A woman says in a new Manhattan lawsuit that she was just 15 years old when Jeffrey Epstein raped her — and added at an emotional press conference Monday that it’s ludicrous to think that those around him were unaware of his sick deeds.
The unidentified 31-year-old woman did not mention Prince Andrew by name as she spoke about Epstein’s pals’ alleged duplicity. But the royal has been battered by a firestorm of criticism over his longtime friendship with the multimillionaire, including during the years the pedophile was abusing young girls, and has been accused himself of having sex with one of Epstein’s underage “slaves.”
“Jeffrey Epstein was only a small part of an insidious system of privilege that exploits children as sexual commodities and robs them of their youth,‘’ the woman said, accompanied by her lawyer, celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, in California.
“It was clear from the time I spent with Epstein that something was very wrong with his lifestyle, and it didn’t take a victim to see that. We were not hidden,” the woman said. “It is upsetting to me that anyone who is closely associated with Jeffrey Epstein didn’t suspect that he might be sexually abusing children.”
The woman said one of Epstein’s assistants did contact her at one point to ask her to fly to his property in the Virgin Islands — “where I was told Andrew, among others, would be a guest” — but that she declined “out of fear” after the financier and a female assistant had separately sexually assaulted her.
The woman also joined the growing chorus of public figures Monday urging Prince Andrew to talk to the FBI under oath about what he knew about Epstein. Andrew has denied being involved in any crime or having any knowledge of one committed by Epstein.
‘Prince Andrew and any others who were close to Epstein should come forward and give a statement under oath on what information they have,” the woman said. “Just because Epstein is dead doesn’t mean that others around him don’t deserve their day in court.”
Allred added that the royal was in three of Epstein’s homes and “he should have asked why these girls are here. Are they working here? What are their jobs? Where are their parents?
“It’s not something anyone should close their eyes to,” the lawyer said. “These are kids. [Andrew] has two daughters.”
Jane Doe 15 eventually found herself on board the “Lolita Express” plane after Epstein began grooming her when she was in New York for a school trip.
“When I chose a seat on the jet, Jeffrey told me that is where his good friend Bill Clinton always chose to sit,” Jane Doe 15, who is now 31 years old, said.
The woman also recalled that during a trip to Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, he “took her sexual innocence in front of a wall of framed photographs of him shaking hands with and smiling with celebrities and political leaders.”
She added that while Epstein was giving her a “tour of the bedroom”, he told Jane Doe 15 to get down and feel the carpeted floors of the room, asking if she noticed anything special about it.
After she said that it felt very soft, Epstein “laughed and said it was because the floors in the bedroom were foam mattress floors, because he liked to have girls sleep around him on the floor while he slept in the bed,” according to Jane Doe 15.
She said that she declined other invitations from Epstein and that she left Zorro Ranch “with a deep sense of shame.”
Source: Infowars
