The files released Saturday included grand jury testimony from April 2007 in which a 21-year-old woman testified that she brought several fellow high schoolers to Jeffrey Epstein.
The woman testified before a federal grand jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, that she was introduced to Jeffrey Epstein through two acquaintances she met at a beach resort when they were all 16.
“They made a proposition to me,” the woman testified. “[redacted] had asked me if I wanted to make money and she was working for this guy, Epstein, in Palm Beach. So I told her I was interested and she further went into detail about massaging him, that you would have to take off articles of clothing and there would be touching and fondling involved.”
She says she took the friends up on the offer, and within a few days, she was at Epstein’s home, where she met Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who took her to a massage room.
“I was naked and he tried fondling me and I wouldn’t have it, so after the massage he gave me another proposition to bring girls to the house, and for every girl that I brought, I would make $200,” the woman testified, adding she was paid $200 for her massage.
Epstein paid her personally, the woman said, in $100 bills, but would never pay her in front of others. This girl said she never gave Epstein a massage again, but did start bringing girls to him. She said she brought girls from her high school, and other girls went up to her to ask about it.
“They had no problem with it,” she testified.
She says she took seven to 10 girls to Epstein’s home, including a 23-year-old woman. She testified that she was told that the woman was too old and was asked to not bring her back. The woman testified that nearly every other girl she brought to Epstein was 16 to 18 years of age, except one who was 14 years old.
“The more you did is the more you make,” she testified. “Basically, the more clothes that come off, the more you let him touch you, the more you just let him have his way with you is the more that you would make. Otherwise, you would be demoted down to bringing girls over and just making money that way.”
The woman said she would go through Maxwell to set up appointments with the girls, and once an appointment was made, she would drive the girls to the house.
She testified that, at times, she would be the one who would set things up for the massages if Maxwell could not do it.
When asked by a grand juror if she and Epstein were still in touch, she responded, “I don’t talk to any of the females that I once brought over there. I haven’t been in contact with Epstein for years. He tried contacting me a few times, I haven’t contacted him back. I refuse to talk to him. I refuse to talk to any of the girls that were involved. However, I did live with one of the girls in Orlando for a couple months to a year. I haven’t spoken to her in over a year either.”
Grand juries were convened in West Palm Beach in 2005 and 2007 to investigate Epstein, but he reached a deal with prosecutors to avoid federal charges by pleading guilty in 2008 to state prostitution charges. He served 13 months in county jail and had to register as a sex offender.
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