The Justice Department has unveiled additional Epstein-related documents, featuring grand jury transcripts concerning Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. These latest files shed new light on the cases against the two.
One particular document from a grand jury session preceding Epstein’s trial in 2019—an event that never transpired due to his death in custody—reveals disturbing accounts of young girls’ experiences.
Part of the sixth set of documents made public by the DOJ on Saturday, includes an FBI agent’s testimony about a 14-year-old girl who visited Epstein’s Palm Beach residence. She was reportedly paid $300 each time she provided massages while dressed in her underwear.
The girl recounted to the agent that the massage room was stocked with various lotions and moisturizers. She also described the room’s walls adorned with sketches or paintings of nude women.
The home’s library, as noted in the transcript, was reminiscent of the enchanting one from “Beauty and the Beast.”
This latest document release follows a December 9 judicial decision allowing the DOJ to disclose grand jury materials from Maxwell’s sex trafficking probe.
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’.
Pictured: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell together in an undated photo released by the Department of Justice on Friday
Pictured: The front of Epstein’s mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. A transcript of a grand jury proceeding released Saturday revealed that a 14-year-old girl massaged Epstein there while in her underwear
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’.
Various Epstein accusers told authorities that there were pictures of naked women all through the Palm Beach home (Pictured: A room in Epstein’s New York mansion with similar material)
A photograph of Epstein’s office at his Palm Beach estate. This office was described by accusers whose stories were expanded upon in newly-released grand jury documents
Across the grand jury transcripts, Maxwell is implicated as a participant in Epstein’s sexual abuse of the young girls she helped recruit. In one document, an FBI agent said she walked around the pool at Epstein’s Palm Beach home topless in front of underage girls
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.
In data set 7, the second batch of materials released by the DOJ, there is direct victim testimony from a grand jury hearing in 2007 related to Epstein.
One 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.’
