WASHINGTON, D.C. — After months of back-and-forth wrangling, the U.S. Department of Justice has finally started to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. More than 300,000 case files have been released. Many are criticizing the release being incomplete. We are now the first known victim was attending a summer camp here in Northern Michigan.
The documents center on the disgraced financier and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite. Both were convicted of sex crimes against children.
According to court documents that are now public, Epstein and Maxwell’s first victim was a 13-year-old camper from California at the Interlochen Arts Academy near Traverse City in the summer of 1994. It’s interesting to note that Epstein attended the camp in 1967.
The documents say Epstein approached “Jane Doe,” who was sitting alone on bench between classes, saying he bragged to her about being a patron of the arts.
They go on to illustrate that Doe endured years of mental and sexual abuse at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell.
The documents also reveal Epstein took Doe, when she was 14, to Mar-A-Lago in Florida to meet its owner, Donald Trump, with Epstein elbowing Trump and playfully asking him, referring to Doe, “This is a good one, right?” Trump is said to have smiled and nodded in agreement.
She was the first of dozens of victims Maxwell would “supply” Epstein. Maxwell would target young girls being raised by a single mother from financially struggling families, like Doe.