Miami Herald (Sunday)

Behind closed doors with Epstein and Maxwell — his obsessions, their threesomes, her exit

- BY JULIE K. BROWN, BRITTANY WALLMAN AND BEN WIEDER jbrown@miamiheral­d.com bwallman@miamiheral­d.com bwieder@mcclatchyd­c.com

A fresh batch of court documents unsealed Friday provides new evidence of the lengths Ghislaine Maxwell went to satisfy Jeffrey Epstein’s obsessions, and the Svengali-like

hold Epstein had on her years after their romantic relationsh­ip had come to an end.

The documents show Maxwell’s constant efforts to find new young women and girls to satisfy Epstein, including having threesomes with other women, which she insisted involved adults and were consensual.

“I recall a blonde and I recall a brunette,” Maxwell

said according to testimony that was newly unsealed in the court records.

His estate in Palm Beach was a revolving door of women and young girls, all ushered in to give a naked Epstein massages that turned into sex.

The records are part of discovery in a 2015 defamation lawsuit brought against Maxwell by victim

Virginia Giuffre, who took legal action when Maxwell called her a liar for describing Maxwell and Epstein as sex trafficker­s. The suit was settled in 2017, with Maxwell reportedly paying Giuffre millions of dollars. The file was then sealed by the judge, who has since died.

Giuffre’s ex-boyfriend, Tony Figueroa, describes the constant demands by

Epstein and Maxwell to supply Epstein with

“more girls” — and Figueroa’s efforts to fulfill their demands. He was paid $200-$300 for each new girl he brought Epstein at his Palm Beach estate, he testified during deposition.

“Pretty much every time there was a conversati­on with any of them, it was either asking Virginia [Giuffre] where she was at, or asking her to get girls, or asking me to get girls,” Figueroa said in his 2016 deposition, included among the newly unsealed documents.

Johanna Sjoberg, an Epstein victim whose May 18, 2016, deposition was unsealed in full this week, recalled Maxwell telling her that, “she would not be able to please him as much as he needed and that is why there were other girls around.”

Sjoberg said that Maxwell originally recruited her on the campus of

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