“So I’d say that she did her job very well.
Helm said the woman painted a phenomenal picture of what life would be like as “Miss Maxwell’s” personal traveling massage therapist-private jets, top chefs, access to the best education all over the world.
“I never felt like anything she was saying to me wasn’t legitimate, or I never felt fearful.” Teresa Helm at age 21. “We looked similar, we were at a similar age, so I connected with her,” Helm said. Helm was interested and was connected with another young woman, whom she subsequently met at Santa Monica to discuss the potential job. It became even more exciting when a fellow student, a year ahead of her, approached her about an opportunity for a traveling massage therapist job. In 2002, Helm had moved to California from Ohio and was attending a massage therapy school, positive of a bright future. And so after what happened with Jeffrey, I suffered in silence, just like I had always kind of done,” she said. “I just didn’t get help, even though I kept asking for it. Instead, her mother told her not to tell anyone, and it continued for 3 1/2 years. “I really suffered in silence,” Helm told The Epoch Times’ “Insight” magazine.Īs a child, she had told her mother about the abuse in the hope that she’d make it stop. Teresa Helm was 22, and she had already patched her life back together after being sexually abused by a close family member, starting at age 8. Jeffrey Epstein molested her and she didn’t tell a soul for 17 years.