Ghislaine Maxwell first met with Jeffrey Epstein for tea at his Madison Avenue office. Maxwell told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that she remembered most vividly about the encounter in an interview in late July last week was Epstein’s tie. “It had a giant that seemed to be like ketchup on it,” she said. “I was like, wow, OK.”
It was 1991, and Maxwell recently canceled his engagement and was moving from London to New York. “One of my girlfriends… said, ‘I have’ – you know, like your girlfriend, I have a guy to meet… you’ll love him. He’s looking for a wife.'” “I’m going to go thirty. I don’t need to tell everyone that this is a very important moment for a girl, like thinking about something important.”
So a relationship that lasted for decades began, both romantic and professional, with Epstein giving Maxwell from a very early age (the management that oversees its property). According to Maxwell, they have largely lost contact Epstein’s deathin prison in 2019. Three years later, She was sentenced He was imprisoned for twenty years for trafficking in young girls and participating in sexual abuse.
The story of Maxwell’s first meeting with Epstein may sound like an anecdote shared by a convicted child sex trafficker with a senior Justice Department official. Indeed, the entire Maxwell interview took place in two days, just like the legal documents most of us have encountered. To read three hundred and thirty-seven pages of the book (and more, listen to the audio of Maxwell’s soft voice, her British accent has been polished in the United States for decades, even frightened by Maxwell and even angered her manner, as well as Blanche’s behavior, her casual attitude towards the incident. The interview has no obvious legal purpose. It is an operation to damage control. Blanche is not investigating Epstein and Maxwell’s crimes, but rather Trying to dig President Donald Trump has come under fire from the base for his involvement with Epstein, who was once described as a “stellar guy” and “has a lot of fun people.” The Justice Department once argued that Maxwell should be sentenced to at least thirty years in prison. Now its second official is Trump’s criminal defense lawyer, consistent with a woman whose crimes denounce the department as “terrible.” Interrogators and witnesses shared the same goal – they both made Trump happy there – and their exchanges reflected the arrangement.
This interview alternates boring and engaging, giving a glimpse of an independent world of privilege and power. “I’m in English, my close friends are close friends with Sarah and Andrew,” Maxwell explained at one point, referring to Sarah Ferguson and her ex-husband Prince AndrewHe was accused of raping Virginia Giuffre, a victim of Epstein’s minor, in a civil lawsuit. (Prince Andrew denied misconduct but reached an out-of-court settlement in an impatient case.) Maxwell described meeting with Elon Musk when “a group of us” gathered on “Another Friends Island” for a birthday party for Google co-founder Sergey Brin; she said a few years later, she met Tesla CEO again at the Oscars. Maxwell is both pathetic and annoying. Epstein encouraged her to think they might get married. “Of course, by the mid-90s, I knew the marriage part would never happen,” she said. “But I do think we might have a child, and that’s what I really want.” She suggested she ruining her life, but never admitted that she hurt many others in the process.
Maxwell still lacks remorse in her crimes. She allows “someone is not suitable” (such as seeing Epstein masturbate on a massage table), “Mine may be different.” She admits that he sexually abused the underage girl. “He was a disgusting person who did horrible things to young children,” Maxwell said. But she claimed that when she was involved in Epstein, she had never seen or even known about the abuse and denied inviting underage girls to massage him. “I can make it clear that if any child told me they were fourteen, fifteen, sixteen… I would never allow such a thing,” Maxwell told Blanche. She said she had never seen women of any age, “under any kind of coercion” or “look uncomfortable or troubled in any way.” As she said, some of Epstein’s men’s game’s work nude photos – “less than normal massage”. “Have I ever instructed anyone how to enjoy Mr. Epstein?” Maxwell told Blanche. “No.”
Of course, there is no reason to believe Maxwell. During her trial, four women, both underage when they met Maxwell and Epstein, provided testimony that convincingly contradicted the claim. A jury found Maxwell on five counts involving sexual trafficking. The judge who presided over the trial and sentenced her to her concluded that she “participated in a horrible program to attract, transport and transport underage girls, some of whom were up to 14 years of age.”
When the two were 14 years old, they met a name Jane in a summer camp for a talented child who was famous in a summer camp. Her father just passed away and her family struggled financially. The prosecutor’s sentencing memo describes what happened next: Epstein and Maxwell both sexually abused Jane, “teach Jane,” “teach Epstein how to massage, and gives Jane’s instructions on touching Epstein’s penis. “Maxwell continued: “Trying to make Jane feel that it’s ‘very normal’ and ‘no big deal’. “Epstein abused Jane for the next two years, and Maxwell was often in the room when the abuse occurred,” the memo said.
“I’ve only seen her in Palm Beach, I’ve only seen her with her mother,” Maxwell told Jane to Blanche. Blanche didn’t force her to be inconsistent. Maxwell last denied that she witnessed or participated in Epstein’s crimes, and in 2016 civil testimony, she was charged with perjury, the Justice Department that Blanche is now helping the campaign. (Prosecutors dropped the perjury charge after ensuring Maxwell’s conviction for sex trafficking.)
After Maxwell’s transcript of the interview with Blanche was released, the Jivre family, who died of suicide in April, issued a statement denounced the Justice Department for providing Maxwell with a “platform for rewriting history.” Their anger is understandable. The Justice Department carefully edited the victim’s name from the transcript, but there was no doubt about the lies that allowed Maxwell to do. Blanche is there, and he said to Maxwell, instead of “creating a “scene” she said, she said, “receive your actions and hear your actions.” In this procedure, fairness to the victim is an afterthought.
But the strange encounter – the chief lawyer doesn’t usually take the time to interview witnesses – offers Trump and Maxwell a prospect of mutual benefit. Maxwell’s attorney David Oscar Markus eagerly seized the moment Trump’s Epstein struggled to present the testimony of his client, proving that she was granted an immunity to her use. Maxwell showed himself in the interview because he was “very passionate about talking to anyone” and lamented that “no one came from the government…… had ever talked to me”, conveniently ignoring the fact that she chose not to testify in her defense.
The Trump team clearly hopes the interview will generate allegations of sexual misconduct from the famous Democrats. On this charge, the interview failed despite Blanche’s gaming efforts to elicit information. Once, Blanche asked Senator Ted Kennedy if he knew Epstein. Maxwell said they were unfamiliar. “But Bobby Kennedy knew him,” she refers to the Secretary of Health and Public Services. “Against Bobby Kennedy’s words,” Blanche said. “How do you know?” A: “Dinosaur bone hunting in Dakota.”
Blanche abandons Kennedys’ subject, but he repeatedly proposes Epstein’s relationship with former president Bill Clinton:
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