The court reconvened at 4.25pm EST, with Judge Nathan confirming a delay in deliberations.

She told jurors: “Alright. You declined my invitation to deliberate tomorrow. We will resume Monday at 9am.

“Same instructions. Please stay safe over the long weekend. I need all of you here and healthy on Monday.”

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  Ghislaine Maxwell

  Socialite
• Jeffrey Epstein

  American financier
• Alison Nathan

  American judge
• Ghislaine Maxwell trial in New York

  By Luc Cohen

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jurors deliberating in the sexual abuse trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell in New York have so far sent several notes to U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan. To be sure, the notes do not reveal what jurors are thinking, but they do provide a glimpse into some of the evidence they have been discussing since late Monday afternoon:

  ACCUSER CAROLYN'S TALKS WITH THE FBI

  Jurors on Tuesday asked Nathan for details about the testimony of Carolyn, the first name of a woman who said late financier Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell's employer and ex-boyfriend, began abusing her when she was 14 in 2002. Carolyn testified that Maxwell once touched her nude body while Carolyn prepared to give Epstein an erotic massage.

  Defense attorney Jeffrey Pagliuca sought to undermine Carolyn's credibility, pressing her about why she did not mention Maxwell in a 2007 conversation with the FBI.

  Jurors asked the judge to see the record of the FBI conversation. Nathan told the jury it was not in evidence, but they could review the trial transcript.

   

  "In this entire first discussion with the FBI in 2007, it's true that you never said the name Ghislaine Maxwell once, correct?" Pagliuca asked Carolyn, according to the transcript.

  "Yes, because it's not who we were talking about," Carolyn replied.

  Carolyn's case underlies the sex trafficking charge, the most serious count Maxwell faces with a prison sentence of up to 40 years. Maxwell, 59, pleaded not guilty to six counts of sex trafficking and other crimes.

  WHAT RELEVANCE DOES ANNIE FARMER'S TESTIMONY HAVE?

  Jurors also asked Nathan whether they could consider the testimony of accuser Annie Farmer in weighing whether Maxwell conspired to lure underage girls to travel for illegal sex acts or conspired to transport them for illegal sex acts, two of the six counts.

  Farmer, 42, testified that Maxwell touched her breasts while giving her a massage during a visit to Epstein's New Mexico ranch in 1996 when Farmer was 16.

  Nathan informed the jury that because Farmer was above the age of consent in New Mexico at that time, any encounters she described were not considered "illegal sex acts."

  That meant Farmer could not be considered a victim of being transported or lured to travel for sex by Maxwell - two of the other counts.

  However, Nathan told the jury they could still consider Farmer's testimony in determining whether Maxwell conspired to violate those laws.

  (Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Grant McCool)

  BBC: Key moments of the Ghislaine Maxwell Trial

   

  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59527051

  Ghislaine Maxwell: Key moments in the sex trafficking trial

  

Jurors in Ghislaine Maxwell's federal sex trafficking trial are now deliberating after three weeks of testimony in the closely-watched case.

The 59-year-old defendant, the daughter of a late British media tycoon, is accused of grooming teenage girls for abuse by the late Jeffrey Epstein.

She has pleaded not guilty to all the charges, which cover a period from 1994 to 2004.

The first fortnight of the trial heard emotional testimony from four alleged victims of Epstein and Ms Maxwell.

Last week, her lawyers argued those testimonies were impacted by "[lapses in] memory, manipulation and money".

They also alleged the government needed a scapegoat for the crimes of Epstein, who killed himself in prison in 2019.

Here are some key moments from the last three weeks.

In closing statements, prosecutors painted Ms Maxwell as a "sophisticated predator" who "preyed on vulnerable young girls, manipulated them, and served them up to be sexually abused" by Epstein, her long-time companion.

They claimed Ms Maxwell was not just complicit, but the key to "a pyramid scheme of abuse".

But the defence accused the government of "sensationalism" and its witnesses of changing their stories, arguing Ms Maxwell had "no motive" for the alleged crimes.

They argued Epstein kept secrets from Ms Maxwell and that "the charges against Ghislaine Maxwell are for things that Jeffrey Epstein did".

University of California psychology professor Elizabeth Loftus, the defence's star witness, told the jury that people can have "false memories" of traumatic events.

"[Memory] doesn't work like a recording device," she said. "We are actually constructing our memories while we retrieve memories."

Media coverage can act as "a source of post-event suggestion" and those who recall memories "frequently remember ourselves in a better light than perhaps is accurate", said Dr Loftus.

Ms Maxwell's lawyers also brought in FBI agents and former Epstein employees in an effort to point out inconsistencies in the testimony of Ms Maxwell's accusers.

Cimberly Espinosa, who served as Epstein's executive assistant from 1996 to 2003, said she respected Ms Maxwell. "I looked up to her very much."

She said she booked only professional massages for both Epstein and Ms Maxwell, and testified that she never saw any improper sexual conduct take place. Ms Espinosa said she never visited Epstein's home.

