Ghislaine Maxwell ‘hid in public view’ when Epstein scandal arose just like father Robert

2/28/2021

GHISLAINE MAXWELL was “hiding in public view” like her father Robert had done when concerns around her friend Jeffrey Epstein first arose, according to a new podcast, despite seeming to disappear after his most recent arrest.

Ghislaine Maxwell is awaiting trial behind bars in New York at the moment, having said she will renounce her French and British citizenships if she can be freed on bail.

She was arrested last July on charges relating to her former boyfriend and long-time friend, Jeffrey Epstein. He was arrested in July 2019 on sex trafficking charges, but killed himself in prison before his trial.

Ms Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to all six counts, which allege she was involved in Epstein’s sexual exploitation and abuse of minor girls between 1994 and 1997.

Epstein also served a prison sentence back in 2008.

He pleaded guilty to a solicitation of prostitution involving a minor and was sentenced to 18 months in prison — he ended up serving 13 months and became a registered sex offender.

Then, in 2015, Virginia Giuffre alleged she had been forced into sex with Epstein and his friends and issued a civil defamation lawsuit against Ms Maxwell.

At the time, the British socialite expressed concerns she would be affected by the fallout of the case.

Shortly after Ms Maxwell’s arrest last year, a trove of unsealed court documents from that lawsuit revealed an email exchange between Ms Maxwell and the disgraced financier.

An email from Epstein, sent in January 2015, read: “You have done nothing wrong and i woudl [sic] urge you to start acting like it. go outside, head high, not as an esacping [sic] convict. go to parties. deal with it.”

Speaking in the latest episode from the podcast ‘Power: The Maxwells’, host and investigative journalist Tara Palmeri addressed the email exchange.

She said: “In it, he seemed to be calming her nerves about what those same people would say.

“That’s what she did — the party pictures kept coming until the end of 2016.

“Did the invites finally dry up or did she decide to step back?

“Maybe she saw the end was near.”

Ms Palmeri also alleged that the lawsuit did not affect Ms Maxwell’s social status at the time.