‘Maxwell made me dress as a schoolgirl’

NEW YORK: Ghislaine Maxwell gave a teenage girl a schoolgirl outfit at billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida mansion and requested she serve him tea while wearing the costume, the now grown woman has told a New York court.

The witness, identified only as “Kate” to protect her child, said the pleated skirt, white socks and shirt were laid out for her on a bed when she arrived at the mansion with the duo in the early 1990s.

“I thought it would be fun for you to take Jeffrey his tea in this outfit,” Maxwell told her when she asked about it.

Maxwell then gave her a tray, which she took to Epstein, who then engaged in sex acts with the girl near his pool, she testified.

Under questioning from the prosecution, Kate alleged that she was 17 when she was introduced to Maxwell (pictured) by a friend.

“She was very sophisticated and very elegant,” Kate said of Maxwell during questioning.

Kate said she gave Maxwell her phone number, and she was invited to tea a few weeks later at her home in London.

“I felt special,” Kate said. “I felt that I had found a new connection that could be really meaningful to me. Like somebody wanted me, like somebody wanted to be my friend.”

Kate said she told Maxwell about her difficult home life. She was living in London with her mother, who was ill.

Maxwell, she said, “told me amazing things about her boyfriend” Epstein – that he was a philanthropist and “liked to help young people”.

“She said that he was going to love me,” she said.

A few weeks later, Maxwell invited Kate to give Epstein a massage at her London home, she said, adding that Epstein disrobed and turned it into a sex act. She said Maxwell later asked her: “How did it go? Did you have fun? Was it good? You’re such a good girl.’ ”

Maxwell is charged with sex trafficking and other crimes. She denies the charges.