THE disturbing moment cops raided Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach house of horrors was revealed today ahead of the verdict on Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial.
Prosecutors released the hour-long footage of the search of the paedophile’s infamous $16.4 million mansion, showing officers sweeping through the property with their guns drawn.
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The cops found creepy paintings of naked women hanging on the walls, as well as a black and white portrait of Maxwell holding what appeared to be a Yorkshire terrier dog inside a marble-walled room.
It also showed what appeared to be a photo of a topless Maxwell lounging.
Several women have alleged that Epstein sexually abused them inside the horror house under the guise of massages.
The footage from the raid in 2005 revealed cupboards stacked with spa supplies and toiletries, including dozens of toothbrushes, bars of soap and bottles of mouthwash.
During Maxwell’s trial, Palm Beach officer Sgt Michael Dawson told the court the officers were looking for massage tables and oils and sex toys, as well as journals and correspondence, when they raided the home.
Photographs of the “Twin Torpedos” sex toys found during the sweep were also released by prosecutors.
Earlier footage of the raid revealed in 2019 following Epstein’s death showed the moment cops reportedly came across a photo of a young girl bending over in a short dress.
Another photograph seen in the video featured a teenage girl posing in a tiny bikini – hanging right above a naked girl lying on a beach.
Framed photos of Maxwell and Epstein kissing were shown at her sex trafficking and abuse trial, as well as police photos showing what appeared to be nude picture of the British socialite.
In the closing arguments of the Maxwell’s three-week trial, she was branded a “sophisticated predator” who committed “horrifying crimes” with Epstein – as her trial jury were set to consider their verdicts.
She was facing the fight of her life, after prosecutors tore into her during a blistering closing argument, painting her as the billionaire’s “partner in crime”.
The jury were preparing to consider six child sex trafficking charges against her last night – which could see her put away for 80 years if convicted.
In her closing argument to the jury, Assistant US Attorney Alison Moe, who is prosecuting the heiress, said: “Ghislaine Maxwell was dangerous.
“She was a grown woman who preyed on vulnerable young kids. Young girls from struggling families.
“She targeted a young girl whose father had just died.“She targeted a girl whose mother was an alcoholic.
“She targeted a girl with a single mum who was struggling to raise her daughter.
“Maxwell was a sophisticated predator who knew exactly what she was doing.
“She ran the same playbook again and again and again. She manipulated her victims and groomed them for sexual abuse.
“She caused deep and lasting harm to young girls. It is time to hold her accountable.”
‘PARTNERS IN CRIME’
All four of Maxwell’s siblings – including her brothers Kevin and Ian and sisters Christine and Isabel – attended court in Manhattan today as her trial wound down.
Before the hearing, Ian and Christine could be seen laughing with the defendant.
During the prosecution’s closing speech, Maxwell and her family did not react – the socialite was either taking notes or staring intently at the jury.
Ms Moe said the evidence included testimony from housekeepers, victims and bank receipts which showed Epstein wiring £22.6million to Maxwell.
She said that the evidence was “clear and consistent and it shows only one conclusion: Maxwell is guilty”.
Ms Moe said she wanted to talk the jury through eight different reasons why they should convict Maxwell.
The first was that she and Epstein were “partners in crime” – the crime in question being the “sexual exploitation of young girls”.
Ms Moe said: “Maxwell was Epstein’s right hand and for many years they were in a romantic relationship. They were partners.”
She told the jury about an essay that Maxwell had written in which she talked about how she had been with Epstein for 11 years and that they were “great partners and best friends”.
Ms Moe told the jury: “Ladies and gentlemen, when you are with someone for 11 years you know what they like.
“Epstein liked underage girls. He liked to touch underage girls. Maxwell knew it. Make no mistake, Maxwell was crucial to the whole scheme. Epstein could not have done this alone.”
Ms Moe said a single, middle-aged man showing an interest in teenage girls would come off as “creepy”.
She said: “That sets off alarm bells. But when that man is accompanied by a posh, smiling, respectable, age-appropriate woman, that’s when everything starts to seem legitimate.”
Ghislaine Maxwell was dangerous. She was a grown woman who preyed on vulnerable young kids.
Alison Moe
When that woman asks the girls to give that man a massage, it “lures them into a trap”, she told the court.
Ms Moe said: “It allows that man to get away with molesting these girls. Maxwell was key to the whole operation.”
The prosecutor told the jury about photos that had been introduced into evidence including one of Maxwell and Epstein swimming naked in a pool.
Another, which had been made public, showed Maxwell massaging Epstein’s foot with her breasts.
Further evidence they were partners came from the 58-page household manual from Epstein’s Palm Beach home which Ms Moe said Maxwell wrote.
She said: “These were the rules that Maxwell put in place…this makes clear she was the lady of the house.”
Ms Moe said the idea put forward by the defence that Maxwell was “just an employee” of the financier was nonsense.
She said: “Of course Maxwell knew what was going on in that house. She had an iron grip on what was happening there.”
Ms Moe told the jury about testimony from Juan Alessi, the former Palm Beach house manager, who said that after Epstein’s massages with young girls, he had to clean off sex toys.
He then put them in a basket in Maxwell’s bathroom.
Maxwell wrote a list of 13 different kinds of oils and lotions to be used during Epstein’s massages, the court was told.
Ms Moe said: “Again and again the evidence shows you how closely Maxwell was involved in Epstein’s so-called massages.
“She managed all the details right down to the lotions and oils. She was in on the whole thing.”
‘HORRIFYING CRIMES’
Among the instructions in the household manual was the command to staff to “hear nothing, see nothing and say nothing”.
Ms Moe said that the jury knew “exactly why” Maxwell wanted such rules in place.
She added: “It’s because she was Epstein’s partner in crime. In that house behind closed doors Maxwell and Epstein were committing horrifying crimes.”
Maxwell “ran the same playbook” with all of her victims, Ms Moe said.
She said the similarities between the four accusers in the case were “incredibly powerful evidence of the defendant’s guilt”.
Maxwell helped to select victims who were “vulnerable” and struggling, Ms Moe said.
She also touched the breasts of three of the accusers, the court heard.
Ms Moe told the jury: “They were kids in massage rooms on massage tables… it’s powerful evidence of the defendant’s guilt.
“The relationships Maxwell cultivated with these girls were essential to the scheme… Maxwell helped established a close relationship that became the cover for sexual abuse.”
Maxwell denies the charges against her and the case continues.
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