One incriminating piece of evidence against Ms. Maxwell, a prosecutor told jurors, was a private telephone directory kept in one of Mr. Epstein’s homes.
“Maxwell and Epstein kept a little black book with their victim’s names in it,” the prosecutor, Alison Moe, told the jury.
The book had a list of dozens of names under the heading “massage,” all of them female, many of the entries for young people — as evidenced by notes next to names about “mom,” “dad” or “parents.”
“Use your common sense,” Ms. Moe said to the jury. “When you call a professional masseuse, you don’t need a column for mom and dad.”
The “little black book” has long been part of Epstein lore. Portions of it have been unsealed through civil litigation related to Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell, and observers of the trial anticipated that some of Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell’s famous friends might appear in the book.
But it has remained largely hidden from the public, another example of how careful redactions, trial strategy, and rules of evidence have limited the potentially explosive materials that might have appeared in Ms. Maxwell’s trial.
Among the names listed in the book is Virginia Roberts. One of the government’s witnesses, a woman identified in court only as Carolyn, testified that it was Ms. Roberts who first brought her to Mr. Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion.
Ms. Roberts, now known as Virginia Roberts Giuffre, has long been one of Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell’s most outspoken accusers and filed a lawsuit against them. But she did not testify during the trial.
Carolyn said in her testimony that the first time she visited the mansion she watched Ms. Roberts massage Mr. Epstein and then have sex with him before they both received a cash payment. Over the next few years, Carolyn added, she returned to the home repeatedly, gave Mr. Epstein more than 100 sexualized massages, and was paid hundreds of dollars each time.
On some occasions, she said, Ms. Maxwell called her to arrange those visits.
Ms. Moe told jurors that Carolyn’s name was in the black book. She also pointed to a phone number for Carolyn’s boyfriend, Shawn, who testified that he had driven her and some of her friends to Mr. Epstein’s Palm Beach home. On the stand, he said that he could not be sure of what took place inside the home but described girls emerging with hundreds of dollars in cash.
It was clear from the black book, Ms. Moe said, that what Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell referred to as massages were actually appointments for the “sexual abuse of underage girls”
The list of names in the book, she said, was “powerful evidence of knowledge and intent.”
“Maxwell knew it,” Ms. Moe said. “She was responsible for it.”