Maxwell tries to stifle British Epstein victim
GHISLAINE Maxwell is trying to stop a UK victim of Jeffrey Epstein speaking at her sentencing next week.
Sarah Ransome has said she was recruited into Epstein’s sex ring in 2006 aged 22, and was taken to his island in the Caribbean where she was repeatedly raped. According to the lawsuit she filed, at one point she tried to swim away – but he had a search party find her.
She has claimed she was controlled by Maxwell, 60, Epstein’s madam, who she has branded a ‘sick and sadistic woman who took pleasure in humiliating and bullying other human beings’. Miss Ransome was not part of last year’s trial that saw Maxwell convicted of sex trafficking.
Maxwell was convicted in December of five counts of grooming and procuring underage girls for Epstein, who was found dead in his cell in 2019. She is expected to be jailed for more than 20 years. Her legal team has argued Miss Ransome was not ‘part of the record in this case’.