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The Women Who Enabled Jeffrey Epstein
From schedulers to socialites, they helped keep the late financier’s sex trafficking scheme operating, or helped rehabilitate him after he faced jail time. Now some say they’re victims.
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Tara Palmeri is a POLITICO reporter and co-author of Playbook. She was the host of the investigative podcasts Broken: Seeking Justice and Power: The Maxwells.
It was a crisp, gray day in January 2020 when I stepped out of my Uber onto what looked like industrial wasteland, a concrete-scape
dotted with smokestacks and graffitied shipping containers. I pushed through the glass door of an old brick factory and found myself inside the pristine white walls of the Mana Contemporary arts center. In the lobby, I waited until a petite woman with jet black hair walked in with her Yorkshire terrier, Mozie.
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GHISLAINE Maxwell has demanded access to her personal laptop round-the-clock and complained that jail computers are too slow .
The 59-year-old British ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, who has been held in the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York since last year, is currently allowed her laptop during the week to review documents ahead of her people-trafficking trial.
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Maxwell is already allowed her laptop 13-hours a day during the week, prosecutors saidCredit: Getty Images - Getty
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She needs the laptop to review millions of files ahead of her trial, her lawyer claimedCredit: Reuters
But in court documents obtained by MailOnline, her lawyer Bobbi Sternheim has requested the accused madam - who is allowed her laptop during the week - also be handed her computer to review files on weekends and during holidays.
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The British socialite, awaiting trial on child-grooming charges, is also alleged to have left a message for the billionaire that a girl aged 14 at the time was “available on Tuesday”. The allegations are contained in 112 newly released court documents that a US judge cleared to be made public. They form part of a civil defamation lawsuit against Maxwell brought by the Duke of York’s teenage sex accuser Virginia Giuffre.
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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell seen together on December 8, 2000. Accused madam Ghislaine Maxwell once directed a room of underage girls to kiss, dance and touch one another in a sexual way for late pedophile boss Jeffrey Epstein and had regular threesomes with him using sex toys, according to newly released court documents.
An unidentified witness told of the alleged creepy forced performance in testimony that was revealed in 112 court documents running to thousands of pages that were released late Wednesday.
The witness whose name was redacted testified that he watched Maxwell direct a room full of underage girls to kiss, dance, and touch one another in a sexual way for [Maxwell] and Epstein to watch, the documents stated.