Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers grill ex-Epstein employee who testified about underage girls

NEW YORK, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense attorneys on Friday began questioning a former Jeffrey Epstein employee who testified the prior day that he drove two girls who he believed appeared underage to the late financier’s Palm Beach estate.

Juan Alessi, who worked full-time for Epstein from 1991 to 2002, said at Maxwell’s sex abuse trial on Thursday that he saw the two girls spend time with Epstein and Maxwell at the property, where he recalled cleaning sex toys from Epstein’s massage room and storing them in Maxwell’s bathroom.

The British socialite’s attorney Jeffrey Pagliuca began cross-examining Alessi, 71, during the fifth day of testimony in the case. Pagliuca questioned Alessi about his admission to stealing money from Epstein, which Alessi on Thursday called the biggest mistake of his life.

Maxwell, 59,…