| Also recorded as | Anthony Figueroa; Anthony Luis Zac Figueroa12 |
| FBI interviews | West Palm Beach, January 10, 2007, recorded under case ID 31E-MM-NEW; by video conference, August 19, 2020, under case 50D-NY-302757112 |
| Proffer | Listed under “FBI-attended Proffers” on an undated slide in an FBI briefing deck on the Epstein investigations3 |
| Civil litigation | Designated as a video witness for the plaintiff in a civil action against Ghislaine Maxwell, S.D.N.Y. No. 15-cv-07433-RWS, in a joint pretrial statement served April 18, 20174 |
Anthony Luis Zac Figueroa, recorded in FBI files as Tony Figueroa, is an American man who told the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in interviews in January 2007 and August 2020, that he had driven women to Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach residence to give Epstein massages and that Epstein paid him $200 for each woman he brought.12 He said he had first met Epstein through his girlfriend, who was then working for Epstein and who is not named in any of the records cited here.12 An FBI briefing deck lists him among those who gave proffers in the investigation, and a 2017 joint pretrial statement designated his deposition testimony for use at the trial of a civil case against Ghislaine Maxwell.34 Everything this page reports of what Figueroa himself said is his own account to the FBI; a search of the released files for his name found no statement by him on these matters outside those two interview records.
FBI interview, January 10, 2007
Figueroa was interviewed in West Palm Beach, Florida on January 10, 2007 “regarding a federal investigation involving the sexual exploitation of minors.”1 The released files carry two records of that interview. One is the contemporaneous FD-302, dictated the same day, January 10, 2007, under file number 31E-MM-108062.5 The other is an FBI Electronic Communication on form FD-1057, titled “INTERVIEW OF ANTHONY LUIS ZAC FIGUEROA”, dated December 4, 2018 and carrying the placeholder case ID 31E-MM-NEW, with Jeffrey Epstein and Sarah Kellen entered as its subjects; every page of it is watermarked DRAFT and its “Drafted By” field reads “Missing.”1 Where the two accounts cover the same ground, this page follows the FD-302.
The record states that Figueroa first met Epstein through his girlfriend, who was then working for Epstein.1 It states that Figueroa transported women to Epstein’s residence so that they could give Epstein a massage, that Epstein paid him $200 for driving or bringing women there, and that he drove a red Dodge Dakota or sometimes a white Pontiac Grand AM.1
The FD-302 states that Figueroa also found other women to perform massages for Epstein, that they would find women “at different places: the mall, the clubs or the schools”, and that he was sometimes not paid the $200 because the women “would either go on their own or they would bring a new female.”5 It further states that a caller the record does not name, or Ghislaine Maxwell, “would also call and ask him to pick up a specific girl and bring them to EPSTEIN’s residence.”5 Figueroa was directed to a version of that statement in his 2020 interview, where it was put to him as one in which Maxwell alone would call him, without the unnamed alternative caller the FD-302 gives; he said he did not recall making the statement, adding that Maxwell may have called him once or twice but that he did not really deal with her.2 Figueroa’s 2020 interview cites that earlier statement by the FD-302’s own file number and its serial 104.2
He said that Epstein told him to make sure the women he brought were eighteen, that he was the driver, and that working for Epstein “was an easy way to make $200.00 for 30-45 minutes work.”5 He said he believed at first that Maxwell was Epstein’s wife and later learned she was not, that he had never been upstairs in Epstein’s residence, and that he had never travelled with Epstein.5 He also said his parents had had to pay a $3,000 telephone bill.5
Civil action against Maxwell
A joint pretrial statement in a civil action against Ghislaine Maxwell in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 15-cv-07433-RWS, lists “Tony Figueroa (video)” fifth among the witnesses whose testimony the plaintiff intended to offer in the plaintiff’s case in chief; the certificate of service is dated April 18, 2017.4 The plaintiff is not named in the released copy of the filing.4 Figueroa told the FBI in August 2020 that approximately five years earlier he had been deposed by Brad Edwards for a lawsuit pertaining to Ghislaine Maxwell, and that he recalled speaking with the FBI around the time Epstein first went to jail.2
FBI interview, August 19, 2020
Figueroa was interviewed by video conference on August 19, 2020 by Detective Paul Byrne and Special Agent Amanda Young; the resulting FD-302 is filed under case 50D-NY-3027571, was drafted on August 21 and entered on August 27, 2020.2
In that interview he described how the recruitment worked. His girlfriend, by then working for Epstein, asked him whether he knew any other women who wanted to make money giving Epstein massages, and told him that if he knew more women to give massages she would not have to go over as much; he said he wanted to see her more, so he helped.2 He recruited a few women, and Epstein would then try to get those women to bring more.2 The record states that he told the women he recruited “that there was a guy that likes to get massages”, and, of what the record says he and another person, whose identity the document withholds, would tell a recruit, that “sometimes the guy (EPSTEIN) would ask the girls to do more than massage and sometimes girls would get paid more to do so, but you did not have to do more.”2 Epstein paid him $200 in cash for each woman and was the only person who paid him.2
On the ages of the women, the record states that Epstein “would tell FIGUEROA to make sure the girls are 18 years old”, that as far as Figueroa knew “they were all his age at the time”, and that Epstein also said to make sure they were not fat.2 A separate FBI record of an interview conducted June 12, 2007 with a woman whose name the document withholds states that she was introduced to Epstein by Figueroa, that he told her she would make $200 for providing a massage, and that “he also told her if asked her age she was to say she was eighteen.”6 Of the records the search described below returned, that is the only other account, apart from Figueroa’s own quoted above, that speaks to the age question.
