Book excerpt on Epstein's recruitment of a Mar-a-Lago employee, per court filing

ERSSON FILTHY RICH everyone agrees the greatest Beach is Mar-a-Lago,” Trump aning his battle. “I took this ble and opened it, essentially, ct that I owned it made it a lot each establishment.” explained, “gets the [island’s] club. Members paid $14,000 tein had never properly joined Ghislaine Maxwell gave Epstein in a member’s young daughter while relaxing at Mar-a-Lago, d out to Epstein’s house. ne and that Epstein had tried to trectly to Trump, who-in no that he was barred from Mar-a- filed, the police had taken no named Virginia Roberts would I had an identical encounter at ment Virginia filed in her civil as a changing-room assistant at dollars an hour, when Ghislaine cwell asked Virginia if she was a massage therapist-which, if ther girl, Virginia told her father. 132 who was also employed at Mar-a-Lago as a maintenance manager. But Virginia’s father saw nothing wrong with the offer, and he drove her, later that day, to Epstein’s house on El Brillo Way. There, according to the document, Maxwell assured Virginia’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 therapy 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 apprehensive 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. 133 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_009282¶