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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 741 Filed 08/10/22 Page 31 of 106 35
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1 become actresses, models, professional musicians. They made
2 these girls feel seen, they made them feel special, but that
3 was a cover, a cover that enabled the defendant and Epstein to
4 operate in plain sight. They were wealthy and influential
5 people who used that cover to make the girls and their parents
6 feel comfortable and safe.
7 But what came next was anything but safe. The next
8 stage involved getting the girls comfortable with sexual
9 contact involving Epstein. To do this, the defendant discussed
10 sexual topics with the girls and then she used the same excuse
11 over and over to get the girls to touch Epstein -- massage. You
12 will learn that the cover of massage was the primary way the
13 defendant and Epstein lured girls into sexual abuse. The
14 defendant massaged Epstein in front of the girls, then she
15 encouraged the girls to massage Epstein.
16 You see, Epstein's Palm Beach villa and his Manhattan
17 mansion each had a room used for massage, massage rooms filled
18 with photographs of naked females. Epstein brought girls into
19 his massage room every single day. But what was happening
20 inside those massage rooms was not a massage -- it was sexual
21 abuse. Calling it a massage was a rouse, a rouse designed to
22 get young girls to touch Epstein, an excuse for Epstein to
23 touch the girls.
24 And before I describe those so called massages for
25 you, let me just say, I know this is hard to hear, but these

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