DOJ documents claim that Epstein met the 13-year-old victim in Michigan in 1994 and later brought her to Mar-a-Lago to meet Donald J. Trump.
INTERLOCHEN, Mich. — Documents related to the notorious pedophile and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein revealed that he met his first known victim at a performing arts camp in northern Michigan.
Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published thousands of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, including a court document with details about Epstein’s first known victim, a teen girl he met in Michigan in 1994.
The court document released details Epstein’s relationship with his first known victim, a 13-year-old girl who was spending the summer at Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, Mich.
Epstein had ties to the Interlochen Arts Camp, dating back to when he was a camper there in the summer of 1967. Epstein also contributed to the school between 1990 and 2003, and sponsored a visitors cabin on campus, which bore his name until 2007 when the school cut ties with him. The last time Epstein stayed at the camp was in 2000.
A complaint for damages against Epstein’s estate and Ghislaine Maxwell details a long grooming period after the two met the victim in the summer of 1994. The victim was a student in the camp’s voice program, and met Epstein and Maxwell in between classes one day when they approached her on a bench, the court documents state.
“Epstein bragged to her about being a patron of the arts and giving scholarships to talented young artists like [the victim]. Epstein and Maxwell probed her at length about her background, family situation and where she lived,” the document reads. The victim then gave Epstein the phone number of her mother in Florida after Epstein asked her for it, the court documents said.
After the victim returned to Florida from Michigan, it’s alleged that Epstein brought the victim and her mother to his Palm Beach mansion and spoke about how he mentors young kids and provides scholarships for the arts.
The court documents allege that Epstein and Maxwell attempted to groom and mentor the 13-year-old victim over the next several months.
“They took her to movies, went shopping with her and lounged around Epstein’s estate with her. Epstein and Maxwell then started to make sexual references when they were with her,” the document reads. “Also, after nearly every visit with Epstein and Maxwell, Epstein sent Doe home with two or three one-hundred-dollar bills to give her mother since ‘she’s having a hard time and struggling as a widow.'”
It was alleged that Epstein began paying for the victim’s voice lessons and when she would show any sort of pushback in the arrangement, Epstein and Maxwell would call her “ungrateful.”
The 10-page court document then details how Epstein brought the victim to Mar-a-Lago to meet Donald J. Trump when she was 14 years old. The documents claim that Epstein elbowed Trump and told him “this is a good one, right?” The document then says that “Trump smiled and nodded in agreement.”
Beginning in late 1994, the allegations of abuse by Epstein escalated over the next several years and included allegations that the victim had been digitally penetrated, forced to watch Epstein masturbate and eventually raped on multiple occasions beginning when she was 17.
In 1996, Epstein is alleged to have moved the victim and her mother to New York City, paying for their apartment and enrolling the victim in a good school. It was in New York that the first allegations of rape were made by the victim against Epstein.
In 1999, the victim moved to Los Angeles and stopped returning Epstein’s calls.
Her lawsuit against Epstein’s Estate and Maxwell seeks damages for “the years of abuse and exploitation perpetrated against her by them” which caused “her immeasurable pain and suffering every day.”