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Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to a special episode here on True Crime and Justice
TV. Yes, it is the True Crime and
Justice podcast. I'm James Kusno coming to you
from the Tropics TV studios in Vancouver, BC Today we're
looking at the spiders web. Yes, the rise and fall of
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Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell.
This is a special episode podcast four True Crime
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Welcome to the True crime and Justice TV podcast.
In the annals of modern crime, few stories are as dark or
disturbing as the one we're about to explore.
It is a story that unfolds the highest echelons of global
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society, a world of private islands, sprawling mansions and
unimaginable wealth as it is a world populated by presidents,
Princess Nobel laureates and Titans of industry.
But beneath this glittering facade of power and prestige lay
of meticulously organized criminal enterprise, a decades
long international sex trafficking ring built on a
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foundation of systemic depravityand the abuse of children.
At the centre of this web were two figures, Jeffrey Epstein at
the enigmatic financier whose 9 figure fortune was as vast as
its origins were mysterious, andGlenn Maxwell, the British high
society iris who served as his partner, his procurer and his
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chief accomplice. Yes, tonight we will unravel the
story of how they built this empire of abuse.
This is not just an examination of what they did, but a forensic
investigation into how they did it.
How did they operate in plain sight for so long, leveraging
their connections to the world'selite as both a shield and as a
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weapon? We will trace the timeline of
their crimes from their individual origins to the
formation of their toxic partnership.
We will expose the repeated catastrophic failures of the
justice system that allowed themto continue their predict their
predation for years. And we will chart the course
towards an ultimate, thorough and reckoning.
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Yes, we are looking at that course that they took.
And of course, it will be incomplete because it's still
ongoing. Probably will take you up to
where we are today. Yes, it is August the 8th, 2025.
And this is a deep dive. Don't forget that you can be a
part of the conversation if you want to call in either through
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the phone lines at 778-980-4635 or if you want to call in on
WhatsApp 1-368-997-6741. You're more than welcome to call
in with your opinions on this deep dive and this story.
Now let's take a look at this reckoning, made possible only by
the unyielding courage of women and girls they've victimized.
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Yes, the reckoning has come. The story of Jeffrey Epstein and
Glenn Maxwell, now the architects of a criminal
enterprise. Yes, Jeffrey Epstein from Coney
Island to Wall Street. To understand a criminal, one
must first understand the man. Jeffrey Edward Epstein was born
January the 20th, 1953 in Brooklyn, NY He grew up not in
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the rarefied air of Manhattan's elite, but in a working class
Jewish family in a private gatedcommunity within Coney Island
called Seagate. His father, Seymour, was a
groundskeeper for the New York City Department of Parks and
Recreation. Well, his mother, Paula, worked
as a school aide. From a young age, Epstein
displayed a prodigious intellect.
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He excelled in mathematics and physics.
He was a talented classical pianist and graduated from
Lafayette High School at just 16, having skipped 2 grades.
He went on to study at the prestigious Cooper Union and
took classes at New York Universities Courant Institute
of Mathematics. But he never completed a
bachelor's degree, a fact that makes a subsequent career
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trajectory even more remarkable now.
In 1974, at the age of 21 and without a college degree,
Epstein secured a position teaching math and physics at the
Dalton School, one of Manhattan's most exclusive and
elite private schools. Even then, there were troubling
signs. Former students later recalled
him showing inappropriate attention to underage of female
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students, flirting with them andeven attending parties where
teenagers were drinking. His tenure at Dalton was short
lived as he was dismissed in 1976 for poor for poor
performance is what they claimedit as now.
For most of being fired from prestigious teaching job would
be a significant setback, but for Jeffrey Epstein it was a
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launchpad. His career was not built on
conventional success, but a unique ability to leverage
proximity to power even in moments of failure.
While at Dalton, he had been tutoring the son of Alan Ace
Greenberg, the powerful CEO of the global investment bank Bear
Stearns. Despite Epstein's dismissal,
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Greenberg was impressed and offered him a job at the firm.
It was an unorthodox entry into the high stakes world of Wall
Street, but Epstein's sharp mindand grasp of complex financial
instruments allowed him to rise with meteoric speed.
He started as a junior assistantto a floor trader and then
within four years was made a limited partner, advising some
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of the firm's wealthiest clients.
In 1981, he left Bear Stearns tofound his own consulting firms,
First International Assets Group, and later in 1990, Sorry
1988, the Jay Epstein and Company.
The nature of his business was deliberately shrouded in
mystery. He claimed he worked exclusively
for billionaires, managing theirvast fortunes, but the
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operations were opaque. Now they were all so often run
through offshore entities in theUS Virgin Islands to avoid taxes
and scrutiny. The secrecy was not a byproduct
of his business, it was his business.
By cultivating an aura of untouchable elite power, he made
himself more attractive to the ultra wealthy and simultaneously
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discouraged examination. His only publicly identified
client was Leslie Wexner, the billionaire founder of Elle
Brands. They are, of course, the parent
company of Victoria's Secret. The relationship was
extraordinarily close. Wexner granted Epstein power of
attorney over his trusts and foundations and almost unheard
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of level of financial control. Now this relationship became the
bedrock of Epstein's immense wealth.
It was through Wexner that Epstein acquired his now
infamous seven story mansion on E 71st St. in Manhattan,
believed to be the largest private residence in the city.
City records show that in a 2011transfer, a company Wexner used
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to buy the townhouse transferredit to 1 of Epstein's Virgin
Island based companies for the sum of 0.
Yes, apparently he gave it to him free of charge.
This transaction, more than any other, suggest Epstein's service
to his clients went far beyond traditional money management,
hinting at a level of influence and control that remains one of
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the cases central unanswered questions.
Now there's a Glenn Maxwell, thefall of a dynasty.
Yes, if Jeffrey Epstein was the architect of the criminal
enterprise, Glenn Maxwell was his essential facilitator.
Its public face and its most effective weapon aren't.
On Christmas Day in 1961, she was the 9th and youngest child
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of the notorious British media tycoon Robert Maxwell.
Her upbringing was one of intense and immense wealth and
privilege spent at the Headington Hill Hall at 53 room
Mansion in Oxford that also housed the offices of her
father's publishing empire and that was known as Parademon
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Press. Now this gilded childhood was,
according to her own lawyers in later court filings, A deeply
traumatic 1. They described a home life
marked by profound emotional neglect and ruled by her
father's domineering, narcissistic and physically
abusive personality. Robert Maxwell, the man of large
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physical stature, was also one with a booming voice and would
would reportedly subject his children to terrifying verbal
tirades, reducing them to pulp. Gillian, said to be his
favorite, was allegedly groomed from birth to serve the needs of
this volatile patriarch, becoming over dependent on his
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approval and vulnerable to his frequent mood swings.
Now she was educated at the exclusive Marlborough College
and later graduated from BalliolCollege in Oxford with a degree
in modern History, placing her firmly within Britain's social
and intellectual elite. In the 1980s, she was a
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prominent figure on the London social scene, a founding a
woman's club and working for herfather's various media ventures.
This world did come crashing down.
In November of 1991, Robert Maxwell's body was found
floating in the Atlantic Ocean near his yacht.
The lady gave Gillian, named after his favorite daughter of
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course. In the aftermath of his
mysterious death, it was revealed that he had committed a
massive fraud, plundering hundreds of millions of pounds
from his companies pension fundsto prop up his failing empire.
