Victim asks if Epstein employees knew more than they disclosed

A VICTIM of Jeffrey Epstein has questioned whether former employees who gave evidence to a New York court this week about ferrying teenage girls for the financier and Ghislaine Maxwell knew more than they have disclosed about the scale of the abuse.

Lawrence “Larry” Visoski, Epstein’s pilot of 30 years, and Juan Alessi, a longtime housekeeper at his Florida mansion, took the stand as witnesses for the US government against Ms Maxwell.

It has been claimed Mr Visoski and Mr Alessi, 71, – neither of whom have been charged with any crimes – may hold the key to understanding how the vast sex-trafficking ring run by Epstein, allegedly with the help of Ms Maxwell, went unexposed. The British socialite has denied grooming charges.

Maria Farmer, a victim of Epstein’s alongside her younger sister Annie, who is testifying tomorrow, accused Mr Visoski of “transporting little girls 24/7 via a jet” and claimed Mr Alessi “knew and enabled paedophilia for decades”.

She questioned why, after Mr Alessi told a podcast he had noticed Epstein’s girls were becoming “younger and younger” he did not report his concerns. Both Mr Visoski and Mr Alessi have denied the allegations, claiming in court that they never witnessed either Epstein or Ms Maxwell acting inappropriately with underage girls or trafficked women.

Mr Visoski, who estimated he flew more than 1,000 times with Epstein, documented his trips around the world. He testified last week that he did not believe any of the unaccompanied females on the planes were under 18.

However, he said he had met one of the alleged victims in Ms Maxwell’s criminal case, who is using the pseudonym “Jane”, as well as Prince Andrew’s accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who would have been 16 at the time.

He described Jane – who said she was 14 when she first flew on Epstein’splane – as “a mature woman with piercing eyes” and apparently previously described noticing her “large breasts”.

Epstein’s pilots were served with the subpoenas in 2019. Mr Visoski told the court on Monday how Epstein gave him four acres of land at his sprawling “Zorro” ranch in New Mexico.

He said Epstein also paid for his daughters’ university tuition and bought luxury cars in his name. Mr Alessi, who worked full time on the Palm Beach estate from 1991 to 2002, told the jury of how he would phone women on the instruction of Epstein and Ms Maxwell to book massages for the New York-born financier.

Mr Alessi told police in 2005 as part of their investigation into Epstein that he had as many as three massages a day, and that towards the end of his employment, in 2002, the women giving them were “younger and younger”.

He told the podcast Broken: Seeking Justice last year that he had warned Epstein he was seeing too many women. “I told him, ‘one of these girls one day is going to get you in trouble’,” he claims.

“Yet Juan never reported any of it,” Maria Farmer said on Friday.

Ms Maxwell’s lawyers appeared to attempt to liken Mr Alessi’s role to that Ms Maxwell is alleged to have played. “You knew what was happening,” said defence attorney Jeffrey Pagliuca.

Asked if he believed the masseuers were “of age”, Mr Alessi responded: “I believed so.” Mr Pagliuca asked him if anyone alerted him to the abuse. He replied: “No. They never did. I wish they did because I would have done something to stop it.” The trial continues.