A US-based model agent introduced women as young as 18 to Jeffrey Epstein and pleaded with him to have sex with a model he knew, according to emails.
Ramsey Elkholy sent the financier hundreds of emails over almost a decade, discussing the women's bodies and their attitudes to sex, and suggested he and Epstein could meet more women by investing in fashion and modelling businesses in Brazil.
In one 2011 exchange, Elkholy described a woman in her 20s who was "desperate for cash" and said: "Dear Jeffrey PLEASE just try her in bed."
Elkholy told the BBC he regretted the language in some emails and his association with Epstein, and he had not been aware the financier had been abusing women.
Elkholy now describes himself as an anthropologist and musician, founder of the band Monotronic, but in the 2010s he was working as a model agent.
The files recently released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) suggest he conducted a correspondence with Epstein from at least 2009 until shortly before the financier's death in 2019, much of which revolved around access to female models.
The emails shed further light on how Epstein cultivated extensive contacts in the international modelling industry, some of which he then used to access women and girls. Models were among those Epstein abused, which the FBI has estimated may total 1,000 women and girls.
In the messages, Elkholy appeared to discuss setting up meetings for models with Epstein's contacts in the fashion industry, including at lingerie chain Victoria's Secret - then owned by Epstein's biggest client, Les Wexner - and the Vera Wang label.
The files also suggest Elkholy was in touch with the French model agent Jean-Luc Brunel, a contact of Epstein'saccused by Brazilian women who spoke to the BBCof recruiting girls for Epstein to sexually exploit.
Brunel was found dead in his Paris prison cell in 2022, while being investigated on suspicion of the rape of minors and trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation.
Elkholy told the BBC he had not been part of Epstein's inner circle. A search for his surname on the DOJ website returns over 2,000 results, though many of those are duplicates, and Elkholy said the files show he only met Epstein 10-12 times over a 10-year period.
The agent wrote an email to Epstein in 2009, a few months after the financier had been released from jail on a charge of soliciting prostitution from a minor, saying: "I don't need to tell you that I also value your friendship. The reason I never ask for anything in return for introducing you to models is because I consider it more of a favor and I know that you are also good for favors."
He added: "You're a solid person Jeffrey and that means the world to me."
Two days after the agent had told Epstein about the woman who was "desperate for cash", Elkholy said he hoped the financier was "getting some mileage" out of the woman's situation "being all alone" in New York.
Epstein replied with a single word - "zero" - and a few days later Elkholy wrote again: "Jeffrey PLEASE just try her in bed... I really need that so I can feel whole about all this because she's such a pain in the ass. I also think it would be good to get her to know what it is like to get really [expletive]."
