Mr. Epstein, the late financier and sex offender, started by putting $40 million into Valar Ventures, a firm backed by Mr. Thiel. Today that investment is worth about $170 million.
Bryana Bongolan, a friend of the mogul’s former girlfriend Casandra Ventura, said she was traumatized by the incident. His lawyers pressed her on details of the account.
With no cameras in the courtroom, few have glimpsed the music mogul as he helps direct his defense, facing charges that could put him in prison for the rest of his life.
Facing new charges after an earlier conviction was overturned, the former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is charged with attacking three women in Manhattan.
Sean Combs’s onetime assistant, testifying under a pseudonym, said she hadn’t come forward with accusations of abuse because she was ashamed and afraid.
The trial of Sean Combs continued on Monday with more testimony by a former assistant to the music mogul, who took the stand under the pseudonym “Mia.”