‘THIS IS HER KRYPTONITE’
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Teresa Helm says Epstein assaulted her in 2002, when she was 22Credit: Twitter/TeresaHelm
GHISLAINE Maxwell is a “master manipulator of human emotion”, one of Jeffrey Epstein accusers has claimed.
Teresa Helm, who says she was assaulted by Epstein in 2002, was speaking after newly-unsealed documents appeared to contradict Maxwell’s previous testimony about her contact with the late financier.
#GhislaineMaxwell is a master manipulator of human emotion.
Her perversion of truth worked on me beautifully.
No.
Denied.
This is what she is being told. This is her kryptonite. I wonder how it’s going down.
— Teresa J Helm (@teresajhelm) July 30, 2020
Maxwell is currently awaiting trial on charges of enticement of minors, sex trafficking of children, and perjury, though strongly denies all wrongdoing.
A number of Epstein’s victims have alleged that Maxwell played a central role in their grooming and abuse.
Taking to twitter last night, Helm wrote: “Ghislaine Maxwell is a master manipulator of human emotion.
“Her perversion of truth worked on me beautifully.
“No. Denied. This is what she is being told. This is her kryptonite. I wonder how it’s going down.”
Helm, 39, is one of five women who filed a civil lawsuit against Epstein’s estate following his suicide while awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges in August.
The women accused Epstein of rape, battery, and false imprisonment and were seeking unspecified damages.
Helm alleges that Epstein assaulted her in 2002, when she was 22, after she began working for him as a travelling masseuse.
“As Teresa was studying massage at the California Healing Arts College, this seemed like a dream opportunity, but her hopes were dashed when it quickly turned into sexual assault,” the lawsuit read.
‘GEPPETTO TO EPSTEIN’S PINOCCHIO’
Epstein accusers have previously said that Maxwell was the “Geppetto to Epstein’s Pinocchio” and the “mastermind” behind his abuse.
Helm’s comments come after newly-unsealed e-mails between Epstein and Maxwell appeared to contradict her claims not to have had contact with him following his 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
The exchanges were produced in a defamation lawsuit brought against Maxwell by Virginia Roberts, another of Epstein’s accusers, in September 2015.
In one e-mail, Epstein tells Maxwell: “You have done nothing wrong and I [would] urge you to start acting like it. Go outside, head high, not as an escaping convict.
“Go to parties. Deal with it.”
Following Maxwell’s arrest earlier this month, her lawyers told a New York bail hearing that “she’d had no contact with Epstein for more than a decade”.