Huge record cache details how Jeffrey Epstein, madam lured girls into depraved world
Source: Miami Herald
A chilling picture of how hundreds of girls and young women from around the world were trafficked for sex by Jeffrey Epstein, his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, and a number of other powerful business and world leaders emerged Friday in court documents unsealed in New York.
The documents, a portion of thousands of pages in a 2015 federal defamation case, offer brutal details about Epsteins trafficking of teenage girls from across the United States, Russia and Sweden and Maxwells compulsive and often abusive quest to provide him with new girls over a span of years in the early to mid 2000s.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who brought the lawsuit against Maxwell and settled it for an undisclosed sum in 2017, is central to the case, providing evidence to substantiate her exploitation at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell through photographs, plane logs and even a medical record from Presbyterian Hospital in New York where she was taken by Epstein after a particularly abusive sex episode.
Some of the testimony is difficult to read, as when one 15-year-old Swedish girl, shaking and crying in despair, tells a butler who worked for one of Epsteins closest friends that she had been taken to Epsteins island in the Caribbean and forced to have sex with him and others. The butler relates the story under oath. The girl, visibly traumatized, told the houseman who worked for Eva Dubin, a former Miss Sweden and founder of the Dubin Breast Center at Mount Sinai, and her husband, prominent hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, that Epstein and Maxwell had physically threatened to harm her and seized her passport to keep her on the island, according to the butlers statement. She was so distraught she couldnt recall how she got back to the U.S. mainland, but the butler testified that Maxwell brought her to the Dubin residence.
Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article233704797.html
marble falls
(57,353 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,991 posts)All of them.
OnlinePoker
(5,727 posts)Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)(This is hard to read. But we must).
PerceptionManagement
(464 posts)and yet the republican QAnon morons think Russian Agent Bonespurs is secretly targeting democrats.
perdita9
(1,144 posts)What a travesty of justice!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)He poses a clear danger to the community.
atreides1
(16,094 posts)With both of his hands and his tongue...but 60 years without possibility of parole, in a New York state prison...that would be fine with me!!!
Hekate
(90,865 posts)IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)dalton99a
(81,636 posts)Virginia Roberts poses for a photo with Prince Andrew as Guislaine Maxwell smiles in the background. Roberts reports that she was lent out to Prince Andrew when she was a teenage sex slave for Palm Beach millionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his partner, Maxwell. Roberts says she was used as a sex slave for Epstein for years starting at the age of 16. Roberts says that Epstein regularly lent her out to some of his wealthy, powerful acquaintances for sex. Copy Photo Courtesy of Virginia Roberts
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)Who was the photographer?
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)Princetonian
(1,501 posts)Virginia Roberts poses for a photo with Prince Andrew as Guislaine Maxwell smiles in the background. Roberts reports that she was lent out to Prince Andrew when she was a teenage sex slave for Palm Beach millionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his partner, Maxwell. Roberts says she was used as a sex slave for Epstein for years starting at the age of 16. Roberts says that Epstein regularly lent her out to some of his wealthy, powerful acquaintances for sex. Copy Photo Courtesy of Virginia Roberts
muriel_volestrangler
(101,390 posts)... court files allege
Buckingham Palace has repeatedly denied Giuffres allegations. In a highly unusual statement issued in 2015, Buckingham Palace said any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue and explicitly denied Prince Andrew ever had sexual contact with Giuffre.
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Ms Sjoberg also testified about sexual acts that occurred with her, Prince Andrew, and Ms Giuffre, when she and [Maxwell] were staying at Epsteins Manhattan mansion, Giuffres lawyers said in the document, which was filed in January 2017.
Sjoberg testified, per court documents: I just remember someone suggesting a photo, and they told us to go get on the couch. And so Andrew and Virginia sat on the couch, and they put the puppet, the puppet on her lap. And so then I sat on Andrews lap, and I believe on my own volition, and they took the puppets hands and put it on Virginias breast, and so Andrew put his on mine.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/aug/09/prince-andrew-court-documents-ghislaine-maxwell-jeffrey-epstein
murielm99
(30,777 posts)last night. It was cropped to show only the girl with the disembodied hand at her waist. There was no image of Epstein's madam or Prince Andrew. There was no mention of their names, either.
