The British socialite is charged with facilitating the financier’s sexual abuse of minors – but others also called him a friend
When the British socialite and media heiress Ghislaine Maxwell arrived in New York City in 1991, she was eager to make new friends, and she succeeded in making some of the best kind, such as John F Kennedy Jr, the son of the late president.
But the man who became Maxwell’s “best friend”, by his own description, was not the best kind. The exact circumstances of Maxwell’s meeting with the financier Jeffrey Epstein are largely unknown. But she and Epstein, a convicted sex offender, freshly charged with sexually abusing underage girls, and who hanged himself in a New York jail last year while awaiting trial, began a romantic relationship that morphed over the years into something terribly different.
Continue reading…The British socialite is charged with facilitating the financier’s sexual abuse of minors – but others also called him a friendWhen the British socialite and media heiress Ghislaine Maxwell arrived in New York City in 1991, she was eager to make new friends, and she succeeded in making some of the best kind, such as John F Kennedy Jr, the son of the late president.But the man who became Maxwell’s “best friend”, by his own description, was not the best kind. The exact circumstances of Maxwell’s meeting with the financier Jeffrey Epstein are largely unknown. But she and Epstein, a convicted sex offender, freshly charged with sexually abusing underage girls, and who hanged himself in a New York jail last year while awaiting trial, began a romantic relationship that morphed over the years into something terribly different. Continue reading…