A woman who said she was repeatedly raped by Jeffrey Epstein desperately tried to swim through shark-infested waters to escape his clutches, according to a new report.

Sarah Ransome said she was so determined to escape Little St. James, the multimillionaire’s private isle nicknamed “Pedophile Island,” that she was willing to gamble her life in the Caribbean waters.

“I had been raped three times that day,” she told the Telegraph.

“A shark would have been my best friend at that point. I didn’t even think about it — it was just, get me away.”

Ransome recalled jumping on a quad bike to flee and planning to attempt to swim several miles to neighboring St. Thomas.

But she was spotted on surveillance cameras that lined Epstein’s island and was quickly stopped by a team of his staff, she told the British paper.

Ransome went on to become one of the key accusers who helped expose Epstein’s depravity before the 66-year-old killed himself last month in a Manhattan lockup while facing new sex-trafficking charges.

The South Africa-born woman had sued the pedophile — along with his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell, who denied the claims — eventually settling with Epstein in 2018 over her accusations that he kept her as a sex slave.

She told the Telegraph that she was “young and naïve” when she moved to New York in September 2006 at age 22.

“I had no idea of the hornet’s nest I had walked into,” she recalled, saying that she was “broken” and an “open book” when another woman approached her at a Manhattan nightclub and gushed about “this amazing guy” who “helped me achieve my dreams.”

“He was so charming, charismatic,” she said of first meeting Epstein, with the woman who first introduced them calling afterward to tell her to pack for a trip to his Caribbean island.

But Ransome quickly saw Epstein’s perverted side on his “Lolita Express” private jet, she said.

“They started having full-on, hardcore sex on the bed, one of the girls and Jeffrey,” she recalled.

“There was no privacy. They did it in front of everyone.

“And from the time I got onto the island, that was when the abuse began.”

She said the attacks usually started with her being summoned to give Epstein a “massage.”

“There were some days I was raped three times a day. And then he would rape others,” she said, adding that she had to be readily available for Epstein and his friends, whom he “lent us out to.”

“In six months I never saw him do a day’s work. I never saw him work. He was literally sexually abusing us all day long,” she insisted.

She claimed she first saw Maxwell on the island, insisting that Maxwell and Epstein were more like friends or siblings than a couple.

“Ghislaine was the socialite. She made Jeffrey look good,” she said, calling Epstein “quite socially awkward.”

Back in New York, she lived in an Upper East Side apartment building owned by Epstein, where she was prevented from becoming friends with any of his other girls. She said the predator controlled every aspect of her life, forcing her to lose weight and see a psychiatrist of his choosing.

“Jeffrey had a whole network of people controlling us, working for him whether they realized it or not,” she said.

Ransome said she finally escaped in early 2007 when Epstein sent her to South Africa to look for a young personal assistant. She left New York for good instead of putting another woman through the same abuse.

She said she was thrilled at finally seeing Epstein arrested in July.

“The day Epstein was arrested was without question the best day of my life, without question,” she told the Telegraph.

She now wants to see others prosecuted, too.

“Jeffrey is one person in a whole spiderweb,” she told the paper. “I met lots of Russians, Eastern Europeans. What about his life in Paris?

“You think there aren’t any 15-year-olds in Paris who have been abused? Paris was a candy shop for him. I believe they will follow through. And bring others to justice.”