Epstein’s ex combative and defensive
Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend d e n i e d i n t r o d u c i n g P r i n c e Andrew to underage sexual par tners in a defensive and combative deposition made public yesterday.
Ghislaine Maxwell branded accuser Virginia Giuffre an “awful fantasist” in the newly released transcripts. The exchange four years ago was contained in hundreds of pages of transcripts ordered to be released by US District Judge Loretta A Preska.
“Are we tallying all the lies?” Maxwell asked during the 2016 deposition, saying she could not recall taking Epstein accuser, Ms Giuffre, for a night of clubbing with the prince in London. “Her tissue of lies is extremely hard to pick apart what is true and what isn't,” she said.
Maxwell has been charged with recruiting three underage girls in the 1990s for Epstein to sexually abuse, and perjury in the depositions. The charges do not relate to the prince and Maxwell has pleaded not guilty.
The British socialite, 58, parried a long list of inquiries about Epstein's sexual proclivities and her interactions with Ms Giuffre and other young women, insisting she never saw the financier have sex with anybody.
“She is an absolute total liar and you all know she lied on multiple things and that is just one other disgusting thing she added,” Maxwell said, denying having a threesome with Epstein and Ms Giuffre. “I never saw any inappropriate underage activities with Jeffrey ever,” Maxwell said.
Ms Giuffre accused Epstein of arranging for her to have sexual encounters with numerous wealthy and influential men, including Prince Andrew.
He and the other men have denied her allegations while Maxwell repeatedly denied hiring anyone under the age of 18 for Epstein. As for whether she was Epstein’s girlfriend after
meeting him in 1991, Maxwell called it a “tricky question”. She said: “There were times when I would have liked to think of myself as his girlfriend.”
Asked whether it was Epstein's “preference to start a massage
with sex", Maxwell said: "I think you should ask that question of Jeffrey.”
Epstein was 66 when he killed himself in jail in Manhattan in August 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.
In a deposition of Epstein conducted later in 2016, he mostly invoked the Fifth Amendment, which protects against selfincrimination.