Epstein's former girlfriend of eight years, Eva Andersson-Dubin - a former physician and Miss Sweden winner - also took the stand on Ms Maxwell's behalf.

The New York socialite and her financier husband Glenn Dubin were named in the 2016 deposition of Virginia Giuffre, the most vocal Epstein accuser.

On the stand she denied having group sex with an underage accuser, but admitted to having memory problems.

Two of the six charges against Ms Maxwell arose from the allegations of a woman using the pseudonym Jane.

The first of four accusers to give evidence at the trial, she cried as she described being sexually abused by Epstein when she was 14.

Jane said Ms Maxwell showed her how Epstein liked to be massaged, sometimes took part in their sexual encounters, and "was very casual, acting like it wasn't a big deal".

Ms Maxwell's defence sought to find inconsistencies in Jane's testimony. Defence lawyer Laura Menninger pointed out that Jane now worked as an actress.

"You are an actor who convincingly portrays someone else for a living," the lawyer stated. "You are able to cry on command."

Epstein's former housekeeper Juan Alessi recalled how Ms Maxwell had tightly controlled every detail in the financier's Florida mansion.

Ms Maxwell was the "lady of the house", ordering staff to speak only when spoken to and to avoid eye contact with Epstein, according to Mr Alessi, who said his job included cleaning their sex toys.

Mr Alessi also claimed that in a 58-page instruction manual, staff were warned to keep the activities and whereabouts of Epstein and Ms Maxwell secret, and essentially "be blind, deaf and dumb".

Ms Maxwell's legal team sought to undermine the credibility of Mr Alessi during cross-examination, by challenging his recollection of meeting 14-year-old Jane in 1994.

Prosecutors have alleged that Epstein used massages as a "ruse" before escalating his encounters with young girls.

The jury was shown a green massage table seized from his home in Palm Beach, Florida during a 2005 police raid.

Michael Dawson, a detective who took part in the 2005 search, recalled how officers found a variety of sexualised images at Epstein's home.

Prosecutors also displayed a photo of a box labelled "Twin Torpedoes", which Detective Dawson said contained sex toys and was taken from an upstairs cupboard.

A British woman using the pseudonym Kate alleged Ms Maxwell befriended her at age 14, which then led to sexual encounters with Epstein.

She said Ms Maxwell would call her a "good girl" and ask if she was having "fun".

On one occasion, Ms Maxwell allegedly laid out a schoolgirl outfit on her bed and said: "I thought it would be fun for you to take Jeffrey his tea in this outfit." She said she wore the outfit and Epstein had sex with her.

She claimed Ms Maxwell also asked if she knew any "cute, young, pretty girls" who could perform sex acts on Epstein, who she described to Kate as a "demanding" man who needed to have sex three times a day.

Prosecutors released a collection of digital photos and files to demonstrate how close Epstein and Ms Maxwell were.

Taken from an FBI raid on Epstein's New York home in 2019, the evidence includes several pictures of the two together, sometimes embracing or being intimate with each other.

In one photo, the pair is seen relaxing at Balmoral Castle, the Queen's private Scottish residence.

Photos of Ms Maxwell were also shown mounted in parts of Epstein's Florida home. Another photo that shows her "nude and pregnant" allegedly hangs in the house, according to one of her accusers.

The collection also included a "help wanted" flyer for massage therapists in the area.

Carolyn, whose name is attached to the most serious charges against Ms Maxwell, said she had been paid by the defendant "hundreds of times" for sex with Epstein, from the ages of 14 to 18.

She alleged Ms Maxwell called to set up the appointments, paid her in hundred dollar bills and told her she had "a great body for Mr Epstein and his friends".

Her ex-boyfriend at the time corroborated the testimony, saying he had often driven Carolyn and other underage friends to Epstein's house and waited for them to come out "a little over an hour later" with money in hand.

Annie Farmer, the last accuser to take the stand, pointed at the defendant and alleged she had given her a topless massage at age 16.

On a visit to Epstein's New Mexico ranch, Ms Farmer testified that Ms Maxwell "pulled the sheet down and exposed my breasts and started rubbing on my chest and on my upper breasts".

"I was surprised," she said in court. "I wanted so badly to get off of the table."

Luc Cohen - December 22 202

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How the Epstein Saga Connects to Almost Every Aspect of the Worldwide Conspiracy

 

https://thefreedomarticles.com/epstein-saga-connects-almost-all-aspects-worldwide-conspiracy/

Published  November 27, 2019

By Makia Freeman

The Epstein Saga, like a giant spider web, connects to almost every aspect of the worldwide conspiracy, including pedophilila, blackmail, transhumanism and Israel.

Richard Branson with Sara Bronfman of Nxivm.

