New York Post

2 more say #MeToo on Epstien

- By ANDREW DENNEY adenney@nypost.com

Two more women have accused Jeffrey Epstein of raping them as teens — with one saying she was lured to his house with the promise of a babysittin­g gig, court papers show.

Accuser Jane Doe 4 said she was 13 years old in 1984 when Epstein contacted her to babysit at his Hilton Head, SC, vacation home only to find she was the youngest person there, according to papers filed Monday in Manhattan federal court.

Instead, Epstein (pictured) plied her with alcohol and drugs and violently raped her, the papers charge.

Over the next several years, Epstein made more trips to Hilton Head and allegedly repeated the pattern.

“Epstein was supplying a teenage girl alcohol and illicit drugs and subsequent­ly assaulting and violent raping her,” the new filing states.

The convicted pedophile also took nude photos of Jane Doe 4 without her consent and flew her to New York City at least three times, where she was pimped out at “intimate gatherings with other prominent, wealthy men,” the suit charges.

The victim was “brutally and forcibly battered, assaulted and raped by these other men she met through Epstein,” the suit reads, without identifyin­g the highprofil­e attackers.

A second accuser, called Jane Doe 3 in court papers, said Epstein forced himself on her during a modeling casting call at an Upper East Side residence in 1990 when she was 15 years old.

She said he took photos of her in her underwear and pinned her against a wall before sexually assaulting her.

The suit says she dropped out of high school in the 10th grade from the “psychologi­cal and emotional scarring from her encounter with Epstein.”

The new accusers join two existing plaintiffs who filed a $100 million suit against Epstein’s estate in August.

The two original plaintiffs, identified in court papers as Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, both say they worked as hostesses at a now-shuttered coffee shop in Union Square in 2004 when an unidentifi­ed woman recruited them to give Epstein massages at his East 71st Street residence.

The new filing also names the executors of Epstein’s estate, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, as defendants in the case.

The 66-year-old hedgefunde­r committed suicide on Aug. 10 while in custody at Manhattan’s Metropolit­an Correction­al Center, just days after a federal judge denied his request to be released on bail while he awaited trial on child-sextraffic­king charges.

Epstein’s fortune is valued at $577 million, according to his will.

An attorney for Epstein’s estate did not immediatel­y respond to a request for comment.

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