NZ man arranged masseuses for Epstein, US probe reveals

A New Zealand national in Jeffrey Epstein’s inner circle arranged masseuses for the child sex offender, according to a new US investigation. 

The Epstein files, released by the US Department of Justice earlier this year, revealed New Zealand couple Brice and Karen Gordon managed properties for Epstein - including his infamous island - during the period he sex trafficked women and girls. 

The pair, who earlier served in the New Zealand Defence Force, were employees of Epstein between approximately 2003 until his death in 2019. 

Now, an investigatory committee led by New Mexico lawmakers into Epstein’s crimes in the state has shed fresh light on the Gordons’ involvement in Epstein’s affairs. 

An interim report, released by the New Mexico Truth Commission, describes the Gordons as being in Epstein’s “inner circle” as employees at the ranch property, and details Brice Gordon’s involvement in supplying masseuses for Epstein. 

Epstein’s longtime pilot, Larry Visoski, testified at Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial in 2021 that Gordon told him he had “arranged for masseuses from a Santa Fe spa, Ten Thousand Waves, to visit Zorro Ranch to perform massages on Epstein,” the report said. 

It also references a 2007 FBI interview with Gordon, in which the New Zealander said he typically arranged Epstein’s masseuses whenever the financier stayed at the ranch. 

He stated they had used approximately five different massage therapists. 

“Before Gordon was able to share payment records with the FBI, he received a call from the ‘main office’ which told him he was no longer permitted to speak with the FBI,” the report stated. 

Many of Epstein’s victims have said they were initially recruited to give him massages, before being subjected to sexual abuse. 

Nothing in the investigation documents suggests the Gordons were involved in offending, and they are not accused of any wrongdoing. 

New Zealand national Brice Gordon told the FBI he hired masseuses for Epstein. Photo / DoJ Epstein files 

The commission announced several additional subpoenas, including to the Ten Thousand Waves Spa, which is still operating in Santa Fe and has publicly denied it ever supplied girls to Epstein. 

Five survivors are listed in the report as being sexually abused at the property named Zorro Ranch, and at least 30 other people were potentially abused by Epstein in New Mexico, the interim investigation found. 

One of the survivors, listed as “Jane Doe 2″, was a massage therapist brought to the ranch to massage Epstein, massages that “turned sexual”, according to her testimony to the investigation. 

Other survivors who recount sexual abuse by Epstein at Zorro Ranch were as young as 15 years old at the time. 

The review stated Gordon was also directed to build a “spa massage place” on Epstein’s Little St. James Island, with records showing he ordered soundproofing material for the project. 

Jeffrey Epstein's New Mexico ranch, run by a New Zealand couple, is at the centre of a new probe. 

Wire transfers indicated Gordon received approximately US$200,000 a year for his work, through a company called Lee McKenzie Consultants LLC. 

The Herald earlier revealed Brice Gordon was listed to receive a bequest of US$2 million through his trust just two days before he died in federal prison. 

New Mexico State Representative Andrea Romero, who is heading the investigation, told the Herald in February the Gordons were “people of interest” for the investigation. 

Romero said the couple are among a handful of people deemed of the highest interest to be sought to testify on their possible knowledge of what took place at the property. 

“They will absolutely be on a list of people of interest based on everything we do know about them today and in the hope that we can find them,” Romero said. 

“It’s been alleged that horrible atrocities were taking place in our community,” Romero said, and she and her colleagues have committed to leaving “no stone unturned” in investigating it. 

The couple have disappeared since Epstein’s death, with reports in international media that they may have returned to New Zealand. 

Repeated attempts by the Herald to contact them and their family have proven unfruitful. 

Ethan Manera is a Wellington-based journalist covering Wellington issues, local politics and business in the capital. He can be emailed at ethan.manera@nzme.co.nz.