We Cannot Forget About Ghislaine Maxwell.
All eyes are on Trump’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Do not let the world forget why his co-conspirator is in prison.
When asked by her family for the website “Real Ghislaine” if she had anything to say to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell stated,
“I say that Epstein died and they should take their disappointment and upset out on the authorities that allowed that to happen…I hope that they have some closure by the judicial process that took place and I wish them time to heal and to be able to have a productive and good life going forward; and that's what I hope for them.”
Afterward, the writer of the Real Ghislaine website wrote, “Ghislaine has consistently and continuously pleaded not guilty and adamantly denies the charges brought against her that are based on allegations of still anonymous accusers. Such allegations or accusations are not ‘evidence’. Just because someone says or repeats them in a newspaper, on a podcast or indeed in a court document, doesn't make them evidence which is subject to proof.”
This is where we’re currently at with Epstein ex-girlfriend and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, the person none other than Alan Dershowitz has referred to as the Epstein “Rosetta Stone” - possibly the last person alive who knows the extent of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operations, and somebody who is currently serving 20 years in a Florida prison for her involvement.
Ghislaine Maxwell has been attempting to appeal her conviction for years, and her most recent appeal is one she hopes will be reviewed by the Supreme Court. As you may remember from our previous coverage of the Epstein story, when Epstein was granted his “sweetheart deal” in the 2000s by former Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, part of the agreement was that criminal charges would not be instituted against any co-conspirators, or even POTENTIAL co-conspirators.
Look, folks, it’s a bit of a crapshoot knowing when Trump’s Supreme Court actually seems to give a crap about upholding the law. We know that the federal circuit court covering New York rejected Maxwell’s appeal, on the grounds that the agreement to give her immunity ONLY covered her in the district it was made (which in this case would have been Palm Beach, Florida). The DoJ is not on her side, either, with them filing an opposing review recently to the Supreme Court reminding them they’d rejected a separate case’s appeal that made a similar claim.
You know who is on her side, though?
Alan Dershowitz - who believes that Maxwell’s sentence should be commuted, and she should be granted immunity, so that she can name names.
Yeah, Alan. What a great idea.
It’s important to remember that Ghislaine Maxwell, contrary to what the “Real Ghislaine” website claims (often without any evidence, or even remorse), is very much in prison for a reason. As stated in the press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York in 2022 when Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted (and as a warning, this gets quite graphic and remains graphic for the rest of the article):
“MAXWELL was sentenced today…to 240 months in prison for her role in a scheme to sexual exploit and abuse multiple minor girls with Jeffrey Epstein over the course of a decade. MAXWELL was previously found guilty on December 29, 2021, following a one-month jury trial, of conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors to participate in illegal sex acts, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts, sex trafficking conspiracy, and sex trafficking of a minor…According to the allegations in the Indictment, court documents, and evidence presented at trial:
From at least 1994, up to and including in or about 2004, GHISLAINE MAXWELL assisted, facilitated, and participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse victims known to MAXWELL and Epstein to be under the age of 18. The victims were as young as 14 years old when they were groomed and abused by MAXWELL and Epstein, both of whom knew that their victims were in fact minors. As a part and in furtherance of their scheme to abuse minor victims, MAXWELL and Epstein enticed and caused minor victims to travel to Epstein’s residences in different states, which MAXWELL knew and intended would result in their grooming for and subjection to sexual abuse.
MAXWELL enticed and groomed minor girls to be abused in multiple ways. For example, MAXWELL attempted to befriend certain victims by asking them about their lives, their schools, and their families, and taking them to the movies or on shopping trips. MAXWELL also acclimated victims to Epstein’s conduct simply by being present for victim interactions with Epstein, which put victims at ease by providing the assurance and comfort of an adult woman who seemingly approved of Epstein’s behavior. Additionally, Epstein offered to help some victims by paying for travel and/or educational opportunities, and MAXWELL encouraged certain victims to accept Epstein’s assistance. As a result, victims were made to feel indebted and believed that MAXWELL and Epstein were trying to help them. MAXWELL also normalized and facilitated sexual abuse for a victim by discussing sexual topics, undressing in front of the victim, being present when the victim was undressed, and encouraging the victim to massage Epstein.
As MAXWELL and Epstein intended, these grooming behaviors left minor victims vulnerable and susceptible to sexual abuse by Epstein. MAXWELL was then present for certain sexual encounters between minor victims and Epstein, such as interactions where a minor victim was undressed, and ultimately was present for sex acts perpetrated by Epstein on minor victims. That abuse included sexualized massages during which a minor victim was fully or partially nude, as well as group sexualized massages of Epstein involving a minor victim where MAXWELL was present. In some instances, MAXWELL participated in the sexual abuse of minor victims.
