A former student in New York City is coming forward to claim Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly 'gagged, restrained and raped' he...
A former student in New York City is coming forward to claim Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly 'gagged, restrained and raped' her before Jeffrey Epstein joined in the abuse.
A New York woman who is going by the pseudonym Samantha, 48, says she was just a 21-year-old student at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan when she was recruited by another student to visit Epstein’s mansion to give him a massage for money.
Samantha is speaking out for the first time to claim Maxwell was the 'mastermind' behind his alleged sex trafficking in an interview with The Sun.
'The last time I saw them, Maxwell got a hold of me, restrained my arms behind my back and put a ball gag in my mouth and then raped me with a sex toy,' Samantha said.
A New York woman who is going by the pseudonym Samantha, now 48, says she was 21 when she was abused by Ghislaine Maxwell (above) and Jeffrey Epstein. She said the last time she saw them Maxwell allegedly gagged, restrained and raped' her before Epstein joined in the abuse
A friend and fellow student at Parsons Design School recruited Samantha to give Epstein a massage for money claiming he was interested in her design work and wanted a good looking girl to massage him
'Then she called Epstein in. And he joined in. I was terrified - I couldn't do anything to stop them,' she added.
She said the horrific abuse 'stole' her life, left her traumatized, ruined her studies and career aspirations.
'I feel she was the monster, she was the one behind it all,' she said.
Maxwell, who was arrested in July, is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on charges for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse young women.
Samantha first came to know Epstein when a friend invited her to come to a 'rich guy’s house' because he was interested in her 'design work'.
'He apparently was interested in having some design work done on his house and he also wanted good looking girls to give him a massage,' Samantha said.
Once there she met Epstein and gave him a massage and described him as 'pleasant'.
'He was talking to me about my school and design stuff. And then asked if I was interested in doing some work in his house,' she said.
'Then he flipped over and he wasn't approaching me in a sexual way but towards the end he started touching himself, pleasuring himself,' she added.
She went back to massage him about three or four more times from the end of 1993 to the beginning of 1994 and each time he would masturbate and she would get paid around $300 to $400.
Epstein was arrested on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. He died in his jail cell on August 10, 2019 while awaiting trial and his death was ruled a suicide
Around the fourth or fifth visit Samantha met Maxwell for the first time who then took her out to procure young girls.
'She had this accent and she said something about me being too old and how he preferred blonde hair. I had darker hair,' Samantha said.
Together they went to a local high school where Maxwell approached girls on the street and asked them if they were interested in modeling.
'And then she'd say something like "I have a very wealthy man that I worked for that has great influence in that fashion world and can help your career" and she'd get numbers that way. I was so uncomfortable with that,' Samantha said.
Samantha said she found a student at her school who agreed to do a massage and she urged her to lie about her age to be younger.
'She was 19 but I told her to say she was 16. She went to meet them but I didn’t speak to her after so I didn’t know how it went,' Samantha said.
'Soon after I got a call to go to Epstein's and Maxwell answered that time and took me to the massage room, which is where she started yelling at me and screaming, "You dirty, filthy whore, lying whore,"' Samantha claimed.
Samantha was a student at Parsons School of Design (pictured in Manhattan) when she was introduced to Epstein
'She was mad at me because of telling the other girl to lie about her age,' she added.
'The next thing I knew she had a ball gag in my mouth, my hands around my back and she was raping me with a sex toy...She had taken my clothes off. It all happened so fast, I was stunned,' she said before Epstein joined in.
Samantha said Maxwell gave her $300 after the encounter and threatened her against going to the police.
'I remember her…saying, "Don’t think about going to the authorities because you won’t be alive to see your day in court" or something like that,' Samantha recalled.
Samantha later found out that the girl she 'recruited' for Epstein was sexually assaulted during her visit and she felt 'consumed with guilty'.
Samantha’s attorney Spencer Kuvin, who represents several Epstein victims, confirmed he is representing Samantha and planned to submit an application to the compensation fund on her behalf
Samantha eventually left New York to move to Los Angeles where she became a sex worker.
'It's changed my life completely. I was going to school for design. I had a future. And then I got to LA and I went into the sex trade,' Samantha said.
'I've never been married, this affected everything,' she said.
'It's extremely traumatic when something like that happens and you're not the same person after it happens. Then there's just the embarrassment of it. I hid it from everyone.'
Samantha said she only felt safe to come forward following Maxwell’s arrest and now wants her to be held to justice.
'I want to see her be punished. I don’t want her to die. I think that Epstein got away too easily by killing himself,' she said.
Samantha’s attorney Spencer Kuvin, who represents several Epstein victims, confirmed he is representing Samantha and planned to submit an application to the compensation fund on her behalf.
Epstein and his alleged fixer Maxwell pictured together in 2005
'I do believe that Ms Maxwell was someone just as perverted and twisted as Mr Epstein,' Kuvin said to the Sun.
Speaking on Samantha’s case he said: 'I never got a chance to depose Maxwell on the cases that occurred 12 years ago, but I can tell you that during the police investigation and search of Mr Epstein's home, various different sexual devices were procured in that home, which included things that could be used in sado-masochistic-type sexual activities.'
Epstein was arrested on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. He died in his jail cell on August 10, 2019 while awaiting trial and his death was ruled a suicide
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