Former Jeffrey Epstein Masseuse Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances

Her testimony helped put Ghislaine Maxwell behind bars. Now, her mother wants answers to her untimely death.

Oct 18, 2023

Another suspicious death connected to Jeffrey Epstein recently went down: her name was Carolyn Adriano, and she was found dead earlier this year.

Adriano got recruited into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring at age 14.

Her testimony was crucial for prosecutors to convict former Epstein Madame Ghislaine Maxwell, who received a sentence of twenty years in prison for her role in the human trafficking case.

Adriano wanted to be “a voice for all survivors of sexual abuse so they are not afraid to come forward, even if it is years after the event, and say what happened to them. This is my story, and I want to tell it.”

Carolyn Andriano was resentfully cleaning her bedroom, listening to music and squabbling with her mother – being a typical 14-year-old, in fact – when the text came through. It was from her friend Virginia, thousands of miles away in London.
'You'll never guess who I'm with…' it read. Carolyn knew this was going to be a juicy bit of gossip and was quick to respond. 'Who?' she replied eagerly.
A text pinged back immediately.
'She said, "I'm in London with Jeffrey and Maxwell and Prince Andrew",' Carolyn recalls. 'She said they were going to have dinner. I kind of didn't believe her, but I had no reason not to. I thought it was far-fetched but, then again, she knew wealthy people and had been to fancy parties and stuff like that.
'I said, "bulls**t". I was calling her out on it, but she swore [it was true]. She said she was going to see if she could get a picture.'
Of course, the 'Jeffrey and Maxwell' the text referred to were disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in prison in 2019, and his then girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of child trafficking and sex abuse charges in New York last month.
Back in 2001, for the two young girls, it all felt like a dangerous – and lucrative – game. A week after the text exchange, true to her word, 17-year-old Virginia came back from the UK and picked up Carolyn from school, keen to tell all. 'I said, "so where's your picture, Miss Princess?"' Carolyn said. A photograph was duly produced.
The image – Carolyn feels like it was on a mobile phone, although camera phones weren't universally available in 2001 and memories fade, so it might have been a digital or disposable snap – is one most people will be familiar with.
It shows Virginia grinning, with Prince Andrew at her side, his hand around her waist, and Ghislaine looking on proudly in the background.
Carolyn was duly impressed. But there was more. Much more.
Carolyn was full of questions: 'I asked her if she'd been to the Palace. And she said, "I got to sleep with him". I said, "What? You're f****** with me", and she said "no, I got to sleep with him". She didn't seem upset about it. She thought it was pretty cool.' (source)

This was back in 2001. Two decades later—Carolyn was a 35-year-old married mother of five, ready to do her duty to testify and put the monster Maxwell behind bars.

She recently said to the press, “'I want people to know these terrible things have happened to me and that I am a survivor. I want to let the other victims know, that there's no timeframe on when you can talk about it, to get help. I'm very happy being a wife and a mother and I want to show people how the tragedies in my life did not stop me. I'm overcoming them. I'm not going to let Maxwell and Epstein ruin my life anymore. I'm grateful every day when I wake up.' (source)

Her family doesn’t believe Adriano died from a drug overdose. Yes, she had a history of past substance abuse—but her mother does not believe her daughter died of a drug overdose.

From the Daily Beast:

Before her death, “she was ecstatic,” Carolyn’s mother, Dorothy Groenert, told The Daily Beast. “She was all set up for a whole new lifestyle.”
Groenert says Carolyn’s death came as a shock because she was working on building a new life and texted her recently about being free of drugs and alcohol.
The way Groenert sees it, some things about her daughter’s overdose don’t make sense, and she wants cops to investigate further.
Jachles, however, said that Carolyn’s case would officially be closed this week. Officers on the scene took a statement from Pitts, who told them that Carolyn had been using drugs, and Carolyn’s brother, who rushed to the hotel after Pitts texted Groenert that Carolyn had died. Pitts tried to administer CPR and “was given directions over the phone with 911,” Jachles said.
“It shouldn’t be closed,” Groenert said of the police investigation. “I begged them, I sent them numerous messages. I’ve asked for them to make meetings, contact me, and to no avail.”

Carolyn was one of four victims to testify at the Maxwell trial in December 2021, telling the jury that the British socialite had groped her and routinely scheduled her “massages” with Epstein, who molested her up to three times until she was “too old” for him at age 18.
At the start, a Manhattan federal prosecutor asked Carolyn if she’d ever been addicted to drugs, and she replied, “Pain pills and cocaine.” Carolyn also testified about her home life when she was 14 and had first visited Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion in 2001. “I was allowed to do whatever I wanted,” she said, adding, “Because my mom was an alcoholic and a drug addict.” (Asked about Carolyn’s testimony, Groenert denied this. “No, I was working. I was working to pay for my children. I didn’t get any supplements. I had to work,” she said. “That’s inaccurate.”)
Carolyn, who said she dropped out in seventh grade and never returned to school, later testified that she became addicted to drugs while visiting Epstein’s lair: “Marijuana, cocaine, alcohol, anything that could block out for me to go to the appointment.”
She had confided in Maxwell and Epstein about her history of being sexually abused as a young child (by a relative at age 4) and of her family’s struggles with addiction. This emboldened the sick high-society couple to groom her and even attempt to bring her to Epstein’s U.S. Virgin Islands compound. “I told him I was only 15 and I couldn’t leave,” Carolyn said of Epstein.
The prosecutor also asked Carolyn about her medications, and she answered that she took methadone, an antidepressant, Xanax, and a drug for schizophrenia because “I am scared that my kids are going to get kidnapped.”
When Maxwell’s lawyer cross-examined Carolyn, he noted the Epstein victim compensation fund awarded her $3.25 million but had subtracted $446,000 because she’d received that amount in 2009 from a lawsuit against Epstein and his assistant Sarah Kellen.
“Yes, but no money will ever fix what’s happened to me,” Carolyn responded.

Indeed.

We still do not know the full scope of Epstein’s sex trafficking business using underage girls. We also don’t know most of Epstein and Maxwell’s former clientele.

However, we do know a number of prominent figures were found in Epstein’s calendar.

And Epstein didn’t kill himself.

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