What Ghislaine Maxwell knows
Nearly a year after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail of a supposed suicide, the most wanted woman in the world was finally caught by the FBI.
After a year of speculating whether she was taking advantage of extradition laws in Paris or smuggling In-N-Out burgers in Los Angeles, Ghislaine Maxwell was found hiding out on a 156-acre compound, which she had purchased with cash in the tiny town of Bradford, New Hampshire. Epstein's henchwoman has been charged with conspiracy to entice minors to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors to engage in illegal sex acts, transportation of a minor to engage in illegal sex acts, and perjuring herself in 2016.
If found guilty, the 58-year-old British socialite would likely face decades behind bars.
That sound you hear is that of princes, politicians, and international party girls and playboys all shaking in their boots with the realization that a woman with everything to gain and nothing left to lose is in the custody of prosecutors who would love to hear her secrets.
Maxwell spent decades as Epstein's girlfriend slash partner in crime. She stands accused of orchestrating the procurement of children to rape and traffic to their famous friends. A comprehensive case detailing what exactly Maxwell knows would probably require a book, not a news item, but it's worth evaluating just what she was likely privy to.
Maxwell is supposed to know about most of Prince Andrew's alleged dealings with Epstein's sex slaves. She's in the background of the infamous photo of the resigned senior royal with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Epstein's most vocal victim. But the prince is far from the only person to fear Maxwell's capture. Giuffre claims that Maxwell's onetime best friend, Naomi Campbell, knew of her abuse. If Alan Dershowitz abused Giuffre, as she has claimed (Dershowitz denies it), Maxwell would likely know.
Perhaps even more important, though, is whatever Maxwell knows about how Epstein and his associates skirted justice for so long. According to prosecutors, the heiress of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell has 15 bank accounts with millions of dollars, passports from three countries, and a global network of elite connections willing to help her out of fear as much as friendship.
The signs that something was coming related to Epstein had been evident in recent months. For example, the authorities took the rare step of publicly rebuking Prince Andrew, declaring that the queen's favorite son had actively stonewalled their efforts to question him under a legally binding directive. So, after a year of her being at large, it makes sense that law enforcement finally managed to track down Maxwell.
And now, she has every reason to tell her secrets. Here is a chance for justice that many have spent decades waiting for
Nearly a year after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail of a supposed suicide, the most wanted woman in the world was finally caught by the FBI.
After a year of speculating whether she was taking advantage of extradition laws in Paris or smuggling In-N-Out burgers in Los Angeles, Ghislaine Maxwell was found hiding out on a 156-acre compound, which she had purchased with cash in the tiny town of Bradford, New Hampshire. Epstein's henchwoman has been charged with conspiracy to entice minors to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors to engage in illegal sex acts, transportation of a minor to engage in illegal sex acts, and perjuring herself in 2016.
If found guilty, the 58-year-old British socialite would likely face decades behind bars.
That sound you hear is that of princes, politicians, and international party girls and playboys all shaking in their boots with the realization that a woman with everything to gain and nothing left to lose is in the custody of prosecutors who would love to hear her secrets.
Maxwell spent decades as Epstein's girlfriend slash partner in crime. She stands accused of orchestrating the procurement of children to rape and traffic to their famous friends. A comprehensive case detailing what exactly Maxwell knows would probably require a book, not a news item, but it's worth evaluating just what she was likely privy to.
Maxwell is supposed to know about most of Prince Andrew's alleged dealings with Epstein's sex slaves. She's in the background of the infamous photo of the resigned senior royal with Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Epstein's most vocal victim. But the prince is far from the only person to fear Maxwell's capture. Giuffre claims that Maxwell's onetime best friend, Naomi Campbell, knew of her abuse. If Alan Dershowitz abused Giuffre, as she has claimed (Dershowitz denies it), Maxwell would likely know.
Perhaps even more important, though, is whatever Maxwell knows about how Epstein and his associates skirted justice for so long. According to prosecutors, the heiress of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell has 15 bank accounts with millions of dollars, passports from three countries, and a global network of elite connections willing to help her out of fear as much as friendship.