Ultimately minor victims were subjected to sexual abuse that included, among other things, the touching of a victim’s breasts or genitals, placing a sex toy such as a vibrator on a victim’s genitals, directing a victim to touch Epstein while he masturbated, and directing a victim to touch Epstein’s genitals. MAXWELL and Epstein’s victims were groomed or abused at Epstein’s residences in New York, Florida, and New Mexico, as well as MAXWELL’s residence in London, England.
In the earlier phase of the conspiracy, from at least approximately 1994 through approximately 2001, MAXWELL and Epstein identified vulnerable girls, typically from single-mother households and difficult financial circumstances. This earlier phase required the defendant and Epstein to identify one girl at a time to target for grooming and abuse. In the later phase, from approximately 2001 until at least approximately 2004, MAXWELL and Epstein enticed and recruited, and caused to be enticed and recruited, minor girls to visit Epstein’s Palm Beach Residence to engage in sex acts with Epstein, after which Epstein, MAXWELL, or another employee of Epstein’s would give the victims hundreds of dollars in cash. MAXWELL and Epstein encouraged one or more of those victims to travel with Epstein with the intention that the victim engage in sex acts with Epstein. Moreover, and in order to maintain and increase his supply of victims, MAXWELL and Epstein also paid certain victims to recruit additional girls to be similarly abused by Epstein. In this way, MAXWELL and Epstein created a network of underage victims for Epstein to sexually exploit.”
If you’ve ever thought that the Jeffrey Epstein story felt like some big, grand conspiracy theory due to the fact that the source of his wealth is unknown, and the scope of his friendships with the rich and powerful was vast, the Ghislaine Maxwell of it all is where the story crosses the rubicon into something you’d expect to find in a John Grisham novel.
She was born in 1961, the daughter of a media tycoon by the name of Robert Maxwell. In her 20s, she became a socialite in London and a bit of a known quantity herself as director of her father's Oxford United football club and founder of the Kit Kat Club for Women, described as “a modern take on an intellectual club” with the goal of supporting working women.
But let’s back up for a second to Ghislaine’s father Robert. Robert wasn’t just a newspaper man with a vast fortune at his fingertips: he was a semi-important figure in the founding of Israel in 1948, had long-circling rumors that he was a spy for Mossad, and died in disgrace in 1991 following reports that he had swindled $600 million from his newspaper employees’ pension funds. But not before allegedly introducing Jeffrey Epstein to his daughter Ghislaine circa 1988 (though some sources dispute this earlier meeting).
Officially, Robert Maxwell died by his own hand by throwing himself from his boat The Lady Ghislaine (and Israeli intelligence were reportedly at his funeral, for those of you wondering why conspiracy theorists obsess over this story). Unofficially, Ghislaine Maxwell, according to an obscure 2000 New York Post profile, believed he was assassinated by Mossad to keep his mouth shut. Maxwell’s death was social suicide for the Maxwell family, and at one point, Ghislaine escaped to New York to retain anonymity - until, that is, she reconnected with Jeffrey Epstein at an event honoring Robert Maxwell.
The Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown, perhaps THE most prominent Epstein scholar, stated that Ghislaine’s mother would go on to write a book and claim that an anonymous “New York financier” helped the family get back on track, and that “there’s enough of an indicator there that it sounds like it could have been Epstein that came in to rescue the family and helped provide a house for her mother to live in.”
Are you starting to connect the dots conspiratorially? Even within the obscure New York Post article, author Peter Fearon writes:
“Within a year of her father’s death she was dating immensely wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. He provided a platform for her return to public prominence and filled the emotional vacuum in her life left by the death of her father. EPSTEIN is an enigmatic figure. Rumors abound — including wild ones about a career in the Mossad and, contrarily, the CIA. Some have said he was once a concert pianist. He seems to deny nothing and admits even less.
“He told me he was a spy hired by corporations to find major amounts of money which had been embezzled,” said one of Epstein’s former girlfriends, diet guru and former TV personality Nicki Haskell. “He made it sound very glamorous.””
Glamorous it wasn’t, though. Some of Epstein’s first victims were from around 1994, and shortly after is when we know Maxwell’s involvement officially began. Despite Maxwell’s upbringing, it’s often assumed she was reliant upon Epstein for finances - which is when she began scouting young girls for him. A history that caught up to her when she was arrested and charged for crimes occurring at least between 1994 and 2004, and affected children as young as 14.
