‘I could’ve been killed’ – ex-Russian model named in Epstein emails
Former Russian fashion model Raisa Glushko said she turned down a potentially deadly job offer a month after she was mentioned in correspondence involving disgraced US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The new trove of files from the Epstein Estate released by the US Department of Justice last week includes an email sent to Epstein in February 2018 about Shtorm Models, an agency based in Russia’s Krasnodar region where Glushko used to work. The email mentions a model named Raya and says that Shtorm’s founder, whose name is redacted, described her as “very good in English” and “smart.” It also includes two links to her profile on the agency’s website. The email contains two links to the model’s profile on the agency’s website.
Glushko told the media she was “shocked” and initially thought the email was “a dumb joke,” but later realized she could have been “sold to slavery” or “killed.” She told RT Russian on Sunday that in March 2018 the agency offered her a work trip to Indonesia.
“I refused because it was unsafe to travel to a country where I didn’t know anyone. Had I agreed, I would have been dead long ago,” she said. Glushko suggested that the agency was unaware of the nature of the trip and that Epstein’s associates could have posed as ordinary clients.
“They may have been scouting girls from different agencies and making calls while concealing their intentions,” she said. Glushko denied that Shtorm director Dana Borisenko was involved in human trafficking.
Borisenko said she was “shocked and outraged” by the “slanderous” allegations of ties to Epstein. “Neither I nor my agency has anything to do with this person or the situation. Anyone could have copied a link with a model’s name from the website of any modeling agency in the world and sent it to someone,” she wrote on Instagram.
Democrats and some Republicans have accused US President Donald Trump of covering up his own ties with Epstein. Trump, for his part, accused Democrats of using the “Epstein hoax” to slander him.
