Known For The Company They Crave
"I can only testify to what I know and the fact [Guffre] has lied about me from the beginning to the end.""I'm a very loyal person and Jeffrey was very good to me when my father passed away.""One of the lies she told was that President Clinton was on [the] island where I was present. Absolutely one thousand percent that is a flat out total fabrication and lie.""I never saw any inappropriate underage activities with Jeffrey, ever."Ghislaine Maxwell, British socialite, charged with criminal recruitment and grooming of underage girls for sex"The unsealing of this transcript has resulted in the public dissemination of salacious questions and answers that can linger in the minds of potential jurors."Brian McMonagle, criminal defence lawyer, Philadelphia"[The unsealing of Maxwell's deposition is] a long time coming and a welcome step toward revealing the evidence of the scope and scale of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking ring."Sigrid McCawley, lawyer for Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre
The guilt charges of the underage sex network that was set up by and for the former financier Jeffrey Epstein did not die with his prison suicide. The British socialite who was his long-time associate, one-time lover, and accused pimp of underage girls whom she is said to have selected and groomed to be shared among Mr. Epstein and his friends and colleagues in upper-class sexual adventurism. For some reason known only to herself Ms.Maxwell left her native Britain to purchase a palatial getaway home in New Hampshire secretively but not so much so that her presence was unknown to authorities.
She was arrested in Bradford, New Hampshire, despite her shielded identity on July 2nd and locked into a prison in Brooklyn when the justice in her criminal case judged her to represent an unacceptable flight risk. Ms.Maxwell, 58 pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that she gave assistance to Epstein in recruiting and grooming underage girls for illegal sex acts in the mid-1990s. She is also accused of having lied under oath.
A 418-page deposition she had composed for the scrutiny of the law court in 2016 was not meant for public consumption and the speculation that would follow, given the recognizable names of those involved with Jeffrey Epstein who died in Manhattan in August of 2019, awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. He had pleaded guilty to charges out of Florida state for a non-prosecution agreement in 2007 and was imprisoned for 13 months. Virginia Giuffre, now 37, and underage when she claims she was Epstein's sex slave and who has sued Maxwell, urged that the deposition be released.
Now it has been, through the decision reached by U.S.District Judge Loretta Preska, at the insistence both of Giuffre's lawyer, and the Miami Herald newspaper. Her trial is on schedule to begin July 2021. In the deposition almost all those she named had been blacked out and her lawyers had fought to keep it that way, insisting release might violate her right against self-incrimination and resulting publicity could make it difficult to put an impartial jury together in her criminal case.
At one time, U.S.President Donald Trump, former U.S.President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew of the British royal family were among Epstein's friends; he moved in high society; wealth and notoriety is a great opener of doors. According to Ms.Giuffre, Epstein took her to London in 2001 where he introduced her to Prince Andrew, and she counted that trip as one of three events when, according to her account, the prince had sex with her,
 |
| Virginia Roberts Giuffre. (Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press) |
Ms.Maxwell was grilled under oath for over nine and a half hours by lawyers representing Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre in April of 2016 when the civil defamation lawsuit against her was settled. She had explained that her connection with Epstein included aiding him to hire architects, cooks, decorators, gardeners, pool cleaners and other service people in the maintenance of his six luxury properties which included a townhouse in Manhattan, a home in Palm Beach, and two islands in the U.S.Virgin Islands group.
 |
| In this Sept. 2, 2000 file photo, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is seen leaving a wedding in Salisbury, England in a car driven by Britain's Prince Andrew. (Chris Ison/PA/The Associated Press) |
Labels: Criminal Trial, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew, Underage Sex Charges
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, October 24, 2020
<< Home