Jeffrey Epstein called his famous friends while getting a massage
Jeffrey Epstein asked young girls to show their school IDs to prove they were minors.
Marina Lacerda, who was abused by Epstein since she was 14, said the pedophile was “furious” when an 18-year-old was brought to him, sending her away immediately.
Ms Lacerda, now 37, was forced to recruit other victims and told The Telegraph that Epstein asked her to only present girls who had school ID.
Ms Lacerda, who was born in Brazil, said Epstein stopped abusing her when she was 16 or 17 because he thought she was too old and wasn’t bringing him girls young enough.
“I brought someone in at the age of 18 and he kicked her out… He just looked at her and knew she wasn’t 14, 15 or 16. And really, he said, ‘Put the f— out’… he was aggressive,” Ms Lacerda said.
“He turned to me and said, ‘I’m done.’ He says, “You need to start bringing me IDs when you bring girls here… I want school IDs.”
After the partial release of the Epstein files, Ms Lacerda accused the government of orchestrating a “cover-up” by redacting parts of the documents and failing to release everything it held to “protect” powerful men.
The US Justice Department released thousands of files on Friday and Saturday, but hundreds of pages were heavily redacted and a huge tranche of documents has yet to be released.
Marina Lacerda accused the US government of a cover-up of heavily redacted documents from the Epstein files – AP/Jose Luis Magana
Ms. Lacerda’s testimony about being subjected to years of abuse was critical in securing the 2019 charges against the pedophile months before she died in prison.
She is named “Minor Victim 1” in the 2019 indictment and spoke publicly for the first time in September to demand the release of the Epstein files.
She said she looked through some of the newly released files and saw notes about Epstein asking to see the girls’ IDs, information that appeared to be from her interview with the FBI in 2019, two months before Epstein’s arrest.
On Saturday, she also said the pedophile would “brag” to his powerful friends about being massaged by a “beautiful girl” during a call and have her greet them.
“I talked to a lot of people on the phone who were, you know, politicians, some were princes… [they] they were very important people,” she told The Telegraph.
He “would make it clear that he knows everyone and owns everyone … he manipulated us,” she said.
After lying down for a massage, Epstein called his contacts to “talk business and always bring up, ‘Oh, you know, I have a nice, young, beautiful girl who’s giving me a massage.’
He would hand her the phone and tell her to “say hello,” Ms. Lacerda said. She would say something to the men like, “Hey, how are you?” but would not discuss anything “deep”.
Ms Lacerda said Epstein never explicitly told powerful men she was a minor.
She met a Hollywood star she had spoken to on the phone in person, but she was not abused by them or anyone else but Epstein.
Ms Lacerda is one of Epstein’s survivors who have called for the full release of the files, believing there is information about the men in his orbit that has not been disclosed.
“100% Total Cover Up”
Only a fraction of the government’s files on the pedophile have been released, some of which have been heavily redacted, prompting bipartisan outcry over an alleged cover-up.
At least 16 files, including a photo of US President Donald Trump, were also deleted from the Justice Department’s website after they were published on Friday.
In Friday’s statement, dozens of photos of Bill Clinton were published for the first time, including one of the former US president topless in a hot tub, as well as images showing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor lying on the laps of five women, with Ghislaine Maxwell smiling behind him at the royal family’s Sandringham retreat.
“There’s a reason everything is redacted,” Ms Lacerda said, adding it was “100 per cent a total cover-up”.
“It’s almost like a joke, right? Like, we have to look at this for what it is, this is supposed to be a comedy show. Why did you take out all these files?”
She added: “Who are we really trying to protect? Are we protecting the survivors or are we protecting these powerful people? . . . We’re sick of it. It’s gotten to the point where, you know, we’ve been protecting these powerful people for a long time.”
Bill Clinton, the former president of the USA, is in dozens of photos in the documents published on Friday – AFP
There is no suggestion that Mr. Clinton did anything wrong. The former president, who admits he traveled on Epstein’s private jet, wrote in his memoir that he “ceased contact” with Epstein before he was first arrested in 2005 for soliciting a child for prostitution.
He said he always thought Epstein was “weird” but “had no inkling of the crimes he was committing.”
Mr Mountbatten-Windsor was ordered to leave Royal Lodge, his Windsor residence, after weeks of scrutiny over his links to Epstein and Virginia Giuffre, his accuser. He has always denied the claims and any other wrongdoing.
Ms Lacerda met Epstein in 2002 when she was recruited by a friend, who gave her no details other than that she could make money massaging someone.
Ms Lacerda, a Brazilian immigrant, was sharing a single bedroom with her mother and sister at the time and saw it as an opportunity to support her family.
“It got to the point where I think I was really desperate for money,” she said. However, she could no longer face working for him after being forced to recruit young girls.
She said: “I didn’t want to bring any more underage girls, being 17 and knowing what was really going on there.
“You had no choice but to bring someone in because he’s so persistent and he just wanted to have, you know, a new face, a new girl.”
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