The Epstein saga continues,

with new information arising weekly and even daily that keeps shining the light on the audacious pedophilia, sex-trafficking and blackmail operation run by the disappeared or suicided pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein saga is astonishing; like an octopus or a giant squid, it has its tentacles in so many aspects of the worldwide conspiracy, including pedophilia, child sex trafficking, high finance, intelligence agencies, the Mossad, mysterious wealth, blackmail, top political figures (Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Bill Richardson, Ehud Barak), top elite figures (Prince Andrew Windsor), top celebrities (Kevin Spacey, Courtney Love), well known public figures (Richard Branson, Alan Dershowitz), Israel / Zionism, surveillance software (PROMIS), various national governments, mind control cults, Secret Societies and Think Tanks, eugenics, transhumanism and AI (Artificial Intelligence). About the only thing which is missing is Satanism, however with the sheer volume of information which keeps coming out (and clues like the weird temple on Epstein’s Little St. James Island which looked like a Mystery School temple), who knows – perhaps there is more yet to come on this. This article takes a look at the myriad connections in what has become the story of the year – or perhaps the decade – for conspiracy researchers and the public at large, because it has pried open the cover to a nasty, dirty underworld that few believed existed.

Plotting the Epstein Connections

This graph is an extremely handy and well done piece of work which details in neat, visual form the way that Jeffrey Epstein was connected to a plethora of highly influential people, governments, institutions and agencies – in other words, he was an insider who rubbed shoulders with the movers and shakers that run the world and advance the NWO (New World Order). To begin with, Epstein himself was a member of 2 key Round Table groups – the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) and the Trilateral Commission – which incessantly push the globalist agenda. Just look at some of the people that Epstein met and associated with, beyond the ones already mentioned:

– Pope John Paul II, Woody Allen (pedophilic connections, the pope via the way of the pedophile-infested Vatican and Catholic Church);

– Adnan Khashoggi (Saudi Royal, Mossad agent, billionaire, arms trader and Iran Contra insider) (Saudi Royal Family AND Mossad connection) [by the way, if anyone thinks it is impossible to be a Saudi Royal and a Mossad agent, please read up on Donmeh Crypto Jews, Sabbatean-Frankism and the Israeli-Saudi strategic friendship];

– Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Elon Musk (Big Tech/Facebook/Google/transhumanism/AI connections);

– Mick Jagger, Naomi Campbell (more celebrity connections);

 

– Katherine Keating (daughter of former Aussie PM Paul Keating; Australian Government connection);

As high-profile Epstein sex-trafficking victim Virginia Roberts Guiffre has said, it was impossible to associate with Epstein and not know that he was also running a high-traffic pedophile ring. How many of the people Epstein associated with were involved in actually sexually abusing and exploiting his underage coterie of victims?

We only have to go 2 connections deep to reach people like Rupert Murdoch (Zionism, MSM) and several members of the Rothschild family (Jacob, Nathaniel and Evelyn de Rothschild), as well as companies like Genie Energy (the gas company to be drilling for oil in the illegally-stolen Golan Heights). Genie Energy’s board includes Rupert Murdoch, Jacob Rothschild, James Woolsey (ex-CIA director), Dick Cheney, Bill Richardson, Michael Stainhardt and others. Epstein has mind control cult connections via Richard Branson, who appeared in his little black book. Photos exist (see right) of members of the NXIVM sex trafficking cult with Branson on Branson’s private island (Necker Island) in 2010.

 

Epstein and Israeli Intelligence

The evidence that Epstein was an agent for Israeli Intelligence has become overwhelming. Firstly, the kind of honeypot/honeytrap sexual blackmail operation that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were running is a Mossad signature op. Secondly, Ghislaine’s father Robert Maxwell was a known Mossad agent. Thirdly, we have the testimony of ex-Aman (Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate) agent Ari Ben-Menashe who in this interview by Narativ’s Zev Shalev claims that Epstein was already working for the Israelis in the 1980s. However, the claim here is that Epstein worked for Aman not Mossad. Ben-Mensahe said:

“Interviewer: You spoke about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell as being a part of Israeli Military Intelligence. Do you know specifically which unit?

Ari Ben-Menashe: Because of Robert Maxwell, they worked directly with military intelligence. I don’t know who they answered to.

Interviewer: Would you say she was an agent as well?

Ari Ben-Menashe: Yes.

Interviewer: Military intelligence as well?

Ari Ben-Menashe: Yes, yes.”

For more on Epstein’s connections with organized crime, the mafia, Roy Cohn, the Mega Group and Israeli intelligence groups such as Black Cube and Carbyne 911, read Whitney Webb’s great series on Epstein.

Epstein and Andrew, Savile and the British Royals

The parallels between pedophile and child-trafficker Epstein and Prince Andrew (one son of the current British Queen Elizabeth), and pedophile, necrophiliac and child-procurer Jimmy Savile and Prince Charles (another son of the Queen) are stark and undeniable. What this goes to show is that pedophilia is a naturally occurring theme when it comes to the British Royal Family – and a regular pastime for them. Savile was so intimately involved in Charles’ life that at one point Charles asked him to play the role of marriage counselor when he was having relationship troubles with Diana. Charles also considered Savile as a possibility to be the godfather of his second son Harry. In yet another amazing coincidence, Savile, like Epstein, was deeply connected to Israel, which (as is becoming clearer by the day) is being prepared to be the headquarters of the New World Order. Epstein, Savile, pedophilia, the British Royal Family, intelligence agencies, Israel … the connections are manifold and poignant.

