WARNING GRAPHIC DETAIL: Brave Marina Lacerda has described the horrific abuse she suffered at the hands of the billionaire paedophile and says he treated his victims like dolls
A woman who was raped from the ages of 14 to 17 by Jeffrey Epstein has revealed she was never allowed into the paedophile financier’s bedroom during the horrific years of her abuse.
Marina Lacerda, identified as “Minor Victim 1” in the Epstein files, says the predator treated his victims like dolls and even asked to meet her sister – who was 11-years-old.
The 37-year-old said the horrific abuse took place in the massage room of Epstein’s $77million Manhattan mansion as his bedroom was off limits. But there was one occasion where she was allowed into the monster’s private quarters at around age 16 or 17, and he was not the only adult in the room.
Lacerda’s recollection of the ordeal is patchy due to having “blacked out” parts of the abuse over time. But she remembered the sex trafficker had a massive bedframe in his room with soft, white, cotton sheets. The victim added she was lured into the room with another 18-year-old girl – a Brazilian model – who Lacerda said Epstein “was in love with.”
Lacerda said Epstein told her: “We’re going to have a special day today. We’re going to have some fun in my bedroom.” She said he then announced: “My friend will be joining us today,” and alleges Ghislaine Maxwell then entered the room.
Speaking to the Daily Mail Lacerda claimed: “A lot of things happened in that bedroom. They both raped me and this girl. They had sex toys. They did a whole bunch of things.
“I remember the white sheets – everything being white – and just me sitting on my knees, Jeffrey playing with me and the girl, and then Ghislaine walking in and playing with us, and after that, I just blacked out.
“But I know they played with us, and they brought sex toys, and I know that they definitely raped me and this girl.” She added: “I really want to talk to this girl, because a lot of things happened in that bedroom. I know sex toys were used, I know they raped us, but I can’t remember the detail.”
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking minors for Epstein after being convicted in 2021.
At the disgraced British socialites’ trial three of her accusers – Jane, Carolyn and Annie Farmer – gave testimony that the sex trafficker touched them. Some of the girls were as young as 14 at the time.
Lacerda also went into horrific detail about how Maxwell allegedly recruited her victims.
She said: “She was going out to different schools and recruiting girls for Jeffrey and then taking advantage of them. She wasn’t just a madam getting him girls. She was participating full on in these abuses.”
She added: “Some of the victims say that Maxwell was worse than Jeffrey Epstein, because not only was she an abuser, but she was very mean. She was jealous that Jeffrey liked some of these girls.” The 37-year-old revealed Epstein groomed her very slowly and he gained her trust over several months.
She recounted a horrifying story of giving the predator a massage, only to be ordered to take her shirt and bra off. Lacerda added during the massage Epstein exposed himself.
“And then next thing you know, he’s raping me. He knew everything about me. The only thing I think Jeffrey did not know was that I got abused by my stepfather, but he knew where I was living, that I had a boyfriend and I was taking care of my sister. He knew all of this.”
“He would use me as a doll, prompt me to say to the girls, ‘this is how you’re supposed to do things, this is how you’re supposed to move your body’. He would say: ‘This is what a good girl would do.'” Epstein would later ask to meet Lacerda’s sister, who he knew was about 10 or 11 at the time. Despite the pervert begging to meet the child Lacerda refused.
Lacerda, who waved her anonymity in September, said: “I’m going to speak for myself: I will testify under oath in front of the whole world and Congress, again, with no problem – as long as the men that are on the files will testify and there will be criminal charges put against them.”
She added: ‘I’m just not the type of person who’s going to live in the past. I have a life today. I have a daughter. I have my four dogs. I have my health. I have the opportunity to help people break their silence and share my story. Why am I going to be sad?
“I love my life. I’m scared of dying. I want to live for a long time. And while I’m here, I want to enjoy it.”
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