Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Epstein in ‘throw rape victim to the alligators threat’
Lakeside warning for mum ‘after Maxwell aided abuse’
JEFFREY Epstein allegedly threatened he would throw a rape victim into a lake of alligators if she ever told anyone, a lawsuit claims.
The woman was attacked by the late paedophile with the “assistance” of lover Ghislaine Maxwell, court papers allege.
The claimant alleges he told her she would be “devoured as had happened to other girls” if she spoke up, reports claim.
The Turkish-muslim woman, who is identified as Jane Doe, claims she was in her mid-20s when working as an estate agent to support her young son.
She is seeking unspecified damages from Epstein’s estate.
The woman claims that after renting a Palm Beach mansion to the billionaire, she offered to cut his hair at his home as she was a trainee hairdresser. Legal papers filed in Florida say a naked Epstein proceeded, “with Maxwell’s assistance”, to rape her. He then forced her to accept roughly $200 in cash as “compensation”, it is alleged.
Doe said she was “repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted” by Epstein and others over five months. The lawsuit states: “Immediately after this initial rape, Maxwell and Epstein forced [Doe] to drive with them, in [Doe’s] vehicle, where they picked up her young son and proceeded to a hotel in Naples, Florida. The plaintiff was visibly and uncontrollably crying.”
The lawsuit claims they arrived at “a large body of water infested with alligators”.
“Epstein then ushered the plaintiff to the water and told her in explicit detail that, as had happened to other girls, she would end up in this water and be devoured by the alligators, should she reveal what Epstein had done to her,” court papers allege.
Epstein, 66, hanged himself in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
Maxwell, 59, is awaiting trial in New York on charges of sex trafficking, enticing underage girls to Epstein to abuse and perjury, which she denies.