Alleged Virginia Roberts testimony links Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and Mar‑a‑Lago staff to sexual abuse of a minor

‘ERSON , everyone agrees the greatest Beach is Mar-a-Lago,” Trump nning his battle. “I took this ible and opened it, essentially, act that I owned it made it a lot 3each establishment.” >xplained, “gets the [island's] club. Members paid $14,000 tein had never properly joined Ghislaine Maxwell gave Epstein »n a member’s young daughter -: while relaxing at Mar-a-Lago, .d out to Epstein’s house. ae and that Epstein had tried to irectly to Trump, who—in no that he was barred from Mar-a- filed, the police had taken no i named Virginia Roberts would | had an identical encounter at ment Virginia filed in her civil 4 as a changing-room assistant at P . dollars an hour, when Ghislainé © well asked Virginia if she was 4 a massage therapist — which, it f ther girl, Virginia told her father, ig Ki Firtyy Ricu who was also employed at Mar-a-Lago as a maintenance man- ager. But Virginia's father saw nothing wrong with the offer, and he drove her, later that day, to Epstein’s house on E] Brillo Way. There, according to the document, Maxwell assured Virgin- ia’s father that Ms. Maxwell would provide transportation home for his teenage daughter. Then she led Virginia upstairs, to a spa room equipped with a shower and a massage table. Jeffrey Epstein was lying, naked, on the table. Virginia was shocked, she says in the filing, but, with no experience with massages, thought this could be massage ther- apy protocol. “Ms. Maxwell then took off her own shirt and left on her underwear and started rubbing her breasts across [Jeffrey's] body, impliedly showing [Virginia] what she was expected to do,” the filing continues. “Ms. Maxwell then told [Virginia] to take off her clothes. The minor girl was apprehen- sive about doing this, but, in fear, proceeded to follow Ms. Maxwell by removing everything but her underwear. She was then ordered to remove her underwear and straddle [Epstein]. The encounter escalated, with [Jeffrey] and Ms. Maxwell sexually assaulting, battering, exploiting, and abusing [Virginia] in various ways and in various locations, including the steam room and the shower. At the end of this sexually exploitive abuse, [Epstein] and Ms. Maxwell giddily told [Virginia] to return the following day and told her she had ‘lots of potential’ [Epstein] paid [Virginia] hundreds of dollars, told her it was for two hours of work, and | directed one of her employees to drive her home.” At the time, Virginia was fifteen years old. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021989