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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaxwell's defence
I think will be that she, herself was abused, coerced and encouraged by Jeffrey Epstein, at the risk of losing his financial support, to facilitate his abuse of teenagers.
The evidence will be her dependent relationship with her father; a role that Epstein filled after his death.
Epstein can't argue. He's dead.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)I really hope she doesn't get real far with that particular 'angle'.
NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)... (Epstein's) financial support"?
Reports estimate that Maxwell is worth $10 million (£7,997,000) but no amount has been confirmed. In 2000, the New York Post reported that Maxwell lived off an £80,000 a year trust fund set up by her father.
So exactly what 'financial support' was she dependent upon from Epstein?
canetoad
(17,161 posts)Around the time of her arrest. How much of that $10 m. came from Epstein? It's common knowledge that she was broke and supplied him with social contacts and prestige. He in return financed a life to which she was accustomed.
Ghislaine, left with a reported trust fund that paid $US100,000 a year, moved to New York City in 1991 to start anew.
https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/who-is-ghislaine-maxwell-and-what-is-she-charged-with-20200811-p55klj.html
Seems like a lot of money but to a young woman of Maxwell's tastes and upbringing, it's nothing. It was a symbiotic relationship where Maxwell provided entre to her circle of friends and acquaintances and Epstein footed the bill.
NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)... "I was forced to live on Caviar Helper" is a winning argument.
BigmanPigman
(51,594 posts)and there is a ton of evidence so she is going to have a rough time, no matter how good her lawyers are. I wonder if she'll hire Dersh.