Maxwell’s unsealed testimony gives glimpses into Epstein’s sordid life
No, said Ghislaine Maxwell, she didn’t remember where she met Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who says she was recruited from a job at Mar-a-Lago as a teenager to become a Jeffrey Epstein masseuse and eventually a “sex slave.”
Yes, she recalled women hanging
Capping a two-year court fight, the long-sealed testimony of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged madam, was made public Thursday, providing glimpses into a sordid world.
around Epstein’s pool topless, but it was not that common and they didn’t appear underage, she swore.
No, despite claims to the contrary, she said she didn’t participate in orgies with Epstein and young girls, including a specific allegation that involved a 13-year-old.
The back and forth comes from a
465-transcript released early Thursday of a deposition from 2016 given by Maxwell, who is the former partner and alleged recruiter for Epstein and was arrested this past summer on sex-related charges. It shows how deeply intertwined she was in what authorities labeled the sexual trafficking of minors.
Maxwell gave the deposition in a defamation lawsuit that was settled in 2017 and had been brought against her by Epstein accuser Giuffre. Much of the court record remained hidden from public view until the Miami Herald first sued in April 2018 for dozens of documents in the case to be unsealed.
An earlier batch of filings was released last summer. While Giuffre