Sordid new details have emerged about the sexual abuse Jeffrey Epstein carried out against young girls after the Department of Justice released more files related to the disgraced financier.
The latest tranche dropped on Saturday and mainly relates to grand jury transcripts from cases against Epstein and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.
The documents contain harrowing testimony directly from victims as well as from FBI agents recounting their interviews with young girls.
In one document from a grand jury hearing ahead of Epstein’s 2019 trial, which never occurred because he died in jail, there were horrific details about what young girls were asked to do.
Included in data set 6, the first batch of documents, an FBI agent testified that a 14-year-old girl went to his home in Palm Beach, Florida, to massage him in her underwear. The girl was paid $300 per session, according to the agent’s testimony.
The girl told the agent about how the massage room had lotions and moisturizers. She also detailed how the walls were covered in sketches or paintings of naked females.
A library in the home was straight out of Beauty and the Beast, according to the hearing’s transcript.
The latest disclosure comes after a judge ruled on December 9 that the DOJ was legally allowed to release grand jury materials from Maxwell’s sex trafficking investigation.
Because grand jury proceedings are secret by their very nature, it was unclear whether the DOJ would be able to release these documents as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that was signed by President Donald Trump last month.
US District Judge Paul Engelmayer said the grand jury materials had to be released because of that law, but he said mechanisms needed to be put in place to protect victims from disclosures that could ‘identify them or otherwise invade their privacy’.
The files dumped on Saturday afternoon were far less redacted than what was released on Friday.
Democrats, including Congressman Ro Khanna, one of the authors of the law compelling the release of the Epstein files, were particularly furious with one document that contained 119 pages of grand jury testimony was entirely blacked out.
By contrast, the documents released on Saturday had much more context to them. One of the disclosures shows a series of notes left for Epstein throughout 2005 with messages like ‘has girl for tonight’ and ‘she can be here tomorrow from 2pm to whenever’.
One note left for the disgraced financier conveyed the message that a girl he was seeing ‘would like to speak to you. I belive (sic) about college.’
In a grand jury hearing on November 19, 2019, for the federal case against Ghislaine Maxwell, an FBI agent talked at length about a girl who met Epstein and Maxwell while at summer camp in 1994 at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan.
The girl was 13 going on 14, the agent explained, and the sex trafficking duo interrupted her while she was talking to her friends at a picnic table to ask about her classes and teachers at the art education camp.
Eventually, Epstein talked his way into the girl’s mother’s home, where he explained that he ‘gives scholarships’ and ‘likes to mentor people’, according to the agent’s testimony.
The girl then began regularly spending time with Maxwell and Epstein and the Palm Beach home, the agent said. The girl told the FBI that they treated her to movies and shopping, which she described as ‘grooming’.
Once Epstein came to learn that the girl, still underage, wanted to become an actress and a model, he said he ‘was best friends with the owner’ of Victoria’s Secret. He then pulled her into his lap, exposed himself and sexually abused her, according to the agent.
A review of the grand jury materials show he used this Victoria’s Secret line with other young girls who expressed an interest modeling as a way to impress them and convey that he could make their dream career a reality.
Similar patterns of abuse emerge throughout the many grand jury documents. Maxwell was often topless around the underage girls Epstein would have in the pool area of the Palm Beach home.
Maxwell was also accused of groping her victims while directing them on how to please Epstein during massage sessions, showing that she didn’t merely arrange the abuse but participated in it.
She was also cast as Epstein’s de facto enforcer with the girls he kept in his employ, though she kept them in line in a twisted, self-victimizing way, according to one transcript.
Maxwell told one girl that she herself would ‘get in trouble’ if Epstein didn’t get his daily massage from her, seemingly an attempt to guilt the girl into doing what she was told.
In data set 7, the second batch of materials released by the DOJ, there is more direct victim testimony, including comments made during a grand jury hearing in 2007 related to Epstein.
The accuser told the court that during a massage, she was naked and Epstein tried to fondle her. When she refused, she said he recruited her into a criminal conspiracy to bring him underage girls that had fewer qualms about being sexual with him.
‘I wouldn’t have it,’ the accuser said. ‘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.’
‘There were a few girls he wasn’t crazy about. He didn’t really like. He didn’t favor [redacted] for instance, 23, he thought she was kind of too old,’ the woman continued.
‘The more you did is the more you make. 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.’
In data set six, the first batch of materials released by the DOJ, an FBI agent recalled speaking to a 14-year-old girl who was introduced to Epstein and Maxwell through her 17-year-old boyfriend.
The boyfriend, identified as Shawn, had asked his then girlfriend if she wanted to ‘massage and old man and she would be paid money in return for that,’ the official recalled, per the filing.
The girl then agreed and went to Epstein’s home in 2001 and was immediately introduced to Maxwell after entering through the side door, the documents stated.
The young girl was then taken to a massage room that had several nude photographs on its walls, including some of Maxwell.
Epstein soon entered the room, and the girl and Maxwell began massaging him before he turned over and ‘they had sex,’ the agent stated.
The teenager went to Epstein’s home on several occasions, and soon started to bring other girls around after both he and Maxwell specifically ‘asked if she could bring younger girls’ and promised ‘she could earn more money’ if she did, the agent said.
The girls involved would each get paid $300, often in ‘crisp $100 bills.’ They would also receive gifts from financer, including flowers, Victoria’s Secret underwear and a book called ‘Massage for Dummies,’ per the agent.
The girl told the agent the gifts would be shipped either through UPS of FedEx at her home in West Palm Beach, Florida.
That same girl dropped out of school at the age of 14 and told officials she would use the money she got from Epstein and Maxwell to buy drugs that both she and her boyfriend used, the legal document said.
Throughout the documents, many of the young girls described their relationship to Maxwell like that of ‘sisters.’
According to the agent, a teenage girl who was raised in England said: ‘Maxwell treated her like they were sisters.
‘Her quote was “like naughty school girls” is how Maxwell treated with her,’ the documents read.
