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TEENAGE ACCUSERS. >> I AM CONDUCTING AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW ON A SUBJECT BY THE NAME OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN. TERRI: WHEN PALM BEACH POLICE BEGAN INTERVIEWING TEENAGERS IN 2005, THEY WERE ASTONISHED AT WHAT DOZENS TOLD THEM ABOUT JEFFREY EPSTEIN. >> EVERY GIRL THAT MEETS JEFFREY STARTS OFF WITH GIVING HIM A MASSAGE. THE MORE YOU DO WITH HIM, THE MORE YOU MAKE. BASICALLY, IF YOU TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES, YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE MORE. IF YOU LET HIM DO THINGS TO YOU, YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE MORE. >> BY DO THINGS, YOU MEAN TOUCH YOU? >> YEAH, TOUCH YOU IN INAPPROPRIATE PLACES. TERRI: THIS GIRL SAYS SHE WAS RECRUITED TO GO TO EPSTEIN’S WHEN SHE WAS 16, BUT SHE WOULDN’T DO EVERYTHING EPSTEIN WANTED. >> I DID IT NAKED, BUT I WOULDN’T LET HIM TOUCH ME OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. SO AFTER THAT, HE’S LIKE, "YOU KNOW WHAT, LISTEN, I’LL PAY YOU $200 FOR EVERY GIRL YOU BRING TO ME." TERRI: SO SHE STARTED TELLING OTHER GIRLS, MOST DISADVANTAGED, FROM BROKEN HOMES, WHO NEEDED MONEY, THAT THERE WAS A WAY TO MAKE IT IF THEY WEREN’T TOO SQUEAMISH. >> SHE’S LIKE, "OH, DO YOU NEED TO MAKE ANY EXTRA MONEY?" I’M LIKE "YEAH." SHE’S LIKE, "OK, I CAN GIVE YOU $200. THERE’S THIS OLDER GUY IN PALM BEACH, HE GETS A LOT OF MASSAGES FROM GIRLS." THAT’S ALL SHE TOLD ME. >> IT WAS LIKE A TRAIN. I INTRODUCE THEM TO MY ALL FRIENDS, SHE WILL BRING HER FRIENDS AND IT WENT ON AND ON. >> DID JEFF KNOW ANYBODY’S REAL TRUE AGE OR HE DIDN’T CARE? >> I DON’T THINK HE CARED. HE TOLD ME THE YOUNGER THE BETTER. TERRI: THIS IS VIDEO OF POLICE CONDUCTING A SEARCH WARRANT ON EPSTEIN’S HOUSE WE RECEIVED AS A RESULT OF A PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST. THE GIRLS TOLD THEM THEY CAME IN THROUGH THE KITCHEN. >> I WENT THERE, WALKED THROUGH THE KITCHEN AND UP THE STAIRS. SET UP THE BED. HE HAS A DRAWER OF LIKE, MASSAGE LOTIONS. TERRI: EPSTEIN KEPT A MASSAGE BED IN HIS MASTER BATHROOM. HE WOULD COME IN WEARING ONLY A TOWEL. >> HE ASKED ME TO TAKE MY SHIRT OFF, SO I TOOK MY SHIRT OFF, AND THAT TIME THAT WAS IT. >> DID YOU EVER TAKE YOUR PANTIES OFF AND BE COMPLETELY NUDE? >> EVERY NOW AND THEN, YEAH. TERRI: POLICE FOUND THE MASSAGE LOTIONS AND SEX TOYS THE GIRLS DESCRIBED. THE NUDE PHOTOS OF WHAT APPEARED TO BE UNDERAGE GIRLS. >> HE HAS GIRLS IN AND OUT OF THERE ALL THE TIME. DIFFERENT MODELS. TERRI: EPSTEIN HAD REMOVED HIS COMPUTER HARD DRIVES AND OTHER ITEMS. FOR A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE, HIS HOUSE, CURIOUSLY UN-DECORATED. BUT HOME, THE TEENS SAY TO EPSTEIN’S FULL-TIME GIRLS, LURED BY THE MONEY, SOME OF THE LOCAL TEENS DID COME BACK. >> EACH TIME HE WOULD TRY LITTLE MORE TOUCHING ME, LIKE TO SEE IF I WAS MORE COMFORTABLE, I GUESS. TERRI: BUT OTHERS, TRAUMATIZED, NEVER RETURNING TO EPSTEIN’S PINK HOUSE ON EL BRILLO WAY. >> I WAS MOLESTED WHEN I WAS 12. SO JUST ME BEING ALONE, LIKE RIGHT NOW, I’M KIND OF UNCOMFORTABLE. AND I TOLD HER THAT. I’M NOT GOING IF YOU’RE NOT GOING TO BE IN THE ROOM WITH ME. AND I WAS UNAWARE THAT I WAS GOING TO BE ALONE WITH HIM FOR THAT 10 MINUTES AND I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DIE. TERRI: WE CALLED EPSTEIN’S LOCAL ATTORNEY FOR COMMENT AND HAVE NOT RECEIVED A REPLY EPSTEIN FACES SEX TRAFFICKING CHARGES IN NEW YORK, MANY BASED ON THESE ALLEGATIONS AND MORE, HERE IN PALM BEACH COUNTY, FROM 2002 TO 20

