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Ghislaine Maxwell: court unseals documents related to dealings with Epstein

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  • Cache of papers unsealed on Thursday night
  • Maxwell has been charged with involvement in Epstein crimes

A cache of documents in civil litigation against the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was unsealed on Thursday night, including early 2015 correspondence with her longtime confidant Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.

“You have done nothing wrong and i woudl [sic] urge you to start acting like it,” Epstein wrote in a 25 January 2015 email to Maxwell. “go outside, head high, not as an esacping[sic] convict. go to parties. deal with it.”

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Ghislaine Maxwell: lawyers ask judge to stop accusers from posting evidence online

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Lawyers don’t want women who claim Maxwell abused them to use evidence from criminal case to boost lawsuits by posting online

Lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to stop her accusers from using evidence in the criminal case to boost civil lawsuits by posting materials to the internet.

The lawyers say attorneys for women who claim Maxwell recruited and abused them should be subject to the same secrecy rules as prosecutors and Maxwell’s defense lawyers.

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Ghislaine Maxwell case: ‘extremely personal’ documents to be unsealed

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New York judge orders documents unsealed after Maxwell’s lawyers had tried to keep them secret

An extensive collection of “extremely personal” documents in civil litigation against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell can be unsealed, a Manhattan federal court judge ruled on Thursday.

The documents relate to Maxwell’s deposition in this litigation, as well as her early 2015 correspondence with her longterm associate, the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

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Importance of Prince Andrew interview became clear in editing suite, says Maitlis

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Newsnight presenter could not understand the lack of empathy for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims

The Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis has said she only realised the significance of her interview with the Duke of York after watching the footage.

The Prince Andrew interview in November 2019, in which he was grilled over his relationship with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, won scoop of the year at the Royal Television Society Awards while the BBC’s flagship current affairs show was also named daily news programme of the year.

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Ghislaine Maxwell is married, prosecutors say in court

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Prosecutors say Maxwell, who has pleaded not guilty to involvement in Jeffrey Epstein crimes, has declined to identify spouse to officials

The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who faces federal charges in Manhattan for allegedly enabling Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of minor girls, is married, prosecutors said during a court proceeding.

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Ghislaine Maxwell pleads not guilty in trafficking case

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Maxwell, who faces up to 35 years in federal prison, was denied bail and will remain in custody

Ghislaine Maxwell appeared in Manhattan federal court via video feed on Tuesday, to plead not guilty regarding her alleged involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of minor girls.

Related: More victims of Jeffrey Epstein have come forward, says lawyer

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Ghislaine Maxwell must stay in jail due to ‘extreme flight risk’, prosecutors say

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Defense team had cited Covid-19 in asking for her to be freed as she awaits trial relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of girls

Ghislaine Maxwell should not get bail while awaiting trial for her alleged involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking because she is an “extreme risk of flight”, prosecutors said on Monday, firing back at her legal team’s arguments that she is not.

Related: Ghislaine Maxwell requests bail release due to 'unprecedented' Covid-19 risks

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Fox News apologises for cropping Trump out of Epstein and Maxwell photo

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Network says it mistakenly eliminated Donald Trump from photo with Maxwell and Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in February 2000

Fox News has apologised for cropping Donald Trump out of a picture of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Related: 'Where are you Roger Ailes?' Trump appears to ask dead Fox News chairman for help

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‘Prince Andrew should be panicking,’ says Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre – video

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Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers, has said Prince Andrew should be ‘panicking at the moment’ after the arrest of his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell last week. Prosecutors have asked a judge to schedule a court appearance in New York for Maxwell to face charges she helped Epstein recruit women to sexually abuse. Among the accusations was a claim by Giuffre that Maxwell arranged for her to have sex with Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew has denied all accusations

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More victims of Jeffrey Epstein have come forward, says lawyer

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British women among those who have sought legal advice since arrest of financier’s associate

More victims of the deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein, including women from the UK, have come forward in recent days following the arrest the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, a lawyer for the accusers has said.

Maxwell, 58, a friend of Prince Andrew, is due to appear in court in the US this week on charges of helping Epstein recruit women to sexually abuse. Speaking on Monday morning, Gloria Allred, who represents 16 of Epstein’s accusers, said others had sought legal representation to pursue compensation against his estate.

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Ghislaine Maxwell to appear in court as fresh details of arrest emerge

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More than 20 armed officers said to have taken part in raid leading to her detention at rural New Hampshire retreat

Ghislaine Maxwell, who is accused of grooming underage victims for sexual abuse by the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein, is scheduled to appear in a New York court this week as fresh details emerge of her arrest in an FBI raid.

More than 20 armed agents and police are reported to have taken part in the early-morning operation on Thursday that led to her being handcuffed at her secluded, rural retreat in New Hampshire and taken into custody.

