For five grueling years, author Sarah McCarthy devoted herself entirely to documenting one woman's descent into hell — a meticulous chronicle of how a talented psychology student and aspiring model was groomed, trafficked and abused across two continents by Jeffrey Epstein and his network of enablers.
The book, Blue Butterfly: Inside the Diary of an Epstein Survivor, was weeks away from publication when McCarthy made a devastating announcement on Monday Jan. 26 that reverberated far beyond the publishing world. The project was being shelved indefinitely, cancelled due to what McCarthy described in visceral terms as 'sustained physical and electronic harassment' from unnamed sources intent on keeping her silent.
