British woman testifies about grooming by Ghislaine Maxwell

NEW YORK – A British pistillate testified Monday that Ghislaine Maxwell pressured her into giving Jeffrey Epstein intersexual massages erstwhile she was inactive a teenager, assuring her she would person “fun” with him.

The pistillate — testifying astatine Maxwell’s sex-abuse proceedings successful New York City utilizing the pseudonym “Kate” to support her privateness — described 1 occurrence during the mid-1990s astatine Epstein’s Palm Beach, Florida property wherever Maxwell near retired a schoolgirl’s outfit with a pleated skirt for her to deterioration for the financier.

“I thought it would beryllium amusive for you to instrumentality Jeffrey his beverage successful this outfit,” the witnesser recalled Maxwell telling her.

After a intersexual brushwood that followed, the British socialite “asked maine if I had fun” and told her, “You are specified a bully girl,” she said.

The witnesser was the 2nd pistillate to instrumentality the witnesser basal against Maxwell successful national tribunal successful Manhattan. But dissimilar the first, she was astatine the property of consent successful Great Britain and the United States during her intersexual interaction with Epstein, truthful the justice barred her from detailing circumstantial enactment acts.

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Maxwell, 59, has denied charges she groomed girls arsenic young arsenic 14 for Epstein, who killed himself successful jailhouse successful 2019. Her lawyers accidental the authorities is making her a scapegoat for Epstein’s alleged enactment crimes.

The pistillate who testified connected Monday said she met Maxwell astatine property 17 done a person of hers she had dated connected and off, and was anxious to beryllium friends with the British socialite. Maxwell told her Epstein, past her boyfriend, was a philanthropist who could assistance her with her singing career, she said.

Maxwell besides told her that Epstein was “demanding” erstwhile it came to intersexual massages, saying it was “very hard to support up" with his needs, the witnesser said. After agreeing to springiness him massages successful London, she was aboriginal flown connected commercialized flights to Florida, wherever she said the interactions continued erstwhile she was 18.

Maxwell’s demeanor was “almost similar a schoolgirl,” she said. “Everything was fun. Everything seemed to beryllium similar a fun, silly joke."

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She said she resisted “disengaging” from Maxwell and Epstein “because I had witnessed however connected they some were and I was fearful,” she said.

Asked astir wanting to attest anonymously, she said, “I person a immense magnitude of humiliation and shame astir the events that took place” and wanted to support her child.

On cross-examination, a lawyer for Maxwell got the witnesser to admit instances wherever she had spoken retired publically astir Epstein and Maxwell utilizing her existent name. She besides asked whether her past of cause and intoxicant maltreatment affected her memory.

“It has not had an interaction connected the memories I person ever had,” she said.

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