Maxwell maintained a steady gaze in the witness's direction, occasionally writing notes that she passed to lawyers. She also largely avoided looking at Maxwell, except when she pointed an index finger when asked to identify her. The witness testified in a quiet but steady voice, though she got choked up twice and also dabbed at her nose with a tissue as she described the sexual encounters. attorney Alison Moe questions an unidentified victim about her experiences with Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell Tuesday in New York. One of her lawyers said in an opening statement Monday that Maxwell is being turned into a scapegoat for Epstein, who died by suicide at the age of 66 while in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while he was awaiting his sex trafficking trial.įor more reporting from The Associated Press, see below. Maxwell is accused of finding and "grooming" young girls like Tuesday's witness for Epstein and herself to sexually abuse from 1994 to at least 2004. She also testified that Maxwell taught her to give sexual massages to Epstein, occasionally participating in future encounters.
I was terrified and felt gross and felt ashamed." Sometime later, Epstein allegedly one day took her into a pool house at his Palm Beach home, pulled down his pants, and "proceeded to masturbate" in front of her, she testified. Soon after, the pair met her mother and spent more time around her, and eventually allegedly took the girl shopping to stores like Victoria's Secret for clothing and underwear. She said she met Epstein and Maxwell in 1994 at a music camp when she was a 14-year-old girl who wanted to pursue a singing career. She testified that she endured sexual encounters with Jeffrey Epstein spanning from 1994 to 1997, beginning when she was 14 years old, and Maxwell was often in the room and acted "very casual.like it was no big deal."
The witness, a woman in her early 40s, was introduced to jurors as "Jane," a pseudonym she prefers to use, partially to protect an acting career of over 20 years.
DRAL WITCH IT TRIAL
As testimony continued in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell Tuesday, the first of four women described as key accusers began her testimony against Maxwell, according to The Associated Press.
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