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Witnesses: Epstein sent women to a hairdresser to make them look younger

From Dagens Nyheter · () Swedish

Translated from Swedish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Several women who say Jeffrey Epstein abused them allege that he sent them to a New York hair salon where staff received instructions intended to make them look younger.
  • Eight women filed a joint lawsuit this week against the hairdresser, alleging he helped facilitate Epstein’s crimes.
  • Records in the so-called Epstein files reportedly include salon appointments, invoices and communications involving Epstein and the hairdresser, while the hairdresser’s lawyer denies any wrongdoing.

Several women who say Jeffrey Epstein abused them have described being sent to a hair salon with one apparent purpose: to make them look younger.

Eight of the women filed a joint lawsuit this week against a New York hairdresser they say played a role in enabling Epstein’s crimes. According to their accounts, Epstein directed them to the salon and the hairdresser received instructions about which colors and hairstyles would suit them.

That’s not the instructions I’ve been given.

· Unnamed woman quoted by Dagens Nyheter and CNNShe said a salon employee gave her a different hairstyle from the one she requested.

One woman, who was 19 at the time, said she visited the salon at Epstein’s request. When she explained the hairstyle she wanted, an employee replied, “That’s not the instructions I’ve been given.” She left with a completely different style. When she next met Epstein, he praised her appearance and said it was “so close” to what he wanted.

So close.

· Jeffrey EpsteinThe woman said Epstein praised her new appearance after the salon visit.

Another woman said Epstein introduced her to the hairdresser during a visit to the French Riviera, asking, “How can you make her look younger?” After she returned to New York, she visited the salon and said staff did not ask how she wanted her hair styled. “He had received instructions, and that was it. It wasn’t like he asked, ‘How do you want your hair today?’” she told CNN.

CNN reported that the Epstein files contain extensive material related to the salon, including scheduled meetings between Epstein and the hairdresser and invoices sent to Epstein. The communications continued both before and after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting sex from a minor. In 2019, Epstein’s assistant emailed two anonymized people to tell them that Epstein had requested appointments for them, writing that they were both due at the salon the next day.

How can you make her look younger?

· Jeffrey EpsteinAnother woman said Epstein asked the hairdresser this question during a visit to the French Riviera.

The hairdresser’s lawyer said he “did nothing wrong” and had no knowledge of, involvement in or role in facilitating Epstein’s “illegal behavior.”

He had received instructions, and that was it. It wasn’t like he asked, ‘How do you want your hair today?’

· Unnamed woman quoted by CNNShe described the instructions the hairdresser allegedly received before her appointment.
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Originally published by Dagens Nyheter in Swedish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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