The Maxwell name was ruined. The family faced public disgrace
in financial collapse. It was at this moment of extreme
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vulnerability that Glenn Maxwellwas stripped of her status and
security, moved to New York Citywhere she would meet another
wealthy, powerful and controlling man who would step
directly into the psychological void left by her father.
Yes, that became a partnership forged in scandal.
Now Glenn Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein met in New York shortly
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after her father's death. Theirs was not a simple romance,
but a strategic and symbiotic merger.
Epstein had amassed a fortune, but he lacked the social
pedigree to access the highest echelons of global power.
Maxwell, despite her family's public disgrace, possessed in
inherited Rolodex with the effortless social grace of the
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British upper class. She was his key to a world of
royalty, presence and, of course, celebrity.
In return, Epstein gave her backthe life of immense privilege
and power she had lost. They were romantically linked in
the early 1990s, and by 1992 he was managing his Palm Beach
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estate, becoming the Lady of theHouse.
Even after their romance ended in the early 2000s, they
remained inseparable business and social partners.
He provided her with a lavish financial security, transferring
over $30 million to her bank accounts between 1999 and 2007
alone. Together, they constructed a
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powerful facade of legitimacy, Afacade that was essential for
their criminal enterprise to flourish in plain sight for the
next two decades. Yes, the operation in plain
sight. Let's take a look at that.
The sex trafficking operation run by Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn
Maxwell was not a crime of opportunity.
It was a calculated, systemic and highly organized business.
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Sorry, systematic and highly organized business.
It had clear methodology for recruitment, A sophisticated
psychology playbook for groomingits victims, and a global
infrastructure of properties designed to facilitate and
conceal the abuse. Now let's take a look at their
predators playbook. Yes, recruitment and grooming.
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At the heart of the operation was Gillian Maxwell.
Prosecutors and victims consistently identify her as the
primary recruiter. Her status as a sophisticated,
charming and well connected woman was her most potent
weapon. She was able to disarm not only
the young, vulnerable girls she targeted, but also their
parents, creating a false sense of security that a man like
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Epstein could never have achieved on his own.
The process they employed was a clinical form of psychological
warfare, a textbook case of grooming designed to
systematically dismantle a victim sense of self, boundaries
and reality. Let's take a look at how it
began. Yes, it started with a victim
selection. They targeted girls from
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disadvantaged or unstable backgrounds, often from single
parent homes with financial difficulties who would be most
susceptible to the allure of their wealth and promises.
Then next came gaining access and developing the trust.
Yes, Maxwell would befriend the girls, taking them shopping or
to the movies, asking about their lives, their school and
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their ambitions. She presented herself as a
mentor, a friend, a maternal figure.
This was followed by the crucialstage of desensitization.
Yes, Maxwell would gradually normalize sexual topics, undress
in front of the victims, and encourage them to give Epstein
massages, slowly eroding their boundaries until the line
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between acceptable and unacceptable behavior was
irrevocably blurred. Financial incentives, of course,
were a key tool of control. Epstein and Maxwell would offer
to pay for education, travel or family expenses, creating a
powerful sense of indebtedness that made it harder for the
girls to say no. The harrowing testimonies from
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Maxwell's trial paint a vivid picture of this playbook in
action. One victim, known as Jane,
testified that Maxwell recruitedher at a Michigan summer camp
when she was just 14, befriending her and her mother
before the abuse began. Another, named Kate Or was known
as Kate, was lured to Maxwell's London home at 17 under the
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pretense of giving Epstein massages.
She testified that Maxwell once left a schoolgirls outfit in her
bed. Her sorry on her bed telling her
I thought it would be fun for you to take Jeffrey his tea in
this outfit. 1/3 victim Carolinewas recruited at 14 by another
slightly older victim. She testified that Maxwell once
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groped her breasts and buttocks while she was undressed for a
massage, telling her she had a great body.
For Mr. Epstein and his friends,the final insidious step in
their operation was turning victims into recruiters.
Epstein would pay his victims hundreds of dollars in cash for
each New Girl they brought into the fold, creating a cruel
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pyramid like structure of abuse that ensured a steady supply of
new targets. Now let's take a look at the
geography of the abuse. Yes, the trafficking operation
was supported by a global portfolio of a luxury
properties, each serving a distinct and strategic purpose
within the criminal infrastructure.
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They were not just homes, they were instruments of control,
intimidation and of course isolation.
Let's first take a look at the Manhattan townhouse on East 71st
St. Yes, that was the operations
so-called showroom. As the largest private residence
in the city, it's sheer scale was designed to project immense
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power and overwhelm visitors. The interior was filled with
bizarre and intimidating decor, rows of individually friend
eyeballs, a twice life-size sculpture of a naked warrior
stuffed black poodle perched atop a Steinway grand piano.
This was a stage set for disorientation and control, and
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federal indictments confirm it was a primary site where dozens
of girls, some as young as fourteen, were abused.
Now let's look at the Palm Beachmansion, yes, in Florida, that
served as a major recruitment centre.
It's location placed Epstein andMaxwell in the heart of high
society playground, giving them access to places like Donald
Trump's Mar a Lago club. Why are victims?
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Virginia Godfrey was working as a 16 year old spa tenant when
Maxwell first approached her. The initial 2005 police
investigation and subsequent infamous 2008 plea deal centred
on the crimes committed within the walls of this Florida is
state. It should all show also be
mentioned that Donald Trump has recently really come out
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publicly to a state that he was distancing himself at that time
from of course Jeffrey Epstein. Not because of his known abuse
of minors, but because that Jeffrey Epstein was stealing his
employees from his spa. Now whether or not there was any
nefarious activity happening in the spa at the Mar A Lago estate
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is up for debate and question, but so far there has been no
confirmation of any ill doing orwrongdoing at that location.
I would challenge any viewers out there that have information
about that to please let us know.
Finally, there was a little St. James James, yes known as
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Epstein Island. It's a private 72 acre island in
the US Virgin Islands known locally as Paedophile island.
It was the ultimate tool of isolation and the end of the
line for many victims. Girls were flown in on Epstein's
private jets and helicopters, leaving them completely stranded
with no means of escape and totally dependent on their
captors. the US Virgin Islands Attorney General later described
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it as a place for Epstein to hide his criminal activity from
law enforcement. 115 year old victim reportedly became so
desperate that she tried to escape by swimming away from the
island. Another victim recounted being
trapped in a bedroom on the island where Epstein kept a gun
strapped to his bedpost. Understanding the distinct
function of each location that reveals A calculated business
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like nature of their criminal enterprise and then we move on
to the circle of influence. Yes, the final and perhaps most
crucial element of their operation was the vast globe
spanning network of the rich andpowerful they cultivated.
This was not just a collection of friends, it was an integral
part of their operational security.
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The list of associates who movedthrough their world is
staggering. Unsealed court documents and
flight logs have named former presidents of Bill Clinton and
Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew, former New Mexico
governor Bill Richardson's lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and even
the acclaimed physicist Stephen Hawking.
Now, it should be also noted that although these people have
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shown up in lists and documentation, it does not mean
that they partook in any illicitactivities while they're on the
island or at any other point associated with Gillian Maxwell
or with Jeffrey Epstein, just that they did appear on the
flight logs and lists that were unsealed by the courts.
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Now, it's critical to state thatbeing in these documents, as I
said, is not in itself. Accusation of any wrongdoing.
Many were mentioned in passing, and no client list detailing
criminal complicity has ever been found, a fact confirmed by
a 2025 Department of Justice review.
