Epstein's longtime girlfriend faces scrutiny despite immunity deal and abuse claims

Marcinko experienced physical abuse including choking and being thrown down stairs; she was coerced into recruiting other women for sexual exploitation while under Epstein's control.

In the long aftermath of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, a woman named Nadia Marcinko stands at the intersection of two painful truths that the law has rarely been asked to hold at once: she was, by credible account, a victim of coercion, abuse, and control — and she may also have helped draw other women into the same machinery of exploitation. Granted immunity in 2008, she now faces renewed congressional scrutiny, not because the facts of her suffering have changed, but because justice, in its bluntest form, struggles to accommodate the idea that victimhood and complicity can inhabit the same perso

Epstein's longtime girlfriend faces scrutiny despite immunity deal and abuse claims

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