The British socialite accused of being the madam who procured underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein’s may be co-operating with the FBI, a victim’s lawyer said.
Ghislaine Maxwell, 57, was the disgraced billionaire’s right-hand woman and introduced him to Prince Andrew and arranged dinners with billionaire Google founder Sergey Brin and both President Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.
But David Boies, who represents Virginia Roberts Giuffre – one of Epstein’s most vocal accusers, has said that she may now have turned on the disgraced billionaire financier.
The lawyer of Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most vocal accusers, has said that Ghislaine Maxwell may turn on the disgraced billionaire financier. Pictured: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2005 in New York
Giuffre, 35, alleges she was recruited by Maxwell to have sex with rich and powerful men in 2000 while, aged 16, she was working as a towel girl at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
‘The one person most likely in jeopardy is Maxwell because the records that are going to be unsealed have so much evidence against her,’ Lawyer David Boies, who represents Giuffre, told the Miami Herald.
‘She is in a particularly vulnerable position and will have an interest in cooperating, even though she may have missed that opportunity.’
Intriguingly, Ghislaine was not named in yesterday’s FBI deposition against Epstein but has previously been heavily implicated in his activities.
Ghislaine, daughter of late publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell, has been previously named in connection to the disgraced billionaire, but was not mentioned in the most recent papers. She is believed to still live in New York. Pictured: Virginia Roberts Giuffre with Prince Andrew and Maxwell
She was named in the 2008 Florida case against Epstein as his ‘madam’ and ‘sex trafficker’ but the case only saw him get the ‘deal of a lifetime’ while no action taken against her.
There are more than 2,000 pages from a 2015 defamation case filed by Giuffre against Maxwell, who claims the socialite recruited her to be a sex slave.
Maxwell, the daughter of late publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell, called the claims ‘entirely false’ and the case never went to trial.
Maxwell, 57, is a well-known face in London and New York’s society circles and has long been linked to Epstein. The pair vacationed with Prince Andrew and she arranged dinners with billionaire google founder Sergey Brin, Leslie Wexner, who founded Victoria Secret and both President Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. Pictured in 2000 with Epstein and Donald and Melania Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Maxwell is a well-known face in London and New York’s society circles and has long been linked to Epstein.
The pair vacationed with Prince Andrew and she arranged dinners with billionaire google founder Sergey Brin, Leslie Wexner, who founded Victoria Secret.
She attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding and has been friends with Donald Trump since the 1980s.
She has kept a relatively low profile in recent years, and has not been seen publicly since Epstein was arrested.
It’s believed she was pictured in public in October 2016 at VIP talk for Women’s Brain Health Initiative in New York.
It’s believed she was pictured in public in October 2016 at VIP talk for Women’s Brain Health Initiative in New York
Maxwell (circled) was a guest at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding in 2010. Pictured Chelsea walks down the aisle with her father, former President Bill Clinton
Epstein was charged on Saturday after his private plane landed in New Jersey after a flight from Paris.
The indictment alleges Epstein, between 2002 through 2005 in New York and Florida, sexually exploited and abused dozens of underage girls by enticing them to engage in sex acts with him in exchange for money.
His victims were as young as 14, according to prosecutors.
Sergey Brin (right), came to dinners organised by Maxwell. Also pictured, Larry Page who Brun co-founded Google with
Giuffre claimed that Epstein had introduced her to Prince Andrew, now 59, and persuaded her to have sex with him three times. She claimed to have been paid $10,000 by Epstein as a ‘reward’ for this.
A judge later threw out her allegations against Prince Andrew and ordered them to be struck from the record of her claim against Epstein.
The claims were, and still are, all vigorously denied by the Queen’s second son, who said they were untrue and defamatory.
Ghislaine is the daughter of late publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell, pictured here together in 1987
Giuffre, now 35, alleges she was recruited by Maxwell to have sex with rich and powerful men in 2000 while, aged 16, she was working as a towel girl at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Pictured: Trump with Maxwell in 1997
Maxwell has long been connected to high society. Here she is pictured meeting Princess Diana in 1984
Buckingham Palace also issued on the record statements in January 2015 denying the allegations: ‘any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue’ and ‘it is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. The allegations made are false and without any foundation’.
Maxwell, for her part, gave an interview calling Roberts a ‘liar’.
In a 2011 profile about how she was welcomed back into society despite being convicted of soliciting prostitution, one unnamed insider said of Maxwell: ‘She’s a high-end ‘fixer’, and so what? No one in café society gives a damn that a 15-year-old girl gives massages.
‘She gets people into parties and runs around for a lot of people.
‘If you’re Mike Huckabee it would matter but not if you’re Ghislaine Maxwell.’
Maxwell tried to keep the documents from a civil lawsuit launched by some of Epstein’s victims sealed but a judge decided last week to unseal them.