The Prince Andrew Car Crash Interview on BBC

With this background in mind, it makes the lies in Andrew’s car crash BBC interview so transparent. Why would a person who has genuinely never engaged in pedophilia waste his time arguing ridiculous points such as that he didn’t use to sweat, that he doesn’t know where the bar is in a certain nightclub, that he doesn’t party and that he couldn’t have committed a certain horrific crime on a certain day because he has an alibi. Why not just say: “I have never had any kind of sexual relations with a minor – ever.” Notice how Andrew never said any such thing. Such an omission is very telling. What was also very interesting was Andrew’s particular language towards the end of the interview. Was his subconscious spilling the beans?

Andrew: “It’s almost a mental health issue …”

Andrew was trying to convey that getting this public statement off his chest was a relief of what was almost a mental health issue, but one could read this on another level, i.e. that the constant pedophilia he and the British Royals have engaged is indicative of grave mental health issues.

Andrew: “… nagging at my mind for a great many years …”

Andrew was conveying a feeling of guilt here. But is the guilt really just because he stayed at Epstein’s house in 2010? Or because Andrew himself has had sex many times with Epstein’s sex slaves? Or guilt that he was stupid enough to walk straight into Epstein’s (and Israel’s) sexual blackmail trap?

Andrew: “He [Epstein] has conducted himself in a manner unbecoming …”

Unbecoming? Andrew constantly uses euphemisms throughout the interview, including this stunner to describe Epstein’s illegal, exploitative, damaging and pedophilic actions.

Andrew: “I’m just as much in the dark as many people…”

Andrew was trying to convey his apparent confusion about the allegations against him, but one could read this on another level, i.e. that he and the British Royals are ‘in the dark’ with their Satanic and pedophilic behavior.

The Epstein Saga and Connections to Eugenics, Transhumanism and Artificial Intelligence

Epstein hung around with the rich, famous and powerful, and this also included scientists, some of whom were doing advanced work on genetics. The NYT article Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA reports that Epstein had been speaking about his bizarre desire to impregnate thousands of women with his sperm. Apparently Epstein wanted to use his ranch property in New Mexico, nicknamed Zorro Ranch, as the center for this. This first quote shows Epstein shared a common ‘elite’ mindset of superiority and a false belief in overpopulation:

“At one session at Harvard, Mr. Epstein criticized efforts to reduce starvation and provide health care to the poor because doing so increased the risk of overpopulation, said Mr. Pinker, who was there.”

This quote talks about Epstein’s obsession with preserving his sperm so as to simultaneously impregnate multiple women, a eugenically-based idea:

“On multiple occasions starting in the early 2000s, Mr. Epstein told scientists and businessmen about his ambitions to use his New Mexico ranch as a base where women would be inseminated with his sperm and would give birth to his babies, according to two award-winning scientists and an adviser to large companies and wealthy individuals, all of whom Mr. Epstein told about it. It was not a secret. The adviser, for example, said he was told about the plans not only by Mr. Epstein, at a gathering at his Manhattan townhouse, but also by at least one prominent member of the business community. One of the scientists said Mr. Epstein divulged his idea in 2001 at a dinner at the same townhouse; the other recalled Mr. Epstein discussing it with him at a 2006 conference that he hosted in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands.”

“Mr. Lanier said he talked to a scientist who told him that Mr. Epstein’s goal was to have 20 women at a time impregnated at his 33,000-square-foot Zorro Ranch in a tiny town outside Santa Fe. Mr. Lanier said the scientist identified herself as working at NASA, but he did not remember her name. According to Mr. Lanier, the NASA scientist said Mr. Epstein had based his idea for a baby ranch on accounts of the Repository for Germinal Choice, which was to be stocked with the sperm of Nobel laureates who wanted to strengthen the human gene pool.”

Apparently Epstein was interested in using cryogenics to freeze his penis:

“One adherent of transhumanism said that he and Mr. Epstein discussed the financier’s interest in cryonics, an unproven science in which people’s bodies are frozen to be brought back to life in the future. Mr. Epstein told this person that he wanted his head and penis to be frozen.”

Eugenics has long been a theme which has underpinned the NWO. It cropped up in the mindset of the many NWO insiders, especially the Rockfellers, who were funding many institutions to conduct eugenics research even before the rise of Hitler and the Nazis who gave eugenics a bad name. The Rockefellers continued their eugenics obsession after WW2 by rebranding it with organizations and phrases such as population council, population control, family planning and planned parenthood. Eugenics is a pseudoscience – genes are only one part of the Nature-Nurture formula of human growth. Bruce Lipton’s work on epigenetics has shown that we have great control over which genes we activate (and which remain dormant) by influencing our biological environment, specifically with our thoughts, attitudes and beliefs. These days, the eugenicist mindset can be seen in the hijacking of the Green Movement, which has veered away from genuine environmental concern towards agendas of depopulation and a global carbon tax.

