The former collaborator and lover of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, maintained until at least 2015 the contact with the financier accused of having maintained a pedophile ring, according to documents in the file. The lawyers of the fifty-year-old whose trial is due to open on July 12, 2021, had multiplied the remedies to prevent the posting online of a series of documents relating to a civil action brought by an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein in 2015.
Personality of the jet set, Ghislaine Maxwell is accused of having recruited young girls, some minors, for Jeffrey Epstein. But Manhattan federal judge Loretta Preska said the nature of the documents did not justify their being kept confidential. A series of documents was therefore entered into the file on Thursday, with the notable exception of the minutes of the hearing of Ghislaine Maxwell as part of this procedure, carried out in 2016, due to an appeal from his defense concerning this document.
In communication until at least 2015
This hearing is seen as an essential document in anticipation of the criminal trial of the daughter of ex-British press baron Robert Maxwell, who has pleaded not guilty to all six charges against her. Among the documents released Thursday are copies of emails exchanged between Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. They show that the two former lovers remained in communication until at least 2015. However, Ghislaine Maxwell assured Federal Judge Alison Nathan that she had not had any contact with Jeffrey Epstein for at least ten years.
Arrested in July 2019, the latter hanged himself in his cell in early August. "You did nothing wrong and I suggest you behave as such", writes the deceased financier in particular in an email dated January 25, 2015. He also encourages him not to behave "as a justice ”. Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in the state of New Hampshire on July 2 after several months on the run.
"Satisfy them sexually"
The documents also contain several minutes of the hearing of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the young woman who had sued Ghislaine Maxwell. She depicts there the collaborator of Jeffrey Epstein as essential in the recruitment of young girls, most often minors, to satisfy the sexual appetite of the financier. She says she was only 15 years old herself when she started working for him in Florida.
According to Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Ghislaine Maxwell was very often present when young girls gave this former math teacher erotic massages. "I don't think the girls involved were really participating of their own accord," said the alleged victim during her hearing. “We were all there to obey Jeffrey and Ghislaine,” she adds, “to do our job, which is to say satisfy them sexually. "
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