Life at Jeffrey Epstein’s estate: Ghislaine Maxwell kept photos of topless girls, aide testifies
- Associate of disgraced financier was ‘avid’ about the images and kept an album of them on her desk in Epstein’s home, according to ex-house manager
- Deposition excerpts were unsealed from 2015 lawsuit by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who said she was sexually abused by Epstein
Ghislaine Maxwell regularly took topless photos of girls who visited Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach, Florida, mansion and kept an album of the photos on her desk in Epstein’s home.
That is according to excerpts from a June 1, 2016, deposition of Juan Alessi, the former maintenance man and house manager of Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion, unsealed on Friday from a 2015 defamation lawsuit brought against Maxwell by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has said that she was manipulated and sexually abused by Epstein and that Maxwell and that Epstein directed her to have sex with a number of their prominent friends.
Alessi described Maxwell as being very “avid” about photographs.
Alessi added that he would occasionally be asked by Epstein to pick up some of the dozens of girls who came to the house under the guise of providing massages but who were allegedly, in many cases, sexually assaulted by Epstein.
Alessi’s full June 2016 deposition is set to be released in a future batch of unsealed documents, but it is unclear when that will be as Maxwell’s team has continued to object to their release.