Epstein took practical steps towards his vision. To list 2 examples, Open Cog is named as an “open source Artificial Intelligence project” which was funded by Jeffrey Epstein’s Foundation and Hanson Robotics, and associated with Google and the Hong Kong Government. In 2011, Epstein gave $20,000 to the Worldwide Transhumanist Association, a AI transhumanism project that now operates as Humanity Plus. For more examples of the all the donations Epstein made to scientists involved in evolutionary dynamics and other transhumanist endeavors, here is a brief list. For my take on how transhumanism and AI tie in to the NWO conspiracy, read my article on the synthetic agenda.

Conclusion: The Epstein Saga has Seemingly Endless NWO Themes and Connections

The Epstein saga is a microcosm of the NWO macrocosm. It is a window in to a dark world which has always existed. As sad as the Epstein saga is for the many sex slave victims who were raped and exploited, we can at least be grateful that the MSM has actually had the (rare) open-mindedness to cover this. That in itself has allowed conspiracy topics like blackmail, Israeli intelligence agencies and pedophilia to be openly discussed – something which desperately needs to happen. Now, the average person may begin to investigate these themes further. For those who are ready, the Epstein saga may become the catalyst to propel them forward into researching for themselves the true nature of the world in which we live. The excuse of ‘that’s just a wild conspiracy theory’ doesn’t hold water with the Epstein saga, since so much evidence has come to light. The Epstein didn’t kill himself memes which have proliferated show just how much the Epstein case has touched the average person. Hopefully, there is much more to come to bust the lid completely wide open on this entire case, including answering questions such as where Epstein got his wealth and exposing all of the perpetrators who participated in his child sex ring.

*****

Makia Freeman is the editor of alternative media / independent news site The Freedom Articles and senior researcher at ToolsForFreedom.com. Makia is on Steemit and FB.

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Who is Ghislaine Maxwell? Socialite and ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein goes on trial

By Laura Smith-Spark and Tara John, CNN  November 29, 2021

 

(CNN)British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has gained global notoriety as the former girlfriend and social companion of the convicted pedophile and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Now, after more than a year in federal custody, she faces trial on sex trafficking charges in New York. The 59-year-old has pleaded not guilty to all counts.

Maxwell is charged by New York federal prosecutors with conspiracy and enticing minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, and the transportation of minors to engage in criminal sexual activity for allegedly grooming and recruiting underage girls from 1994 through 1997.

She is also charged with sex trafficking of a minor from 2001 to 2004, as well as one count of sex trafficking conspiracy.

Epstein died by suicide in August 2019 while awaiting trial. Maxwell's counsel maintains she was charged only because he died.

In the wake of the financier's death, public pressure mounted to hold those who might have assisted him -- perhaps including Maxwell and a coterie of young women who allegedly worked under her -- accountable not only for his actions, but also for their own roles.

In that investigation, Maxwell has been a significant target. She has denied wrongdoing, and in a deposition has called at least one of her accusers "a liar."

Maxwell's supporters argue she has been held in unusually harsh conditions since her arrest on July 2, 2020; her requests to be released on bail have repeatedly been denied. At her most recent bail hearing, Maxwell's attorney said she was subject to physical and emotional abuse by correction officers, forced to endure poor and unsanitary living conditions, sleep deprivation and insufficient nutrition, and had difficulty reviewing millions of legal documents.

A pretrial hearing at the start of November heard she had not requested a plea deal. Her attorney, Bobbi Sternheim, maintained Maxwell was not guilty of a crime to warrant a plea deal.

Maxwell spoke at the hearing only to say, "I have not committed any crimes."

 

Ghislane Maxwell is pictured in a court sketch as she pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges in April 2021.

Who is Ghislaine Maxwell?

Born in 1961, the British socialite grew up in the idyllic Oxfordshire countryside and is the daughter of Robert Maxwell -- a Czech-born newspaper tycoon and former British lawmaker who died under mysterious circumstances. The media magnate fell off his luxury yacht -- called "Lady Ghislaine" -- near the Canary Islands in 1991. He was posthumously discovered to have committed massive pension fraud against his employees.

According to Roy Greenslade, who worked for the media mogul as editor of The Daily Mirror in the early 1990s, Maxwell "doted" on Ghislaine "in a way that he didn't on his sons."

"He was a monstrous father," Greenslade recalls. "He treated his whole family very badly." But when it came to the youngest of his nine children, Maxwell "treated her more leniently than any of them."

In his biography of the tycoon, "Maxwell: The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell and his Empire," Greenslade recalls one evening in particular when he was sitting in an office with Maxwell and the daredevil teenager wandered in. He says Maxwell gave his daughter a scolding for "always taking risks, doing stupid, dangerous things" after she had a near-fatal accident after diving off a boat.

"She was quite clever at dealing with him," Greenslade explains, adding that she always spoke sweetly to her father in ways that he found difficult to challenge.

