Ms Maxwell “didn’t want butlers because they’re too stuffy. And so she just liked to hire girls to work at the house, answer phones, get drinks, do the job a butler would do,” according to Ms Sjoberg.

She also claimed that Ms Maxwell asked where she could recruit people: ”She wanted to know if there was, like, a bulletin board or something that she could post, she was looking to hire someone.”

“I told her where she could go to – you know, to put up a listing. And then she asked if I knew anyone that would be interested in working for her.”

Ms Sjoberg has also claimed Prince Andrew groped her breast with a puppet of himself at Epstein’s New York home in 2001. The Duke of York denies the allegation.