Elisabetta Tai, a former Italian model, told the New York Post that she visited the Manhattan residence of Jeffrey Epstein in 2004, when she was 21, and escaped after the wealthy financier stripped naked, laid on a massage table, and handed her a vibrator.

Tai said her booker told her that Epstein, who later registered as a sex offender and now faces sex-trafficking charges, was "in charge of Victoria's Secret" and could get her a modeling gig for the lingerie company's catalog.

Epstein was close with Lex Wexner, the founder and CEO of L Brands, the parent company of Victoria's Secret.

Wexner also gave Epstein his Manhattan residence, estimated to be worth $77 million.

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A former Italian model said in an interview with the New York Post over the weekend that Jeffrey Epstein tried to coerce her into sex acts in 2004, when she was 21.

The wealthy financier and sex offender is facing federal charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy between 2002 and 2005. His mysterious legacy has begun to unravel in the week since his arrest in New York.

Elisabetta Tai told the Post that her booker gave her the address of Epstein's Manhattan residence and said Epstein was "in charge of Victoria's Secret" and could get her to model for the lingerie company's catalog. Tai said her booker described Epstein as "one of the most important people in modeling" who could change Tai's life.

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Tai told the Post that upon arriving at Epstein's Upper East Side townhouse — estimated to be worth $77 million — she saw other models walking around. She said a woman who looked like Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite said to have dated Epstein who is accused of recruiting girls for his sex-trafficking operation, took her to Epstein's office.

Tai, who the Post described as speaking "in halting English," said she talked to Epstein about her modeling experience for a while before he stripped naked, laid on a massage table next to his desk, asked her to approach him, and handed her a vibrator.

She said she froze. "I just grabbed the vibrator and threw it at his head," she told the Post.

Tai said that she ran out of the room but that before she could leave the residence the woman grabbed her and told her she "couldn't just leave" because Epstein was "important" and "a friend of President Clinton."

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Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2005. Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

Tai told the Post that she was too frightened to tell anyone what happened to her until the latest reports emerged from other women who have accused Epstein of harassing, coercing, trafficking, and assaulting them.

Tai said she returned to Italy and took a few more modeling jobs after her run-in with Epstein.

"It changed me for life," Tai told the Post. "I thought I lived in a hateful world. It was shocking to realize that if I wanted to be a model in America, I was expected to work as a prostitute."

Epstein had a long relationship with Les Wexner, the founder and CEO of L Brands, the parent company of Victoria's Secret. Wexner, Epstein's only confirmed client, allowed Epstein to take an active role in his company alongside managing his fortune.

A representative for Wexner has said that the two cut ties. But before then, Epstein lived in the townhouse that Wexner bought for $13.2 million in 1989 and was transferred to Epstein's LLC in the Virgin Islands, where he owned a private island, for $0 in 2011.

The Post said it also talked with a former modeling agent in Manhattan who said Epstein used his role in Wexner's company to traffic girls by portraying himself as "the back door" of Victoria's Secret. The former agent said that "some of those girls got in" with the lingerie company for ad campaigns and catalogs but not the televised fashion show.

Another source, described by the Post as a "Manhattan model entrepreneur," said Epstein and Maxwell were a fixture at Victoria's Secret events.