After Ghislaine left, Greenslade says Maxwell turned to him with a sense of pride in his voice: "She's like me."

That, Greenslade says, indicates why he perhaps favored her the most.

A 1991 inquest ruled that Robert Maxwell's death was due to a heart attack combined with accidental drowning. However, some believe that Maxwell's death was suicide with his business empire teetering on the brink of ruin.

There were plaudits at the time for the way Ghislaine handled the family tragedy. "People who were there at the time (when Maxwell died), said she dealt with it brilliantly," Greenslade said. "Dry-eyed, dealing well with the press."

Following her father's death, Maxwell reportedly moved to the United States.

"She was probably left with no money," Greenslade says, despite many speculating she secured income from a secret trust.

In the US, Maxwell lived a public life and socialized in exclusive circles that included people connected to politics.

According to eyewitness accounts, Maxwell was invited to former first daughter Chelsea Clinton's wedding and was even brought backstage at the Clinton Global Initiative summit in 2009. However Bari Lurie -- a spokesperson for Chelsea Clinton, says the only reason Clinton was acquainted with Maxwell was because the socialite was dating a friend of hers.

Maxwell was also photographed in 2000 with Donald Trump and his future wife, Melania Trump, alongside Epstein.

 

 

A photograph which appears to show Prince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein's accuser Virgina Guiffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell.

 

Maxwell was also in the background of the infamous photograph of Prince Andrew, which shows him with his arms around the waist of a young woman named Virginia Roberts. Roberts alleges that she was trafficked by Epstein with the help of Maxwell and forced to have sex with his friends, including Prince Andrew, when she was a minor. The prince has emphatically denied having sex with Roberts, and says he has "no recollection of the photograph ever being taken."

In 2012, Maxwell founded a charity, the TerraMar Project, which sought to encourage ocean conservation. However, the non-profit ceased operations in December 2019, according to records at the UK's Companies House.

The same year federal prosecutors in New York unsealed a criminal indictment charging Epstein with having operated a sex trafficking ring between 2002 and 2005 where he paid girls as young as 14 to have sex with him.

How is she connected to Jeffrey Epstein?

Maxwell was the ex-girlfriend turned social companion of Epstein, who died while awaiting trial on federal charges of sexually abusing underage girls and running a sex trafficking ring. He had pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The pair are reported to have split in the 1990s, although the socialite remained close to the pedophile. Her name was frequently mentioned in a cache of documents that were unsealed last year that allege she was a procurer for Epstein and other high-profile people.

Maxwell "had a personal and professional relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and was among his closest associates," says a US federal indictment also unsealed last year.

"In particular, between in or about 1994 and in or about 1997, Maxwell was in an intimate relationship with Epstein and also was paid by Epstein to manage his various properties."

Epstein described Maxwell as his best friend in a 2003 profile with Vanity Fair.

According to multiple people in affluent Manhattan circles, including two of her friends, Maxwell introduced Epstein to many of the social figures in his life.

Maxwell was arrested in July 2020 in the northeastern US state of New Hampshire, having disappeared from view following Epstein's arrest the previous summer.

What accusations does Maxwell face?

"In particular, from at least in or about 1994, up to an including at least in or about 1997, Maxwell assisted, facilitated, and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse victims known to Maxwell and Epstein to be under the age of 18," the indictment says.

Those victims, according to the indictment, included girls as young as 14 years old.

Virginia Roberts -- who now goes by the name Virginia Giuffre -- accused Maxwell of being the person who introduced her to Epstein and allegedly forced her to have sexual relations with Prince Andrew at a time when she was underage (17) in the US. Andrew has consistently denied the allegations.

She says she was brought to London in 2001 where she was introduced to the prince and went dancing at a nightclub with him, Epstein, and Maxwell.

In a 2015 defamation case brought against Maxwell -- which was settled in 2017, after the judge had ruled against a motion for summary judgment filed by Maxwell -- Giuffre says she was "forced to have sexual relations" with the Duke of York when she was a minor in "three separate geographical locations," including London, New York and the US Virgin Islands.

Giuffre says when she left the London nightclub Tramp, where she danced with Prince Andrew, Maxwell gave her instructions. "In the car Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that just made me sick," Giuffre said, adding that she had sex with the prince at Maxwell's house in London's Belgravia area.

Andrew, 61, denying the claims, told the BBC in 2019: "It didn't happen. I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened. I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever."

The prince's legal team is fighting to have a sexual assault case brought against him by Giuffre in New York thrown out.

In court filings, Maxwell and her attorney also portrayed Giuffre as an unreliable narrator, claiming there are errors in certain dates and figures she provided.

In October 2021, London's Metropolitan Police force announced it would take "no further action" against Prince Andrew, following an investigation sparked by Giuffre's case.

Bianca Britton contributed to this report.

