The 16-year-old needed money for Christmas in 2004, and although she had no experience, she said she was hired to massage a man named Jeffrey Epstein.
Her memories were vivid when she described the events to Palm Beach, Florida, detectives a year later: His was the last house on the left of an exclusive neighborhood. Up a spiral staircase, in the bathroom of the master bedroom, she said he directed her to undress. He remarked she was “beautiful and sexy.” He unsnapped her bra, rubbed her chest and asked her if it was something she enjoyed, she said.
“No, I don’t like it,” she responded, according to detectives.
Epstein continued to touch her sexually as he masturbated, she said. She felt uncomfortable. When it was over, there was $200 on the bedroom dresser.
The teen’s allegations from nearly two decades ago are told in an investigator’s typed, two-page narrative — part of a trove of unsealed court documents made public last week under the order of a federal judge in New York. While the accusation against Epstein, who died in jail in 2019, mirrors others that have been known publicly over the years, the documents released so far widen the public’s understanding of his alleged sex trafficking scheme and give greater context to the elite circles the wealthy financier moved in and the control he leveraged.
More documents — in total, hundreds of pages expected to make public the names of more than 150 people connected to or mentioned in legal proceedings related to Epstein and his network — are to be released.
“The public is now seeing our pieces of that information trickling out, allowing the general public to understand what actually happened with the sex-trafficking operation,” said Sigrid McCawley, a lawyer for Epstein victim Virginia Roberts Giuffre, whose 2015 defamation lawsuit against Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell yielded many of the documents in the case. “It shows how the operation worked, it shows who participated and what…
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