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Mod: Of course, they'll have to find her first. For whatever reason she appears to have disappeared. Perhaps Ghislaine is hiding out at the bottom of a river somewhere?Epstein’s accusers call her his protector and procurer. Is Ghislaine Maxwell now prosecutors’ target? (Washington Post link): Ghislaine Maxwell was, according to her accusers, Jeffrey Epstein’s protector and procurer, his girlfriend and his madam. She was, by all accounts, a soul mate and a mirror image. He grew up in Brooklyn with no money to speak of and never finished college. She is Paris-born, Oxford-educated, a jet-setter who partied with princes and billionaires.Together, Epstein and Maxwell allegedly built what prosecutors, police and a growing number of women described as a sex-trafficking operation that crisscrossed the nation to provide Epstein with three young girls a day. The death of
Epstein, the convicted sex offender who authorities said hanged himself in a federal detention center cell in
New York on Saturday, leaves those who seek to hold someone responsible for the alleged abuse of dozens of girls with one prime target:
Maxwell.
The U.S. attorney in New York, Geoff Berman, assured the “brave young women who have already come forward and . . . the many others who have yet to do so” that “our investigation of the conduct charged in the indictment — which included a conspiracy count — remains ongoing.” According to many of the women who have spoken about what Epstein allegedly did to them, Maxwell was the financier’s chief co-conspirator. Maxwell, 57, has not been charged and has denied any wrongdoing.
According to people familiar with the investigation, authorities have had trouble locating Maxwell, who is believed to be living abroad. Her five-story Manhattan townhouse was sold in 2016 for $15 million by a company that used the address of Epstein’s New York office.Her lawyers told a judge in 2017 that she was in London, but had no fixed address. Lawyers representing Epstein’s alleged victims said they wouldn’t expect Maxwell to return to the United States anytime soon for fear of being arrested.
Martina Vandenberg, founder and president of the nonprofit Human Trafficking Legal Center, said she was “thrilled” to hear the prosecutors’ announcement that the investigation would continue, saying it would encourage more alleged victims to come forward.For someone who stood by Epstein through the most sordid allegations, Maxwell was also a factor in his downfall: It was through a 2015 defamation lawsuit filed against Maxwell by one of Epstein’s alleged victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, that thousands of pages of documents containing detailed accounts of Epstein’s alleged abuses became public last week. But
Maxwell herself had long since slipped away. Although associates of
Epstein said
Maxwell never completely broke off relations with
Epstein, she became far less of a presence at his various properties in recent years.
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