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With her glossy hair and confident sneer, she looks selfish, ambitious and unpleasant in many paparazzi photos from the 1980s and 1990s. But so did many others.
Perhaps that is why numerous people were happy to be billed as her 'former friends', and be interviewed for the three-part investigation, Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein's Shadow (Sky Documentaries).
She is currently on remand in a New York jail, awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges later this year — alleged crimes which this second episode catalogued in detail.
If she is found guilty, no doubt she'll have fewer 'former friends'.
Any wrongdoing will then be proved. At the moment, some seem unable to fully believe it. Anna Pasternak, who knew her at university in Oxford, and 1990s party queen Lady Victoria Hervey were fumbling for explanations.