Overview

• In the TV Globo program, Marina Lacerda recounts meeting Epstein at 14 after a friend took her to his Manhattan mansion for a paid massage.
• She describes being pressured to remove her blouse during early visits, with encounters escalating to sexual assault over about three years until he dismissed her as “too old.”
• She is identified in case files as “vítima menor 1,” and investigators credited her information with helping secure Epstein’s federal arrest in 2019.
• Lacerda says Epstein sometimes saw five to ten girls in a day and instructed her to bring friends into his network.
• She also discloses prior abuse by her stepfather at age 12, and she testified before the U.S. Congress earlier this month in her first public account.