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- Ghislaine Maxwell: “I didn’t know that he was so awful. I mean, obviously now, looking back with hindsight, of course. But at the time, I mean he had lots of friends. He was friendly with just about everybody you could imagine.”
- At her trial, the jury believed three women who told them Maxwell herself had fondled their breasts and used her position as a supposedly respectable, glamorous, older woman to lure the schoolgirls into the clutches of Epstein.
- The billionaire was found hanged in his cell in New York in 2019 while he was awaiting trial for sex trafficking, triggering conspiracy theories that he was murdered. Maxwell said last night: “I believe that he was murdered. I was shocked. Then I wondered how it had happened.”
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