‘She was five-star general who ran Epstein’s dungeon hell’
THE child sex ring run by Ghislaine Maxwell was described by one of its victims as ‘like Hotel California – you could blindly check into the EpsteinMaxwell dungeon of sexual hell, but you could never leave’.
Sarah Ransome, 33, is one of several women who have submitted victim impact statements that will be read out at Tuesday’s sentencing. She describes how she was recruited in a New York nightclub, and once almost jumped into shark-infested waters to escape Epstein’s Caribbean island.
She calls Maxwell the ‘five-star general of this enormous, decades-running sex-trafficking conspiracy . . . that snared hundreds if not thousands of vulnerable girls’.
Virginia Giuffre, 38, who claimed she was sexually abused by Prince Andrew after being introduced to him by Maxwell, has also written a damning ‘open letter’ to her tormentor. The Duke vehemently denies any wrongdoing.
She wrote: ‘For me, and for so many others, you opened the door to hell.
‘And then, Ghislaine, like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, you used your femininity to betray us and you led us all through it. Ghislaine, you deserve to spend the rest of your life in a jail cell.
‘You deserve to be trapped in a cage forever, just like you trapped your victims.’
In her submission, Annie Farmer, 42, says she ‘physically shook’ when she saw the photo of Andrew with Ms Giuffre and Maxwell, which was first published in The Mail on Sunday.
She added: ‘I remember sitting at my desk in a Houston hospital physically shaking after seeing the photo because it became clear to me how their scheme had continued.’