“I Called It Living Hell” – Lisa Phillips’s Tearful Account of Rituals on Epstein’s Island
She speaks in short sentences, stopping frequently to breathe.
Lisa Phillips, 32, sits in a plain room with soft lighting. Behind her is a single candle. She looks directly into the camera for almost the entire 90 minutes.
“I was 21 the first time they took me to the island,” she begins. “They said it was a party. It wasn’t a party.”
What follows is one of the most harrowing first-person accounts yet to emerge from Jeffrey Epstein’s inner circle. Phillips describes being trafficked to Little St. James multiple times between 2015 and 2018. She says she witnessed and was forced to participate in ceremonies that involved black robes, candles arranged in pentagrams, chanting in Latin, animal blood smeared on skin, and sexual acts she describes as ritualised rape.
“Jeffrey was always there,” she says. “Ghislaine would light the candles. They treated it like a sacred thing. To me it was just… evil.”
She names three men she says were regular attendees: two American financiers and one European aristocrat. She does not accuse them of assaulting her directly but says they were “celebrated” during the events and that Epstein referred to them as “the inner circle.” All three have been mentioned in earlier Epstein documents but have never been criminally charged.
Phillips’s voice breaks when she describes a night in 2017. “They tied a girl to a cross made of wood. She was crying. They said it was symbolic. Then they… they took turns. I was made to watch. I still see her face every night.”
She pauses, wipes her eyes, continues.
“They called it a ceremony. I called it living hell.”
The interview, released yesterday by a survivors’ advocacy group, has already been viewed more than 25 million times. It is raw, unedited, and deeply distressing. Phillips does not hold back tears or anger. She speaks directly to Epstein as though he were still alive: “You thought you could break us all. You didn’t break me.”
The testimony arrives at a moment when partial Epstein-file releases continue to name powerful figures without producing new criminal charges. Phillips’s account adds a ritualistic dimension that has not appeared in previous public survivor statements. While some experts caution that trauma can lead to symbolic rather than literal interpretations of events, others argue the details are too specific to dismiss.
For Phillips, speaking is not about revenge. “It’s about making sure no one else has to go through what we did,” she says at the end. “They thought silence would protect them. Silence is what protected them for so long.”
The candle behind her burns steadily as the video ends.
It is still burning.
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