The signs that something was coming related to Epstein had been evident in recent months. For example, the authorities took the rare step of publicly rebuking Prince Andrew, declaring that the queen's favorite son had actively stonewalled their efforts to question him under a legally binding directive. So, after a year of her being at large, it makes sense that law enforcement finally managed to track down Maxwell.
And now, she has every reason to tell her secrets. Here is a chance for justice that many have spent decades waiting for
LISTEN: Ann Coulter Recounts Meeting ‘Satanic’ Jeffrey Epstein
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Ann Coulter, author of Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind, revealed an encounter she had with Jeffrey Epstein in 2001, recalling the incidental meeting on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host John Binder.
Coulter remembered, “I had my own encounter with Jeffrey Epstein, and before I give you this little vignette, it’s very important I tell you something. All of my friends know I have absolutely no radar on freaks on weird people. I’m a terrible judge of character. When I first meet someone, I’m not allowed to invite anyone from a book signing to have drinks with us because I’ve done it so many times, and we end up with some bipolar lunatic. So anyone who knows me will tell I cannot judge people.”
Coulter shared the context of her brush with Epstein: “To make a long story short — pouring rain, day before 9/11, I’m leaving for speeches, I can’t get home, my editor died, book was canceled…It turned out to be the number one book all summer — anyway, I’m standing outside the funeral home, it’s pouring rain, traffic all over, no cab. So this stretch limo pulls up, and a guy leans out. He knows me by name, says who he is, names someone that we know in common — which, by the way, wouldn’t be that great a recommendation guide; she hangs around sleazy guys — but I think to myself, ‘Okay, I just need to go 20 blocks to the Upper East Side.”
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“This car can’t move,” Coulter recalled. “It’s going five miles per hour. I get in the car: Jeffrey Epstein. We go up past his place. You’ve seen it on all the TV shows. It takes up something like a city block. So he invites me in for tea. I walk in, see the place. I’m asking him what he does for a living, something that never really occurred to the press to ask him. It’s obvious he’s a total BSer, and I just get a really bad vibe from him.”
“He has no explanation for what he does for a living, has no books in his place,” added Coulter. “It’s like a museum. … I got such a bad feeling. I had the car drop me at a place that wasn’t mine, and I walked another two blocks [to my home]. For the next few years, I kept having people like Alan Dershowitz email me and say, ‘Jeffrey Epstein wants to get in touch with you.’ He’d find people in the TV world to try to email me. That’s how creepy he is–that someone [with] no judgment thought, ‘Something weird here.'”
Mansour said, “I was so angry about this documentary on Netflix about Jeffrey Epstein. I’ve seen it, and the biggest thing about this guy is that he had enough money to buy off people to live this lifestyle, but no one wants to ask how he got the money.”
Coulter said, “Vicky Ward has actually written a lot of great stuff about that, and I will say she’s a Vanity Fair writer, and to her credit, she, too, had the story. … She and I are apparently the only people who have ever met this guy and thought, ‘What? Where’s your money coming from?’ So she pursues it, but while pursuing the money angle — which Graydon Carter makes her back off — the main thing she finds is two girls who have been molested by Jeffrey Epstein and Graydon Carter, editor with Vanity Fair, killed it. He wouldn’t let her write it.”
“[Epstein] acted like he was some wizard investor, with no clients,” added Coulter.
Coulter concluded, “Ghislaine Maxwell did not merely procure the underage girls, she participated in the molestation, according to [reports]. These people are satanic.”
“They’re demonic,” concurred Mansour.
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Prince Andrew ‘Bewildered’ by Arrest of Jeffrey Epstein Associate Ghislaine Maxwell
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Allegations that Prince Andrew is not cooperating with the U.S. investigation into the alleged sex trafficking of minors by British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein have left the British Royal “bewildered”, his legal team said Friday.
Maxwell, a longtime associate of Epstein, was arrested in New Hampshire Thursday, as Breitbart News reported.
She had lived for years with Epstein and was his frequent travel companion on trips around the world, and was taken into custody around 8:30 a.m.
An indictment made public Thursday said Maxwell “assisted, facilitated and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse ” girls under age 18.
She has long faced allegations of procuring underage girls for him, earning the nickname of Epstein’s “madam.”
