous household name supermodels, he maintained a close relationship with Leslie Wexner, the American billionaire and then-head of parent company L Brands.
Mr Wexner has never faced wrongdoing charges, though the files reveal Epstein was accused of stealing millions from his fortune before agreeing a private settlement to repay $100m.
Epstein additionally utilised French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, found hanged in his prison cell in 2022, to allegedly help procure "more than a thousand" women.
The late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Epstein's long-time accuser, alleged in court filings that Brunel brought teenage girls into the US on model visas.
She stated girls were then "farmed out" by him to Epstein and others for sex, additionally alleging she was forced to have sex with Brunel multiple times while in Epstein's homes.
Former fashion model Thysia Huisman told The Times earlier this week she was drugged and raped by Brunel in Paris during summer 1991 when just 18 years old.
She recalled encountering Epstein at a party with Brunel where the financier stated his friend, then a model agent, "is such a fan of yours" and "thinks you have such big potential."
Huisman, now a television producer and sexual assault survivor activist, recounted Epstein's unsolicited words' effect, stating: "Immediately the hairs on the back of my neck stood up."
One audio clip from the latest file tranche features an unnamed British woman who appears to sound like Ghislaine Maxwell being asked by authorities: "Did you ever tell anyone that Mr Epstein was a scout for Victoria's Secret?"
She responded: "I don't recall ever saying that."
