Alleged sexual exploitation network involving Jeffrey Epstein, a teenage girl, and unnamed high‑profile guests

12/8/2015 Prince Andrew and girl, 17, who sex offender friend flew to Britain to meet him | Daily Mail Online My father left and | was told to go upstairs.’ She was led by another woman through Epstein’s bedroom into a massage room where he lay face down naked on a table. He started to interviewed Virginia. This was unconventional, but Virginia had no suspicions. Presumably, she thought, this was how the wealthy conducted their business. Epstein elicited the information that Virginia had been a runaway, and was no longer a virgin. Virginia was then told to start massaging Epstein, under the instructions of the woman who had shown her in. The massage quickly developed into a sexual encounter. Virginia was uncomfortable, but reluctant to deny such important people. ‘My face was red with embarrassment,’ she says. ‘But | felt under immense pressure to please them. The whole time it was going on, they were promising me the world, that I’d travel with Jeffrey on his private jet and have a well-paid profession.’ Afterwards, she was given two $100 bills and told to return the next day. That was the beginning of the four years she spent with Epstein. For three of those years, she was under Florida’s age of consent, which is 18. Troubled teenager: Virginia on the billionaire's Zorro ranch in New Mexico in 2001 Virginia was fascinated by his life story: the son of a humble New York City parks worker, he was a teacher before becoming a Wall Street broker and friends with the upper echelons of the political, financial and academic establishment. As a confused teenager, Virginia easily fell into the practice of sexually gratifying him for money. He guaranteed her a minimum of $200 each time she gave him what he called an ‘erotic massage.’ Virginia said: ‘| would always receive the money immediately. He would give me the cash from a wad he carried in a black duffel bag or an assistant paid me. ‘And, because of the way Epstein had warped her sensibilities, every time she took the cash, Virginia felt even more indebted to him. Secretly, he was also preparing her for an even more disturbing role. ‘Basically, | was training to be a prostitute for him 4 H and his friends who shared his interest in young Epstein had trained me girls,’ she says: ‘After about two years, he started to do whatever men to ask me to “entertain” his friends.’ It started when Epstein called Virginia at the Pam Wanted. | told myself I Beach apartment he had rented for her. . was special She recalls: ‘He said, “I’ve got a good friend and | need you to fly to the island to entertain him, massage him and make him feel how you make me feel.” He didn’t spell out what | had to do. He didn’t have to. ‘He’d trained me to do whatever a man wanted. | was shocked but | told myself he was sharing me around because he trusted me and | was special. | was worried, but | would do anything to keep Jeffrey happy and to keep my place as his number one girl. He would keep telling me how lucky | was with the life | was leading and the money | was making. It was easy to fall into his grasp. ‘The way it usually worked was I’d be sent to meet a man on the private island Jeffrey owned in the Caribbean, or at his ranch in New Mexico, which was really isolated.’ She was ‘given’ to men ranging in age from their 40s to their 60s. They included a well-known businessman (whose pregnant wife was asleep in the next room), a world-renowned scientist, a respected liberal politician and a foreign head of state. None appeared to think the arrangement was unusual. Virginia says there were many other girls in Epstein’s circle and that she was paid extra money to help recruit them. ‘They would lounge around the Palm Beach house, the ranch or the island, nude or topless,’ she says. ‘But | was one of the very few he trusted as “special” and chosen to “entertain” his friends.’ Virginia took the sedative Xanax to detach herself from sordid reality. ‘It was an escape drug,’ she says. ‘It made me calm and helped me forget about what | had to do. | was up to eight pills a day.’ Epstein had no objection to Virginia’s use of prescription drugs, no doubt recognising that they made her even more malleable. ‘I didn’t want to go back to the life I'd had before’ she says. ‘That made me totally obedient.’ Despite the fact that Epstein was, essentially, her pimp, this life now seemed normal to Virginia. ‘I felt that he and Ghislaine really cared for me,’ she said. > The Hunger Games may have prequels as Lionsgate promises the franchise ‘will live on and on’ Lionsgate is exploring the possibilities > 'My funny honey’: Christie Brinkley promotes her 17-year- old daughter Sailor's modeling career with some bikini snaps on Instagram b'She's doing great!': Kim Kardashian's BFF Jonathan Cheban gives update on Saint's mother as he gets cheeky with bikini-clad girlfriend in Miami > Jimmy Kimmel makes up fake baby names for Kim and Kanye's son during Lie Witness News segment Spok in his segment Lie- Witness News b Victoria's Secret Angel Lily Aldridge reveals her 2 husband doesn't want their daughter ‘anywhere near the runway’ but insists she would proud » Androgynous model challenges Victoria's Secret's beauty standards by posing in the brand's lingerie and then editing the faces of Angels onto her body » Hey Baby! 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