Ghislaine Maxwell's First Accuser Testifies In Trial, Details Threesomes With Jeffrey Epstein Where He Had Her 'Straddle His Face'
Nov. 30 2021, Published 5:27 p.m. ET
The first of Ghislaine Maxwell's alleged underage victims testified Tuesday on day two of the ex-socialite's sex trafficking trial.
Taking the stand in Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in downtown Manhattan, New York, the woman – identified only as Jane – detailed the abuses she claims she suffered at the hands of the alleged madam and her late accused pedophile boyfriend, Jeffrey Epstein.
Jane is one of four women who Maxwell has been charged with grooming to be sexually abused by Epstein between 1994 and 2004, when they were minors. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty.
Jane told the court she met Epstein and Maxwell in 1994 when she was 14 years old. She said she was sitting at a picnic table with some friends at a Michigan summer camp for talented children when the couple approached her. Epstein allegedly told Jane he was a donor who gave scholarships to youngsters at the camp, and when the couple discovered that they all lived in Palm Beach, Florida, they allegedly asked for Jane's phone number.
She told the jury Maxwell initially presented herself as a big sister figure and that she was "odd but nice."
Jane said Maxwell soon started talking to her about sex and that she began going to Epstein's house about once every week or two.
She said she had her first sexual encounter – both ever and with Epstein – following a conversation about her future.
Epstein allegedly told Jane he could introduce her to talent agents, then led her from his office to the pool house. She said it was there that he sat down on a couch, pulled down his sweatpants and pulled her on top of him while he masturbated.
"I was frozen in fear," she told the jury, according to The New York Times. "I had never seen a [expletive] before."
"I was terrified and felt gross and like I felt ashamed," she added.