Feb 12, 2026
A woman who says she was drawn into Jeffrey Epstein's network as a 21-year-old art student claims the disgraced financier used the promise of a prestigious degree to control her — and punished her when she pulled away.
Rina Oh, now in her late 40s, told The Sun she is ready to reclaim her story as thousands of pages of Epstein files are released by the US Department of Justice. She said a chapter about her in an unpublished memoir by fellow accuser Virginia Giuffre was "fabricated" and forced her to file defamation lawsuits to prove she was a victim, not a perpetrator.
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Oh said she met Epstein in the late 1990s after struggling to pursue an art career. He offered her a scholarship to obtain a Bachelor of Fine Arts, presenting himself as a philanthropist.
"He said, 'I'm offering you a scholarship with no strings attached, you never have to see me again'," she recalled. "But he kept calling me to see him again."
When she did not volunteer to visit, she said, Epstein took the scholarship away. "He was like, 'Well, you're not being obedient, so I'm going to take that away'."
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