Figueroa said he met Maxwell a couple of times and would talk with her for a couple of minutes.2 He said he did not recall Maxwell calling him but thought someone he knew as Sarah had called him; the record gives no surname for that person.2
The record states that Epstein said he would pay Figueroa’s telephone bill during a period when Figueroa’s girlfriend was away and he was talking with her, that the bill “racked up and EPSTEIN never paid for it and FIGUEROA’s parents eventually paid for it”, and that Epstein would call Figueroa’s cell phone “every other day looking for her” after she left.2 Figueroa said he had been called by someone working on a book, to fact check, and that he “sometimes gets random calls from the media.”2
Proffer
An FBI briefing deck on the Epstein investigations carries a slide headed “PROFFERS” with two columns. “Anthony Figueroa” is legible under “FBI-attended Proffers”, as are Lesley Groff, Larry Visoski and David Rodgers.3 The slide carries no date; the deck’s title slide is headed “Jeffrey Epstein Investigations” and lists four case numbers, two child sex trafficking cases, an obstruction of justice case and a death investigation.3
Timeline
| Date | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|
| January 10, 2007 | Interviewed by the FBI in West Palm Beach; FD-302 dictated the same day | 15 |
| June 12, 2007 | A separate FBI interview of an unnamed woman states Figueroa recruited her and told her to say she was eighteen if asked her age | 6 |
| April 18, 2017 | Designated a video witness for the plaintiff in a joint pretrial statement, S.D.N.Y. No. 15-cv-07433-RWS | 4 |
| December 4, 2018 | Date of the FBI Electronic Communication retyping the 2007 interview | 1 |
| August 19, 2020 | Interviewed by the FBI by video conference | 2 |
| August 27, 2020 | Date of entry of the resulting FD-302 | 2 |
| Undated | Listed under “FBI-attended Proffers” in an FBI briefing deck | 3 |
Records searched
The released files were searched for “Figueroa” and for the phrases “Tony Figueroa”, “Anthony Figueroa”, “Anthony Luis” and “Zac Figueroa”. That search returned well over a hundred further hits. Records concerning his criminal history and personal locate data are not reported here because they are a living private individual’s records unrelated to Epstein. Interview records of other witnesses are reported only for what they state about Figueroa’s own conduct.
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Footnotes
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FBI Electronic Communication (FD-1057), “INTERVIEW OF ANTHONY LUIS ZAC FIGUEROA,” case ID 31E-MM-NEW, dated Dec 4, 2018, recording an interview of Jan 10, 2007; watermarked DRAFT, “Drafted By: Missing.” https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01309586 pp.1-2. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10
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FBI FD-302, interview of Anthony Figueroa, Aug 19, 2020, case 50D-NY-3027571, date of entry Aug 27, 2020. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01309589 pp.1-4. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19
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FBI briefing deck, “Jeffrey Epstein Investigations,” slide headed “PROFFERS.” https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656173 p.11; the deck’s opening slide is at p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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Joint Pretrial Statement, S.D.N.Y. No. 15-cv-07433-RWS, certificate of service dated Apr 18, 2017. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00792756 p.12; caption at p.1, certificate of service at p.19. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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FBI FD-302, interview of Anthony Luis Zac Figueroa, Jan 10, 2007, file 31E-MM-108062, dictated Jan 10, 2007. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00162566 pp.14-15. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7
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FBI Electronic Communication (FD-1057), recording an interview of June 12, 2007, West Palm Beach, Florida. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02857863 p.179. ↩ ↩2