By Dan Murphy
Ghislaine Maxwell, now in a federal prison in Florida serving 20 years for trafficking teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein, recently gave her first interview to filmmaker Daphne Barak for an upcoming documentary film. In excerpts of the interview, Maxwell, 60, appears comfortable in her new “club Fed” prison, as opposed to the Manhattan Correctional Center, MCC, that she spent almost two years in.
The biggest takeaways from the interview were that Maxwell still believes the infamous photo of Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre is a fake, “the photo is not real,” and she feels “so bad” for Prince Andrew, her “dear friend.”
Calling her relationship with Epstein, “the greatest regret of my life,” Maxwell also mentions two of the likely members of “the John Doe 8” in the interview; former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
And Maxwell’s thoughts on another likely member of the John Doe 8, Prince Andrew? “We had lots in common. I feel bad that he is another victim, only because of his association with Jeffrey. I understand he, like others, can no longer consider me as a friend.”
But Maxwell remains delusional in comments about the role she played in the sexual abuse of dozens of young women. She said: “I think there are many women who can identify with my story. Many have either fallen in love with or had relationships with men that in hindsight they look back on and say, ‘What was I thinking?’ I imagine there’s not a woman on the planet who would not think that about one or other of their boyfriends.”
Sorry Ghislaine, but there is nobody that can “identify” with your story. If anyone can relate to pimping underage girl for sex abuse, then they belong in jail next to you.
Some believe that Maxwell’s mention of Clinton and Trump was a warning of sorts that she still holds the answer to whose names were redacted from a depsotion given by her in the Giuffre lawsuit several years ago, which was settled by Prince Andrew for a reported $12 Million.
Maxwell was “’signalling’ to the pair that she still holds the power,” said Christina Oxenberg, cousin to Prince Andrew. “She is reminding them who is boss. She’s so sinster and creepy, she’s evil and I won’t drop that stance. She has no remorse.”
Maxwell would only say, “So I’m not going to discuss anything of that nature. After the appeal, I’m going to be super-happy to address with you any of those things….I don’t even want to start talking about Virginia.”
Here is another time that Maxwell appears to be under the false impression that any appeals court judge would release her from prison.
More on the photo that forced Prince Andrew to settle, “I have come to discover that image I don’t believe is true. And the original has never been produced because it doesn’t exist. I don’t believe that image is a true image.”
And on Epstein’s “suicide” in prison, Maxwell calls it “suspicious,” and teased out there is more to come. ‘There were things to mention here about him that I cannot discuss because of the appeal, but I can’t say anything more than that,’ is all she will say on the matter. She pauses. ‘There is a culture of untruth that frankly needs to be brought to light.
Discussion on the authenticity of the photo was cleared up when freelance photographer Michael Thomas went to Austrailia to meet Giuffre in 2011. Thomas said, , “It was a normal print that you would get back from the chemist in the time of negatives.” And “What I struggle to understand is that if it was fake then why is Prince Andrew not suing every media outlet in the world for running it?
Giuffre has testified that the photo is real and that the FBI has the original.
Maxwell’s recent comments gets us no closer to indentifying the men who sexually abused underage girls given to them by Jeffrey Epstein, and whose names remain a mystery.
Giuffre’s attorney, David Boies said last year, “There certainly are both collaborators and participants that ought to be held accountable. Epstein and Maxwell did not act, and could not have acted, alone. The scope and scale and duration of their sex trafficking crimes depended on many wealthy and powerful collaborators and co-conspirators. They too are not above the law. They too must be brought to justice.”
Earlier this year, Maxwell, through her attorneys asked a judge to unseal the names. Six of the men have objected, for no other reason than they don’t want to media or the public, or their wives to know. But that request was in January of 2022.
Now 9 months later and we still don’t know the names of the John Doe 8.
