Ghislaine Maxwell trial: third accuser?s ex-boyfriend corroborates her account

The former boyfriend of the third accuser to testify in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial in New York corroborated details of her account during his testimony Wednesday.

This accuser, Carolyn, had testified Tuesday that Maxwell scheduled sexualized massages with Jeffrey Epstein starting when Carloyn was 14, and that Maxwell groped her. Carolyn said that she had told Maxwell about having been sexually abused as a child.

Carolyn also said that she discussed this abuse with Epstein during sexualized massages with him. Carolyn testified that Epstein's abuse ultimately came to include penetrative sex and group encounters.

Prosecutors charge that Maxwell procured teen girls between 1994 and 2004 for Epstein, who sexually abused them. She is accused of sometimes being present for, and sometimes participating, in this abuse.

Maxwell, 59, a British socialite and daughter of the late publishing titan Robert Maxwell, was apprehended in July 2020 in New Hampshire, for her alleged involvement procuring minor teens for Epstein, some just 14 years old. Maxwell, now on trial for six counts, has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Epstein, a convicted sex offender who counted Prince Andrew and former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton among his acquaintances, killed himself in a New York City jail in August 2019, while awaiting his own trial for sex trafficking.

Carolyn said that she wound up in Epstein's orbit when Shawn, her then-boyfriend, introduced her to Virginia Giuffre, in the early 2000s. Giuffre - an outspoken Epstein and Maxwell accuser - asked Carolyn if she wanted to make some money, giving an older man she knew a massage.