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Another Ghislaine Maxwell accuser broke down on the stand Tuesday as she recalled massaging Jeffrey Epstein more than 100 times — and how “something sexual happened every single time.”
The woman, who is only being identified by her first name, also recalled how Maxwell allegedly groped her when she was just 14 years old.
“She came in and felt my boobs and my hips and my buttocks,” Carolyn said, her voice breaking as she recalled being fondled while undressing before one of the sexual Epstein massages.
Maxwell told her that she “had a great body for Mr. Epstein and his friends. She just said that I had good body type,” Carolyn added.
Carolyn — one of four accusers in the indictment against Maxwell and the second alleged victim to testify — said she was first introduced to the twisted couple in the early 2000s through Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has also claimed she was pimped out by the pair.
“She had an accent and she had shoulder-length black hair,” Carolyn said of Maxwell, whom she always referred to by her last name because she had trouble pronouncing Ghislaine.
Carolyn, who was 14 years old at the time when she met Maxwell and Epstein in Palm Beach, recalled Maxwell telling Giuffre, “You can bring her upstairs and show her what to do.”
What happened next was the first of “over 100” rubdowns where “something sexual happened every single time,” Carolyn testified.
Giuffre brought her to Epstein’s massage room that day and stripped nude, she said. Carolyn also undressed but kept her bra and underwear on, she added.
Epstein walked in shortly after, and the two of them rubbed his legs up to his buttocks for about 45 minutes, she said. After the rubdown, Epstein flipped over and began having sex with Giuffre, Carolyn added.
She was paid $300 for the first massage — and continued going back to Epstein’s house for the sessions over the next four years.
“I was young and $300 was a lot of money to make,” she said.
At times, Maxwell set up her massage appointments by calling either her cellphone, her mom’s cellphone or her boyfriend’s house phone.
Epstein associate Sarah Kellen also scheduled her appointments and Carolyn herself set up appointments, she said.
“A lot of them run together,” Carolyn testified of the encounters.
Jurors in Manhattan federal court — where Maxwell stands accused of recruiting, grooming and abusing girls and young women with Epstein — also heard more disturbing details of Carolyn’s time with the multimillionaire pedophile.
Most times, Epstein would masturbate while touching her breasts, she testified.
At least twice, a fully nude woman joined while Carolyn massaged Epstein. During one of those sessions, the woman performed oral sex on Carolyn while having sex with Epstein.
Another time, Epstein raped Carolyn until she told him she wasn’t comfortable with it.
At times during the harrowing testimony, Maxwell’s brother, Kevin Maxwell, put his head in his hands and looked at the floor as he listened from the first row of the courtroom gallery.
Carolyn added that she told Maxwell about her troubled upbringing, including her being raped by her grandfather starting at the age of 4. Her mother was also an alcoholic and a drug addict, she said.
During her years of abuse by Epstein, Carolyn said, she was using the cash he gave her to buy drugs and alcohol — and eventually became an addict herself.
She testified that she now has schizophrenia and takes a number of medications, including methadone for her opioid addiction.
She stopped giving Epstein massages when she turned 18 years old because, she said, she was too old for the pedophile.
