Years before Epstein came under investigation in Palm Beach, local police got tip about Maxwell

[Uncle Joe]

"Maxwell said she needed young … women to answer phones," per the report.

Nearly four years before Jeffrey Epstein came under investigation for allegedly luring minor girls to his Florida home for illicit massages -- a local police report was opened to investigate claims that Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell was recruiting young women from a nearby college to answer phones at Epstein's house, according to a police report newly disclosed by the Department of Justice.

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"Maxwell said she needed young, beautiful unmarried women to answer phones and do office work at her home in Palm Beach," reads a Dec. 10, 2001, entry.

The report goes on to say that one of the college women went to the house on several occasions and described the telephone calls as "men call in saying when they were going to drop off particular girls."

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Three years later, the family of a 14-year old girl contacted the Town of Palm Beach police to report that she had been offered $200 by an older female acquaintance to massage an older guy named "Jeff." That call launched three years of investigation by local and federal authorities which eventually ended in Epstein's controversial non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in 2007.

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/years-epstein-investigation-palm-beach-local-police-tip/story?id=128668408