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When Palm Beach Police began interviewing teenagers in 2005, they were astonished at what dozens told them about part-time resident Jeffrey Epstein "Every girl that meets Jeffrey starts off with giving him a massage. The more you do with him, the more you make," explained one of the first they talked to. "Basically, if you take off your clothes you're going to make more. If you let him do things to you, you're going to make more.""By do things you mean touch you?" asked a detective."Yes, touch you in inappropriate places," she answered.The teen said she was recruited to go to Epstein's when she was 16, but she wouldn't do everything Epstein wanted."I did it naked but I wouldn't let him touch me or anything like that. So after that, he says, 'You know what, listen, I'll pay you $200 for every girl you bring to me,'" she said.So she started telling other girls, most disadvantaged, from broken homes, who needed money, that there was a way to make it - if they weren't too squeamish"She's like 'Oh, do you need to make any extra money?' I'm like 'yeah.' She's like 'OK, I can give you $200 - there's an older guy in Palm Beach, he gets a lot of massages from girls,' that's all she told me," said one of the girls about being recruited."It was like a train: I brought my friends, they brought their friends, and it went on and on," explained one."Did Jeff know anybody's real true age or he didn't care?" asked a detective."I don't think he cared. He told me the younger the better," she answered.WPBF 25 News obtained video of police conducting a search of Epstein's house after months of investigation. What they found corresponded with what every girl had described, down to the pink spiral staircase, the kitchen entrance, and the bathroom equipped with a massage table, oils and sex toys. Every teen said Epstein came in wearing only a towel and instructed them to undress."He asked me to take my shirt off so I took my shirt off and that time that was it," said one teen."Did you ever take your panties off and be completely nude?" asked the detective."Occasionally, yeah," she answered.Police found nude photos of what appeared to be under-aged girls on walls of the bedrooms and bathrooms.One girl described Epstein having sex slaves and models always at the house, some living there."He has girls in and out of there all the time, different girls, different models," she said.Police reports said by the time they conducted the search, Epstein knew he was under investigation. He had removed his computer hard drives and other items.The police video reveals that for or a multi-millionaire, Epstein's house was curiously undecorated, a mishmash of dated styles with no overriding theme.Except perhaps for the numerous pictures and paintings of naked women, and what appear to be under-aged girls."I thought I was going to die."Some said, lured by the money, they did come back."Each time he would try a little more touching me, like I was more comfortable, I guess," one said.But others said they were traumatized, never returning to Epstein's house on El Brillo Way.One teen describing how she told her friend "I'm not going if you're not going to be in the room with me. And I was unaware I was going to be alone with him for that ten minutes and I thought I was going to die."WPBF 25 News called Epstein's local attorney for comment but did not receive a reply.Epstein faces new sex trafficking charges in New York, many based on the original allegations from Palm Beach County between 2002 and 2006.