James PATTERSON
Maxwell said a few months before his demise. “It was poor. It
was Orthodox. And it was Jewish. We were very poor. We didn't have things that other people had. They had shoes, they had food, and we didn't. At the end of the war, | discovered the fate of rs and brothers, relatives, and neighbors.
my parents and my siste through their minds as they realized
I don’t know what went
'd been tricked into a gas chamber.”
that they ed by an international scan-
Maxwell's own death was follow 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 empire. Two of his sons were tried for conspiracy to commit fraud and ultimately exonerated. But Ghislaine, who had grown up in luxurious surroundings and counted the Duke of York,
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 seems, Maxwell a madly in love with Jeffrey,” says a Then they became something more. Ghislaine took care of ©
ements. She managed his household and ©
Epstein’s travel arrang opened doors that very few Brooklyn-born Jewish boys could —
have passed through. According to lawsuits and witness testi-
mony, she also became one of several women who procured -
young girls for Epstein. 4 She was not jealous, accor
then. If anything, Ghislaine seemed to t
ding to people who knew her bae k
ake pleasure in satisly- ing Epstein’s needs. q Ghislaine introduced Epstein to a fabulous world that ne
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nd Epstein were lovers. ‘She was longtime friend of Ghislaine’s. —
Brooklyn boy knew no! taught Epstein the differ But despite—or was it Epstein, she, too, gradi According to Jane Doe :
, filed in 2009 by a womat
of the services Maxwell
, yy 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 Epstein, in the eyes of her mothe Bjorlin’s Iranian-bort years ago about her famil , and Epstein. Bjorlin’s fat _ music, had died a year ez _ this made the girl a vuln q “She was at school a q Michigan, when she met 7 “My daughter was a s little girl, not mature for thought she was nine or: 4 “Epstein was a big dc Pe father had died, so sk He said, ‘Here’s my numt | He kept saying, ‘Cor
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