Jeffrey Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell she did ‘nothing wrong’
Jeffrey Epstein told his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell that she had ‘done nothing wrong’, according to court documents.
Jeffrey Epstein told his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell that she had “done nothing wrong” in a 2015 email, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday.
The convicted sex offender’s correspondence with his longtime companion was one of dozens of documents from a 2015 civil defamation lawsuit against Maxwell by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre ordered released by a Manhattan judge last week.
“You have done nothing wrong and i woudl [sic] urge you to start acting like it,” Epstein wrote in the Jan. 25, 2015 email.
“Go outside, head high, not as an esacping [sic] convict,” he told Maxwell.
“Go to parties. deal with it.”
The email was in response to one from Maxwell, in which she wrote that she would “appreciate it” if a woman named “Shelley” could come forward to say she was Epstein’s girlfriend.
Maxwell added: “I think she was from end 99 to 2002.”
“Ok, with me,” Epstein responded.
Maxwell ‘has floor of prison to herself’
When Ghislaine Maxwell appeared at a video-link court hearing from a Brooklyn jail, her lawyer complained that she was being “kept alone in her room with the lights on all the time” and had been denied a shower for three days.
Now a few of her fellow inmates have offered another perspective. They say that Ms Maxwell has a floor of the prison “to herself” and gets an extra hour of exercise time every day, according to the New York Daily News. “We are all criminal defendants and should all be treated the same,” said one, who said she had seen Ms Maxwell jogging in an exercise space that had been cleared of other inmates. “I don’t mind Ms Maxwell getting three hours of rec, but then we all should get three hours.”
Ms Maxwell, 58, the daughter of the press baron Robert Maxwell, faces accusations of grooming under-age minors for her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein between 1994 and 1997. She has pleaded not guilty and is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn until her trial next year.
She is being housed on an otherwise empty floor of the prison, according to one anonymous inmate. “The only time we were allowed on the floor Ms Maxwell has to herself is when they sent us to clean it and polish the floor for her,” she told the Daily News. “We had to polish it three times so that it would be ready for her.” Two defence lawyers with clients in the jail told the paper that Ms Maxwell was monitored 24 hours a day and was regularly moved from cell to cell.
Cameron Lindsay, who was warden of the detention centre between 2007 and 2009, said yesterday (Thursday): “I would conjecture that the Bureau of Prisons has made some type of special recreation schedule for her because she’s under intense scrutiny, if I understand correctly, 100 per cent of the time. I do believe she needs that. They have got to make sure that she can’t harm herself.”
Ghislaine Maxwell is stalling ... it’s not going to matter. The secret Epstein documents will be unsealed - except for 2 depositions (next week).
— Outspoken (@Out5p0ken) July 30, 2020
Let me be clear :: anyone named should rot in hell. I don’t give a fu(k about political party affiliation. https://t.co/QUDKFGLeYh
Ms Maxwell has been fighting the release of court papers from a civil suit filed by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein’s victims, that was settled in 2017, which her lawyers say contains “intimate information about her personal life” and allegations against others who were not directly involved in the case.
Last night (Thursday) her lawyers protested that the documents would identify these people. “The affected persons, through counsel, have requested confidentiality,” Laura Menninger, a lawyer for Ms Maxwell, wrote in a letter to a federal judge that was itself partly redacted.
The Times
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