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Ghislaine Maxwell was ‘a sexual predator,’ alleged victim says in new testimony¶
By Isabel Vincent¶
July 18, 2020 | 6:32pm¶
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Ghislaine Maxwell had to find three girls a day to be sexually abused by her longtime associate, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to blockbuster new testimony by an alleged victim who has waived her anonymity in the case.¶
“She was a sexual predator who abused me and countless other children and young women,” told a federal judge who denied Maxwell, 58, bail Tuesday and ordered her to spend a year awaiting trial at the Brooklyn Detention Center, where she has been held since shortly after her July 2 arrest in New Hampshire.¶
Farmer, now 41, is believed to be one of three victims — all of them minors at the time of the alleged abuse between 1994 and 1997 — in the case against Maxwell. She is charged with helping Epstein sexually abuse girls as young as 14. If convicted, Maxwell faces up to 35 years in prison.¶
Maxwell has denied any wrongdoing.¶
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Although prosecutors have not revealed all evidence, details of her abuse, which began when she was 16 and flown to Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico, were contained in a civil lawsuit filed last December.¶
Papers filed in Maxwell’s case on Saturday allege that “Maxwell spent years overseeing and managing Epstein’s sex-trafficking network … Epstein’s preference was to have three different girls a day for his sexual pleasure and Maxwell was in charge of recruiting the girls,” according to a report in the Sunday Times of London.¶
The documents say that parents divorced when she was young and her “mother struggled financially to support her siblings”.¶
“Maxwell appeared charming and friendly to me upon arriving, Maxwell and Epstein took Annie shopping and lavished her with gifts, including beauty products and a pair of brand new cowboy boots.” Annie’s older sister Maria, an artist, also claims that she was abused by Epstein.¶
Maxwell and Epstein also took a movie while she was in New Mexico. While they were standing in line, Maxwell “pulled down Epstein’s sweatpants, exposing part of his buttocks. Both Epstein and Maxwell repeatedly fondled each other in front of me trying to normalize sexual behavior to a child.”¶
“Upon returning [to the ranch] from the movie, Maxwell repeatedly told that she wanted to give her a massage … Maxwell directed Annie to take off all of her clothes and lay on the massage table.¶
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“Maxwell touched intimate parts of body against her will for the sexual benefit of Maxwell and Epstein. Maxwell exposed breasts and groped her was extremely distressed and afraid. She was a child in a massive ranch, away from her family, and isolated from any source of help.”¶
The following morning, the court papers say, Epstein went to bedroom got into bed demanding a “cuddle” and sexually assaulted her.¶
lawyers claim that she decided to go public with her allegations only after Epstein’s apparent suicide in a Manhattan federal lockup in August: “Until his death, the plaintiff feared that Epstein and his co-conspirators, including Maxwell, would harm her or her family, or ruin her life, if she came forward.”¶
Maxwell, who has claimed that she only has $1 million left in her bank accounts, used to keep a “sex swing” and would hang upside down “like a bat” on another device in an attempt to look younger, the newspaper reported.¶
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