“I didn’t know if he would get angry or if I didn’t listen what the repercussions would have been,” says Jennifer Araoz. “So I kind of just followed. I was so young, so I didn’t know better.”
Jennifer Araoz. Photo: NBC Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who federal prosecutors say ran a sex-trafficking operation of dozens of underage girls in the early 2000s, has a new accuser: a woman who claims that he raped her when she was just 15.
According to Araoz, the owner of that Upper East Side mansion was Epstein, who was indicted this past Monday on charges that he ran a sex-trafficking ring in Palm Beach and New York City between 2002 and 2005. On that first visit, Araoz recalls Epstein’s townhouse looking like a “museum,” with stuffed exotic animals and their skins as the décor, and says he suggested that “he could really help [her]” in the modeling industry.
Over the next year, during which Araoz says she visited Epstein once or twice a week to massage him, the accused pedophile allegedly got increasingly sexual, eventually asking her to “play with himself.” Then, one day, Araoz says Epstein got violent: After she turned down his request to “do the massage on top of [him],” she says Epstein forcefully removed her underwear and put her on top of him.
“She was so anxious but I couldn’t figure out why,” Araoz’s mother told NBC of her daughter’s behavior in 2002. “The anxiety got so bad that she couldn’t function, and I urged her to go to a doctor.”
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