Jeffrey Epstein allegedly threatened to throw a rape victim into a lake of alligators if she ever told anyone, a lawsuit claims.
The woman was attacked by the late paedophile with the “assistance” of lover Ghislaine Maxwell, court papers allege.
The claimant reportedly says Epstein told her she would be “devoured as had happened to other girls” if she spoke up.
The Turkish-Muslim woman, named only as Jane Doe, claims she was in her mid-20s at the time and working as an estate agent to support her son.
She claims that after renting a Palm Beach mansion to the billionaire, she offered to cut his hair at his home as she was a trainee hairdresser.
Legal papers filed in Florida say a naked Epstein proceeded, “with Maxwell’s assistance”, to rape her.
He then forced her to accept roughly $200 in cash as “compensation”, it is alleged.
Doe said she was “repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted” by Epstein and others over five months. She is seeking unspecified damages from his estate.
The lawsuit says that after the “initial rape”, “Maxwell and Epstein forced [Doe] to drive with them, in [Doe’s] vehicle, where they picked up her young son and proceeded to a hotel in Naples, Florida. The plaintiff was visibly and uncontrollably crying.”
The lawsuit claims they arrived at “a large body of water infested with alligators”.
“Epstein then ushered the plaintiff to the water and told her in explicit detail that, as had happened to other girls, she would end up in this water and be devoured by the alligators, should she reveal what Epstein had done to her.”
Epstein, 66, hanged himself in his jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
Maxwell, 59, is awaiting trial in New York on charges of sex trafficking, enticing underage girls to Epstein to abuse, and perjury. She denies all wrongdoing.