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High society to hideaway arrest: Ghislaine Maxwell’s dramatic fall

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For years she was at the centre of a web of influence but this week Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend will appear in a New York court

For a party girl with no parties left to attend, Ghislaine Maxwell’s 20-mile journey from her mountain hideaway in Bradford, New Hampshire, to Merrimack county jail was the brutal, cinematic finale to a social highlife that stretched across decades and continents.

Taken by surprise at 8.30am last Thursday, and accompanied by officers from at least six US law enforcement agencies, the 58-year-old was taken to the medium-security facility and later arraigned via audio-only video conference, accused of luring underage girls, one as young as 14, for her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse.

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Ghislaine Maxwell will not say anything about Prince Andrew, says friend

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Laura Goldman says she expects Maxwell to seek plea deal over charges relating to exploitation of young girls

Ghislaine Maxwell would never say anything about the Duke of York’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, according to one of her friends.

Maxwell appeared in court in the US on Thursday accused of helping disgraced financier Epstein “identify, befriend and groom” multiple girls, including one as young as 14.

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What’s next for Ghislaine Maxwell – and will she cooperate with prosecutors?

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Avoiding a lengthy prison sentence is incentive to cooperate, but may be difficult given her high-up position

While Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest Thursday in relation to her confidant Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes answered some questions about her life – revealing, for example, that she hid at a sprawling, million-dollar New Hampshire estate, where she was picked up in a morning raid – still more questions arose about what’s next for the mysterious British socialite.

Related: Prince Andrew under pressure after arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell

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Prince Andrew’s silence is a ‘torture test’ for Epstein’s alleged victims, says lawyer

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Pressure grows on Duke of York to ‘speak up’ after the arrest of his friend Ghislaine Maxwell

The Duke of York was accused of subjecting alleged victims of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to a “torture test” by his silence as lawyers for the women increased the pressure following the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell.

As Maxwell, 58, remained in custody on charges of facilitating former boyfriend Epstein’s sexual exploitation of underage girls, lawyers for multiple women demanded Prince Andrew “be a man”, “speak up” and stop “deliberately avoiding” US authorities.

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Prince Andrew under pressure after arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell

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Royal ‘bewildered’ after US attorney asks him to come forward following arrest of his friend over alleged sex crimes

Pressure on Prince Andrew to speak to FBI investigators was mounting after his friend Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on charges of sex trafficking and perjury as part of its ongoing inquiry into the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

At a press conference in New York in which prosecutors detailed the allegations facing Maxwell, they urged the Prince to come forward.

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Ghislaine Maxwell arrest throws spotlight back on Prince Andrew

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Little respite for Duke of York over friendship with British socialite and Jeffrey Epstein

The arrest by the FBI of the British woman Ghislaine Maxwell on multiple charges related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein throws an uncomfortable spotlight once more on the Duke of York.

It comes less than one month after a bad-tempered war-of-words between Prince Andrew’s lawyers and US prosecutors over the royal’s cooperation – or alleged lack of it – over their investigation into the late billionaire.

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Ghislaine Maxwell charged over role in Epstein sexual exploitation – video

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Ghislaine Maxwell, the close friend of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been charged over her 'critical role' in helping the now late billionaire groom underage victims and for lying under oath.

Maxwell was accused by many women of recruiting them to give Epstein massages, during which they were pressured into sex.

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Ghislaine Maxwell arrested by FBI on charges related to Jeffrey Epstein

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Maxwell had kept a low profile and her whereabouts were unknown since Epstein’s arrest last July on sex trafficking charges

Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and close friend of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been arrested, an FBI spokesman has said.

Maxwell was accused by many women of recruiting them to give Epstein massages, during which they were pressured into sex. Those accusations, until now, never resulted in criminal charges.

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Monsters are heinous, but they need collaborators to do their dirty work | Suzanne Moore

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Mouths to feed, rent to pay: there’s always an excuse if you’re tempted to do the wrong thing

Where is Ghislaine Maxwell? Where? I sat through the four episodes of Filthy Rich, the Netflix documentary on Jeffrey Epstein. I had to force myself, not because it was so upsetting – which, of course, it also was – but because the tales of his sexual abuse were so monotonous. Brave and defiant, his victims had to numb themselves slightly to tell and retell what happened to them when they were as young as 14. The interviews with the monster himself, as always, were disappointingly banal. Monsters often are tediously ordinary. The magnetic charm, the immense intellect, is one of the biggest delusions of “true crime”. See also Ted Bundy.

Anyway Ghislaine, accused of procuring underage girls for Epstein, is said to be a free woman in Paris, living in the swanky 8th arrondisement. French law prevents her extradition. Many of those implicated in Epstein’s world of obscene exploitation, including all the art world and socialite scum, must have a clue where she is. Alleged scum, I should say. They love their children just like we do. Sure.

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