Haley Robson was a teenager living in West Palm Beach when she was introduced to Jeffrey Epstein's network through a girl she knew from high school. In testimony given to Palm Beach police and later in her account in the documentary Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, she described the circumstances of her recruitment and her subsequent role in bringing other girls to Epstein's residence[8].
Robson had experienced significant trauma before meeting Epstein. The summer before she turned sixteen she was raped, an assault she described as her first experience with a man. In its aftermath she began using drugs and alcohol and, in her words, wanted to disappear. When a classmate told her she knew a man who would pay two hundred dollars for a massage, Robson said her immediate thought was that it was her way out of West Palm[8].
On her first visit to Epstein's Palm Beach home she noted the wall art which she described as a great deal of nudity, naked statues and naked pictures and what she described as a photograph of children that she found disturbing. The massage began as a massage. When Epstein turned over he was unclothed. He attempted to touch her below the belt. She declined. He then offered her money to bring other girls to him instead[8].
Robson went on to recruit approximately twenty-four girls, taking them to the room and waiting outside while they were with Epstein. In her account Epstein made efforts to appear friendly and caring to the girls who came, asking after their families and presenting himself as someone who had their interests at heart[8].
Palm Beach police investigators confronted Robson directly about her role. Captain George Frick told her plainly that she had implicated herself in a crime specifically that she had taken girls to a location for the purpose of prostitution, and that one of those girls was fourteen years old, which he characterised as a significant second-degree felony. Robson recalled being treated as though she were Epstein's right-hand person, and asked about the girls who had recruited her, and who had recruited that girl[8].