“Carolyn” (pseudonym, deceased in 2023) — Testified that she was recruited by Maxwell at age 14 for massages and sexual abuse, receiving money from Epstein l

She was only 14, living in a world that already felt too small, when Ghislaine Maxwell spotted her—and decided she was perfect.

“Carolyn” never stood a chance. Recruited with promises of easy money, she was pulled into Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion for what Maxwell called “massages.” What followed was repeated sexual abuse, cash handed over like payment for silence, and a cycle that trapped her for years. She testified to it all in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial—raw, unflinching details delivered in a voice that carried the weight of a childhood stolen.

Carolyn’s courage helped convict Maxwell.

But she never got to see full justice.

She died in 2023, still young, still carrying scars most people will never fully understand.

Her words, though, refuse to die with her.

They echo louder now—demanding answers, naming complicity, and reminding the world that some truths outlive the people who speak them.

She was only 14, living in a world that already felt too small, when Ghislaine Maxwell spotted her—and decided she was perfect.

Known in court only as “Carolyn,” this vulnerable teenager from a troubled background in West Palm Beach, Florida, was introduced to Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion around 2001 through a friend, Virginia Giuffre. What began with promises of easy money for “massages” quickly became a devastating cycle of repeated sexual abuse. Carolyn testified that she visited Epstein’s home about 100 times, three or four times a week, over four years—often summoned by Maxwell, who scheduled the encounters, normalized the exploitation, and sometimes participated by groping her or being present during the assaults.

The payments—hundreds of dollars in cash handed over like compensation for silence—only deepened the trap. Carolyn, who had dropped out of seventh grade and endured prior childhood sexual abuse at age 4, turned to drugs (marijuana, cocaine, pain pills) to numb the pain. “Anything that could block out for me to go to the appointment,” she later explained. Maxwell, once seeming like a glamorous figure, became a chilling enabler, making the violations feel routine and inescapable.

For years, Carolyn carried the secret alone—the shame, the addiction, the stolen childhood. But when Ghislaine Maxwell’s 2021 federal sex-trafficking trial arrived, Carolyn decided the silence had to end. Testifying under her first name for privacy, she delivered raw, unflinching details in a voice heavy with trauma: the grooming, the abuse, the psychological control. Her testimony was gripping and pivotal—a juror later called it the most compassionate and compelling, noting Carolyn’s “one of the hardest life stories.” It helped secure Maxwell’s conviction on five counts, resulting in a 20-year prison sentence in 2022.

Carolyn’s courage didn’t just convict Maxwell; it exposed the systemic failures that allowed Epstein’s network to thrive for decades—the controversial 2008 non-prosecution deal, the ignored early reports, the elite protections. After the trial, she waived anonymity, telling the Daily Mail she was “not ashamed at being a victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell,” and expressed hope for healing as a wife and mother of five.

But full justice remained elusive. The lingering trauma proved overwhelming. Carolyn Andriano died on May 23, 2023, at age 36, in a West Palm Beach hotel room from an accidental overdose of methadone, fentanyl, and alprazolam. Her mother, Dorothy Groenert, expressed profound grief and questions about the circumstances, while her attorney acknowledged the profound, lifelong impact of the abuse as a contributing factor. She left behind her husband, John Pitts Jr., five children, and a legacy of bravery amid unimaginable pain.

Her words, though, refuse to die with her. They echo louder now—demanding answers about complicity, fueling calls for full transparency in the Epstein Files, and reminding the world that some truths outlive the people who speak them. Carolyn’s testimony peeled back layers of a protected darkness; her story continues to illuminate it, ensuring the powerful can no longer hide in silence.