Maxwell told Epstein sex victim, 'You're such a good girl:' Court
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At first, the teenager aspired to be just like socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
She soon changed her mind.
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The second week of 59-year-old Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial got underway in New York with the prosecution producing another damaging witness.
Using the pseudonym “Kate,” the woman testified about her time in billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s sinister web — and Maxwell’s alleged role.
Kate said that in the mid-1990s at the Palm Beach mansion, she was pressured into giving the hedge fund creep sexual massages. Maxwell assured the girl it would be “fun.”
On the bed was a schoolgirl outfit complete with a short pleated skirt, court heard. Kate was to wear it for Epstein.
“I thought it would be fun for you to take Jeffrey his tea in this outfit,” the witness recalled Maxwell telling her.
Court heard after the girl had sex with Epstein, Maxwell asked if she had “fun,” and added: “You are such a good girl.”
But because she was of age in the U.K. and U.S. at the times of the sexual encounters, the judge barred Kate from detailing specifics.
Maxwell has pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing in the grooming of girls as young as 14 for Epstein to ravage.
Kate testified she met Maxwell when she was 17 years old through a mutual friend. The socialite assured the aspiring singer that Epstein could help with her singing career.
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However, Epstein was “demanding” when it came to sexual massages, Maxwell told the teenager, adding it was “very difficult to keep up,” court heard.
Kate described life with Maxwell.
“(Ghislaine’s demeanor was) almost like a schoolgirl,” she said. “Everything was fun. Everything seemed to be like a fun, silly joke.”
But she did not make a run for it because of how “connected” the pair were, and under cross-examination, added that her history of drug and alcohol abuse had no impact on her memory of events.
And, Maxwell, she said, was “everything that I wanted to be. I left there [Maxwell’s house] feeling exhilarated and like somebody wanted to be my friend.”
Epstein died mysteriously in a New York jail cell in 2019 — just weeks after he was charged with a slew of sex trafficking crimes.
Last week, jurors heard from a woman known as “Jane,” who claimed Epstein sexually abused her beginning in 1994 while she was 14.
Maxwell, too, sometimes participated in their encounters, which often began as massages before escalating into full-blown orgies, Jane said.
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