Public release of Epstein records puts Ghislaine Maxwell under fresh scrutiny
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British socialite and onetime Jeffrey Epstein girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell is back in the spotlight with the public release of investigative records that led to her 2021 sex trafficking conviction.

Days after Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to immediately free her from a 20-year prison sentence, the public release of grand jury transcripts from her sex trafficking case returned the spotlight to victims whose allegations helped land her behind bars.

The disclosure of the transcripts as part of the Justice Department’s ongoing release of its investigative files on Maxwell and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein exposed how an FBI agent told grand jurors about Maxwell’s critical role in Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse of girls and young women.

Maxwell, a British socialite and publishing heir, was convicted of sex trafficking in December 2021 after four women told a federal jury in New York City about how she and Epstein abused them in the 1990s and early 2000s. Epstein never went to trial. He was arrested in July 2019 on sex trafficking charges and killed himself a month later in his cell at a Manhattan federal jail.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    Epstein Said Trump Shared Love of Young Girls in Apparent Suicide Note

    “Good luck! We shared one thing… our love and caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch,’ whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair,” he continued, signing off “J. Epstein.”

    The “grab’em by the pussy” boast seemed like phony bragging at the time, but now it’s looking like suddenly grabbing an unsuspecting woman by her crotch is his signature move. Charming.

    Of course, the DoJ is now claiming that it’s a fake, but nothing in the letter sounds implausible AT ALL, and it sure sounds like the FBI is backpedaling after this finally getting attention, after being out there since 2023.

    • FrostyElm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      3 days ago

      Oh, right. I knew about the letter, but thought you were talking about an email. Yeah, the letter could go either way, IMO; the most sus thing about it is the good handwriting and perfect spelling, but he had visitors daily, including his legal team, and anyone could have written it for him if his hands were shaking or for whatever reason he wanted to dictate and not write. In addition, the BoP has has possession of it for over six years now and it remains in the DoJ files: if it had ever been credibly proven fake in the feds’ own estimation it would have been noted as such at the time. Thanks for your response.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
        5·
        3 days ago

        Yeah, I mischaracterized it as an email, probably because I had just read about Prince Amdrew’s E-MAIL to Maxwell, inquiring if she currently had any “inappropriate friends” for him.