NY- The billionaire investor who has agreed to plead guilty for soliciting underage prostitutes at his Florida estate is being sued on charges of repeatedly sexually abusing a teenaged girl in his Upper East Side mansion.
“You have a tight butt like a baby,” Jeffrey Epstein allegedly cooed to the teenaged Maximilia Cordero.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Cordero said she was only 16 when she was introduced to – and seduced by – Epstein, 54.
The suit was filed by Cordero’s 57-year-old lawyer and boyfriend, William Unroch.
Cordero, now 23, said she was introduced to Epstein in 2000 by an acquaintance in her 40s who told her she had a “super wealthy” friend who could help her “develop a modeling career,” the suit says.
Cordero went to meet Epstein at his grand 51,000-square-foot mansion on East 71st Street, where he greeted her in his bathrobe, the suit says. He gave her a tour of his home, showing her his statue of a dog with a sculpture of dog feces next to it, and then allegedly lured her into his “massage room.”
Epstein allegedly told her he was the money manager for Victoria’s Secret and could get her into the lingerie chain’s famed catalog if she was “nice to him.”
“I am 16 years old and just want to model,” the suit quotes her as saying. Epstein took off his robe and started pushing her head toward his groin, saying, “You know what to do. If you want me to help you then you have to help me,” according to the suit.
When he was finished, he allegedly told her to come back sometime “with her 14-, 15- and 16-year-old girlfriends.” “I love girls your age,” the suit quotes him as saying.
The suit says Epstein kept calling the teen, who suffered from mental problems, promising to help her with her career, and she kept going over to see him and engaging in “bizarre and unnatural sex acts.”
“I love how young you are. You have a tight butt like a baby,” he’s quoted as saying.
He also told her that “I would love for you to come with me to Thailand to pick up other girls your age” – and even “took preliminary steps” to take her there, the suit claims.
It’s unclear when the relationship ended, but it left Cordero with “severe and serious injuries to various and diverse parts of her person” and “physical and emotional injuries,” according to the suit. It suit seeks unspecified money damages.
Epstein’s lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, said Cordero “admitted in her papers that she’s insane, but she can read the word ‘rich’ in the newspapers.” He said the statute of limitations on her allegations had expired and predicted the suit would be thrown out of court.
Cordero and Unroch have been involved in litigation before. Unroch sued a neighbor who accused him of having a relationship last year with an underage girl – Cordero. A judge found the neighbor’s statement was libelous because Cordero was not underage when she started seeing Unroch.
Unroch declined to say why Cordero had waited until now to take action, and did not want to get into why she had never pressed criminal charges. He said the lawsuit is “about righting a wrong.”
Epstein, who owns a ranch in New Mexico and a 100-acre island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, has palled around with the likes of Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman. He has agreed to plead guilty to soliciting prostitution in Florida.
Prosecutors there said some of the prostitutes were underage, but Epstein maintains he thought they were 18 or older.
One girl was described in court documents as just 14 when Epstein allegedly used a “purple vibrator” on her during a 2005 massage in which she partially stripped.
The documents said other girls who gave Epstein massages were said to be 16 or 17.
Cops have said Epstein’s assistant, Sarah Kellen, helped arrange the massages.
In return for the plea, Epstein is expected to receive an 18-month prison term, as well as some time under house arrest in his Palm Beach mansion.
Cordero’s legal action is the first in an expected slew of lawsuits against Epstein. The Post reported that he could face suits from up to 40 women.