Ghislaine Maxwell accuser says she stopped giving sexualized massages to Jeffrey Epstein when she turned 18 and was 'too old for him'

• An accuser at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial said Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused her between the ages of 14 and 18.
• She stopped going to "massage" appointments at 18 because that was too old for Epstein, she said.

An accuser at Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial who says Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused her beginning when she was 14 testified on Tuesday that the pedophile financier stopped when she was 18 because that was "too old" for him.

"He asked me if I had any younger friends and I said no," the woman said. "And that's when I realized I was too old."

The accuser is referred to in the indictment against Maxwell as Minor Victim-4. She testified using only her first name, Carolyn, although one of Maxwells' attorneys revealed her last name twice during cross-examination.

Carolyn told the court that she dropped out of school after seventh grade, and was "allowed to do whatever I want" at home because her mother was addicted to alcohol. She began using drugs at the time, she said.

She testified that she first met Epstein in 2002, several years after her family moved from New York City to Palm Beach, Florida. Carolyn said that Epstein ultimately engaged in sexual activity with her more than 100 times, starting when she was 14.

Carolyn said she was first introduced to Epstein by an acquaintance, Virginia Roberts, who told Carolyn that Epstein would give her $300 in exchange for a massage at his Palm Beach home. Roberts, who later changed her name to Virginia Giuffre, explained on the drive to the mansion that Carolyn would take her clothes off but would be permitted to leave on her undergarments, Carolyn testified.

When they entered the home, Carolyn testified, she met Maxwell for the first time. Maxwell brought the girls upstairs to the massive bathroom adjacent to Epstein's bedroom, where Carloyn said that Giuffre set up a massage table.

Epstein came into the room, brushed his teeth, and laid face-down on the table, Carolyn said. She and Giuffre massaged him for 45 minutes, she recalled, before Epstein flipped himself over and had sex with Giuffre.

When it was over, there was $300 on the table for Carolyn to take, she said, as well as cash for Giuffre.

Carolyn testified that Maxwell asked for her phone number and she gave it to her. Prosecutors have accused Maxwell of sex-trafficking girls for Epstein to sexually abuse, participating in the sexual abuse herself, and lying about her actions in a deposition. The allegations in the indictment focus on activity between 1997 and 2004, and concern misconduct against four accusers who were as young as 14 at the time.

Numerous other women have accused Maxwell of sexual misconduct in civil litigation. Among them are Giuffre, who has also accused Epstein and other powerful men of misconduct. Prosecutors brought two perjury charges, which will be tried at a later date, against Maxwell that allege she lied in a deposition taken for Giuffre's lawsuit.

Prosecutors haven't identified Giuffre as a victim for the purposes of the Maxwell trial. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to the charges against her and denied all accusations of wrongdoing. Epstein killed himself in jail in August 2019 while awaiting trial on similar charges brought by members of the same prosecutorial team.

Carolyn said she used some of Epstein's money for drugs that would "black out" the massage appointments

Carolyn said that she went into Epstein's house, alone, on more than 100 other occasions after the first incident — about two or three times per week for the next few years. Maxwell arranged the appointments over the phone at first, Carolyn said, until another Epstein associate, Sarah Kellen, took over scheduling. Kellen also took naked photographs of her, Carolyn testified.

She recalled that every appointment was the same: Carolyn massaged Epstein for 45 minutes while naked, engaged in sexual activity, and then took between $300 and $400 in cash that was left for her.

"I was young, and $300 was a lot of money," she explained when Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey asked her why she continued to go to Epstein's home.

In tears, Carolyn said on the witness stand that she used much of the money to buy marijuana, cocaine, alcohol, and "anything else that could black out" the appointments with Epstein.

Carolyn alleged that Maxwell saw her naked on several occasions, and touched her private areas once. Carolyn said she told both Epstein and Maxwell about dark moments in her life, including being raped and molested by her own grandfather starting when she was four years old.

She also recounted two occasions where Epstein pressed a button on a phone during a sexualized massage. On each occasion, a different young woman came into the room and joined them for sex, Carolyn testified.

When she was 16 years old, Carolyn said she had a child with another man. She returned to Epstein for sexualized massages after that, she said, reasoning that she needed the money to support her baby.

By the time she was 18, however, Carolyn testified that Epstein appeared to be done with her. He asked about younger friends she could bring to him, she said.

Carolyn testified she now takes several medications, in part to treat mental illnesses. She says the voices in her head tell her that her children may become the victims of sex-trafficking.

"I'm scared that my kids are going to be kidnapped," she said.