The woman who testified Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein began sexually abusing her when she was 14 years old

“Jane” detailed sexual abuse cases with Epstein in which Maxwell would sometimes participate, both in Palm Beach, Florida and Manhattan when she was 14, 15 and 16 years old.

Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and soliciting a minor to travel to commit illegal sexual acts, and the transportation of a minor to engage in criminal sex activity. for allegedly grooming and recruiting underage girls between 1994 and 1997.

She was also charged with sex trafficking of a minor between 2001 and 2004, as well as one count of conspiracy to traffic in sex.

Sometimes speaking in a shaky voice and wiping his eyes and nose with a tissue, “Jane” testified that Epstein and Maxwell had gradually normalized sex for the then 14-year-old girl.

Sometimes, Epstein would masturbate her and harass her, she said. Maxwell would sometimes get involved, touching her and Epstein, she testified.

On at least one occasion, Maxwell “instructed” her on how Epstein liked to get a massage while the three were in Epstein’s “massage room,” she testified.

“It seemed so ordinary, like it was so ordinary, like it was no big deal,” she said. “It left me feeling flustered because it didn’t feel normal to me.”

“Jane” was referred to as Juvenile Victim-1 in a federal indictment detailing the charges against Maxwell.

Epstein died by suicide in August 2019 while awaiting trial. Maxwell’s advice was that she was only charged because he was dead.

The couple is said to have broken up in the 1990s, although social ties remain close to him.

The hearing begins Monday with the pilot on site

During the final half-hour of Tuesday’s trial, defense attorney Laura Menninger began cross-examining “Jane” by asking her why she waited two decades to report her allegations to law enforcement. the law.

Menninger also asked her about the $5 million she received through the Epstein Victims Compensation Program.

“Jane” admitted that she dropped a 2020 lawsuit against Maxwell under a program agreement to receive financial settlement.

Cross testing is expected to resume on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, “Jane” said she first confided in her boyfriend’s abuse around 2007 when Epstein was arrested in Florida. Finally, she told several people, including her siblings, about her experience, she testified.

“Because how do you tell or describe any of this to any of your peers or siblings when all you feel is shame, disgust, and confusion? and you don’t even know how you ended up?”

“Jane” testified that she felt she couldn’t tell anyone about her abuse as a child in part because her mother discouraged her from speaking her mind.

“My mother was very enamored with the idea that these wealthy, well-to-do people cared about me,” she said.

“Jane” said she continued to give Epstein aphrodisiac massages at least while she was at school in New York when she was 18.

She would tell everyone that Epstein was her “godfather” and drop everything to answer his calls when he would be contacted, she said.

Epstein began giving cash to “Jane” shortly after the abuse began in 1994, and later paid for voice lessons, school, clothing and housing for her family, she said. he said.

She said she was unable to determine how many times Maxwell was involved in the abuse because it all persisted in her memory.

“It starts to look the same after a while and you become numb to it,” she says.

This woman cut off contact with Epstein around 2002. Her mother was still living in a New York apartment he paid for at the time, she said.

Federal prosecutors are expected to call “Jane”‘s former boyfriend to testify after what she shared with him about her alleged abusive conduct, but the judge said that she will give her verdict that Wednesday morning.