“There’s some sort of level of trust with people through ballet studios,” said Nadia Vostrikov, a former dancer who said she was recruited at age 26 to be a personal trainer to Mr.

Epstein took advantage of the insularity of the dance world, where dancers rely on one another for job opportunities and trust that those tips are legitimate.

Epstein, and in interviews with two dancers who had dealings with him in New York. Epstein’s network of recruiters in dance studios was described in the lawsuits filed last month in Federal District Court in Manhattan by two women who say they were sexually exploited by Mr. Epstein’s sex trafficking in Manhattan has become clearer as several lawsuits have been filed against his estate in the days since he was found dead from a suicide in his jail cell in Manhattan, where he had been awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. Epstein had a different hunting ground: dance studios.

Epstein was exploiting dozens of girls he had plucked from high schools and shopping malls in Florida, luring them to his Palm Beach mansion and coercing them into giving him erotic massages through false promises, cash payments and threats, according to court records.īut in New York City, Mr. The same year, a third dancer, Marlo Fisken, was asked if she would become his personal trainer.Īt the time, Mr. Lisa was 17 when a fellow dancer approached her after a ballet class in 2002 and asked if she wanted to give private exercise classes to a wealthy man named Jeffrey Epstein.Īnother dancer, Priscilla, received a similar pitch in 2006 from a woman, this time to give Mr.

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