 

 

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Trump flew on Jeffrey Epstein's private Lolita Express jet SIX more times than was previously known, flight logs reveal after new documents were released at Ghislaine Maxwell trial

• Donald Trump flew 4 times in 1993, once in 1994, once in 1995 and once in 1997
• Most flights were from Palm Beach, where he and Epstein had homes, to Newark
• Flights revealed in new documents released in Ghislaine Maxwell sex abuse trial
• Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz, George Mitchell also among guests

By LAUREN LEWIS FOR DAILYMAIL.COM  21 December 2021 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10331943/Trump-flew-seven-times-Jeffrey-Epsteins-private-Lolita-Express-jet-flight-logs-reveal.html

Donald Trump flew at least seven times on Jeffrey Epstein's private Lolita Express jet - six more times than was previously known, new documents released at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial have revealed. 

The former president travelled on the plane four times in 1993, once in 1994 and once in 1995 with his ex-wife Marla Marples and children Tiffany and Eric, flight logs show.    

It was previously reported that Trump had flown on Epstein's plane from Palm Beach, where both had homes, to Newark, in 1997. Epstein is also said to have flown on one of Trump's private planes. 

Trump and Epstein knew each other in the 1990s when they were both New York City playboys and successful entrepreneurs.

The documents, which comprise more than 100 pages of flight logs covering the period 1991 to 2006, were released publicly on Sunday ahead of Monday's closing arguments in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial. 

As previously reported, they show former President Bill Clinton was a frequent flyer on the Lolita express, taking at least nine flights with Epstein, and reveal Prince Andrew, lawyer Alan Dershowitz and former US Senator George Mitchell were also passengers. 

Neither Trump nor Clinton have been linked to any of Epstein’s sex-trafficking crimes. Andrew, Dershowitz and Mitchell have all strenuously denied allegations of wrongdoing. 

It comes as jury deliberations in Maxwell's trial began on Monday as they try to determine whether she is a dangerous predator who recruited teens to be sexually abused by financier Epstein - as prosecutors put it - or the 'innocent woman' the defense have described. 

 Donald Trump flew at least seven times on Jeffrey Epstein's (pictured together in Palm Beach in 1997) private Lolita Express jet, newly released flight logs have revealed

Trump flew on Epstein's (pictured, with Ghislaine Maxwell on the notorious plane) Lolita Express jet four times in 1993, once in 1994, once in 1995 and once in 1997

 

Flight logs released during Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial show Donald Trump travelled on Epstein's Lolita Express on one two-leg trip in May 1994 with ex-wife Marla Maples, his then-infant daughter Tiffany and a nanny

 

The former President travelled on Epstein's private jet from Palm Beach, Florida, to Teterboro Airport, New Jersey, in March 1993, according to new documents

 

Trump also flew with Epstein and Maxwell, who appears to be listed here as GM, and his son Eric in August 1995, the documents reveal

 

On January 5, 1997, as was previously reported, Trump travelled with Epstein from Palm Beach to Newark

The documents show Epstein was regularly on the move between his homes in Manhattan, Palm Beach, New Mexico and his now-notorious 'paedophile island' in the US Virgin Islands.      

Flight logs show Trump, Epstein and Maxwell, among others, flew from Palm Beach in Florida to Teterboro in New Jersey on October 11, 1993 and October 1993. 

The former President then travelled on the Lolita Express with his ex-wife Marla Marples and his infant daughter Tiffany in 1994. 

On August 13, 1995, he travelled with his son Eric alongside Epstein and Maxwell, written in the log as 'JE' and 'GM', from Palm Beach in Florida, to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.  

And on January 5, 1997, as was previously reported, Trump travelled with Epstein from Palm Beach to Newark. 

Prince Andrew appears in the logs three times and flew with with Epstein on at least one other occasion, as has previously been reported. 

He flew with Epstein to the Virgin Islands on February 9, 1999, returning on February 12 with Maxwell and one of the prince's security officers as well as other guests. 

A source close to Andrew reportedly said in 2019 that the Duke has 'no recollection' of being on the 1999 flight. 

Andrew also flew on Epstein's Gulfstream from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to West Palm Beach on May 12, 2000. 

And although not covered by the new release of flight logs, it is understood Andrew took a flight on the Gulfstream with Maxwell from London Luton to Edinburgh on September 1, 2006 – six weeks after Epstein was arrested for sex offences. 

A further mention of the prince appears on April 16, 1998, where the log notes: 'Met Princess Sarah Ferguson + kids on the ground.' 

As previously reported, Epstein met Ferguson, Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice while the royals holidayed in Nassau, the Bahamas in 1998. 

At the time, Epstein was the only person flying on the plane and he returned to Palm Beach - making a 400-mile round journey - after seeing Prince Andrew and his family.  

Epstein also transported President Clinton and actor Kevin Spacey, travelling with them from JFK Airport to the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, on September 21, 2002, according to the log. 

And on one of Clinton's flights with Epstein, the pair were accompanied by Naomi Campbell. 

 

After Epstein's death in jail in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges, then-President Donald Trump fueled widespread conspiracy theories that suggested he had been murdered and said 'I wish her well' in reference to Maxwell

The Lolita express has been the subject of scrutiny throughout Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial in New York.  

