A woman who claims to have been sexually abused for years by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is suing convicted teen sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
Ms. Stein is also suing two executors of Mr. Epstein’s estate, according to the lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit, Ms. Stein alleges that she was one of the many victims trafficked by Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell during their “decades-long organized scheme to procure young females for their own sexual pleasure and that of their friends and acquaintances, many of them high government officials and corporate titans.”
Ms. Stein alleges that the abuse took place between 1994 to 1997, when she was in her early 20s and the two “recruited her into their sex trafficking scheme.”
“The pair first groomed Plaintiff with flattery, gifts, feigned interest in her future, and false promises of advancing her career and personal life,” lawyers for Ms. Stein wrote. “They shamed her when she refused their favors and overtures and stalked her with the malicious and malevolent purpose of turning her into sexual meat for consumption by themselves and others.”
Subsequently, Ms. Stein was hospitalized “numerous times for nervous breakdowns” and underwent “multiple medical procedures to rid herself of the horrific psychological damage Epstein and Maxwell foisted upon her in her formative years,” the lawsuit states.
However, the act only provides a one-year window for survivors to do so, from Nov. 24, 2022, through Nov. 23.
Ms. Maxwell, a 61-year-old British socialite who’s also the daughter of the late media mogul Robert Maxwell, is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence at a low-security federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, after being convicted of a series of sexual offenses in 2021.
Further Allegations Made in Lawsuit
Epstein, 66, was found dead in a New York federal jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges; he had pleaded guilty to sex crimes in 2008 for soliciting a minor for prostitution in Florida. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging.In her lawsuit, Ms. Stein alleges that she met Ms. Maxwell in or about the fall of 1993 or 1994 when she was just 21 years old, after the socialite came to the Henri Bendel department store where she was working and asked her for assistance.
“Maxwell and Plaintiff had a friendly conversation wherein Maxwell told Plaintiff that her colleague was in very close relations with Les Wexner, the owner of Henri Bendel. As Maxwell paid for several items, she asked Plaintiff to deliver her packages to the St. Regis on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, which she did,” the lawsuit reads.
Ms. Stein alleges that she later arrived at the property to deliver the packages, at which point the concierge “directed her to the bar where Maxwell and a man later identified as Jeffrey Epstein were having drinks.”
The two invited Ms. Stein to sit with them at the hotel bar for a drink and conversation, which she agreed to do, her attorneys wrote.
Shortly after, the concierge returned to tell Ms. Maxwell and Mr. Epstein that their room was ready, at which point they asked Ms. Stein to help bring the packages up to their hotel room, to which she agreed, according to the lawsuit.
Once in the room, Ms. Maxwell and Mr. Epstein began asking Ms. Stein about herself, including questions about her career goals, the lawsuit states. However, they then went into the bathroom and changed before returning to the bedroom in “monogrammed bathrobes.”
After their return, the two began questioning Ms. Stein about her sex life, according to the lawsuit.
Victim Became Pregnant, Lawsuit Alleges
“Plaintiff began to feel uncomfortable but nonetheless continued with the conversation out of concern that leaving would be impolite and perhaps get back to her bosses,” her attorneys wrote.“As Plaintiff shared additional details about her life, including but not limited to her then-relationship with a boyfriend who was around her same age. In response, Maxwell and Epstein told Plaintiff they had a lot of male friends they could introduce her to, and that she would be sure to find a more appropriate match.”
The complaint states that Ms. Stein was “reluctantly” persuaded to join Ms. Maxwell and Mr. Epstein in a “threesome,” with Mr. Epstein ultimately handing Ms. Stein cash and stating it was a “tip.”
She initially refused the money but Mr. Epstein “insisted she take the money,” leaving her feeling “confused, betrayed, humiliated and completely violated,” the lawsuit states.
That incident began what lawyers for Ms. Stein described as “a three-year nightmare” during which Ms. Maxwell and Mr. Epstein allegedly “stalked Plaintiff, sexually abused her and trafficked her to their ‘friends’ for more.”
At one point during the alleged abuse, Ms. Stein became pregnant by one of the abusers, the lawsuit states. Ms. Maxwell subsequently arranged for Ms. Stein to have an abortion, according to the complaint.
Ms. Stein is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
Ms. Maxwell’s attorney and lawyers for the two executors of Mr. Epstein’s estate didn’t respond by press time to requests by The Epoch Times for further comment.
