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Fascinating when you see the different lens’s of people’s experiences… her take vs how she sees Virginia’s take is really very interesting. On an aside. I’ve been reading through previous posts as I just recently subscribed… even more fascinating for me is the gift you have to make others feel safe and trusting of you. I so appreciate that you’ve created that space for all of these different people. Thanks for sharing that gift with us. I can imagine some days it’s a pretty heavy lift for you.

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Great reporting. You’re doing a wonderful job!!!

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So fascinating and well written - thanks!

We are indeed so complex!

I know I was what would be described as a goody-twoshoes at the beginning of my teen years. And I hadn’t been instilled with much ability for independent thinking.

I always seemed to catch the attention of “bad girls” and get dragged into sex, drugs and rock’n roll. Anyone would have been shocked to see me at 14, 15, 16 getting involved in partying - just about always with men between the ages of 18 and 50.

It was an experience I certainly wouldn’t want for my daughter. At the time though - in my head, I was of age, and I was certainly putting myself into the proximity of these individuals. For whatever reason, I never thought of myself as a victim and I just HAD these bizarre experiences with all these people as if it was the agenda of the times. This was in the late 70’s and early 80’s.

It’s really a bit of a mind warp to put those experiences into the context of something like the MeToo movement.

It’s just what we did - the seeking of crazy adventures with questionable people and substances.

It didn’t have the element of purposeful grooming or wealth or celebrity, but we teens were certainly not being viewed as off-limits by any of these men and they just took our presence as face value consent or something 😳

In any case, as a quite introverted, studious, thoughtful person, it seems ludicrous now to know I went through all that. But I have always chalked it up to a somewhat karmic experience of that era of time that I lived through.

Also, there’s no one to sue for 7 million dollars for taking advantage of me then 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Jun 28, 2022Liked by Jessica Reed Kraus

This has impacted me in a very profound way. I need to process. Thank you

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Great post. It’s great to read her perspective and very odd she didn’t want to perpetuate the victim narrative, but to take responsibility for a choice she made. Indeed humans are much more complex than simply good or evil.

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I’m feeling I need to process as well. Interesting that as a victim she still feels loyal (in my opinion)which makes me think how deeply she was manipulated. And what if all the glamour and famous people was taken away during that time, would she still feel the same way? Would she be giving him massages? I doubt GM would leave society and live in the woods if she were set free.

It definitely sounds like a witches spell these girls were under.

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I’m 52 years old. Went through some terrible abuse from 72-84, pretty bad stuff (anything you can think of, it happened). My Mother turned the other cheek, in all of it. Oldest brother drug overdose, next brother told her she’s dead to him years ago, twin brother, well, I’m convinced he’s got total and complete amnesia, or victims amnesia, at a clinical level. Me, I’m her now P.O.A. for everything, by choice, as she’s at end stage Alzheimer’s disease and congestive heart failure.

So all this (probably TMI…. whatever), to say, yea…. Human’s have so many ways of processing trauma, and be able to move forward. I love my Mother even though she’s liable to so much….that I’ll never really will know how much she knew (like GH and JE) or actually orchestrated herself? I really believe good and evil exist at the same time, in all of us. There’s certainly no reasons to try and take 15 min of celebrity. Your anonymous writer is so eloquent in explaining her experience.

Thank you for making me want to pay attention to these issues of late, with an no “news” really happening anymore, and most regular reporters not even giving the real story. Your humor and intelligence just shines in your writings!

Okay, starting to feel like that awkward freshman at her first party that started just TALKING, and can’t stop! Either that, or that last edible I ate was WAY more THC than the package said!!!🥴

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Her perspective, so even and balanced, "indifferent" as she says, really humanizes the larger story here - not only for herself but for everyone involved. Thank you for sharing this, Jessica!

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This is a great article but why doesn’t anybody mention what tbey really did?? Children!?! And trafficking them to all the elites. They always concentrate on two or three late teenagers giving massages. Seems like we are missing a HUGE part of the whole story.

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But to tell someone else who was abused in that way and her abuse happened when she was still a child, that her feelings aren’t accurate is not accurate. This is her perspective at what is considered to have happened at an adult age and she still inserts that is was abuse. She’s telling her story from a completely different pint of view and with not the same details as she obviously had no clue what happened to that other girl.

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It’s refreshing to read a perspective free from the influence of lawyers or a desire for fame. What JE and GM did was not acceptable by any means, this provides an unedited understanding of both the good and the horrendous.

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Deleted my Instagram app for a bit and subscribed to your page, best decision I’ve made in some time. 😂

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I agree that it was a role she only played as part of her own relationship with Jeffery. Without him , she would not have been continuing such activities. I think she wanted his love / companionship - the illusion or delusion? of being a couple, so badly that she would do whatever it took to stay in his orbit and at his side as lady of the house/s. And what it took to satiate him ,to please him, was procuring taboo underage beautiful girls to serve him. She may have been waist deep before she realized what she was doing.

Having lived in Manchester by the Sea once upon a time , I am really looking forward to your part 2 of Ghislaine on the run -- unless you have already posted & I missed it ?

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This is what is missing from msm. The truth with no agenda. Bravo, Jess for your refreshing style of journalism & story telling. I am always captivated. ❤️

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10 years max for ghislaine! I’m gonna google how much jail time Heidi fliess got! Doubt she was doing background checks on her girls

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Your reporting is amazing. Thank you!!

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