Epstein’s Ex-Girlfriend ‘Traded’ Her with His Rich Pals

Patricia Schmidt thought her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was different.

She was 23, working as an office assistant at Bear Stearns, when she says she met the older financier in 1985 through her boss. What followed, Schmidt claims, was a year-long consensual romance that, at the time, didn’t feel like a transaction.

But decades later, after revisiting her old diaries, Schmidt says her perspective changed in a chilling way.

In a new interview on 60 Minutes Australia, Schmidt told reporter Tara Brown she now believes Epstein treated her like “currency” — someone he could show off, shuffle around, and potentially “trade” to impress the wealthy men orbiting him.

She recalled one diary entry as a major red flag: Epstein allegedly called and asked her to show a “friend” around Bear Stearns. According to Schmidt, the “friend” showed up with his father, and both were visiting from Switzerland.

That was the moment, she says, the pattern clicked.

Schmidt claimed Epstein frequently asked her to meet clients or friends for lunches and dinners — and she believes those requests weren’t innocent networking.

When asked directly whether she thought Epstein was trying to “supply” her to these men for sex, Schmidt replied that she had to think the answer was yes.

She also stressed she never went through with anything.

“I never did,” she said, adding that she wasn’t interested in the men — but she believes Epstein’s intent was there anyway.

Schmidt’s claims are especially disturbing because they describe what she sees as an early version of the tactics Epstein was later accused of using on a much larger, far more criminal scale.

By the mid-2000s, Epstein was under investigation in Florida over allegations involving underage girls brought to his Palm Beach mansion. He was arrested in 2006 and later pleaded guilty in 2008 to charges including soliciting prostitution from a minor, serving a controversial sentence that sparked outrage and scrutiny for years.

Epstein died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, but the fallout hasn’t stopped.

Virginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent accusers, alleged Epstein trafficked her to powerful men — accusations that helped bring renewed attention to his network and his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

Maxwell was convicted in 2021 and sentenced in 2022 to 20 years in prison for her role in Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme.

And while Schmidt’s story predates the criminal cases by decades, her claim lands like another grim reminder of how long Epstein’s world may have been operating in plain sight — and how many people believe the men around him still haven’t been held accountable.