A former New York model is coming forward for the first time Thursday to claim she was assaulted by pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The accuser, only using the name “Kiki,” is speaking out on TV’s “Dr. Oz” about her alleged abuse at the hands of the multimillionaire pervert who treated her as a “disposable” item to satisfy his “urges.”
Kiki says she was recruited while working as the hostess for now-shuttered hip Union Square hangout Coffee Shop, according to clips from Thursday’s episode shared with The Post.
Her female recruiter then told her to lie and pretend to Epstein she was younger than she was because he “likes young pretty girls” — even though she was only 19 at the time, she claims.
Kiki, joined by her attorney Lisa Bloom, told Dr. Mehmet Oz that the one-time hotspot was a “hunting ground for recruiters” because most of the staff were fellow models.
Her “young, beautiful” recruiter — who she guessed was at most in her early 20s — initially appeared to be “just another customer,” she said.
“She just stood in her tracks and she looked at me and she said, ‘Wow, you’re really beautiful,’” Kiki recalled, saying it seemed “kind of odd.”
“She began to right away endear herself to me. She was very sweet. She was very kind.
“She started telling me about her client and who she worked for,” she said, referring to Epstein, with the recruiter gushing about how “very generous, wealthy, and prominent” he was.
“He was very good to people. He was very generous. He’d like to help young girls with their careers,” she claims she was told.
She was told “nothing bad would happen” and she just had to give him a simple massage, she says. “I thought, okay, well, I don’t have any massage therapy experience, so that was odd,” she recalled.
“She says, ‘Well, he just likes young pretty girls.’ I thought, okay, well, this is New York. That’s not that unusual.”
There was “a process of grooming” before she met Epstein, she said, and the recruiter “wined and dined me.”
“She said, ‘Just be sure, if he asked you how old you are, make sure you don’t say you’re older than 17 or 18.’ Even though I was only 19 at the time,” Kiki recalled.
When she finally went to massage Epstein, she felt she had no choice but to go along with his demands, she claims. “Once that door shut, I didn’t know where I was,” she told Dr. Oz.
“This man’s presence was so intimidating that even if I had tried to, I don’t think that I could have.
“When you freeze, you don’t know how to process what’s going on right now, physically or mentally.”
One clip suggests that Epstein relayed that he thought they had “a good time,” with Dr. Oz amazed after the convicted pedophile had “stolen your soul, your spirit.”
“Honestly, I’m not sure that he had a conscience,” Kiki said. “In the short time that I was face to face with him, and then hearing about all the things that happened afterward, I think that he didn’t think about other people.
“So, to him, it probably was a good time because it satisfied his impulses or his urges.
“However the other person or other victim was feeling, it didn’t matter because it was all about him. It satisfied what he needed, and that’s all it mattered.
“Everyone is disposable to him. Expendable.”
Kiki said she was inspired by “all the women who came before me” to finally speak out.
“Their strength and courage and bravery inspired me tremendously,” she told the show.
“But I also felt this social and moral responsibility as a woman and as a victim and now survivor to do what they did for me and to sort of pay it forward.
“If there’s any way, even if I only touch one person or inspire one more person to come forward, whether it’s specifically with this case or they’re a victim of someone else, then I have fulfilled my obligation and have done the right thing.”
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