Book excerpt on Palm Beach police interviews with massage victims

TERSON FILTHY RICH s them inside. She introduces Just as she did with Mary, a woman named Sarah had taken ter. Jenny is sixteen years old. Francine upstairs and into a bedroom. Then Epstein had entered table, they see that she’s nerthe room, wearing only a towel. d fidgeting, she tells them that house. She kept her clothes on during the massage. She advised But nothing much happened. sometime during the massage, Epstein grabbed her buttocks some time in the kitchen is all. and pulled her close to him. Francine said she was [made] uncomfortable by the incident involving Jeff. At the conclusion of the massage she was paid $200.00 for the massage. e says. “But really, I just want to “Do you have any formal training in massages?” the offi- : “You have our numbers. But cers ask. g else, you’ll find that we’re very “No,” says Francine. But she does have one more thing to tell them. ve Michael Dawson have better Sarah’s been calling Francine’s cell phone. :, a girl who tells them that a year It could mean any number of things. The police know already ne she knew from high schoolthat Epstein’s caught wind of their investigation. Now it appears illo Way. he’s doing something about it, or at least he’s delegating the seventeen at the time. responsibility. This troubles the cops. But then, on that same : a sworn statement. The officers day, they get one more break: Jenny calls and says that without her parents around she’s willing to make a sworn statement. money working for Jeff. She was de a massage for Jeff…She was It turns out that Jenny’s visited with Epstein several times. by [Dobbs]. They met with the And, it turns out, she’d done much more than sit in the y in the Kitchen area. Francine kitchen. Without her parents around, she’s much more willing to for her in the kitchen. talk about it. 68 The first time she’d gone to the house on El Brillo Way, she says, Epstein had tried to take off her shirt. She’d become upset, 69 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_009124¶