The 14-year-old girl was eating ice cream with friends one afternoon in 1994, around a picnic table at a summer arts camp in Michigan, she said, when a ¡°tall, thin woman¡± with a ¡°cute little Yorkie¡± walked by.
The campers asked if they could pet the dog, but soon after the girl¡¯s friends left her alone with the woman, a man joined them, and asked the girl about the camp and her other interests. He said he was a benefactor who gave to the camp and supported young talent. When the girl said she lived in Palm Beach, Florida, the man said, ¡°What a coincidence, we live there too.¡± He asked for her phone number.
Testifying on Tuesday in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the 14-year-old from Florida, now an adult identified in court only as ¡°Jane,¡± described for jurors how what seemed like a chance encounter with Maxwell ¡ª the woman with the Yorkie ¡ª and Jeffrey Epstein led to years of sexual abuse.
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