Sarah Ransome

Extracted Attributes

• Gender

  Female

• Occupation

  Memoirist, Author

• Notable Work

  Silenced No More (2021)

• Date of Birth

  1984-01-01

• Place of Birth

  Johannesburg, South Africa

Timeline

• Sarah Ransome is born in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Source: Wikidata)

  1984-01-01

• Ransome allegedly receives money for a plane ticket to New York from Leslie Benzies, preceding an alleged sexual assault. (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)

  2006-09-01

• Ransome files a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2017-01-30

• The lawsuit Sarah Ransome v. Epstein and Maxwell is settled under undisclosed terms. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2018-01-30

• Ransome appears in the documentary series Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich. (Source: IMDb)

  2020-05-27

• Ransome publishes her memoir, Silenced No More, detailing her abuse and escape attempts. (Source: NPR)

  2021-11-17

• Ransome attends the trial and sentencing of Ghislaine Maxwell in New York, where Maxwell receives a 20-year sentence. (Source: ABC News; Wikipedia)

  2022-06-28

• Ransome sends emails included in Department of Justice files alleging sexual assault by Leslie Benzies. (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)

  2023-12-09

Ghislaine Maxwell

Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell (born 25 December 1961) is a British former socialite. In 2021, she was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offences in connection with the deceased American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In 2022, she was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment in the United States. Born in France and raised in Oxford, England, she attended Balliol College, Oxford in the 1980s and became a prominent member of London's social scene. She is a naturalised American citizen and retains both French and British citizenship. Maxwell worked for her father, Robert Maxwell, until his death in 1991; she then moved to New York City, where she continued living as a socialite and had developed a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Alongside Epstein, Maxwell built up a vast social network consisting of prominent elites. Documents released by the US Department of Justice reveal that she had maintained friendships with Naomi Campbell, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Bill Clinton and Kerry Kennedy. In July 2020, Maxwell was arrested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and charged by the US federal government with the crimes of enticement of minors and sex trafficking of underage girls, related to her association with Epstein as his recruiter. She was denied bail. She was convicted on five out of six counts, including one of sex trafficking of a minor, in December 2021.

Web Search Results

• Sarah Ransome writes about Jeffrey Epstein abuse allegations in ...

  SARAH RANSOME: When I was sexually assaulted when I was 11, I always assumed it was my fault and I was the one to blame. So with that comes a lot of guilt, comes a lot of shame. And it almost sort of festers in you and eats you sort of almost inside out. So even now I'm still learning on what boundaries are. So that's why I feel, personally, I perhaps was a lot more vulnerable than the average person. [...] RANSOME: OK. I'm really, really pleased that you asked me this. And I'd like to make it very clear. This was not transactional. Rape is rape. It doesn't matter if I was living in Jeffrey's apartment. No one has the right to rape me. I already had two prior escape attempts. There was one when I tried to swim off the island after I'd been raped three times and after Ghislaine had taken my food away. I was prepared to die swimming and trying to escape off that island that night. And there was another occasion when, you know, I didn't respond to Jeffrey. And I was walking along. And his car pulled up next to me. I was forced into his car, taken to his mansion and raped. He knew exactly where I was. It didn't matter where I was. It didn't matter where I went. He would always find me. I've been [...] matter where I went. He would always find me. I've been running from Jeffrey and Ghislaine pretty much until the day Jeffrey died. I was finally free of him.

• Sarah Ransome - Biography - IMDb

  Photos Black Hollywood Icons See the full gallery ### Recently viewed Sarah Ransome [...] Back Biography IMDbPro # Biography ## Sarah Ransome Edit ### Mini bio Sarah Ransome is known for Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (2020), Ghislaine: Partner in Crime (2022) and Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich (2022). ### Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content Learn more about contributing Edit page ### More from this person Other works Publicity listings External sites View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro ### More to explore Photos Hollywood Power Couples See the gallery List Most Anticipated Indian Movies of 2026 See the list ### User lists Related lists from IMDb users Create a list Survivors of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein’s Abuse created 3 years ago • 22 people Photos Black Hollywood Icons

