The former socialite and associate of Jeffrey Epstein’s has been compared by one of her attorneys to the Biblical Eve, a woman asked to pay for the sins of the man, as if a woman can’t also make a perfectly legitimate criminal.
By Naomi Fry | December 1, 2021 | Link to article
When I arrived in downtown Manhattan for the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, which opened this week, there was already a long line of journalists and curious observers standing in front of the Thurgood Marshall federal courthouse—enough people to fill a socially distanced courtroom and three overflow rooms, into which the trial was transmitted via video stream. Maxwell, a fifty-nine-year-old former socialite and the daughter of the British publishing mogul Robert Maxwell, has been accused of helping Jeffrey Epstein—a man who has been variously described as her employer, her boyfriend, and her best friend—to recruit, groom, and sexually abuse four underage girls from the mid-nineties to the mid-two-thousands. In 2019, Epstein, a multimillionaire financier, was arrested for allegedly coercing dozens of young women and teenage girls into sexual acts. In August of that year, before his case went to trial, he died by hanging in his jail cell. Maxwell’s trial is widely seen as a last shot at justice for the many women who claim to have been abused by Epstein. If convicted on all counts, she faces up to seventy years in prison. (She has pleaded not guilty.)
Maxwell has been out of the public eye for more than two years, but her trail was hotly pursued after Epstein’s suicide. In August 2019, we caught a brief glimpse of her, when she was photographed at a San Fernando Valley In-N-Out Burger. Roughly a year later, she was nabbed in New Hampshire. Even though the fact of her arrest was public—according to the Times, F.B.I. agents announced themselves at Maxwell’s front door and watched, through a window, as she scurried into another room in the house—we still didn’t get to see her.
So the desire in the courtroom to view this notorious woman up close was palpable. And yet, it struck me as ironic t
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Couldn’t sleep. Found this article. I’ve skimmed it previously but only just read it in detail now. If you haven’t already, it’s a fascinating yet disturbing read. There were so many clues.
This is such an interesting insight into the family dynamic. Paris is 19 and Nicky is 16 and they’re clubbing in the Hamptons?! And Kath is like, “They weren’t wearing g-strings at the lingerie party, they were wearing little fur bikinis!” It makes me think Amy Poehler’s Mean girls character was modeled after her 😅 Also, Kath straight up lies about Paris going to the wilderness school. article link
Also, Nancy Jo Sales wrote the bling ring book/original vanity fair article, for those who remember 😅 LITTLE BROWN BEBE SHOES!!!!
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/01/inside-jerry-falwell-jr-unlikely-rise-and-precipitous-fall
They have a new issue every month.
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