However, the sheer breadth of this network served a vital
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purpose. First, it acted as a lure.
The promise of meeting a celebrity or a powerful
politician was a powerful tool in the grooming process. 2nd,
and more importantly, the network function as a passive
conspiracy of silence and a shield of credibility.
The constant public association with respected figures made
though horrific rumours about Epstein and Maxwell seem
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unbelievable. It fostered a culture of Asino
evil. Hear no evil, speak no evil.
Yes, of course, for an outsider or even a victim to accuse
Jeffrey Epstein was too in effect, to accuse the entire
elite ecosystem that validated and protected him.
The social armor was their most effective defence, allowing the
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abuse to continue in plain sight.
Now let's take a look at justicedenied.
Yes, the 2008 a Florida plea deal.
For years the rumors swirled, but in 2005, the walls of
silence began to crack. The events that followed would
not lead to justice, however. Instead, they would result in
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one of the most controversial and criticized plea deals in
modern American history. A deal that protected a powerful
predator and his network at the direct expense of victim.
Now the first investigation. In March of 2005, the mother of
a 14 year old girl walked into the Palm Beach the Police
Department and reported that herstepdaughter had been paid
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$300.00 for sexual activity witha wealthy man at his mansion.
That man was Jeffrey Epstein. The report triggered an
investigation led by Detective Joe Recarey or Rosari, and
Police Chief Michael Ryder, who soon uncovered a pattern of
abuse involving dozens of unagedunderage girls.
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Investigators heard graphic testimony Girls, some as young
as 14, described being recruitedfor massages that would escalate
into sexual assault. They testified that Epstein told
him to recruit their friends, saying the younger the better.
Despite the overwhelming evidence that the local state
Attorney's office seem reluctantto pursue the case aggressively,
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a grand jury returned an indictment on just a single
felony count of soliciting prostitution.
Dissatisfied in believing the state charges failed to address
the true scope of Epstein's crimes, chief writer and
Detective Rusari took the extraordinary step of referring
the case to the FBI. A federal investigation was
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opened and by 2007, federal prosecutors had drafted a
potential 53 page indictment that could have sent Epstein to
prison for life. But that indictment would never
be filed. Yes, it was the deal of a
lifetime. Instead of facing a federal
trial, Epstein's team of high-powered defence attorneys,
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which included Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr, entered into
negotiations with the office of the US Attorney for Southern
District of Florida, A man namedAlexander Acosta.
Yes, the same Acosta you hear oftoday in Trump's administration.
The result was a secret non prosecution agreement, or NPA,
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that has since been described asthe deal a lifetime now.
The terms of this were stunningly lenient.
In exchange for the federal government dropping its entire
case, Epstein would plead guiltyto two lesser state charges,
soliciting a prostitute and procuring a minor for
prostitution habits serve a sentence of 18 months in county
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jail, not a federal prison. He ended up serving less than 13
months, and for most of that time, he was granted generous
work release privileges, allowing him to spend up to 12
hours a day, six days a week in his private office.
Now, the most shocking provision, though, of the deal
wasn't scope, the exchange for this lenient sentence. the US
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government agreed to grant a full immunity from all federal
charges not only to Epstein, butalso to four named Co
conspirators and crucially, to any potential Co conspirators.
This highly unusual clause effectively shut down the entire
federal investigation, cauterizing any inquiry into a
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wider network of people who may have enabled or participated in
the abuse. Now, years later, when he was
serving as president, President Trump's Secretary of Labour
Alexander Acosta would defend his office's actions, blaming
state prosecutors for their weakcase and arguing that the deal,
however flawed, was the only wayto guarantee Epstein served any
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jail time at all and was forced to register as a sex offender.
Now, this was seen as a betrayalof the victims.
Yes, in 2008, that plea deal wasmore than just a failure of
justice. It was a deliberate betrayal of
the victims. A key component of the agreement
insisted upon by Epstein's lawyers and agreed to by
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Acosta's office, was that the victims would not be informed of
the deal's existence or its terms until after it was
finalized. The secrecy was a direct
violation of the 2004 Crime Victims Rights Act, or the CVRA,
which guarantees victims the right to be consulted during
plea negotiations. Attorneys for the victims, led
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by Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassell, followed a federal
lawsuit, filed a federal lawsuitin 2008 on behalf of victims
named Courtney Wilde. Sorry, the one victim there,
arguing that the government had broken the law.
What followed was a grueling, decade long legal battle.
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In 2019, a federal judge finallyagreed, ruling that prosecutors
had indeed violated the CVR A. However, the victory was largely
symbolic. In a subsequent, deeply divided
ruling, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals held that while the
government's conduct was beyond scandalous and the prosecutors
had affirmatively misled the victims, the woman had no legal
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remedy to invalidate the deal. The court reasoned that because
formal federal charges I've never actually been filed, the
victims rights under the CBR hadnot technically been triggered.
Now, in 2008, the NPA was a master class in legal
manipulation. It transformed the justice
system from a tool for victims into a shield for a powerful
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perpetrator and his entire network, a provision, sorry
perversion of its purpose that would allow Jeffrey Epstein to
walk free and, as subsequent investigations would reveal, to
continue his crimes for another decade.
Now let's take a look at the reckoning.
Yes, for over 10 years, the secret deal held.
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Jeffrey Epstein rebuilt his network, traveling the world on
his private jet, hosting powerful guests at his homes and
continuing to operate in the shadows.
But the courage of his victims and the work of a tenacious
journalist and others would not allow the story to die.
A day of reckoning was coming, and that was justice revived.
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Yes, the 2019 New York indictment.
In November 2018, the Miami Herald, led by investigative
reporter Julie K Brown, published a crown breaking
series titled Perversion of Justice.
The series exposed the secret 2008 non prosecution agreement
in excruciating details, sparking a firestorm of public
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outrage and demands for a new investigation.
The pressure worked. On July the 6th, 2019, federal
agents were waiting for Jeffrey Epstein as his private jet
landed at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.
He was arrested. Two days later.
An indictment was unsealed in the Southern District of New
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York. Prosecutors in New York are
arguing that the Florida plea deal did not bind.
A different federal district charged Epstein with one count
of sex trafficking of minors andone count of conspiracy to
commit a sex trafficking. The new indictment focused on
crimes committed between 2002 and 2005 and his homes in
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Manhattan and Palm Beach, alleging he had sexually
exploited and abused dozens of girls as young as 14.
After more than a decade of impunity, it seemed Jeffrey
Epstein would finally face justice in a federal courtroom.
But no. Then there's what's known as the
death of a monster. Epstein was denied bail and held
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at the Metropolitan CorrectionalCentre, a federal jail in lower
Manhattan known for housing high, high profile inmates.
The facility is supposed to be one of the most secure in the
country. It was not.
On July the 23rd, 2019, just weeks after his arrest, Epstein
was failed semi conscious in hiscell with marks on his neck.
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It was treated as a possible suicide attempt and he was
placed on suicide watch. Inexplicably, after just six
days, psychological staff removed him from the watch and
returned him to the Special Housing Unit, also known as the
Shoe, where he was supposed to have a cellmate and be checked
on by guards every 30 minutes. These protocols were not
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followed. On the night of August the 9th,
2019, Epstein cellmate was transferred out and he was left
alone, a direct violation of procedure.
The two guards assigned to his unit that night and Tobin Noel
and Michael Thomas later admitted to falling asleep for
hours and falsifying log recordsto cover their negligence.
