Jeffrey Epstein house staff at 358 El Brillo Way, Palm Beach, and the wife of Brahakmana Lucian Mellawa. Listed as #52 on the FBI witness list, immediately after her husband at #51, with the same description: house staff who may have knowledge of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual trafficking conduct and interaction with underage minors. Her address and telephone number are recorded as unknown. She carries her own charges on the household expense ledger and shipped FedEx packages from El Brillo Way in her own name. Alfredo Rodriguez described the couple in deposition as 'the couple taking care' of the house. Nothing in the corpus alleges wrongdoing by her; she is a listed witness.
Key Findings
- FBI witness list #52 (EFTA01182998, and the same list filed in Giuffre v. Maxwell as Doc 69-att2 Exhibit 2, Doc 76-att2 Exhibit B, Doc 232-att4 Exhibit D): 'Jayarukshi Mellawa, Address unknown at this time, Telephone number unknown at this time, House staff who may have knowledge of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual trafficking conduct and interaction with underage minors.' She appears at #67 on a later version of the list (Doc 1330-att3, Exhibit DE 423-4).
- Household expense ledger (EFTA01123138): invoice 62028 of 4/27/2004, 'Mellawa/Jayarukshi', $912.00, on the same ledger page as 'Maxwell/Ghislaine' $6,044.32. A second invoice, 62259 of 5/24/2004, $798.00, appears on the DOJ-OGR-00015293 copy of the same ledger.
- FedEx shipper from 358 El Brillo Way in her own name (EFTA01312848, 'JAYARUKSHI MEILAWA'), and under the short forms RUSHI MELLAWA (EFTA00216814, EFTA00216804, EFTA00216851, EFTA00216936, EFTA01317003) and RUSNI MELLAWA (EFTA00216780, EFTA01312871), sending to Sarah Kellen, Lesley Groff, Teala Davis and Jeffrey Epstein at 457 Madison Ave.
- Identified as one half of a married couple on the Palm Beach staff: Alfredo Rodriguez, asked about 'Mr. and Mrs. Mellawa?', answered 'Yeah, they are from Bangladesh, they were the couple taking care' (Giuffre v. Maxwell, Doc 55-21, Exhibit 13, p. 216).
- NAME VARIANTS, not separate people: RUSHI and RUSNI are treated here as short forms of Jayarukshi (compare the -rukshi tail) recorded on FedEx airbills, not as a third household member. They ship from the same address to the same recipients, and no document places a Rushi and a Jayarukshi together. If a document ever does, split this record.
- NATIONALITY UNRESOLVED: the only corpus statement is Rodriguez's 'they are from Bangladesh', and he hedged on the same point 190 pages earlier ('There was a couple of Filipino girls -- no, they were from Bangladesh. I can't remember.'). The given names Jayarukshi and Brahakmana are Sinhalese, which points to Sri Lanka. Left unset rather than guessed.