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The British socialite is now a registered sex offender. She was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire sexual monster.
The verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14, told by four women who described being abused as teens in the 1990s and early 2000s at the monster’s palatial homes in Florida, New York and New Mexico.
Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding the predator guilty of five of six counts. As the verdict was read, The predator was largely stoic behind a black mask. She stood with her hands folded as the jury filed out, and glanced at her siblings — who faithfully attended each day of the trial — as she herself was led from the courtroom. She did not hug her lawyers on the way out, a marked change from previous days during which the predator and her team were often physically affectionate with one another.
She faces the likelihood of years in prison — an outcome long sought by women who spent years fighting in civil courts to hold The predator accountable for her role in recruiting and grooming the monster’s teenage victims and sometimes joining in the sexual abuse.
This monster killed himself while in custody. |
The predator was convicted of conspiracy to entice a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors and sex trafficking of minors, the last of which carries a statutory maximum of 40 years in prison.
She was acquitted of enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts.
The defense had insisted the predator was a victim of a vindictive prosecution devised to deliver justice to women deprived of their main villain when the monster killed himself while awaiting trial in 2019.
During the trial, prosecutors called 24 witnesses to give jurors a picture of life inside the monster’s homes — a subject of public fascination and speculation ever since his 2006 arrest in Florida in a child sex case.
A housekeeper testified he was expected to be “blind, deaf and dumb” about the private lives of that monster, a financier who cultivated friendships with influential politicians and business tycoons, and the predator, who had led a jet-setting lifestyle as the favorite child of a media mogul.
Pilots took the witness stand and dropped the names of luminaries — Britain’s Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Washed Up 45 — who flew on that monster’s private jets.
Jurors saw physical evidence like a folding massage table once used by the monster and a “black book” that listed contact information for some of the victims under the heading “massages.”
There were bank records showing he had transferred $30.7 million to the predator, his longtime companion — onetime girlfriend, later employee.
But the core of the prosecution was the testimony of four women who said they were victimized by the predator and the monster at tender ages.
Three testified using first names or pseudonyms to protect their privacy: Jane, a television actress; Kate, a former model from Great Britain; and Carolyn, now a mom recovering from drug addiction. The fourth was Annie Farmer, a psychologist who chose to use her real name after being vocal about her allegations in recent years.
They echoed one another in their descriptions of the predator’s behavior: She used charm and gifts to gain their trust, taking an interest in their adolescent challenges and giving them assurances that the monster could use his wealth and connections to fulfill their dreams.
They said the script would darken when the predator coaxed them into giving massages to the monster that turned sexual, encounters she played off as normal: After one sexual massage, Kate, then 17, said the predator asked her if she’d had fun and told her: “You are such a good girl.”
Carolyn testified that she was one of several underprivileged teens who lived near the monster’s Florida home in the early 2000s and took up an offer to give massages in exchange for $100 bills, which prosecutors described as “a pyramid of abuse.”
She felt the U.S. sting. |
The predator made all the arrangements, Carolyn told the jury, even though she knew the girl was only 14 at the time.
Jane said in 1994, when she was only 14, she was instructed to follow the monster into a pool house at his Palm Beach estate, where he masturbated on her.
The lone count on which the predator was acquitted applied only to Jane.
“I was frozen in fear,” she told the jury, adding that assault was the first time she had ever seen a penis. She also directly accused the predator of participating in her abuse.
The predator’s lawyer asked Jane why it had taken so long to come forward.
“I was scared,” she said, choking back tears. “I was embarrassed, ashamed. I didn’t want anybody to know any of this about me.”
These two monsters won't hurt anybody anymore. |
The last to testify, Farmer described how the predator touched her breasts while giving her a massage at the monster’s New Mexico ranch and how the monster unexpectedly crawled into bed and pressed himself against her.
The predator, 60, vehemently denied the charges through her lawyers.
Still, she declined to take the risk of testifying, telling the judge: “The government has not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt so there is no reason for me to testify.”
“The charges against Ghislaine Maxwell are for things that Jeffrey Epstein did,” one of the predator’s lawyers, Bobbi Sternheim, emphasized to the jury. “But she is not Jeffrey Epstein and she is not like Jeffrey Epstein.”
The predator’s legal team questioned whether the accusers’ memories were faulty, or had been influenced by lawyers seeking big payouts from the predator and from the monster’s estate in civil court.
During their two-day presentation, they called as a witness Elizabeth Loftus, a University of California Irvine professor who has testified as a memory expert for defense lawyers at about 300 trials, including the rape trial of that disgraced media mogul.
She said memory can be contaminated by suggestions made by an interviewer, particularly law enforcement or the media.
The predator’s family — faithfully in attendance each day of the trial — complained she was under duress from harsh conditions at the Brooklyn jail where she’s been held since her arrest in July 2020. She had repeatedly, and futilely, sought bail, arguing that she was unable to adequately contribute to her defense.
The legal fights involving that monster and the predator are not over.
The predator still awaits trial on two counts of perjury.
Lawsuits involving the abuse allegations also continue, including one in which a woman not involved in the trial, Virginia Giuffre, says she was coerced into sexual encounters with Prince Andrew when she was 17. Andrew has denied her account and that lawsuit is not expected to come to trial for many months.
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