EP SEX PAL IN N.Y.
Ghislaine jailed in B’klyn as new accuser steps up
Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred to New York City to face charges of luring women into Jeffrey Epstein’s sick sex abuse trap, while in Los Angeles an outraged accuser stepped forward to say authorities “ignored” her in 1997 when she claimed the millionaire perv lured her to a fake Victoria’s Secret audition and groped her.
The Bureau of Prisons confirmed Monday that Maxwell (inset) was being held at MDC Brooklyn after her arrest last week in New Hampshire. She is accused of enticing underage girls to travel across state lines for sex. Prosecutors say she at times participated in sexual abuse of girls with Epstein.
The feds seek a Friday hearing in Manhattan Federal Court on whether the 58year-old British socialite will remain behind bars pending trial.
Epstein hanged himself last year at MDC Brooklyn’s sister institution in lower Manhattan, MCC, while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.
Speaking through tears at an L.A. press conference Monday, Alicia Arden said she was “terrified” by a horrific encounter with Epstein in her early 20s and tried to do the right thing by reporting it.
“I had always thought that when you reported something to the police, they would at least call you back,” Arden said. “I feared that he could be making appointments in other places and abusing other women like he abused me. Despite my efforts nobody ever called me.”
Visibly shaken, Arden described visiting Shutters hotel in Santa Monica on May 12, 1997 with the belief she was meeting Epstein for an interview to be cast in a Victoria’s Secret lingerie catalog.
She said he greeted her barefoot and quickly asked to see her body “up close.”
“He started touching my hips and buttocks and lifting up my shirt,” she said. “I was in a skirt and he touched my bare skin. I started to feel scared and began to cry.”
She said Epstein then made the creepy demand, “Let me manhandle you,” and told someone who called during their meeting that he was with a “beautiful girl” who was “very upset.”
“By that point my skirt was coming down and he was pulling my shirt over my head. I felt terrified,” she said. “I pulled my clothes back on, grabbed my portfolio and prepared to leave the room.”
She said Epstein tried to give her $100 as she tried to flee, and she told him, “Jeffrey, I’m not a prostitute. I want to be in the Victoria’s Secret catalog.”
Arden said she went to the Santa Monica police department hours later and got a cold reception.
“They said that I went up to the hotel room willingly, and that I intimidate men because of my appearance,” she recalled Monday, saying the male officers didn’t appear to take her complaint “seriously.”
“I felt violated all over again. I continued to think about the visit with Epstein. I knew that what he did was wrong and worried for myself and other women,” she said.
Arden said she returned a week later and “insisted” on giving a full statement for a formal, written report, which she shared Monday.
“Despite my efforts, nobody ever called me. There was never any followup. It seemed my complaint was ignored,” she said.
“The failure of law enforcement to follow up on her report is inexcusable, and Alicia deserves answers,” Arden’s lawyer Gloria Allred said Monday, on the one-year anniversary of Epstein’s arrest for sex trafficking last year.
The lawyer said she’s sending a letter to the Los Angeles district attorney and Santa Monica City attorney “demanding an investigation.”
“It took courage for Alicia to file the report, but then it appears that law enforcement failed to pursue it,” Allred said. “Was there a failure to investigate Jeffrey Epstein because he was rich, powerful and well-connected?”
The lawyer said she now represents 17 alleged victims of the degenerate businessman.