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Maxwell said a few months before his demise. “It was poor. It r. We didn't
And it was Jewish. We were very poo had. They had shoes, they had
of the war, | discovered the fate of
was Orthodox. have things that other people
food, and we didn’t. At the end my parents and my sisters and brothers, relatives, and neighbors. 1 don’t know what went through their minds as they realized
that they’d been tricked into a gas chamber.”
Maxwells own death was followed by an international scan-
dal. It turned out that he’d stolen hundreds of millions of pounds from his companies’ pension funds and used them to prop Up his e tried for conspiracy to commit
empire. Two of his sons wet fraud and ultimately exonerated. But Ghislaine, who had grown d counted the Duke of York,
up in luxurious surroundings an Prince Andrew, among her intimates, could not escape the dark shadow her father had cast. Looking to start fresh, she took the
Concorde to New York City.
At first, it see madly in love with Jeffrey Then they became somethin Epstein’s travel arrangements. S opened doors that very few Brooklyn have passed through. mony, she also became one of several women who pr young girls for Epstein.
She was not jealous, according to then. If anything, Ghislaine seemed to take pleasure in s ing Epstein’s needs.
Ghislaine introduced Epstein to a
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ms, Maxwell and Epstein were lovers. “She was ~ » says a longtime friend of Ghislaine’. 3 g more. Ghislaine took care of 3 he managed his household and | -born Jewish boys could |
According to lawsuits and witness testi-” ocured ©
people who knew her back atis y-
fabulous world that he
Brooklyn boy knew not taught Epstein the differ But despite—or was il Epstein, she, too, gradi According to Jane Doe : | filed in 2009 by a womart Ly of the services Maxwell ment of underage wom
papers, Maxwell has ve
Virginia, with any othe with, or with any criminz In a 2016 answer to a ¢ Maxwell called the alleg: The case of Nadia B first noticed by Fucteia, in the eyes of her mothe Bjorlin’s Iranian-borr years ago about her famil _ and Epstein. Bjorlin’s fat ) music, had died a year e« 7 this made the girl a vuln 3 “She was at school a’ 4 Michigan, when she met | ‘My daughter was a s ‘Tittle girl, not mature for thought she was nine or 3 “Epstein was a big dc her father had died, so st He said, ‘Here’s my numt 4 “He kept saying, ‘Cor
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