Ghislaine Maxwell placed job adverts for recruits to answer phones ‘during school holidays’ when she allegedly trafficked girls for Jeffrey Epstein, the Daily Mail can reveal today.
The adverts were placed in newspapers in Palm Beach, Florida – where Epstein had a mansion – in January 1997. Job seekers were given a phone number to call ‘Miss Maxwell’.
The number matches the one Maxwell gave to police when she was stopped for a driving offence in the US around the same time. She was living at her former boyfriend Epstein’s ‘House of Sin’ at 358 El Brillo Way, Palm Beach.
Details of the three job adverts in the Palm Beach Post and the Palm Beach Daily News emerged on the eve of Maxwell’s trial in New York for allegedly sex trafficking children for the paedophile American financier.
Lovers: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in New York City in 2005
She goes on trial today accused of six counts, including enticement of minors and sex trafficking of children between 1994 and 2004. She vehemently denies all the accusations. If convicted she could be jailed for up to 80 years.
The newly discovered job adverts from nearly 25 years ago do not specify the preferred gender of applicants. One in the Palm Beach Post on January 4, 1997, states: ‘Person needed for answering phone & light cleaning during School Holidays. Call Miss Maxwell, 655-3704.’
In 2016, an Epstein accuser called Johanna Sjoberg claimed in a deposition that Maxwell recruited her to provide massages for the tycoon in 2001 when she was at college in Palm Beach.
Miss Sjoberg said she was under the impression she was being hired as a personal assistant, but she soon realised her job was to provide ‘sexual massages’ to Epstein, who she has said told her he needed to have ‘three orgasms a day’. Asked about her first alleged encounter with Maxwell, Miss Sjoberg said: ‘She wanted to know if there was, like, a bulletin board or something that she could post, that she was looking for someone to hire.
‘I told her where she could go to – you know, to put up a listing. And then she asked me if I knew anyone that would be interested in working for her.’
According to Miss Sjoberg’s testimony, Maxwell, 59, explained that she lived in Palm Beach and ‘didn’t want butlers because they’re too stuffy. And so she just liked to hire girls to work at the house, answer phones, get drinks, do the job a butler would do’.
She claimed that in another encounter Maxwell encouraged her to ‘finish the job’ while performing a massage on Epstein, according to court documents.
Miss Sjoberg claims she was ‘punished’ when Epstein failed to orgasm as a result of one of her massages, which Maxwell allegedly told her were necessary because ‘she [Maxwell] would not be able to please him as much as he needed and that is why there were other girls around’. Describing being told off by Maxwell, the then photography student said: ‘She had purchased a camera for me, and I was over there giving Jeffrey a massage. I did not know that she was in possession of the camera until later.
‘She called me after I had left and said: “I have the camera for you, but you cannot receive it yet because you came here and didn’t finish your job and I had to finish it for you”.’
When asked if that meant giving him an orgasm she said: ‘Yes. She was
