She Was Nearly Recruited Into Epstein’s World—by Her Closest Friend
A Ukrainian actress found her name in the recently released Epstein files, and made a shocking discovery about how she got there.
Ukrainian actress Liza Grinenko, who discovered her name in the Epstein files after a close friend spent years attempting to recruit her under the guise of mentorship. (Courtesy of Elizabeth Green)
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Elizaveta “Liza” Grinenko had a hunch her name might appear somewhere in the so-called Epstein files that the Justice Department released earlier this year.
A Ukrainian actress based in Kyiv, now 31 years old, Grinenko never met Epstein or interacted with him in any way. But a former close friend of hers had worked as his assistant for several years—and during that time, occasionally offered Liza a position with her boss.
Yet when Liza found her name among the millions of pages that the government posted online in late January—and read the emails in which she was mentioned—she was astonished at what they said. “I felt sick to my stomach,” she told me.
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