Last month, the jet's pilot Larry Visoki testified under oath that he remembered Trump being among the passengers on some of his flights. 

Asked to describe his experience and list the famous passengers he had flown, Visoki said: 'I certainly remember President Trump, but not many people associated with him.'

Others who Visoki said he had flown included Bill Clinton, the actor Kevin Spacey and Prince Andrew. 

Epstein and Trump's relationship soured when the financier hit on a young girl at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Palm Beach club, in the early 2000s, before he was convicted of soliciting child prostitution.  

They were still on good terms in 2002, when Trump gushed in an interview with New York Magazine: 'I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy.

He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.'

Trump was in office when Epstein killed himself in prison in the summer of 2019. 

Afterwards, Trump fueled widespread conspiracy theories that suggested Epstein had been murdered.

'Her boyfriend died in jail, and people are still trying to figure out how did it happen. Was it suicide, was he killed?

'And I do wish her well. I'm not looking for anything bad for her. I'm not looking bad for anybody.

'And people took that and they made it such a big deal, but all it is is her boyfriend died. He died in jail. Was he killed, was it suicide? I do. I wish her well,' he said of Maxwell, referring to Epstein as her 'boyfriend'.

 

Ghislaine Maxwell (right) is currently on trial for allegedly helping Jeffrey Epstein (left) her then-boyfriend, traffic young girls

 

Prosecutors in the case have released pictures of Maxwell with Epstein vacationing in Europe

The jury are set to return at 9am today to continue deliberating the case against Maxwell, 59, who, if found guilty, faces the rest of her life behind bars.  

She faces six counts including enticement of a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.

The prosecution has argued Maxwell played a pivotal role in Epstein's quest to sexually abuse teenage girls.

But defense awyer Laura Menninger argued that the women's recollections of abuse by Epstein and Maxwell were flawed memories manipulated decades later by lawyers seeking payouts or US government investigators seeking a scapegoat after Epstein killed himself in a federal jail in 2019 while awaiting his own sex trafficking trial.

She cited numerous inconsistencies in statements made by women over the years, saying 'their memories are highly flawed' and there are 'many reasons to hesitate and many reasons to doubt.'

'She's being tried here for being with Jeffrey Epstein. Maybe that's the biggest mistake of her life, but it's not a crime,' Menninger added.

Assistant US Attorney Maurene Comey called a defense claim that Maxwell didn't know about abuse that occurred for more than a decade a 'laughable argument.'        

'Those four witnesses gave you the most damaging testimony in this trial,' she said. 'These women put themselves through the hell of testifying at this trial even though they have nothing to gain.'

Comey added: 'They did it for justice.

 

The jury are set to return at 9am today to continue deliberating the case against Maxwell, 59, who, if found guilty, faces the rest of her life behind bars

 

Earlier, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alison Moe called Maxwell the 'lady of the house' when Epstein abused girls at a New York mansion, a Florida estate and a New Mexico ranch.

'Ghislaine Maxwell was dangerous,' Moe said. She cited over $30 million that Maxwell received from Epstein over the years. 

'Maxwell and Epstein committed horrifying crimes.'

The summations came at the start of the fourth week of a trial that was originally projected to last six weeks. 

With a coronavirus outbreak in New York worsening by the day and a holiday weekend ahead, Judge Alison J. Nathan urged lawyers to keep their closings tight so the jury could begin deliberating as early as Monday. 

Maxwell has been jailed since her arrest in July 2020. The judge has denied her bail repeatedly, despite her lawyer's arguments that the pledge of her $22.5 million estate and a willingness to be watched 24 hours a day by armed guards would guarantee her appearance in court.

The six charges against Ghislaine Maxwell: 

THE CHARGES

Conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts (5 years max sentence)  

 Enticement of a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts (20 years)

Conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity (20 years)

Transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity (10 years minimum, life maximum)

Sex Trafficking Conspiracy

Sex Trafficking of a Minor 

Ghislaine Maxwell also faces two charges of perjury but those counts are due to be tried after her sex crimes trial. 

The charges relate to testimony she gave in 2016 in a defamation case filed against her by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre.  

THE 'FACTS' 

Prosecutors say Maxwell groomed three girls between 1994 and 1997 for Epstein. 

They are not named in the indictment, but she allegedly targeted them in London, Florida, New York and New Mexico.

Maxwell, it is alleged, would befriend the girls by asking them about their life and their schooling. She would put them at ease by taking them to the movies and taking them shopping, winning their trust to later deliver them to Epstein, it's alleged.

To 'normalize' the abuse that would come later, prosecutors say she undressed in front of the girls herself and asked them sexual questions. 

She then not only facilitated Epstein abusing them, prosecutors say, but took part in some of it herself. 

The alleged sex abuse includes 'sexualized group massages'. 

The indictment also says Maxwell made the girl feel 'indebted' to Epstein by encouraging them to take money from him and let him pay for their education and travel.