The relationship with the American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has paid off financially for Ghislaine Maxwell.
As the chief executive of JP Morgan Chase & Co., Patrick McHugh, testified as a prosecution witness against Epstein's confidante during the criminal trial in New York on Monday, the deceased donated nearly $ 31 million to her between 1999 and 2007.
Maxwell is said to have invested more than seven million dollars in its own helicopter at the time.
When she was arrested in July 2020, investigators discovered about $ 20 million in the accounts of the fifty-nine-year-old.
At that time, however, the British refused to disclose the origin of the money.
According to prosecutors, Maxwell retaliated from Epstein by recruiting girls and young women.
As "Kate" testified in federal court in Manhattan on Monday, Maxwell invited her to her home in London in the early 1990s.
At the meeting, she introduced Epstein to the then seventeen-year-old.
The witness, who, like the other alleged victims, testified under a pseudonym, was impressed by Maxwell's cosmopolitanism at the time.
"She was everything I ever wanted to be."
That Maxwell was looking for friendship impressed her so much that she was always available to Epstein for sexual encounters, supposed massages.
"I was afraid to say goodbye to the two after I had seen how well they were networked," said "Kate," who remembered acquaintances of the couple such as Prince Andrew and Donald Trump.