A former British model took the stand Monday to detail how she was allegedly lured into Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit by Ghislaine Maxwell at 17 — and asked to recruit other girls to give him oral sex.
The woman, identified only as “Kate” for privacy reasons, testified that the British socialite introduced her to Epstein at Maxwell’s London townhouse in the early 1990s and convinced her to give him a sexual massage soon after.
Maxwell even tried to get Kate to recruit others to give the late pedophile oral sex, telling her he liked “cute, young, pretty” girls, “like you.”
“She would ask me if I knew anybody to come and give Jeffrey a blowjob because it was a lot for her to do,” recalled Kate, who is also a former actress.
The witness, now 44, said the duo promised to help with her budding music career and bragged about the powerful people they knew, including Prince Andrew and Donald Trump.
The disgraced socialite “seemed to know everybody,” Kate told the court.
“She was friends with Prince Andrew, friends with Donald Trump. Sometimes their names would just come up or she would be talking on the phone about them with me present,” the witness said.
On one occasion, Kate said, she was made to wear a schoolgirl outfit to have sex with Epstein at his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion.
Kate, who says she now works with women who suffer from trauma or substance abuse, testified that she only cut off contact with the late sex offender in her early 30s, after she became a mother.
Before the witness took the stand, Judge Alison Nathan instructed jurors that Kate was not a victim of the crimes charged in the indictment against Maxwell, since she was above the age of consent when she met Maxwell and Epstein.
Because of her age, prosecutors were not allowed to question Kate about the details of the sexual conduct between her and the wealthy pedophile.
Still, the soft-spoken blonde, who wore her hair pulled back in a bun, described how she was led by Maxwell to give Epstein sexualized massages at the accused madam’s London apartment when she was 17.
One of the first times, Maxwell allegedly told the teen to “have a good time” after she opened the massage room door to reveal a naked Epstein.
When the massage session was over, Maxwell told Kate that she was “such a good girl” and that she was “so happy you were able to come,” the witness testified.
“She sounded really pleased,” Kate added.
The witness said she was introduced to Maxwell through a friend in Paris and was later invited to her posh London home for tea.
“She seemed very exciting and she seemed like everything that I wanted to be,” Kate said about the older woman.
Maxwell talked up her “boyfriend” and “said that he was going to love me” and that the teen was exactly the kind of person he liked to help, Kate recalled.
She met Epstein a few weeks later and she massaged his feet and shoulders, and he and Maxwell commented on how “strong” she was, the witness recalled.
The massages later turned sexual, taking place a few more times in London, as well as at Epstein’s home in Palm Beach and his private island, which he called “Little St. Jeff’s,” in her early 20s.
Once in Florida in the ’90s, Kate said, she arrived to find a pleated skirt, white socks and shirt laid out for her on a bed.
“I thought it would be fun for you to take Jeffrey his tea in this outfit,” she said Maxwell told her when she asked about it.
Maxwell gave Kate a tray, which she took to Epstein, who then engaged in sex acts with her near his pool, the first of several times that occurred during the trip, the witness said.
Afterward, Maxwell allegedly asked Kate if she “had fun” and told her that she was “a good girl” and one of Epstein’s “favorites.”
“I thought that she was going to be my friend,” Kate said of first meeting Maxwell.
She then began abusing cocaine and sleeping pills.
“I did not want to admit what happened to me,” she said.