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At approximately 6:30 AM on August the 10th, 2019, Jeffrey
Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell, a bed sheet tied
around his neck and attached to his bunk bed.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.
The New York City Medical Examiner officially ruled his
death a suicide by hanging. The death immediately ignited a
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firestorm of controversy and conspiracy theories.
The sheer number of procedural failures of the jail.
The removal from suicide watch, missing cellmate, the sleeping
guards, and of course, reports of malfunctioning surveillance
cameras outside his cell seem tobe too egregious to be more mere
coincidence. A profile pathologist hired by
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Epstein's brother, Doctor Michael Baden, publicly disputed
the medical examiner's findings,claiming the injuries were more
consistent with homicidal strangulation than they were
with the suicide. A subsequent investigation by
the Department of Justice Inspector General found no
evidence of foul play but confirmed a cascade of
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negligence, misconduct and outright job performance
failures. And that was, of course, by jail
staff that created the opportunity for Epstein take his
own life. The two guards, know and Thomas
were charged with the conspiracyand falsifying records, but in a
deal with prosecutors, they avoided any jail time
themselves. The catastrophic failures at the
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MCC created an information vacuum that made conspiracy
theories inevitable. More tragically, Epstein's death
permanently denied his hundreds of victims of their chance to
face their primary abuser in court, ensuring that many of the
secrets of his network would diewith him.
And then there was, of course, the trial of his accomplice
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that, you know, with Jeffrey Epstein dead, the pursuit of
justice turned to his chief enabler.
On July the 2nd, 2020, FBI agents arrested Blaine Maxwell
at a secluded 156 acre property in New Hampshire where she had
been hiding. She was charged with a slate of
federal crimes, including conspiracy and sex trafficking
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of a minor. Her trial began in November of
2021. Prosecutors argued that Maxwell
was not merely an associate, butan indispensable predator in her
own right, the wolf in sheep's clothing who used her gender and
social status to lure and groom vulnerable girls for Epstein.
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The prosecutors case was built on the powerful and detailed
testimony of four key victims who took the stand to tell their
stories. They were identified by
different names, of course, thantheir own, and it was Jane,
Kate, Carolyn and Annie Farmer now.
They corroborated accounts of Maxwell's methods, the initial
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friendships, the gifts, the normalization of sex abuse and
her direct participation. Would they?
That was devastating. Now the defence attempted to
portray Maxwell is a scapegoat, another victim of Epstein's
manipulation who was being unfairly blamed for his crimes
now that he was dead. The jury definitely did not
agree because on December the 29th, 2021, after five days of
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deliberation, Glenn Maxwell was found guilty on five of the six
counts against her, including the most serious charge of sex
trafficking of a minor on June the 28th, 2022.
She was sentenced to 20 years infederal prison.
At the sentencing, Judge AllisonJ Nathan made it clear that
Maxwell was not being punished as a proxy for Epstein, but for
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her own calculated role in grooming and deceiving underage
victims. The verdict was a landmark
moment, a legal repudiation of the specific gendered role that
female traffickers play in enabling abuse.
It was a direct validation of what the victims had been saying
for years. Jeffrey Epstein could not have
done it without her. Now, as we have heard from the
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voices of survivors, yes, the legal proceedings against Glenn
Maxwell have concluded the truthsent.
The true sentence for these crimes is not the 20 years she
will serve in prison, it's the lifelong trauma carried by the
survivors. At her sentencing, several
victims delivered powerful impact statements that stand as
the final, unassailable truth ofthis case.
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They spoke of permanent loss of trust, not just in others, but
in themselves. Annie Farmer told the Court One
of the most painful and ongoing impacts of Maxwell and Epstein's
abuse was the loss of trust in myself, my perceptions and my
instincts. They described decades of
struggling with chronic anxiety,PTSD, survivors guilt and a
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profound sickening shame. Sarah Ransome revealed that she
had attempted suicide twice in the aftermath of the abuse.
Their statements revealed that the abuse was not a series of
isolated events, but a fundamental reprogramming of
their psyches, instilling a deepseated self doubt that it
affected every aspect of their adult lives.
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In a statement read by her attorney of Virginia, Godfrey
addressed Maxwell directly. For me and so many others, you
open the door to hell. This enduring pain is the
ultimate legacy of their crimes.And of course, this is an
unfinished story. The conviction of Glenn Maxwell
and the death of Jeffrey Epsteinbring a chapter of the story to
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a close, but the book remains unfinished.
While the architects of sex trafficking ring have been
brought to account, the vast network of enablers, associates
and potential Co conspirators remains largely untouched.
The recent unsealing of court documents has publicly named
many powerful people who moved in their orbit, but as has not
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led to any new criminal charges.The Department of Justice has
stated that its review of the evidence found no basis for
investigating uncharged third parties and no incriminating
client list, even though there had been much speak through
Trump's administration starting way back during the election
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process and the end and going back further than that,
including rumours during his first term.
When we then move forward to theto the 2024 election, of course,
we heard a lot from Trump and his cronies about this list.
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We've heard about it since he's taken office.
And then all of a sudden, it just mysteriously disappeared
because now there is, according to it, the FBI and others, no
list by Jeffrey Epstein or GlennMaxwell to be had.
And it should also be a very bigconcern that she has been
against the federal legal system, the jails and prisons.
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Any policy that you look at, it is against the policies to
transfer a sex offender to the minimum security facility.
That'll in Glenn Maxwell has recently found herself
transferred to a very interesting indeed with the
rumors of Donald Trump being saturated throughout those
lists. Yes, his name was allegedly
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everywhere, but of course, the FBI went on a firestorm of
redacting documentation to ensure that Donald Trump's name
was removed and again, making all kinds of just incredibly
insane accusations that it was all placed there by the Joe
Biden administration. We know that Donald Trump is a
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scumbag, A sleazebag, A rapist, and much more, and of course
that he should be facing justice, but instead he's facing
this term as president of the United States.
So it's just incredible how blind and willingly, willingly
complacent people can be by knowing the truth and not taking
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action or demanding action be taken against Donald the Scum.
Trump Now. The story of Epstein and Maxwell
is therefore more than just a tale of two monstrous
individuals. It's a chilling indictment of a
system where wealth, power and influence can be weaponized to
subvert justice, silence the vulnerable, and operate with
impunity for decades. The final word belongs not to
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the powerful men whose names Phil Epstein's black book, but
to those survivors who, against all odds and in the face of
unimaginable trauma, refused to be silenced, their courage
forced. A long overdue, if still
incomplete reckoning. Their voices are a permanent
testament to the truth that no matter how deeply it is buried,
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justice can and must be pursued.Now I have gone into great
detail here about Jeffrey Epstein, Glenn Maxwell and of
course the charges that have been levied against them and
that they are convicted of a Jeffrey Epstein of course did
not stand trial in the fact thathe also did not give the victims
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the opportunity to face him directly in court.
And that is a shame. Now whether or not he took his
own life in that jail cell, well, we don't know and we may
never know beyond a reasonable doubt what actually happened
there. For me personally, I don't
believe that it was self-inflicted.
I think that there is a much larger power at play here and
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that is my opinion on it. I do also want to just reach out
to to any victims out there who are watching this of abuse to,
to reach out and speak out to get help and to make sure that
you take ownership of yourself and not allow them to have the
power over you or ownership of you into the future.
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So again, you are worth a lot more than you give yourself
credit for. If you are still allowing the
abuse to continue or I shouldn'tsay allowing, but for a lack of
other words, But again, you're not to blame and you can reach
out for help. Contact your local local.
