Even Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend, the last person to speak on phone with him before suicide, shocked he killed himself: source

The last person to speak on the phone with Jeffrey Epstein had no idea the accused sex trafficker she’d loved deeply for years was about to kill himself, the Daily News has learned.
 

The multimillionaire sex offender’s final recorded phone call from Metropolitan Correctional Center was with Karyna Shuliak the night before Aug. 10, when the 66-year-old perv was found hanging in his cell, a source familiar with the matter said.

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“When she hung up the phone she was not under the impression Epstein was suicidal,” the source said.
 

That description echoes one
 by Epstein attorney Reid Weingarten, who said during a hearing in Manhattan Federal Court that his legal team "did not see a despairing, despondent, suicidal person” prior to the shocking suici

  

 

Nonetheless, a prosecutor from the Southern District of New York sought to review a recording of the final conversation with Shuliak, seeking any hidden meanings that could only be understood by the duo that had been together for four or five years, sources said. Shuliak declined due to concerns about her own possible legal exposure amid ongoing federal investigations into Epstein’s shadowy world, according to a source.

 

Three sources did not consider Shuliak a victim of Epstein. Rather, the woman in her 30s presented herself as Epstein’s girlfriend and believed he sincerely loved her, the source familiar with Shuliak said. She was never exposed to any sex trafficking by Epstein, who was a master at compartmentalizing his life, the source said.
 

Shuliak was with Epstein in Paris before he returned to the U.S. and was arrested at Teterboro Airport in July, according to the source. She learned of his suicide while in Belarus and has been devastated since.
 

Records show that Shuliak married an alleged Epstein victim who is a U.S. citizen in 2013. Their divorce was finalized in July 2019, weeks after Epstein was arrested.

 

A lawsuit filed by a different Epstein victim against his $577 million estate alleges that the perv forced her into a sham marriage to keep a victim who wasn’t a U.S. citizen in the country.

 

Sources said Shuliak’s marriage, which is not the subject of any lawsuits, followed a similar pattern.

“Jeffrey Epstein’s international sex trafficking ring harmed an incomprehensible number of girls and these sham same-sex marriages served a basic and important purpose for Epstein’s trafficking operation because they enabled Epstein to get citizenship for girls that he wanted to keep in this country without facing a high level of scrutiny in the citizenship process,” said an attorney representing Epstein victims, Sigrid McCawley, who spoke generally about the alleged sham marriages.

 

Shuliak also faced possible legal risk tied to her dental practice registered at a Virgin Islands address where one does not appear to have existed. Epstein used the same address for a charitable foundation, a company that owned Epstein’s jet and his shady international bank, among other corporate entities.

Shuliak’s refusal to speak to the feds, even though a source said she does not believe she’s an FBI target, highlights the risks facing anyone associated with the registered sex offender who rubbed elbows with the rich and famous.

 

Her last conversation with Epstein is of interest to at least one attorney, Brad Edwards, who argued in a legal filing Thursday that the sex offender killed himself to avoid hefty payouts to victims. 

“Anyone that he spoke to during that month he was in custody is going to be relevant to why he committed suicide,” Edwards said. “I want to talk to anyone he had communication with during that time.”
 

Shuliak’s attorney, Maurice Sercarz, declined comment.

Sources told the Daily News there are multiple threads of the ongoing Epstein investigation. One is focused on Epstein’s alleged madame Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime assistant Lesley Groff and anyone who booked Epstein’s perverted massages. Another is examining whether any of Epstein’s friends who received massages knew the “masseuses” were underage. An effort is also underway to solve the mystery of how Epstein made his money.

 

A source close to Shuliak said she hadn’t been contacted by federal authorities since the aftermath of the shocking suicide and did not believe she was a target of any ongoing investigations.

 

“They’re not going to only arrest low level people — that would look terrible,” Edwards said.

 

 

 

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