Ghislaine Maxwell believes her late lover and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein was murdered somewhat than took his personal life, her brother has claimed.
Disgraced paedophile businessman Epstein was discovered hanged in his New York jail cell in 2019 whereas awaiting a trial for youngster intercourse expenses.
Epstein’s notoriety and connections to figures together with Invoice Clinton and Prince Andrew created quite a few conspiracy theories surrounding his loss of life.
Writers have additionally made claims of a collection of ‘suspicious occasions’ surrounding Epstein’s loss of life, together with surveillance video of the incident disappearing and him being bunked an accused quadruple assassin.
Requested about his suicide in a Spectator podcast yesterday, Ian Maxwell, Ghislaine’s older brother, stated that ‘my sister does assume that he was killed’.
Ghislaine Maxwell believes her late lover and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein was murdered somewhat than took his personal life, her brother Ian has claimed. Pictured: A courtroom sketch exhibits Ghislaine Maxwell, heart, seated in court docket in new York
Ghislaine Maxwell, 59, presently faces six counts of trafficking ladies and minors for sexual functions, which she denies.
The 65-year-old brother has been seen in New York to look at the ongoing intercourse trafficking trial alongside personal of their different siblings, Isabel.
Giving his ideas on the Epstein’s reported suicide, he in contrast swirling theories to these across the loss of life of his personal father, Robert Maxwell.
The physique of the billionaire media tycoon and proprietor of the Every day Mirror was found floating within the Atlantic Ocean in 1991 after he apparently fell overboard from his yacht.
He had on the time been in important debt and was set to default on million of kilos in loans, an occasion that will later collapse his enterprise empire.
Ian informed the podcast: ‘I do not purchase numerous the conspiracy theories in any respect. It so occurs that one of many conspiracy theories is about my father that he was murdered somewhat than dedicated suicide or had an accident.’
He stated nevertheless, that of his father’s 9 kids, his sister Ghislaine was the ‘just one’ who believed he had been murdered.
‘And I’d enterprise to consider that she might also assume that Epstein was murdered… I do occur to assume my sister does assume that he was killed,’ he added.
Disgraced paedophile businessman Epstein was discovered hanged in his New York jail cell in 2019 whereas awaiting a trial for youngster intercourse expenses. Epstein’s notoriety and connections to figures together with Invoice Clinton and Prince Andrew created quite a few conspiracy theories surrounding his loss of life
Epstein was discovered hanged in his jail cell at New York Metropolis’s Metropolitan Correctional Middle
Ian added that he had himself solely met Epstein as soon as, in a joint 1996 assembly with Ghislaine and their brother Kevin.
The pair did not heat to one another nevertheless, with Ian describing the mysterious billionaire as a ‘cagey character’ who ‘took issues from you somewhat than gave issues again’.
Ian has additionally batted off claims that his sister has lengthy been stored on a suicide watch regime on the Brooklyn detention centre, which has been described as ‘one of the troubled amenities’ within the Justice Division’s jail system.
Although solely in a position to talk to her via her legal professionals, he confirmed that the suicide watch tales had been ‘a nonsense’ and that there had been ‘no proof of any self-harm intent’.
The feedback come because the prosecution yesterday rested on the tenth day of Maxwell’s intercourse trafficking trial.
The high-profile trial has moved extra swiftly than anticipated, with the defence now set to argue the British socialite didn’t recruit and sexually abuse ladies and select inconsistencies in accusers’ testimony.
Ian informed the podcast: ‘I do not purchase numerous the conspiracy theories in any respect. It so occurs that one of many conspiracy theories is about my father that he was murdered somewhat than dedicated suicide or had an accident’
Jeffrey Epstein sufferer Annie Farmer was the final witness to take the stand for prosecutors yesterday and is the one accuser within the case to testify beneath her actual identify.
Farmer, whose older sister Maria was the primary particular person to report Epstein and Maxwell’s alleged sexual abuse of underage ladies in 1996,
The 42-year-old described assembly the late pedophile in New York in 1995 when she was 16, and the way he introduced her to his ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the place she met Maxwell.
She described how the 2 lavished her with presents and supplied to assist her educational endeavors, earlier than subjecting her to undesirable fondling of her breasts and cuddling as an alternative.
Farmer stated regardless of feeling ‘sick to my abdomen’ she did not inform her sister Maria — then Epstein’s worker, who Farmer was visiting on the time — as a result of she feared for her sibling’s job.
Months later Farmer, who was 16, was invited to journey from Arizona to New Mexico, she stated.
Farmer was invited ostensibly as a part of a ‘retreat’ that Epstein stated would convey collectively some two dozen ‘academically gifted’ college students,’ her mom, Janice Swain, stated.
Epstein informed Swain that Maxwell would ‘chaperone’ the ladies.
However when she arrived Farmer discovered herself alone with Maxwell and Epstein.
A weekend that included procuring and films additionally noticed Maxwell direct Farmer to undress for a therapeutic massage, in accordance with testimony.
Maxwell then uncovered Farmer’s breasts earlier than ‘rubbing on my chest,’ she stated.
‘I feel this was all a sample of them complicated my boundaries,’ Farmer informed jurors. ‘With the last word aim of sexually abusing me.
Her testimony adopted harrowing accounts from three different ladies who accused Epstein of sexual abuse and pinpointed Maxwell as his companion.
Earlier accusers stated they had been as younger as 14 when Maxwell allegedly started grooming them and arranging for them to offer massages to Epstein that resulted in sexual exercise.
One girl, ‘Carolyn,’ stated she visited Epstein’s Palm Seashore house greater than 100 instances when she was between 14 and 18 years previous.
One other key witness, who spoke beneath the pseudonym ‘Jane,’ detailed how Maxwell recruited her at summer time camp and made her really feel ‘particular’ — earlier than orchestrating or collaborating in sexualized massages and intercourse acts with {the teenager} and Epstein.
The trial is predicted to renew subsequent week on Thursday.