Police Department, Sheriff's Department, FBI, or talk to
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Welcome to the True crime and Justice TV podcast.
In the annals of modern crime, few stories are as dark or
disturbing as the one we're about to explore.
It is a story that unfolds the highest echelons of global
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society, a world of private islands, sprawling mansions and
unimaginable wealth as it is a world populated by presidents,
Princess Nobel laureates and Titans of industry.
But beneath this glittering facade of power and prestige lay
of meticulously organized criminal enterprise, a decades
long international sex trafficking ring built on a
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foundation of systemic depravityand the abuse of children.
At the centre of this web were two figures, Jeffrey Epstein at
the enigmatic financier whose 9 figure fortune was as vast as
its origins were mysterious, andGlenn Maxwell, the British high
society iris who served as his partner, his procurer and his
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chief accomplice. Yes, tonight we will unravel the
story of how they built this empire of abuse.
This is not just an examination of what they did, but a forensic
investigation into how they did it.
How did they operate in plain sight for so long, leveraging
their connections to the world'selite as both a shield and as a
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weapon? We will trace the timeline of
their crimes from their individual origins to the
formation of their toxic partnership.
We will expose the repeated catastrophic failures of the
justice system that allowed themto continue their predict their
predation for years. And we will chart the course
towards an ultimate, thorough and reckoning.
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Yes, we are looking at that course that they took.
And of course, it will be incomplete because it's still
ongoing. Probably will take you up to
where we are today. Yes, it is August the 8th, 2025.
And this is a deep dive. Don't forget that you can be a
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Now let's take a look at this reckoning, made possible only by
the unyielding courage of women and girls they've victimized.
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Yes, the reckoning has come. The story of Jeffrey Epstein and
Glenn Maxwell, now the architects of a criminal
enterprise. Yes, Jeffrey Epstein from Coney
Island to Wall Street. To understand a criminal, one
must first understand the man. Jeffrey Edward Epstein was born
January the 20th, 1953 in Brooklyn, NY He grew up not in
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the rarefied air of Manhattan's elite, but in a working class
Jewish family in a private gatedcommunity within Coney Island
called Seagate. His father, Seymour, was a
groundskeeper for the New York City Department of Parks and
Recreation. Well, his mother, Paula, worked
as a school aide. From a young age, Epstein
displayed a prodigious intellect.
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He excelled in mathematics and physics.
He was a talented classical pianist and graduated from
Lafayette High School at just 16, having skipped 2 grades.
He went on to study at the prestigious Cooper Union and
took classes at New York Universities Courant Institute
of Mathematics. But he never completed a
bachelor's degree, a fact that makes a subsequent career
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trajectory even more remarkable now.
In 1974, at the age of 21 and without a college degree,
Epstein secured a position teaching math and physics at the
Dalton School, one of Manhattan's most exclusive and
elite private schools. Even then, there were troubling
signs. Former students later recalled
him showing inappropriate attention to underage of female
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students, flirting with them andeven attending parties where
teenagers were drinking. His tenure at Dalton was short
lived as he was dismissed in 1976 for poor for poor
performance is what they claimedit as now.
For most of being fired from prestigious teaching job would
be a significant setback, but for Jeffrey Epstein it was a
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launchpad. His career was not built on
conventional success, but a unique ability to leverage
proximity to power even in moments of failure.
While at Dalton, he had been tutoring the son of Alan Ace
Greenberg, the powerful CEO of the global investment bank Bear
Stearns. Despite Epstein's dismissal,
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Greenberg was impressed and offered him a job at the firm.
It was an unorthodox entry into the high stakes world of Wall
Street, but Epstein's sharp mindand grasp of complex financial
instruments allowed him to rise with meteoric speed.
He started as a junior assistantto a floor trader and then
within four years was made a limited partner, advising some
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of the firm's wealthiest clients.
In 1981, he left Bear Stearns tofound his own consulting firms,
First International Assets Group, and later in 1990, Sorry
1988, the Jay Epstein and Company.
The nature of his business was deliberately shrouded in
mystery. He claimed he worked exclusively
for billionaires, managing theirvast fortunes, but the
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operations were opaque. Now they were all so often run
through offshore entities in theUS Virgin Islands to avoid taxes
and scrutiny. The secrecy was not a byproduct
of his business, it was his business.
By cultivating an aura of untouchable elite power, he made
himself more attractive to the ultra wealthy and simultaneously
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discouraged examination. His only publicly identified
client was Leslie Wexner, the billionaire founder of Elle
Brands. They are, of course, the parent
company of Victoria's Secret. The relationship was
extraordinarily close. Wexner granted Epstein power of
attorney over his trusts and foundations and almost unheard
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of level of financial control. Now this relationship became the
bedrock of Epstein's immense wealth.
It was through Wexner that Epstein acquired his now
infamous seven story mansion on E 71st St. in Manhattan,
believed to be the largest private residence in the city.
City records show that in a 2011transfer, a company Wexner used
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to buy the townhouse transferredit to 1 of Epstein's Virgin
Island based companies for the sum of 0.
Yes, apparently he gave it to him free of charge.
This transaction, more than any other, suggest Epstein's service
to his clients went far beyond traditional money management,
hinting at a level of influence and control that remains one of
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the cases central unanswered questions.
Now there's a Glenn Maxwell, thefall of a dynasty.
Yes, if Jeffrey Epstein was the architect of the criminal
enterprise, Glenn Maxwell was his essential facilitator.
Its public face and its most effective weapon aren't.
On Christmas Day in 1961, she was the 9th and youngest child
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of the notorious British media tycoon Robert Maxwell.
Her upbringing was one of intense and immense wealth and
privilege spent at the Headington Hill Hall at 53 room
Mansion in Oxford that also housed the offices of her
father's publishing empire and that was known as Parademon
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Press. Now this gilded childhood was,
according to her own lawyers in later court filings, A deeply
traumatic 1. They described a home life
marked by profound emotional neglect and ruled by her
father's domineering, narcissistic and physically
abusive personality. Robert Maxwell, the man of large
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physical stature, was also one with a booming voice and would
would reportedly subject his children to terrifying verbal
tirades, reducing them to pulp. Gillian, said to be his
favorite, was allegedly groomed from birth to serve the needs of
this volatile patriarch, becoming over dependent on his
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approval and vulnerable to his frequent mood swings.
Now she was educated at the exclusive Marlborough College
and later graduated from BalliolCollege in Oxford with a degree
in modern History, placing her firmly within Britain's social
and intellectual elite. In the 1980s, she was a
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prominent figure on the London social scene, a founding a
woman's club and working for herfather's various media ventures.
This world did come crashing down.
In November of 1991, Robert Maxwell's body was found
floating in the Atlantic Ocean near his yacht.
The lady gave Gillian, named after his favorite daughter of
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course. In the aftermath of his
mysterious death, it was revealed that he had committed a
massive fraud, plundering hundreds of millions of pounds
from his companies pension fundsto prop up his failing empire.
The Maxwell name was ruined. The family faced public disgrace
in financial collapse. It was at this moment of extreme
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vulnerability that Glenn Maxwellwas stripped of her status and
security, moved to New York Citywhere she would meet another
wealthy, powerful and controlling man who would step
directly into the psychological void left by her father.
Yes, that became a partnership forged in scandal.
