Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell seem carefree as they walk through Paris in a photo taken two decades ago by Virginia Roberts, their ‘underage sex slave’.
That photo and others are part of a trove of documents that were released earlier this month from the defamation case Roberts brought against Maxwell.
Roberts sued Epstein’s British paramour when she denied Roberts’ accusations detailing the sexual abuse and rape she endured as a teenager at the hands of the pair.
Other photos show Roberts with Maxwell and Prince Andrew in London, at Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico and in New York.
There is also a look at the apartment where Roberts and other teenage victims stayed while with Epstein, located inside his multimillion-dollar mansion.
Paris: Virginia Roberts included multiple images of herself during the time she was being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein in court filings (Epstein and Maxwell above in a photo taken by Roberts circa late 2000)
New York: There is also a look at the apartment (above) where Epstein would keep Roberts and other underage girls during their time in New York City
New Mexico: Roberts included multiple images of herself during the time she was being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein in court filings (above in New Mexico, age 17)
New Mexico: Roberts first shared these photos with the FBI back in 2011, when she was contacted about Epstein (above aged 17 in New Mexico)
Roberts first shared these photos with the FBI back in 2011, when she was contacted about Epstein.
In one she is seen on a New York City ferry while others show her horse riding and posing up in front of a museum treasure chest.
Those three photos were taken by Epstein himself she claims, when he shuttled her to New Mexico for the weekend.
All the while raping her and letting his friends do the same, according to Roberts’ court filings.
‘Epstein took me on a ferry boat on one of the trips to New York City and there he took the picture above. I was approximately 15 or 16 years old at the time,’ she writes of the first photo.
In that picture, Roberts looks years younger than her age as she smiles for the camera while on an unchaperoned trip with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell over 1,000 miles away from home.
‘You can see how young I looked in the photograph,’ she notes, while also revealing she was raped by Epstein at his Manhattan mansion on that trip.
‘Over the next few weeks, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell trained me to do what they wanted, including sexual activities and the use of sexual toys,’ she wrote.
‘The training was in New York and Florida, at Epstein’s mansions. It was basically every day and was like going to school. I also had to have sex with Epstein many times.’
Roberts said that she was trained to be ‘everything a man wanted me to be’.
New Mexico: These images were unsealed as part of Roberts’ defamation case against Maxwell that was filed in 2015 and settled late last year
New Mexico: The new Mexico photos (above) were taken by Epstein himself she claims, when he shuttled her to New Mexico for the weekend
New Mexico: The photos that were used by Roberts make it clear that she was with Epstein at some of his properties, most notably his ranch in New Mexico
The photos that were used by Roberts make it clear that she was with Epstein at some of his properties, most notably his ranch in New Mexico.
‘The first one is a museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We had gone sightseeing for the day. Epstein took this picture of me. I was approximately 17 at the time, judging from the looks of it,’ write Roberts.
‘At the end of the day we returned to Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. The second picture is me on one of Epstein’s horses on the ranch in New Mexico. The following two are from wintertime in New Mexico.’
Roberts and another underage victim are suing the government for the sweetheart plea deal they offered Epstein, and for failing to provide the plaintiffs and other victims with any concrete information about the sex offender.
She told The Mail on Sunday in 2011 and then later stated in an interview with the FBI that Epstein and Maxwell at one .
‘They said I would have to sign a contract relinquishing rights to the child and consenting to Jeffrey having as many relationships as he liked,’ said Roberts, who was told she would get a mansion in exchange for her services.
‘It was a smack in the face.’
A short while later she managed to escape, after being sent to Thailand for her 19th birthday to take a massage course – and told she would be taking back an underage girl.
Roberts was to interview the minor with the goal of taking her back to the United States, but that all changed when she met her now-husband.
She never returned and the two went off to start a new life in Australia, where they are now raising their three children.
She has since devoted her time to combating sex trafficking and the sexual abuse of minors.
‘In 2011, two FBI agents located Giuffre in Australia—where she had been hiding from Epstein and Maxwell for several years—and arranged to meet with her at the U.S. Consulate in Sidney,’ read a suit filed by Roberts that detailed how she came to speak out.
‘Giuffre provided truthful and accurate information to the FBI about Epstein and Maxwell’s sexual abuse.’
London: Roberts in the past claimed in US court papers that she slept with Prince Andrew, a former friend of Epstein (Roberts with Prince Andrew and Maxwell in a photo shot by Epstein)
NYC: ‘You can see how young I looked in the photograph,’ she notes, while also revealing she was raped by Epstein at his Manhattan mansion on that trip (NYC trip on right)
New Mexico: Roberts, who was the first and remains one of the few Epstein victims who has gone public with her allegations
New Mexico: ‘Epstein had promised me a lot, and I knew if I left I would be in big trouble. I also knew that I was a witness to a lot of illegal and very bad behavior by Epstein and his friends,’ stated one filing
New Mexico: ‘If I left Epstein, he knew all kinds of powerful people. He could have had me killed or abducted, and I always knew he was capable of that if I did not obey him,’ said Roberts (aged 17 in New Mexico)
It was Roberts who reopened the FBI’s probe into Epstein when she provided agents with photos of herself travelling the world with the pedophile.
Roberts, who was the first and remains one of the few Epstein victims who has gone public with her allegations, recounted how she found herself being shuttled around the world and raped by men three times her age in court papers.
‘Epstein had promised me a lot, and I knew if I left I would be in big trouble. I also knew that I was a witness to a lot of illegal and very bad behavior by Epstein and his friends,’ stated one filing.
‘If I left Epstein, he knew all kinds of powerful people. He could have had me killed or abducted, and I always knew he was capable of that if I did not obey him. He let me know that he knew many people in high places. Speaking about himself, he said ‘I can get away’ with things. I was very scared, particularly since I was a teenager.’
And she was not the only one who was scared she claims in court documents.
‘When I was with him, Epstein had sex with underage girls on a daily basis. His interest in this kind of sex was obvious to the people around him,’ noted Roberts.
‘The activities were so obvious and bold that anyone spending any significant time at one of Epstein’s residences would have clearly been aware of what was going on.’
Roberts in the past claimed in US court papers that she slept with Prince Andrew, a former friend of Epstein – however he has always denied any involvement and the allegations were later struck from the record as being ‘immaterial and impertinent’.
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