Man claims to have driven teenage girls to Jeffrey Epstein's house

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The witness »Shawn« testifies in court against Jeffrey Epstein's former confidante Ghislaine Maxwell

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In the trial against the former confidante of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, a witness seriously incriminated the 59-year-old.

The man testified that as a 17-year-old girl he drove to the mansion of the late investment banker in Florida and saw her walking with hundred-dollar bills.

He was with one of the girls at the time, she was only 14 years old.

It was Carolyn.

The now adult testified on Tuesday that she had had sexual encounters with Epstein in his house since she was 14 years old in 2002.

Maxwell is charged with allegedly recruiting four girls, including Carolyn, for Epstein between 1994 and 2004.

In his testimony, the man who only called himself Shawn said that he had never met Maxwell in person.

But he remembered Carolyn telling him about a woman named "Maxwell" whose first name she couldn't pronounce.

Carolyn had previously testified that she was then heavily addicted to drugs and dropped out of school. She was first brought to Epstein's estate by an older childhood friend, now known as Virginia Giuffre. There she was greeted by Maxwell, said Carolyn. After watching Giuffre and Epstein having sex, she got $ 300. Giuffre is now one of the most prominent plaintiffs against Epstein and Maxwell.

After that, she was regularly on the property and engaged in sexual massages.

When they met in Epstein's massage room, Maxwell felt her breasts, hips, and buttocks and said, "I'd have a great body for Mr. Epstein and his friends," Carolyn testified.

Shawn testified that at that time he drove Carolyn to Epstein's house every two weeks and they left with hundred-dollar bills.

When the prosecutor asked why Carolyn didn't drive herself, Shawn said, “She was too young.” Prosecutors speak of a “pyramid scheme of abuse” into which the underage victims were lured.

Maxwell denies any responsibility in the trial, her lawyers claiming that the accusers' memories have been falsified over the years and that Maxwell is being scapegoated.

Epstein himself committed suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial in a Manhattan prison cell.

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