GHISLAINE Maxwell hid a basket of sex toys in her closet along with videos and a costume at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion, newly unsealed court documents claim.
The convicted paedophile’s madam, who apparently dubbed herself “lady of the house”, previously squirmed when questioned over the alleged basket of sex toys in 2020.
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Over 1000 pages of documents including emails, depositions and legal papers spanning the 2010s were made public by a US judge this week.
The documents were part of a 2015 lawsuit filed by Virginia Roberts Giuffre against Epstein’s madam Ghislaine Maxwell.
They have revealed further details of the lurid sex allegations made against convicted paedophile Epstein, Maxwell and Andrew.
In a deposition on September 8, 2009, a witness believed to be Epstein’s housekeeper Juan Alessi was asked about what went on at the billionaire’s Palm Beach home.
During his testimony he described cleaning up rooms upstairs after those staying had received a massage.
When asked if he ever found any vibrators, Alessi said yes and claimed Maxwell’s closet held a basket full of them, along with costumes and videos.
“I’m not familiar — not too familiar with the names, but they were big dildos, what they call the big rubber things like that (indicating).
“Ms. Maxwell had in her closet, she had, like, a laundry basket, one of those laundry basket that you put laundry in.
“She have full of those toys. And that was — and that was me being professional, leaving the room ready for bed when he would come back to the room again.”
It is not exactly clear who the “he” is referring to.
He added: “She kept them in her basket. She had some videos there and she have a costume there. I know that she bought it, that she brought it with her.”
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In 2020, Maxwell was questioned over the same “basket of sex toys” by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s lawyer, Sigrid McCawley, as part of her criminal trial.
In the 465-page transcription of that deposition she is asked repeatedly: “Did you have a laundry basket of sex toys that you kept in the Palm Beach house?”
Maxwell’s lawyer raised several objections with McCawley repeatedly rephrasing the question.
“You have to define what are you talking about,” Maxwell, 58, answered at one point.
“A sex toy meaning a vibrator of some kind, sometimes they are called dildos, of that nature, anything like that?” the lawyer asked.
Maxwell replied: “I don’t recollect anything that would formally be a dildo, anything like that.”
“How would you describe sex toys?” McCawley asked, to which Maxwell answered, “I wouldn’t describe sex toys.”
Alessi also testified in 2021 that he first met Maxwell in 1991.
He told a jury during Maxwell’s criminal trial: “She right away took over.
“And right away she mentioned to me she was going to be the lady of the house.”
He testified then that he was Epstein’s house manager from roughly 1991 to 2002 and oversaw the staff as part of his job.
This involved allegedly communication with Maxwell on a “daily basis” as she passed down orders from Epstein to him.
The 2020 deposition was unsealed in October following a decision made by Manhattan federal Judge Loretta Preska, who also spearheaded the unsealing of this weeks files.
Various documents relating to Epstein’s crimes have been released in recent years, with this week’s being the eighth set.
Maxwell, 62, is currently serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking and Epstein killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial.
The same testimony by Juan Alessi revealed this week claimed that Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson stayed at the same Palm Beach home, where Andrew received “daily massages”.
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Giuffre, a longtime accuser of both Epstein and Andrew, sued the Duke of York in 2021 for battery and infliction of emotional distress.
They settled in February 2022 for a reported £10million, though he has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and claims he cannot recall ever meeting Giuffre.
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