Home | WebMail |

      Calgary | Regions | Local Traffic Report | Advertise on Action News | Contact

Posted: 2019-11-18T22:24:03Z | Updated: 2019-11-19T17:00:31Z

A new woman accused now-deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein on Monday of raping her when she was a minor at his New Mexico home, the Zorro Ranch.

The woman, known only as Jane Doe 15, held a press conference alongside her attorney, Gloria Allred, on Monday afternoon in Los Angeles. Doe, now 31, said one of Epsteins assistants approached her when she was on a high school field trip in New York City. The assistant invited Doe to Epsteins New York City home, where she says Epsteins associate took a picture of her. Later, Doe said, the assistant reached out to invite her to Epsteins Zorro Ranch.

Doe said during the five days she stayed at Zorro Ranch, Epstein raped her in what she says was her first sexual experience. Allred declined to clarify what year Does alleged rape happened, presumably to protect her clients identity.

Epstein took my sexual innocence in front of a wall of framed photographs of him shaking hands and smiling with celebrities and political leaders, Doe, who wore a bracelet that read Epstein didnt kill himself, said during the press conference.

After this we had a long talk about my future goals, she continued. I told him that I wanted to go to college to study biochemistry. He said that he wanted to give me money for college. He asked me how much money I thought he should give me. At 15 years old, living in Northern Michigan with my mother, stepfather and grandfather, I had no idea how to respond to a billionaire who had just raped me. I was being asked to quantify in monetary terms what had been taken from me.