Ghislaine Maxwell court documents released
A fresh trove of dozens of potentially damning Ghislaine Maxwell court documents has been unsealed after the accused madam for pedophile Jeffrey Epstein lost her battle to keep them hidden.
The 52 documents released overnight mostly relate to a
long-settled defamation lawsuit filed by one of Epstein and Maxwell’s most
outspoken accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
“Finally we are getting some transparency. There is hope,”
Giuffre tweeted after Manhattan federal Judge Loretta Preska announced her
decision to release them.
“We must maintain vigilant in order for the truth to see the
light of day,” tweeted Giuffre, who has repeatedly claimed she was made to have
sex with powerful men, including Britain’s Prince Andrew.
The documents are just the latest that Preska has permitted
to be released, insisting they will not prevent Maxwell, 59, from getting a
fair trial in her upcoming case for allegedly procuring underage girls for
Epstein.
The files include those in which Giuffre’s lawyers ripped
the British socialite for having “chosen not to produce any information” that
they sought for their case against her.
They argued that Maxwell — the daughter of late shamed press
baron Robert Maxwell — should be forced to share her financial records because
they would “show dependence on Epstein for financial support.”
Maxwell’s “efforts to conceal assets from the reach of this
court proves consciousness of her guilt of sex trafficking,” they argued,
saying they also needed financial information to help reach a suitable
settlement in the suit.
Maxwell’s “extraordinary lack of memory about her involvement
in the abuse” that Giuffre had long alleged was “further proof of malice,” the
accuser’s lawyers wrote.
“For instance, [Maxwell] cannot even recall a single flight
on Epstein’s private jet with Ms. Giuffre, even though flight logs show that
[Maxwell] had 23 flights with Ms. Giuffre while Ms. Giuffre was underage,” the
lawyers said, with flight records also included in the unsealed docs.
Maxwell was also ripped for claiming she “could not recall
the circumstances under which a photo was taken of her, Giuffre” and someone
whose name was redacted from the document.
An infamous photo that previously surfaced features Prince
Andrew with his arm around Giuffre’s waist as Mawell grins in the background.
It is not clear whether this is the picture being referred to by the lawyers.
“Based on [Maxwell’s] convenient and near-total amnesia
about documented incriminating events alone, a reasonable jury could find that
she acted deliberately and maliciously when she arranged for false and
defamatory statements about Ms. Giuffre to be transmitted literally around the
globe,” the lawyers added, referring to Maxwell calling their client a liar.
The latest batch of files also
include several documents showing handwritten call logs of messages left for
Epstein in the early 2000s, many from Maxwell — and about arranging massages
for the late pedophile.
One of the calls appears to be
from someone rescheduling an appointment for the afternoon because they “need
to stay in school.”
Another mentions someone being in
“college,” while one is from someone rescheduling because they want to go to
the movies instead.
The calls also include a request
for someone to stay at Epstein’s Florida mansion to “help train new staff with
Ghislaine,” while one says a person is going to “meet with Ghislaine and go
with her to the Ranch,” presumably referring to Epstein’s New Mexico estate.
Another section includes part of
Maxwell’s deposition in the defamation case where she is asked about the ages
of the women brought to Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion for the rub-downs.
“The ones that I did recognize
were roughly my age,” she replied. “The ones I don’t know, I wouldn’t have a
clue.”
The documents also include a
manuscript of Giuffre’s planned book, “The Billionaire’s Playboy Club,” which
she has testified was “based on true events.
“Not everything is, you know,
correct … I’d like to say a majority of it is correct,” she said in a
deposition.
The newly released documents also
include portions of the explosive 2016 deposition of Rinaldo Rizzo, a former
chef for hedge-fund manager Glenn Dubin, who claimed Epstein and Maxwell
brought a disoriented 15-year-old Swedish girl to Dubin’s home.
Rizzo said the girl was left
sitting on a barstool in the kitchen as he and his wife were preparing the
evening meal.
“She proceeds to tell my wife and
I that… ‘I was on an island, I was on the island and there was Ghislaine'” and
another woman. “She said, ‘They asked me for sex, I said no,’ ” Rizzo claimed.
“And she is just rambling … And
she says, ‘Yes, I was on [Epstein’s private] island, I don’t know how I got
from the island to here,’ ” Rizzo testified.
“And I said this is nuts,” Rizzo
said — with the girl allegedly adding that she did not have a phone and
“Ghislaine took” her passport.
“At that point, she said that she
was threatened … She says, ‘Yes, I was threatened by Ghislaine,’ ” he said.
Dubin and his wife, Eva Andersson
Dubin — who had previously dated Epstein — have denied any knowledge of the
late financier’s behavior.
Maxwell is awaiting criminal
trial for allegedly procuring underage girls for Epstein to abuse in the 1990s
and early 2000s.
She has been ordered detained
pending trial and is locked up in the Metropolitan Detention Center in
Brooklyn.
She’s pleaded not guilty and has
appealed five times to be released from jail pending trial — but has been
rejected each time.
Prince Andrew has also vehemently
denied any connection to Epstein’s depraved sex life.
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