In a separate case, a Turkish woman, whose name has not been released, has accused Epstein and Maxwell of rape and trafficking that occurred in 2008. The woman, who is a real estate agent, alleges that Epstein raped her while Maxwell helped. The woman claims that the sexual abuse took place in front of her son, who was 8 years old at the time. She was threatened that if she ever revealed the crimes, she would be fed to alligators , as per a new lawsuit.
Ghislaine Maxwell attends the 2014 ETM (EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC) Children s Benefit Gala at Capitale on May 6, 2014 in New York City. (Getty Images)
She was 13 going on 14, but if you look at her picture, she looked like she was ten or 11, he tells
New Times. What he did to her and how scared she was and how vulnerable she was, that was a really bad story.
This could be my daughter, he thought. Fisten was working the case for Fort Lauderdale attorney Brad Edwards, who filed a lawsuit against Epstein in 2009 and worked on it for nearly a decade. Edwards faced down countersuits by both the billionaire financier and his most high-profile attorney, Alan Dershowitz, before finally winning a settlement for the Epstein survivors he represented. Fisten was a key member of his team.
When the
Miami Herald series about Jeffrey Epstein called Perversion of Justice blew up on the cable TV stations, private eye Mike Fisten was happy to see some attention finally paid to the travesty he d investigated for years.
The former Miami-Dade homicide detective interviewed Epstein victim after Epstein victim, roughly 40 in all, for a civil lawsuit alleging that their rights had been violated in a 2008 plea deal that allowed the billionaire to skirt a lengthy prison sentence.
Fisten thought his 30 years in law enforcement had left him emotionally invulnerable to such stories, but he recalls one young teen victim in particular who d been recruited to give Epstein massages in his Palm Beach mansion.
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quote, extreme flight risk and should not be granted bail, they cite his enormous wealth including two private jets, 6 luxury properties worldwide including his own private island, epstein s bond hearing is scheduled for monday. thank you very much, the question that everyone s mind, there are many but the first, who else might get implicated in this case. investigative journalist conchita sarnoff has been covering this case since the beginning and is author of the book trafficking and executive director at alliance to rescue victims of trafficking, thank you for joining us. you raised an interesting point in your research that the then state attorney for palm beach county is the one that doesn t get as much attention but was a critical player here, so concerning to the then chief of police in palm beach county, did he put together this response and referred to the fbi saying we need the feds to get involved but there is so much pressure on the county state s attorney that we don t t