Newly surfaced documents detail campus recruitment allegations years before later criminal charges were filed.
By yourNEWS Media Newsroom
A newly uncovered police report indicates that Palm Beach authorities examined allegations involving Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001, several years before the better-known 2005 investigation that ultimately led to criminal charges against Epstein.
As detailed by Newsmax, the document—titled “Prostitution — Epstein”—records that West Palm Beach police forwarded information to Palm Beach detectives stating that “Three female college students from PBAC (location redacted) were approached by an English woman who identified herself as Maxwell on the Palm Beach Atlantic Campus” and were invited to her residence to answer telephones.
According to the report, detectives documented that the woman approached three female Palm Beach Atlantic University students and said she was seeking “young, beautiful, unmarried women” to perform phone and office duties at a mansion in Palm Beach.
The students told investigators that Epstein touched two of them inappropriately and that Maxwell requested names of additional young women to expand what the report described as a large pool of recruits.
Detectives conducted surveillance at the residence, examined discarded materials, and subpoenaed phone records. After approximately four months and additional interviews, investigators concluded: “Although it appears as though unusual activity is occurring at this residence, at this time no illegal activity has been reported or detected.”
The matter was ultimately categorized as intelligence only, and no charges were filed in 2001.
While reviewing the broader Epstein files, WPBF investigative reporter Terri Parker also identified eight pages of handwritten notes dated October 2021 that recount a Palm Beach Atlantic student’s account. It remains unclear who authored the notes or whether they were prepared in connection with litigation or a separate inquiry.
In those notes, the student stated she was “approached out of the blue” on campus by Maxwell and asked whether she was interested in secretarial work.
“I said no. What about for $200? I said sure,” she wrote.
According to the account, the work evolved into providing Epstein massages, describing “all over touch” and interactions occurring by the pool, in the kitchen and upstairs, where more “intimate” encounters allegedly took place.
At one point, she wrote: “This is how rich people live – beautiful naked people around.”
The notes also referenced another young woman described as “thinner” with “light brown dirty blonde” hair who lived in an upstairs room at the residence.
“They had guests that stayed upstairs. She took care of those guests, and my understanding is that’s how she got to live there,” the student wrote.
She further stated that Maxwell directed her to shred Epstein’s “inch-thick homemade phone books” whenever updates were made.
The notes indicate she was paid “$200 an hour in $100 bills,” and that she eventually left college and stopped visiting the mansion around 2002.
According to the account, she later met with “Vice Squad” officers investigating a prostitution ring.
“They asked if I would continue to go back and get info. I said no,” she wrote.
Those additional details are not reflected in the 2001 police report.
Parker said she contacted former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter regarding the earlier investigation. Reiter told her he had not been informed of the 2001 inquiry by detectives at the time and expressed surprise that it was not referenced when the 2005 case began.
The newly surfaced records suggest that law enforcement scrutiny of Epstein and Maxwell in Palm Beach began years before formal charges were ultimately pursued.
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