• Ghislaine Maxwell

  #### _Sarah Ransome v Epstein and Maxwell_ (2017) In 2017 Sarah Ransome filed a suit, in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, against Epstein and Maxwell, alleging that Maxwell hired her to give massages to Epstein and later threatened to physically harm her or destroy her career prospects if she did not comply with their sexual demands at his mansion in New York and on Little Saint James. The suit was settled in 2018 under undisclosed terms.( #### Affidavit filed by Maria Farmer (2019) [...] Giuffre asserted that Maxwell and Epstein had trafficked her and other underage girls, often at sex parties "Sex party (group sex)") hosted by Epstein at his homes in New York, New Mexico, Palm Beach, and the United States Virgin Islands. Maxwell called her a liar. Giuffre sued Maxwell for defamation in federal court in the Southern District of New York in 2015. While details of the settlement have not been made public, in May 2017 the case was settled in Giuffre's favour,( with Maxwell paying Giuffre "millions".( Giuffre's family reported that she committed suicide on 25 April 2025, at her farm in Australia.( She was 41, and had three children.( #### _Sarah Ransome v Epstein and Maxwell_ (2017) [...] 119. ^ _a__b_"Ransome v. Epstein, 17-cv-616 (JGK) (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 30, 2018)". _Casetext_. 30 January 2018. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2020. 120. ^ _a__b_"The High Society That Surrounded Jeffrey Epstein". _Intelligencer_. 2 July 2019. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2020. 121. ^Metcalf, Tom (13 July 2020). "Ghislaine Maxwell Is Also Under Investigation in U.S. Virgin Islands". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 13 July 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2020. 122. ^Briquelet, Kate; Rohrlich, Justin (4 January 2021). "Revealed: How the FBI Tracked Down Ghislaine Maxwell". Crime & Justice. _The Daily Beast_. Archived from the original on 5 January 2021.

• Epstein Victim Accuses 'Grand Theft Auto' Producer of Sexual Assault

  Sarah Ransome, who detailed abuse by Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell in a 2021 memoir, alleges that Leslie Benzies, a producer and lead designer of several games in the Grand Theft Auto franchise, sexually assaulted her. The allegation appears in a cache of emails sent by Ransome in the Department of Justice’s Jan. 30 Epstein files release. In the email, dated Dec. 9, 2023, Ransome write that Benzies acted “as if he invented the throwing of money at a ‘prostitute’ on me, then sexually assaulted me afterwards.” The time of the alleged assault is unclear, though Ransome also wrote that Benzies gave her money for a plane ticket to New York on Sept. 1, 2006. ### Related Stories [Music [...] Got a tip? The Hollywood Reporter homepage Newsletters Subscribe ### The Definitive Voice of Entertainment News Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter See My Options Sign Up ## site categories The Hollywood Reporter homepage Subscribe ### The Definitive Voice of Entertainment News Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter See My Options Sign Up ## Breaking News ### Robert Duvall, All-Purpose Actor With Few Peers, Dies at 95 # Epstein Survivor Accuses ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Producer of Sexual Assault Leslie Benzies has denied the allegations made by Sarah Ransome and any association with Jeffrey Epstein. [...] Benzies has denied Ransome’s allegations, though he acknowledges having a relationship with her. His current company, Build a Rocket Boy, said in a statement, “Leslie Benzies has made clear these allegations are false. He had a consensual relationship with this person, and he has never met Jeffrey Epstein, nor ever visited his island, his properties or travelled on his plane. Any suggestion otherwise is misleading.”

• Ghislaine Maxwell was complicit in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse. Now ...

  Sarah Ransome and Elizabeth Stein (left) bravely attended Maxwell's 2022 trial in New York. (AP: John Minchillo) When she came by, Stein was introduced to Epstein. It marked the beginning of a years-long abuse cycle. "That night in the hotel was the first of many times they sexually assaulted me," Stein said during Maxwell's 2022 trial. "I was trapped. I was assaulted, raped, and trafficked countless times in New York and Florida." Virginia Giuffre was only a high-schooler when she was allegedly recruited by Maxwell at Trump's members-only club, Mar-A-Lago. Giuffre alleged Maxwell helped convert the teenager into a "sex slave" through 1999–2002. In an interview with The Miami Herald, Giuffre said "the training started immediately". [...] We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. ### ABC News ### News in Language ### Follow ABC News ### Music & Audio ### Movies & TV ### Kids & Students ### Sign up to our newsletters Sign up to get the latest on your favourite topics from the ABC [...] Topic:Courts Donald Trump, Melania Knauss, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell pose for a photograph in a party ## Related topics Child Sexual Abuse Law, Crime and Justice Sexual Offences United Kingdom United States ## Top Stories ### Angus Taylor reveals shadow ministry elevating Hastie, Nampijinpa Price Topic:Federal Government A dark-haired man in a dark suit walks past a seated audience in a conference room. ### Man who allegedly threw homemade bomb in Invasion Day rally crowd named Topic:Crime ### 'You make your bed, you lie in it': Albanese's warning to 'ISIS brides' in Syria Topic:Unrest, Conflict and War ### Are discounts fair dinkum? Coles' 'Down Down' pricing in the spotlight Topic:Courts ### Police scour outhouse, water tank in Gus search

• Gender

  female

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  memoirist

• Date Of Birth

  1/1/1984

• Place Of Birth

  Johannesburg