Ghislaine and Epstein ‘threatened to feed rape victim to alligators’
PAEDOPHILE Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell threatened to throw a rape victim into a lake full of alligators if she contacted the police, a lawsuit claims.
The woman said she was abused by Epstein and Maxwell, his alleged chief recruiter, before being told she would be ‘devoured as had happened to other girls in the past’ if she reported it, court papers allege.
The lawsuit against Epstein’s estate and his lawyers was filed in Florida. It seeks unspecified damages for physical and emotional harm.
The woman, who is not named, said she was in her mid-20s when she met Epstein and Maxwell, who introduced herself as ‘G-Max’, at a Florida barbecue in 2006 or 2007.
The Turkish Muslim, identified only as ‘Jane Doe’, said she worked as an estate agent to support her eight-year- old son and the gettogether was arranged by her boss.
After renting a property to Epstein for $10,000 (£7,250) a month for several months, she claims she agreed to give the financier a haircut at his Palm Beach mansion as she was a trainee hairdresser. The lawsuit states: ‘When ushered into his presence, Epstein was naked, and he proceeded, with Maxwell’s assistance, to brutally rape [Doe] and otherwise sexually abuse [Doe].
‘At the conclusion of this initial rape and sexual assault, Epstein forced [Doe] to accept roughly $200 in cash as “compensation”.’
It goes on to claim: ‘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. For the purposes of threatening and persuading the plaintiff from reporting Epstein’s criminal acts against her, Epstein and Maxwell stopped the car at a large body of water that was infested with alligators.
‘Epstein then ushered the plaintiff to the body of water and told her in explicit detail that, as had happened to other girls in the past, she would end up in this body of water and be devoured by the alligators, should she ever reveal what Epstein had done to her.’
The woman said she was ‘repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted’ by Epstein and other men over the following five months. She claimed she was raped several times in front of her son and was also forced to undergo intimate surgery to make it appear as if she were a virgin, in what the court papers labelled ‘a particularly appalling act of savagery’ by Epstein.
Epstein hanged himself in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, but the new accuser claims she only became aware of this when Maxwell was arrested last July. Maxwell, 59, faces charges of enticing underage girls to Epstein to abuse, sex trafficking and perjury. Lawyers for Maxwell and Epstein’s estate did not return requests for comment.