The 14-year-old girl was eating ice cream with friends one afternoon in 1994, around a picnic table at a summer arts camp in Michigan, she said, when a "tall, thin woman” with a "cute little Yorkie” walked by.
The campers asked if they could pet the dog, but soon after the girl’s friends left her alone with the woman, a man joined them, and asked the girl about the camp and her other interests. He said he was a benefactor who gave to the camp and supported young talent. When the girl said she lived in Palm Beach, Florida, the man said, "What a coincidence, we live there too.” He asked for her phone number.
Testifying on Tuesday in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the 14-year-old from Florida, now an adult identified in court only as "Jane,” described for jurors how what seemed like a chance encounter with Maxwell — the woman with the Yorkie — and Jeffrey Epstein led to years of sexual abuse.