Now Glenn Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein met in New York shortly
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after her father's death. Theirs was not a simple romance,
but a strategic and symbiotic merger.
Epstein had amassed a fortune, but he lacked the social
pedigree to access the highest echelons of global power.
Maxwell, despite her family's public disgrace, possessed in
inherited Rolodex with the effortless social grace of the
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British upper class. She was his key to a world of
royalty, presence and, of course, celebrity.
In return, Epstein gave her backthe life of immense privilege
and power she had lost. They were romantically linked in
the early 1990s, and by 1992 he was managing his Palm Beach
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estate, becoming the Lady of theHouse.
Even after their romance ended in the early 2000s, they
remained inseparable business and social partners.
He provided her with a lavish financial security, transferring
over $30 million to her bank accounts between 1999 and 2007
alone. Together, they constructed a
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powerful facade of legitimacy, Afacade that was essential for
their criminal enterprise to flourish in plain sight for the
next two decades. Yes, the operation in plain
sight. Let's take a look at that.
The sex trafficking operation run by Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn
Maxwell was not a crime of opportunity.
It was a calculated, systemic and highly organized business.
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Sorry, systematic and highly organized business.
It had clear methodology for recruitment, A sophisticated
psychology playbook for groomingits victims, and a global
infrastructure of properties designed to facilitate and
conceal the abuse. Now let's take a look at their
predators playbook. Yes, recruitment and grooming.
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At the heart of the operation was Gillian Maxwell.
Prosecutors and victims consistently identify her as the
primary recruiter. Her status as a sophisticated,
charming and well connected woman was her most potent
weapon. She was able to disarm not only
the young, vulnerable girls she targeted, but also their
parents, creating a false sense of security that a man like
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Epstein could never have achieved on his own.
The process they employed was a clinical form of psychological
warfare, a textbook case of grooming designed to
systematically dismantle a victim sense of self, boundaries
and reality. Let's take a look at how it
began. Yes, it started with a victim
selection. They targeted girls from
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disadvantaged or unstable backgrounds, often from single
parent homes with financial difficulties who would be most
susceptible to the allure of their wealth and promises.
Then next came gaining access and developing the trust.
Yes, Maxwell would befriend the girls, taking them shopping or
to the movies, asking about their lives, their school and
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their ambitions. She presented herself as a
mentor, a friend, a maternal figure.
This was followed by the crucialstage of desensitization.
Yes, Maxwell would gradually normalize sexual topics, undress
in front of the victims, and encourage them to give Epstein
massages, slowly eroding their boundaries until the line
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between acceptable and unacceptable behavior was
irrevocably blurred. Financial incentives, of course,
were a key tool of control. Epstein and Maxwell would offer
to pay for education, travel or family expenses, creating a
powerful sense of indebtedness that made it harder for the
girls to say no. The harrowing testimonies from
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Maxwell's trial paint a vivid picture of this playbook in
action. One victim, known as Jane,
testified that Maxwell recruitedher at a Michigan summer camp
when she was just 14, befriending her and her mother
before the abuse began. Another, named Kate Or was known
as Kate, was lured to Maxwell's London home at 17 under the
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pretense of giving Epstein massages.
She testified that Maxwell once left a schoolgirls outfit in her
bed. Her sorry on her bed telling her
I thought it would be fun for you to take Jeffrey his tea in
this outfit. 1/3 victim Carolinewas recruited at 14 by another
slightly older victim. She testified that Maxwell once
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groped her breasts and buttocks while she was undressed for a
massage, telling her she had a great body.
For Mr. Epstein and his friends,the final insidious step in
their operation was turning victims into recruiters.
Epstein would pay his victims hundreds of dollars in cash for
each New Girl they brought into the fold, creating a cruel
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pyramid like structure of abuse that ensured a steady supply of
new targets. Now let's take a look at the
geography of the abuse. Yes, the trafficking operation
was supported by a global portfolio of a luxury
properties, each serving a distinct and strategic purpose
within the criminal infrastructure.
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They were not just homes, they were instruments of control,
intimidation and of course isolation.
Let's first take a look at the Manhattan townhouse on East 71st
St. Yes, that was the operations
so-called showroom. As the largest private residence
in the city, it's sheer scale was designed to project immense
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power and overwhelm visitors. The interior was filled with
bizarre and intimidating decor, rows of individually friend
eyeballs, a twice life-size sculpture of a naked warrior
stuffed black poodle perched atop a Steinway grand piano.
This was a stage set for disorientation and control, and
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federal indictments confirm it was a primary site where dozens
of girls, some as young as fourteen, were abused.
Now let's look at the Palm Beachmansion, yes, in Florida, that
served as a major recruitment centre.
It's location placed Epstein andMaxwell in the heart of high
society playground, giving them access to places like Donald
Trump's Mar a Lago club. Why are victims?
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Virginia Godfrey was working as a 16 year old spa tenant when
Maxwell first approached her. The initial 2005 police
investigation and subsequent infamous 2008 plea deal centred
on the crimes committed within the walls of this Florida is
state. It should all show also be
mentioned that Donald Trump has recently really come out
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publicly to a state that he was distancing himself at that time
from of course Jeffrey Epstein. Not because of his known abuse
of minors, but because that Jeffrey Epstein was stealing his
employees from his spa. Now whether or not there was any
nefarious activity happening in the spa at the Mar A Lago estate
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is up for debate and question, but so far there has been no
confirmation of any ill doing orwrongdoing at that location.
I would challenge any viewers out there that have information
about that to please let us know.
Finally, there was a little St. James James, yes known as
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Epstein Island. It's a private 72 acre island in
the US Virgin Islands known locally as Paedophile island.
It was the ultimate tool of isolation and the end of the
line for many victims. Girls were flown in on Epstein's
private jets and helicopters, leaving them completely stranded
with no means of escape and totally dependent on their
captors. the US Virgin Islands Attorney General later described
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it as a place for Epstein to hide his criminal activity from
law enforcement. 115 year old victim reportedly became so
desperate that she tried to escape by swimming away from the
island. Another victim recounted being
trapped in a bedroom on the island where Epstein kept a gun
strapped to his bedpost. Understanding the distinct
function of each location that reveals A calculated business
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like nature of their criminal enterprise and then we move on
to the circle of influence. Yes, the final and perhaps most
crucial element of their operation was the vast globe
spanning network of the rich andpowerful they cultivated.
This was not just a collection of friends, it was an integral
part of their operational security.
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The list of associates who movedthrough their world is
staggering. Unsealed court documents and
flight logs have named former presidents of Bill Clinton and
Donald Trump, Britain's Prince Andrew, former New Mexico
governor Bill Richardson's lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and even
the acclaimed physicist Stephen Hawking.
Now, it should be also noted that although these people have
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shown up in lists and documentation, it does not mean
that they partook in any illicitactivities while they're on the
island or at any other point associated with Gillian Maxwell
or with Jeffrey Epstein, just that they did appear on the
flight logs and lists that were unsealed by the courts.
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Now, it's critical to state thatbeing in these documents, as I
said, is not in itself. Accusation of any wrongdoing.
Many were mentioned in passing, and no client list detailing
criminal complicity has ever been found, a fact confirmed by
a 2025 Department of Justice review.
However, the sheer breadth of this network served a vital
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purpose. First, it acted as a lure.
The promise of meeting a celebrity or a powerful
politician was a powerful tool in the grooming process. 2nd,
and more importantly, the network function as a passive
conspiracy of silence and a shield of credibility.
