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Financier Jeffrey Epstein died in a New York jail cell in 2019

Financier Jeffrey Epstein died in a New York jail cell in 2019

Handout photo issued by US Department of Justice of the massage room at Jeffrey Epstein's New York house. Photo: US Department of Justice/PA Wire

Handout photo issued by US Department of Justice of the massage room at Jeffrey Epstein's New York house. Photo: US Department of Justice/PA Wire

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Financier Jeffrey Epstein died in a New York jail cell in 2019

A third woman who has accused Ghislaine Maxwell of grooming her for abuse by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein testified at the British socialite’s criminal trial that she gave Epstein sexual massages when she was 14.

The woman, identified as ‘Carolyn’, recalled how Epstein would touch her breasts and buttocks, and that the encounters would end with Epstein masturbating until he ejaculated.

“Something sexual happened every single time,” Carolyn told jurors in Manhattan federal court.

She said Ms Maxwell would sometimes call her to schedule appointments with Epstein, during each of which she would be paid $300 to $400

She claimed Ms Maxwell once touched her while she was preparing to massage Epstein. She said she had told Ms Maxwell she was 14 and that she had been raped and abused from the age of four.

She told the court that Ms Maxwell had felt her breasts, hips, and buttocks and told her she “had a great body for ­(Jeffrey) Epstein and his friends”.

Ms Maxwell (59) is accused of luring young girls to massage rooms to be molested by Epstein between 1994 and 2004. She denies all the charges.

Carolyn told jurors she was photographed naked at Epstein’s house and was paid $500-$600 for it.

Asking about what happened in the massage room with Epstein, Ms Comey asked: “For the first 45 minutes, what would you do?”

“I would massage him.”

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Questioned on what they would talk about during the massage, Carolyn said: “There were conversations about my life and my upbringing.

“I said that my mum was an alcoholic.

“I told him I had been molested and raped.”

The witness said she was paid $300-$400 after each massage – and said Ms Maxwell had handed her cash on a couple of occasions.

Asked if she ever received gifts from Epstein, Carolyn said: “I received lingerie from Victoria’s Secret.”

She said she brought two or three friends to Epstein’s house after “he asked me if I had any friends who were my age or younger.”

Carolyn said she was paid double the money her friends were paid for the massages because she had brought them to the house.

She said he touched her breasts and buttocks every time she was there.

Carolyn said when her friends were also in the room, he would touch their breasts and buttocks as well.

The witness continued: “He tried one time to use a vibrating thing on me and I immediately told him I am not comfortable with that.”

Asked who else Epstein had brought into the room, Carolyn said: “On two separate occasions a girl came in who was already fully nude.

“Jeffrey was having sex with her while the female performed oral sex on me.”

The witness said Epstein had tried to have sex with her twice, but she told him she “wasn’t comfortable with that”.

Carolyn then choked up after telling the court the money she made from the massages would be spent on drugs.

She told jurors she had gone back to Epstein’s house after becoming a mother around four or five times.

The witness said: “He asked me if I had any younger friends and I said no, and that’s when I realised that I was too old.”

“How old were you?”

“18,” she replied.

Epstein was found dead in his cell at a federal jail in Manhattan in August 2019 while he awaited trial on sex-trafficking charges. The death was ruled a suicide.

The trial continues.


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