Breaking: https://t.co/HxPcqKW3Cc— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 2, 2020
Epstein committed suicide in jail while awaiting trial last year and Queen Elizabeth II’s second son quit his Royal duties after he defended his relationship with him.
He has since faced claims from U.S. prosecutors he is running shy of giving his version of events.
“The duke’s team remains bewildered given that we have twice communicated with the DOJ in the last month and to date we have had no response,” an unnamed source on his legal team was quoted as saying by the Press Association news agency.
Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, told reporters on Thursday they would “welcome Prince Andrew coming in to talk with us”.
“We would like to have the benefit of his statement,” she added, repeating a call she first made back in January.
U.S. Prosecutor Says Prince Andrew Has Provided ‘Zero Cooperation’ in Jeffrey Epstein Probe https://t.co/ZrtxMg16be— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 27, 2020
The 60-year-old Duke of York vehemently denies claims he had sex with a 17-year-old girl procured by Epstein.
Pictures of him posing with his arm around the girl’s waist forced Andrew to give a disastrous TV interview to the BBC that was quickly followed by his standing down from all Royal duties in November.
A lawyer who represents some of Epstein’s alleged victims told British television Friday the prince was “avoiding and evading” the U.S. authorities.
President Clinton, right, heads out to play a round of golf with Prince Andrew, left, at the Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on Martha’s Vineyard Friday, Aug. 27, 1999. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)
U.S. attorney Gloria Allred insisted the prince is subjecting those who suffered at Epstein’s hands to a “torture test” by not speaking candidly about his friendship with the convicted paedophile.
She said: “The question is, Prince Andrew when is he going to tell what he knows? He needs to do that. He needs to do it without delay. It is so traumatising and difficult for the victims not to know the truth.
“And this kind of torture test that Prince Andrew is subjecting the victims to, like will he or won’t he give a statement, if he will, when?”
AFP contributed to this report
FBI: Ghislaine Maxwell, Longtime Associate of Jeffrey Epstein, Arrested
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Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of the late Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested in New Hampshire Thursday, according to the FBI.
Maxwell, who lived for years with Epstein and was his frequent travel companion on trips around the world, was taken into custody around 8:30 a.m., said FBI spokesman Marty Feely.
An indictment made public Thursday said Maxwell “assisted, facilitated and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse ” girls under age 18. She has long faced allegations of procuring underage girls for him, earning the nickname of Epstein’s “madam.” Reuters reported in December that the FBI was investigating Maxwell.
One Epstein victim, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, claimed that Maxwell arranged for her to have sex with Britain’s Prince Andrew at her London townhouse. Giuffre bolstered her allegations with a picture of her, Andrew and Giuffre that she said was taken at the time. Andrew denied her story.
Maxwell was described in a lawsuit by another Epstein victim, Sarah Ransome, as the “highest-ranking employee” of Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking enterprise. She oversaw and trained recruiters, developed recruiting plans and helped conceal the activity from law enforcement, the lawsuit alleged.
Maxwell was accused by many women of recruiting them to give Epstein massages, during which they were pressured into sex. Those accusations, until now, never resulted in criminal charges.
The indictment included counts of conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, enticement of a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and two counts of perjury.
Epstein — who had once run in elite circles, flying celebrities and politicians to his private domain dubbed “Lolita Island” — was convicted in 2008 for soliciting an underage prostitute, a 14-year-old girl. However, his brief sentence allowed for 72 hours of “work release” every week. After many years of simmering complaints regarding his light plea deal, federal prosecutors charged Epstein on additional counts of sex trafficking of minors. Months later, he died in prison, setting off a flurry of debate over whether his untimely death was a suicide or murder.
The mystery of Epstein’s demise has been compounded by bizarre and infrequent developments on Maxwell. As the public speculated about her whereabouts, the New York Post obtained a photo of her sitting outside an In-n-Out Burger holding The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives — yet closer examination showed the image was likely photoshopped. Maxwell’s lawyers claimed this January that her personal emails had been hacked in an ongoing civil case with Ms. Giuffre, and months later she sued Epstein’s estate to help pay for her legal bills.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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