The constant public association with respected figures made
though horrific rumours about Epstein and Maxwell seem
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unbelievable. It fostered a culture of Asino
evil. Hear no evil, speak no evil.
Yes, of course, for an outsider or even a victim to accuse
Jeffrey Epstein was too in effect, to accuse the entire
elite ecosystem that validated and protected him.
The social armor was their most effective defence, allowing the
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abuse to continue in plain sight.
Now let's take a look at justicedenied.
Yes, the 2008 a Florida plea deal.
For years the rumors swirled, but in 2005, the walls of
silence began to crack. The events that followed would
not lead to justice, however. Instead, they would result in
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one of the most controversial and criticized plea deals in
modern American history. A deal that protected a powerful
predator and his network at the direct expense of victim.
Now the first investigation. In March of 2005, the mother of
a 14 year old girl walked into the Palm Beach the Police
Department and reported that herstepdaughter had been paid
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$300.00 for sexual activity witha wealthy man at his mansion.
That man was Jeffrey Epstein. The report triggered an
investigation led by Detective Joe Recarey or Rosari, and
Police Chief Michael Ryder, who soon uncovered a pattern of
abuse involving dozens of unagedunderage girls.
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Investigators heard graphic testimony Girls, some as young
as 14, described being recruitedfor massages that would escalate
into sexual assault. They testified that Epstein told
him to recruit their friends, saying the younger the better.
Despite the overwhelming evidence that the local state
Attorney's office seem reluctantto pursue the case aggressively,
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a grand jury returned an indictment on just a single
felony count of soliciting prostitution.
Dissatisfied in believing the state charges failed to address
the true scope of Epstein's crimes, chief writer and
Detective Rusari took the extraordinary step of referring
the case to the FBI. A federal investigation was
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opened and by 2007, federal prosecutors had drafted a
potential 53 page indictment that could have sent Epstein to
prison for life. But that indictment would never
be filed. Yes, it was the deal of a
lifetime. Instead of facing a federal
trial, Epstein's team of high-powered defence attorneys,
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which included Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr, entered into
negotiations with the office of the US Attorney for Southern
District of Florida, A man namedAlexander Acosta.
Yes, the same Acosta you hear oftoday in Trump's administration.
The result was a secret non prosecution agreement, or NPA,
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that has since been described asthe deal a lifetime now.
The terms of this were stunningly lenient.
In exchange for the federal government dropping its entire
case, Epstein would plead guiltyto two lesser state charges,
soliciting a prostitute and procuring a minor for
prostitution habits serve a sentence of 18 months in county
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jail, not a federal prison. He ended up serving less than 13
months, and for most of that time, he was granted generous
work release privileges, allowing him to spend up to 12
hours a day, six days a week in his private office.
Now, the most shocking provision, though, of the deal
wasn't scope, the exchange for this lenient sentence. the US
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government agreed to grant a full immunity from all federal
charges not only to Epstein, butalso to four named Co
conspirators and crucially, to any potential Co conspirators.
This highly unusual clause effectively shut down the entire
federal investigation, cauterizing any inquiry into a
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wider network of people who may have enabled or participated in
the abuse. Now, years later, when he was
serving as president, President Trump's Secretary of Labour
Alexander Acosta would defend his office's actions, blaming
state prosecutors for their weakcase and arguing that the deal,
however flawed, was the only wayto guarantee Epstein served any
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jail time at all and was forced to register as a sex offender.
Now, this was seen as a betrayalof the victims.
Yes, in 2008, that plea deal wasmore than just a failure of
justice. It was a deliberate betrayal of
the victims. A key component of the agreement
insisted upon by Epstein's lawyers and agreed to by
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Acosta's office, was that the victims would not be informed of
the deal's existence or its terms until after it was
finalized. The secrecy was a direct
violation of the 2004 Crime Victims Rights Act, or the CVRA,
which guarantees victims the right to be consulted during
plea negotiations. Attorneys for the victims, led
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by Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassell, followed a federal
lawsuit, filed a federal lawsuitin 2008 on behalf of victims
named Courtney Wilde. Sorry, the one victim there,
arguing that the government had broken the law.
What followed was a grueling, decade long legal battle.
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In 2019, a federal judge finallyagreed, ruling that prosecutors
had indeed violated the CVR A. However, the victory was largely
symbolic. In a subsequent, deeply divided
ruling, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals held that while the
government's conduct was beyond scandalous and the prosecutors
had affirmatively misled the victims, the woman had no legal
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remedy to invalidate the deal. The court reasoned that because
formal federal charges I've never actually been filed, the
victims rights under the CBR hadnot technically been triggered.
Now, in 2008, the NPA was a master class in legal
manipulation. It transformed the justice
system from a tool for victims into a shield for a powerful
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perpetrator and his entire network, a provision, sorry
perversion of its purpose that would allow Jeffrey Epstein to
walk free and, as subsequent investigations would reveal, to
continue his crimes for another decade.
Now let's take a look at the reckoning.
Yes, for over 10 years, the secret deal held.
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Jeffrey Epstein rebuilt his network, traveling the world on
his private jet, hosting powerful guests at his homes and
continuing to operate in the shadows.
But the courage of his victims and the work of a tenacious
journalist and others would not allow the story to die.
A day of reckoning was coming, and that was justice revived.
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Yes, the 2019 New York indictment.
In November 2018, the Miami Herald, led by investigative
reporter Julie K Brown, published a crown breaking
series titled Perversion of Justice.
The series exposed the secret 2008 non prosecution agreement
in excruciating details, sparking a firestorm of public
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outrage and demands for a new investigation.
The pressure worked. On July the 6th, 2019, federal
agents were waiting for Jeffrey Epstein as his private jet
landed at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.
He was arrested. Two days later.
An indictment was unsealed in the Southern District of New
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York. Prosecutors in New York are
arguing that the Florida plea deal did not bind.
A different federal district charged Epstein with one count
of sex trafficking of minors andone count of conspiracy to
commit a sex trafficking. The new indictment focused on
crimes committed between 2002 and 2005 and his homes in
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Manhattan and Palm Beach, alleging he had sexually
exploited and abused dozens of girls as young as 14.
After more than a decade of impunity, it seemed Jeffrey
Epstein would finally face justice in a federal courtroom.
But no. Then there's what's known as the
death of a monster. Epstein was denied bail and held
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at the Metropolitan CorrectionalCentre, a federal jail in lower
Manhattan known for housing high, high profile inmates.
The facility is supposed to be one of the most secure in the
country. It was not.
On July the 23rd, 2019, just weeks after his arrest, Epstein
was failed semi conscious in hiscell with marks on his neck.
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It was treated as a possible suicide attempt and he was
placed on suicide watch. Inexplicably, after just six
days, psychological staff removed him from the watch and
returned him to the Special Housing Unit, also known as the
Shoe, where he was supposed to have a cellmate and be checked
on by guards every 30 minutes. These protocols were not
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followed. On the night of August the 9th,
2019, Epstein cellmate was transferred out and he was left
alone, a direct violation of procedure.
The two guards assigned to his unit that night and Tobin Noel
and Michael Thomas later admitted to falling asleep for
hours and falsifying log recordsto cover their negligence.
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At approximately 6:30 AM on August the 10th, 2019, Jeffrey
Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell, a bed sheet tied
around his neck and attached to his bunk bed.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.
The New York City Medical Examiner officially ruled his
death a suicide by hanging. The death immediately ignited a
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firestorm of controversy and conspiracy theories.
