New Evidence Shows Jeffrey Epstein Housed Abuse Victims in London Apartments

Fri Apr 24 2026 14:12:08 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

A recent investigation reveals that Jeffrey Epstein housed multiple women, who later came forward as abuse victims, in London flats after a local police investigation was closed. The findings highlight the extent of Epstein's operations in the UK.

Recent investigations shed light on Jeffrey Epstein's operations in the UK, displaying how he used rented flats in London to house several women who later identified themselves as victims of abuse. This new evidence has raised further questions regarding the responses of UK authorities to allegations against him and the extent of his trafficking network.

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 said it followed reasonable lines of inquiry at the time, interviewing Giuffre on multiple occasions following her complaint and co-operating with U.S. investigators.

Some of the women housed in the London flats were coerced by Epstein to recruit others into his sex trafficking scheme and were 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 U.S. Department of Justice in its investigation of Epstein, and released as part of the Epstein files, to piece together the most detailed picture yet of his operation in the UK.

The investigation shows how the operation grew more extensive than previously known—with more victims, established infrastructure such as housing, and frequent transportation of women across borders—right up to Epstein's death, despite warnings to UK police.

British police had other opportunities to open an inquiry into Epstein's activities in the UK, beyond Giuffre's claim that she had been trafficked and forced to have sex with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in 2001. Mountbatten-Windsor has always denied any wrongdoing.

By early 2020, a second woman had complained to the Met that she had been abused by Epstein in the UK, the BBC has established, but it remains unclear whether this complaint was acted upon.

Authorities were aware in 2020, soon after Epstein died in jail awaiting trial, that he had rented at least one of the flats identified by the BBC, according to documents in the files.