One account that was written in the New York Times during her trial states:
“The 14-year-old girl was eating ice cream with friends one afternoon in 1994, around a picnic table at a summer arts camp in Michigan, she said, when a “tall, thin woman” with a “cute little Yorkie” walked by. The campers asked if they could pet the dog, but soon after the girl’s friends left her alone with the woman, a man joined them, and asked the girl about the camp and her other interests. He said he was a benefactor who gave to the camp and supported young talent. When the girl said she lived in Palm Beach, Fla., the man said, “What a coincidence, we live there too.” He asked for her phone number.”
This chance meeting with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell led to years of abuse that began with subtle grooming, with Maxwell coming across as a “odd and quirky…big sister figure” who would take her to the movies and shopping for clothes… including lingerie.
“But soon,” the Times continues, “Ms. Maxwell began talking to her about sex, Jane said. One day, Jane said, Ms. Maxwell was among a group of women lounging topless or naked around Mr. Epstein’s pool. Another day, when she was still 14, Jane testified, she was speaking with Mr. Epstein in his office when he told her he could introduce her to talent agents and “make things happen” for her. Then he “abruptly” ended the conversation, took her hand, and said, “Follow me,” as he guided her outside and into the pool house. Inside, Jane said, Mr. Epstein led her to a couch and took off his sweatpants. He pulled her on top of him and “proceeded to masturbate,” she testified in a halting voice. After he was done, she said, he went into a bathroom to clean up, then “acted like nothing had happened.””
This is just one story of many told at trial that resulted in the sentencing of Ghislaine Maxwell - this, as well as the stories outlined above, are why she is behind bars. Briefly mentioned in the trial are the absolutely disturbing, yet baffling, chain of events that happened at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico. But at Epstein’s own trial before his death, a woman named Chauntae Davies testified in grim detail how Ghislaine Maxwell “recruited” her - they paid for her to go to culinary school, gave her a job, paid for her sister to study abroad to become a translator in Spain, traveled with her across the world, the whole nine yards.
Yet she told CBS News, "I was raped on Zorro Ranch at least twice.”
According to Davies, there “was a sophisticated operation of rape, exploitation and manipulation of young women disguised as growth, apprenticeship and education” that was able to operate without interruption at Zorro Ranch, which was reportedly filled often with “random young women” surrounding the complex. This was further corroborated by Virginia Giuffre, one of the most front-facing accusers of Epstein, who in 2016 alleged she was an “underage sex-slave” on the compound to men like Prince Andrew, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, high-powered attorney Alan Dershowitz and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (all men have denied the allegations).
All of this was made extra disturbing when the Times reported that Epstein told countless scientists and businessmen that he wanted to use Zorro Ranch as a place to inseminate countless women to have his children - a more direct, though no less insidious, version of what can charitably called “the Elon Musk method of fatherhood.” AKA eugenics. That’s what it really is.
“Once, at a dinner at Mr. Epstein’s mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, [Virtual Reality co-founder Jaron]. Lanier said he talked to a scientist who told him that Mr. Epstein’s goal was to have 20 women at a time impregnated at his 33,000-square-foot Zorro Ranch in a tiny town outside Santa Fe,” the Times writes. “According to Mr. Lanier…Mr. Epstein had based his idea for a baby ranch on accounts of the Repository for Germinal Choice, which was to be stocked with the sperm of Nobel laureates who wanted to strengthen the human gene pool. (Only one Nobel Prize winner has acknowledged contributing sperm to it. The repository discontinued operations in 1999.) Mr. Lanier, the virtual-reality creator and author, said he had the impression that Mr. Epstein was using the dinner parties — where some guests were attractive women with impressive academic credentials — to screen candidates to bear Mr. Epstein’s children.”
And as for Ghislaine Maxwell? She screened these “candidates” herself. She recruited them. After all, if you made it to the basement, you could never avoid her presence at the ranch, which reportedly had a six-foot by six-foot oversized portrait of Ghislaine, “with her legs fully spread, completely naked, and a golden dagger in her right hand…dead centre in the elevator hall of the basement.”
I wanted to point all of this out for one reason and one reason alone:
There are multiple paths to discovering the truth behind Jeffrey Epstein and his connections to countless powerful men.
The absolutely last path we should ever face is granting Ghislaine Maxwell her freedom to do so. Ghislaine was convicted of countless crimes against countless now-women who consider her an accessory to the abuse, if not a direct participant. She likely has answers; she’s likely not speaking. And if she does due to having her sentence commuted, the chance she will be HONEST is as likely as Jeffrey Epstein rising from the dead to tell us himself.
Do not forget about Ghislaine Maxwell. Do not let her forget why she is where she is, either.