The sheer number of procedural failures of the jail.
The removal from suicide watch, missing cellmate, the sleeping
guards, and of course, reports of malfunctioning surveillance
cameras outside his cell seem tobe too egregious to be more mere
coincidence. A profile pathologist hired by
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Epstein's brother, Doctor Michael Baden, publicly disputed
the medical examiner's findings,claiming the injuries were more
consistent with homicidal strangulation than they were
with the suicide. A subsequent investigation by
the Department of Justice Inspector General found no
evidence of foul play but confirmed a cascade of
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negligence, misconduct and outright job performance
failures. And that was, of course, by jail
staff that created the opportunity for Epstein take his
own life. The two guards, know and Thomas
were charged with the conspiracyand falsifying records, but in a
deal with prosecutors, they avoided any jail time
themselves. The catastrophic failures at the
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MCC created an information vacuum that made conspiracy
theories inevitable. More tragically, Epstein's death
permanently denied his hundreds of victims of their chance to
face their primary abuser in court, ensuring that many of the
secrets of his network would diewith him.
And then there was, of course, the trial of his accomplice
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that, you know, with Jeffrey Epstein dead, the pursuit of
justice turned to his chief enabler.
On July the 2nd, 2020, FBI agents arrested Blaine Maxwell
at a secluded 156 acre property in New Hampshire where she had
been hiding. She was charged with a slate of
federal crimes, including conspiracy and sex trafficking
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of a minor. Her trial began in November of
2021. Prosecutors argued that Maxwell
was not merely an associate, butan indispensable predator in her
own right, the wolf in sheep's clothing who used her gender and
social status to lure and groom vulnerable girls for Epstein.
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The prosecutors case was built on the powerful and detailed
testimony of four key victims who took the stand to tell their
stories. They were identified by
different names, of course, thantheir own, and it was Jane,
Kate, Carolyn and Annie Farmer now.
They corroborated accounts of Maxwell's methods, the initial
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friendships, the gifts, the normalization of sex abuse and
her direct participation. Would they?
That was devastating. Now the defence attempted to
portray Maxwell is a scapegoat, another victim of Epstein's
manipulation who was being unfairly blamed for his crimes
now that he was dead. The jury definitely did not
agree because on December the 29th, 2021, after five days of
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deliberation, Glenn Maxwell was found guilty on five of the six
counts against her, including the most serious charge of sex
trafficking of a minor on June the 28th, 2022.
She was sentenced to 20 years infederal prison.
At the sentencing, Judge AllisonJ Nathan made it clear that
Maxwell was not being punished as a proxy for Epstein, but for
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her own calculated role in grooming and deceiving underage
victims. The verdict was a landmark
moment, a legal repudiation of the specific gendered role that
female traffickers play in enabling abuse.
It was a direct validation of what the victims had been saying
for years. Jeffrey Epstein could not have
done it without her. Now, as we have heard from the
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voices of survivors, yes, the legal proceedings against Glenn
Maxwell have concluded the truthsent.
The true sentence for these crimes is not the 20 years she
will serve in prison, it's the lifelong trauma carried by the
survivors. At her sentencing, several
victims delivered powerful impact statements that stand as
the final, unassailable truth ofthis case.
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They spoke of permanent loss of trust, not just in others, but
in themselves. Annie Farmer told the Court One
of the most painful and ongoing impacts of Maxwell and Epstein's
abuse was the loss of trust in myself, my perceptions and my
instincts. They described decades of
struggling with chronic anxiety,PTSD, survivors guilt and a
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profound sickening shame. Sarah Ransome revealed that she
had attempted suicide twice in the aftermath of the abuse.
Their statements revealed that the abuse was not a series of
isolated events, but a fundamental reprogramming of
their psyches, instilling a deepseated self doubt that it
affected every aspect of their adult lives.
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In a statement read by her attorney of Virginia, Godfrey
addressed Maxwell directly. For me and so many others, you
open the door to hell. This enduring pain is the
ultimate legacy of their crimes.And of course, this is an
unfinished story. The conviction of Glenn Maxwell
and the death of Jeffrey Epsteinbring a chapter of the story to
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a close, but the book remains unfinished.
While the architects of sex trafficking ring have been
brought to account, the vast network of enablers, associates
and potential Co conspirators remains largely untouched.
The recent unsealing of court documents has publicly named
many powerful people who moved in their orbit, but as has not
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led to any new criminal charges.The Department of Justice has
stated that its review of the evidence found no basis for
investigating uncharged third parties and no incriminating
client list, even though there had been much speak through
Trump's administration starting way back during the election
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process and the end and going back further than that,
including rumours during his first term.
When we then move forward to theto the 2024 election, of course,
we heard a lot from Trump and his cronies about this list.
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We've heard about it since he's taken office.
And then all of a sudden, it just mysteriously disappeared
because now there is, according to it, the FBI and others, no
list by Jeffrey Epstein or GlennMaxwell to be had.
And it should also be a very bigconcern that she has been
against the federal legal system, the jails and prisons.
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Any policy that you look at, it is against the policies to
transfer a sex offender to the minimum security facility.
That'll in Glenn Maxwell has recently found herself
transferred to a very interesting indeed with the
rumors of Donald Trump being saturated throughout those
lists. Yes, his name was allegedly
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everywhere, but of course, the FBI went on a firestorm of
redacting documentation to ensure that Donald Trump's name
was removed and again, making all kinds of just incredibly
insane accusations that it was all placed there by the Joe
Biden administration. We know that Donald Trump is a
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scumbag, A sleazebag, A rapist, and much more, and of course
that he should be facing justice, but instead he's facing
this term as president of the United States.
So it's just incredible how blind and willingly, willingly
complacent people can be by knowing the truth and not taking
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action or demanding action be taken against Donald the Scum.
Trump Now. The story of Epstein and Maxwell
is therefore more than just a tale of two monstrous
individuals. It's a chilling indictment of a
system where wealth, power and influence can be weaponized to
subvert justice, silence the vulnerable, and operate with
impunity for decades. The final word belongs not to
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the powerful men whose names Phil Epstein's black book, but
to those survivors who, against all odds and in the face of
unimaginable trauma, refused to be silenced, their courage
forced. A long overdue, if still
incomplete reckoning. Their voices are a permanent
testament to the truth that no matter how deeply it is buried,
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justice can and must be pursued.Now I have gone into great
detail here about Jeffrey Epstein, Glenn Maxwell and of
course the charges that have been levied against them and
that they are convicted of a Jeffrey Epstein of course did
not stand trial in the fact thathe also did not give the victims
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the opportunity to face him directly in court.
And that is a shame. Now whether or not he took his
own life in that jail cell, well, we don't know and we may
never know beyond a reasonable doubt what actually happened
there. For me personally, I don't
believe that it was self-inflicted.
I think that there is a much larger power at play here and
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that is my opinion on it. I do also want to just reach out
to to any victims out there who are watching this of abuse to,
to reach out and speak out to get help and to make sure that
you take ownership of yourself and not allow them to have the
power over you or ownership of you into the future.
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So again, you are worth a lot more than you give yourself
credit for. If you are still allowing the
abuse to continue or I shouldn'tsay allowing, but for a lack of
other words, But again, you're not to blame and you can reach
out for help. Contact your local local.
Police Department, Sheriff's Department, FBI, or talk to
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someone you trust who can reach out on your behalf and help to
get you the services you need. Once again, you've been watching
a special episode here into a deep dive of Elaine Gillian
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