“There Was a Lot of Bragging About How They Were Friends With Essentially Everyone”: The First Accuser in the Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Takes the Stand

In 1994, Jane recalled on Tuesday, she met Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell for the first time. She was a 14-year-old attending a summer camp for the arts in Michigan, and had just suffered a family tragedy. About nine months prior, she said, her father, a conductor and composer, died of leukemia, after his employer canceled his health insurance. Jane’s family went into bankruptcy, but her older sister and brother-in-law pitched in to send the aspiring entertainer to the camp. That initial meeting with Epstein and Maxwell, Jane testified in a Manhattan federal courthouse, seemed innocuous at the time, even… Read Full Article