They pointed to separate homes the heiress kept in New York and London, as well as to separate travel. Maxwell’s lawyers, meanwhile, tried to create distance between the pair.
Together, they women painted a vivid picture of a woman routinely grooming girls to satisfy her boyfriend’s “insatiable” sexual appetite. She said that later in the day Maxwell massaged her naked chest, which left her feeling “uncomfortable”.Īnother accuser, Carolyn, also testified that Maxwell touched her breasts, hips and bottom and told her, when she was 14, she "had a great body for Epstein and his friends." Maxwell pulled down Epstein’s pants in front of her, recalled Ms Farmer, who thought it was odd behaviour for a couple of their age. “Epstein and Maxwell were being very playful with each other, kind of grabbing each other” as they waited to go into the theatre, said Ms Farmer, who was 16 at the time. Ms Farmer told the court that when she flew to Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico in 1996 Maxwell and Epstein were acting flirtatiously towards each other during a trip to the cinema to see Primal Fear.
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Prosecutors saved Annie Farmer, the only one of Maxwell's alleged victims to testify under her full real name, for last. Not only was she allegedly enabling Epstein’s abuse, she was participating in it. It cast Maxwell in quite a different role. I'd never seen anything like this or felt anything like this." "It made me feel confused because that did not feel normal to me. Maxwell sometimes took part in sexual encounters with Jane and Epstein at the Palm Beach mansion, and acted as if it were normal, Jane told the court. Maxwell was the “posh” British woman to the gruff New York financier, who served to create a false sense of security for the women. It was a motif that ran through the testimony of all four victims. She assumed they were a couple, which is what initially disarmed her. Jane met Epstein, Maxwell and her Yorkie dog named Max, while away at a summer camp for gifted children in Michigan.
"She's filling that hole, and filling that empty chair."Ī woman known by the pseudonym Jane then testified that Epstein first abused her in 1994, when she was just 14. "Epstein's death left a gaping hole in the pursuit of justice for many of these women," Ms Sternheim said. Epstein died aged 66 in 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting his own sex abuse trial. Prosecutors repeatedly tried to place Maxwell and Epstein together, describing her as his “right hand,” and saying she was involved in “every detail of Epstein’s life”.Īccording to them, the photos proved that the pair were so close that Maxwell had to have known about his sexual proclivities and that she was also integral to his crimes.īut Maxwell’s lawyer, Bobbi Sternheim, began her opening statement by citing the biblical story of Adam and Eve to argue that Maxwell, like women for millennia before her, was being blamed for a man's behaviour. In her opening statement in late November, prosecutor Lara Pomerantz called Maxwell, 60, a predator who manipulated girls and groomed them for abuse by Epstein. If they believed the latter the jury had no choice but to convict her, dooming Maxwell to an effective life sentence. The picture went right to the question right at the heart of the British socialite’s charges: was she Epstein’s consigliere, his unknowing partner, or was she - as the US government contended - his procurer? The one showing a coquettish young Maxwell massaging Epstein’s feet on board his private jet was the most compromising of all. In another, the couple was seen sitting side-by-side at the Queen’s Balmoral estate. In one, Epstein had his hand on Ghislaine’s stomach as he looked lovingly into her eyes.
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Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys tried hard to claim she was nothing more than a dedicated employee of Jeffrey Epstein’s, a house manager and one-time girlfriend who had become a “patsy” for his crimes.īut photographs shown to the New York federal court hearing her sex trafficking trial said otherwise.
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