Ghislaine Maxwell ordered a “room full of under-age girls” to dance, kiss and touch one other in front of Jeffrey Epstein and stole the passport of an alleged victim after she refused to have sex with him, it is alleged in court documents.
Papers released on Wednesday night in New York cite an unnamed witness who claims that he watched Ms Maxwell “direct” the girls to engage in the sexual activity at Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan.
The documents say that the same witness, reported in 2019 to be Rinaldo Rizzo, a butler who worked for the hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin and his wife, Eva Andersson-Dubin, was “in tears” as he recalled how a 15-year-old Swedish girl had told him that Ms Maxwell had stolen her passport and tried to “make her have sex with Epstein”.
Mr Rizzo said that he had found the girl crying in the kitchen in Epstein’s New York property and heard her describe her alleged treatment at the hands of Ms Maxwell while she was at Epstein’s US Virgin Islands property.
The allegations were among 112 court documents relating to a lawsuit between Ms Maxwell, 59, and Virginia Roberts Giuffre, 37, who sued her for defamation.
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