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Ghislaine Maxwell referred to as Jeffrey Epstein’s underage masseuse ladies her ‘kids’ and ‘kissed them on the pinnacle’ once they went to mattress on his island, sufferer Johanna Sjoberg claimed.
In an unsealed deposition from Could 2016, Florida native Sjoberg recalled her time on the US Virgin Islands in her early 20s, the place she massaged Epstein and Maxwell and got here into contact with different ladies performing related acts.
The names of greater than 150 individuals talked about in a lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre, Epstein’s most distinguished accuser, had been saved beneath seal for years till a federal decide dominated final month that there was no authorized justification to maintain them personal.
They had been launched late Wednesday. In a deposition, Giuffre mentioned she had intercourse with a number of politicians and monetary leaders.
Epstein socialized with Wall Road titans, royalty and celebrities earlier than pleading responsible to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008. He took his personal life in 2019 at age 66 whereas awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking expenses.
Johanna Sjorberg is pictured in West Palm Seaside. She now runs a hair salon in Florida. Sjoberg’s testimony – which was sealed beneath a protecting order till final week – was given in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Could 18, 2016 as a part of Giuffre’s case in opposition to Ghislaine Maxwell
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. She is presently in jail. He killed himself in 2021 whereas awaiting trial
Dozens of girls have accused Epstein of forcing them to offer sexual companies to him and his company at his personal Caribbean island and houses he owned in New York, Florida and New Mexico.
Sjoberg’s testimony – which was sealed beneath a protecting order till final week – was given in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Could 18, 2016 as a part of Giuffre’s case in opposition to Ghislaine Maxwell.
Within the courtroom doc, Sjoberg described how she was on Epstein’s island and sometimes massaged Ghislaine and Jeffrey – typically with Virginia, carrying bikinis and swimsuits on the seashore.
She mentioned she visited the Virgin Islands twice – and on her second journey, she recalled that Ghislane Maxwell would kiss the women ‘on the pinnacle’ and she or he ‘referred to as us her kids’ earlier than they went to mattress.
She mentioned that over the course of 5 years, she massaged Maxwell 5 to 10 instances.
Sjoberg additionally described Virginia as ‘orphan-like’ and instructed the interviewer: ‘On the time I used to be getting an impression that she didn’t have a household or she had walked away from her household.
‘And it appeared to me, , they’d simply kind of adopted her, not as a baby, however they’d deal with her.’
Sjoberg testified in Could 2016 that she was a 20-year-old pupil at Palm Seaside Atlantic College when Maxwell, a stranger, approached her and supplied her a job as a private assistant.
Prince Andrew, Virginia Roberts and Ghislaine Maxwell are pictured in 2001 at Maxwell’s London townhouse
Sjoberg was recruited at age 20 by Maxwell on the campus of Palm Seaside Atlantic College the place she attended faculty
Sjoberg started working for Epstein in 2001, and was instantly pressured to carry out intercourse acts.
She mentioned that she knew one other of the younger girls in Epstein’s orbit, Virginia Roberts, was underage.
Roberts had been recruited by Maxwell the yr earlier than, in 2000, whereas she was working as a locker room attendant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Seaside.
Roberts and Sjoberg would go on to come across a protracted checklist of well-known faces – amongst them Prince Andrew. He has all the time denied all accusations of sexual exercise with Epstein’s accusers, and denied any wrongdoing.
Sjoberg’s testimony was unsealed on Wednesday evening – a part of a trove of just about 950 pages detailing Epstein’s relationships, friendships and actions.
The paperwork are from a 2015 defamation go well with filed by Roberts – now married as Virginia Giuffre – in opposition to Maxwell.
One of many paperwork – a request by Roberts’ authorized staff to the decide to take extra depositions – states: ‘Johanna confirms that she knew Virginia was underage when she met her on the journey to NY with Jeffrey in 2001 as a result of Virginia could not get into the on line casino after which later Johanna requested her and Virginia mentioned she was 17.
‘Johanna testified that Virginia regarded younger.
Jeffrey Epstein is pictured in March 2017 on the New York state intercourse offender registry
Virginia Roberts has been combating for nearly a decade for justice
‘Johanna added: ‘On the time I had the impression that she didn’t have a household or she had walked away from her household. And it appeared to me, , they’d simply kind of adopted her, not as a baby, however they’d deal with her.’
Sjoberg additionally claimed that, whereas Roberts was 17 and she or he was 20, they had been all collectively in Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse with Prince Andrew.
Roberts would later say that she and Prince Andrew had intercourse that night in Epstein’s home. Sjoberg mentioned that the Prince groped her breast.
‘Johanna confirmed that she witnessed Virginia when she was seventeen (17) in Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion with Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell,’ the paperwork state.
‘Johanna additionally testified that Prince Andrew sat with Virginia and Johanna and took an image with a puppet in his picture that had its hand and Prince Andrew’s hand on their respective breasts.’
Sjoberg would repeat the story in a 2007 interview with a newspaper.
She mentioned in 2007 that she returned to the condo after some ‘sightseeing’ and ‘Prince Andrew was there and a few different ladies my age. Andrew was very charming . . . She (Ghislaine) got here down with a gift for him — a latex puppet of him from Spitting Picture.’
She added: ‘We had an image taken.
‘Virginia, one other lady there, sat on a chair and had the puppet on her lap. Andrew sat on one other chair.
‘I sat on his lap — and he put his hand on my breast. Ghislaine put the puppet’s hand on Virginia’s breast. Then Andrew put his hand on mine. It was an awesome joke. All people laughed. Ghislaine had a really soiled humorousness.’ These claims had been by no means examined earlier than a courtroom.
The duke paid a reported $12 million settlement to Roberts in 2022 over her claims that he sexually assaulted her when she was 17, which he has all the time denied.
Throughout his infamous interview in 2019 he mentioned he had no recollection of ever assembly Roberts.
