A former “traveling masseuse” for Manhattan sex-fiend financier Jeffrey Epstein is telling her story for the first time, saying she was seduced by the “monster” — at age 15 — and introduced to his dirty-old-man pals.
“Basically, I was training to be a prostitute for him and his friends who shared his interest in young girls,” Virginia Roberts said.
“After about two years . . . he said, ‘I’ve got a good friend, and I need you to fly to the island to entertain him, massage him and make him feel how you make me feel,’ ” Roberts, now a 27-year-old mom of three, told Britain’s Daily Mail.
“He didn’t spell out what I had to do — he didn’t have to,” she said. “He’d trained me to do whatever a man wanted.”
Roberts, who lives in Australia, told the Mail she decided to come forward with her story after seeing photos published last week showing Epstein strolling with his pal Prince Andrew of England in Central Park.
She said she met the prince three times during her four-year stint with Epstein. There is no suggestion that she had sex with Andrew.
Roberts said that she was 17 the first time she met the prince and that Epstein’s close friend, Ghislaine Maxwell, “asked Andrew how old he thought I was.
“He guessed 17, and they all laughed,” Roberts said.
“Ghislaine made a joke that I was getting too old for Jeffrey. She said, ‘He’ll soon have to trade her in.’ ”
Roberts said her relationship with Epstein began in 1998, just after she turned 15, when her dad, who worked at the Mar-A-Lago country club in Palm Beach, Fla., got her a job as a changing-room assistant there.
That’s where she met Maxwell.
Roberts said Maxwell invited her on the spot to work as Epstein’s personal masseuse and earn at least $200 each time she gave him an “erotic massage.”
“I was told to go upstairs,” where Epstein lay naked on a massage table, Roberts said.
The pair had a sexual encounter within minutes, she said.
She was later “given” by Epstein to men in their 40s to 60s, including a well-known businessman — whose pregnant wife was asleep in the next room — a scientist, a politician and a foreign head of state, the Mail said.
Three years ago, she was contacted by the FBI, which had found photos of her while investigating Epstein.
Epstein served 18 months in a Florida prison in 2008 under a plea deal in which he confessed to two counts of soliciting a minor for prostitution and soliciting prostitution.
Epstein wasn’t at his Manhattan home yesterday to respond to a request for comment. A call to his lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, wasn’t returned.
Additional reporting by Amber Sutherland