A woman named as “Minor Victim-1” in the federal indictment against Jeffrey Epstein sued his estate on Wednesday — detailing how she was recruited at 14 to become one of the late pedophile’s numerous sex slaves.
The woman, identified only as Jane Doe, was introduced to Epstein in 2002 through another teenage girl and lured to his Upper East Side mansion, which looked “like a castle in the fairytale ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ one of her favorite Disney movies at the time,” according to the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court.
At the time, her family was “in serious financial straight” and she had been forced to move out of her mother’s home and live with various friends, working odd jobs to help, the lawsuit states.
The wealthy financier allegedly took advantage of the girl’s situation to sexually abuse her, beginning on her first visit to his mansion, where he used the pretense of getting a “massage” to grope her.
“As her visits became more frequent, Epstein’s sexual abuse of Doe became more severe,” the suit states.
“All told, Doe was sexually assaulted by Epstein countless times over the course of three years.”
This is at least the sixth lawsuit brought against the multimillionaire’s estate since his suicide in a Manhattan lockup in August while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
The woman bringing the most recent lawsuit says she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and depression as a result of the years of sexual abuse she suffered.
She eventually stopped going to school and spent almost all of her time ” ‘working’ at his home, gratifying him sexually, or bringing other girls to do the same” — before extracting herself from Epstein’s orbit at 17 years old.
The abuse was facilitated by two of Epstein’s assistants, who “asked Doe to bring other girls with her to Epstein’s home,” including girls “who Epstein had assaulted before.”
The employees were named in Epstein’s 2008 deal with federal prosecutors in Florida as being immune from further federal prosecution. At that time, Epstein pleaded guilty to state prostitution-related charges and spent 13 months in jail, much of them on a cushy work-release program.
In March 2018, Doe was contacted by authorities looking into Epstein’s widespread sex trafficking scheme and she “confidentially cooperated with the investigation, recounting Epstein’s abuse in painstaking detail over the course of many meetings,” the lawsuit states.
Epstein was arrested in July on the two-count indictment, which was dismissed after his death on Aug. 10. He had pleaded not guilty.
A lawyer for Epstein’s estate didn’t return a request for comment.