FakeNoose
(32,823 posts)I'm sure that's how I'll be spending my weekend. There's no end in sight. It's all horrible and fascinating at the same time. My God, that Jeffrey Epstein is a creepy character.
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)I saw a Yahoo news story that Trump is mentioned on a manifest for one of Epstein's flights to his island, but it wasn't clear if that info came from this particular group of newly released court docs.
herding cats
(19,568 posts)He knew it was coming I suspect since when I read it I looked and found this article.
"They did not know each other well," said Maddy Mahony, director of media relations for Richardson. "To describe them as friends would be inaccurate."
Epstein's relationships with the rich, famous and powerful are being revisited in light of new charges of conspiracy and sex trafficking filed against him in New York.
Federal Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta resigned last week following renewed criticism over a 2008 plea deal with Epstein that he oversaw as the U.S. attorney in Miami. In that case, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution in Florida. He served 13 months in jail, during which he was allowed to go to his office during the day.
Richardson is among the many well-known people listed in Epstein's so-called "little black book," containing phone numbers and other contacts, and which has become part of court records. Epstein also donated $50,000 to each of Richardson's two gubernatorial campaigns, in 2002 and 2006. Richardson re-gifted the 2006 campaign donation to charity as sex-crime accusations against Epstein emerged.
https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/new-mexico/2019/07/16/former-new-mexico-governor-bill-richardson-visit-jeffrey-epstein-ranch/1744279001/
Princetonian
(1,501 posts)"In a 2016 sworn deposition, Giuffre, now 35, also named a number of powerful men she says she was directed to have sex with, including the late scientist Marvin Minsky, modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, former Senator George Mitchell and prominent hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin.
Nearly all the men Giuffre said she was directed to have sex with issued denials on Friday, with some of them insisting that they never met her. No charges have been filed against anyone other than Epstein, who was indicted last month on two counts of sex trafficking in New York."
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article233704797.html#storylink=cpy
calimary
(81,527 posts)FakeNoose
(32,823 posts)To tell you the truth I'm surprised he lasted this long in jail. He really was a sick puppy, and he knew he was finally found out. I'm sure a lot of wealthy people were tired of his blackmail/kompromat scheme.
Look for many books coming out in the next 6 to 12 months. These people should all be "outed" but I doubt it will happen.
dawnie51
(959 posts)Prince Andrew indeed. And if it comes home to one of our own, then that's just too bad. Chips can fall where they may. If you were "entertained" by Epstein, you deserve to be exposed for the creep that you are.
colorado_ufo
(5,738 posts)But, I am sorry that she needs to undergo this at her age.
mpcamb
(2,878 posts)PandoraAwakened
(905 posts)just start saying, "Maria will be your downfall." Ruh-roh...
Cicada
(4,533 posts)Senator George Mitchell? No. He would know getting caught was likely.
Marengo
(3,477 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)I believe Virginia learned that making claims about Epstein caused some people to get huge payments. And that she figured if she spiced up her claim with charges against the powerful it would increase the odds of a settlement. Look, Alan Dershowitz has seen a thousand cases where criminals were caught thru a very unexpected detail emerging. If you had sex with an underage girl in a setting where it was common the odds were extremely high you would get caught, IMO. Dershowitz surely knew the odds of jail would be pretty high. So I find it extremely unlikely he would take such a risk. And in the case of another person she accused he and his wife say they have provided travel records proving Virginia was lying. Senator George Mitchell. Has there ever been a human being more honest and upright? Marvin Minsky? The MIT computer genius? Really? Shes lying, I am about 99% certain.
MBS
(9,688 posts)As you said, he's as honest and upright as they come.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)samnsara
(17,650 posts)The King of Prussia
(737 posts)I dont know how to do links from my phone but it's on the NY Post. Good riddance.
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)Duppers
(28,127 posts)She knows too much.
calimary
(81,527 posts)But with trump in power (with a shit ton of suspicious - um - lets just say adjacency) and Bill Barr willingly doing everything within his considerable power to cover up for trump, Hell, Id want to go into hiding, too.
Make like a banana and split. (Or BE split...)