I can't remember what day it was, nor do I care much since the pre$$ is more interested in burying such stories rather than investigating them:
"Deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell, Charged in Epstein Case, Is Revealed" by Benjamin Weiser, Alan Feuer and Amy Julia Harris, NYT Oct. 22, 2020
For years, Ghislaine Maxwell has been a central but silent figure in the scandal involving Jeffrey Epstein’s history of abusing teenage girls.
On Thursday, however, Ms. Maxwell offered her fullest response yet to the swirl of claims surrounding Mr. Epstein as a four-year-old deposition was released. In it, she put up a wall of evasions and denials.
Over and over again in the 418-page deposition, Ms. Maxwell, 58, rejected accusations of wrongdoing. She denied that she had recruited minors to give Mr. Epstein sexual massages. She denied that she knew he was abusing girls and young women. She denied having engaged in sexual acts herself with underage people.
“I can’t think of anything I have done that is illegal,” she said.
At one point, Ms. Maxwell was asked more than a dozen times if she believed that Mr. Epstein had abused any minors — and each time she failed to answer. At another point, she parried inquiries about a laundry basket of sex toys, telling the lawyer asking questions, “I need you to define a sex toy.”
Eventually, Ms. Maxwell became so frustrated that she suddenly erupted into a “physical outburst” and knocked the court reporter’s computer off the conference room table, according to a separate document released with her deposition. She later apologized for her behavior, the deposition said.
The transcript, from 2016, was part of a defamation lawsuit filed in Manhattan.
As Mr. Epstein’s former romantic partner, Ms. Maxwell became the focus of a federal investigation into his sex-trafficking network after his suicide in jail last year at age 66. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged her with conspiring with Mr. Epstein, a financier, in his abuse of minors. As his closest associate, she is believed to have extensive information about him and others who might have been involved, but her deposition left unanswered the question of who that might be: Nearly all of the names contained within it — except her own and Mr. Epstein’s — were redacted.
By federal investigation they mean cover up.
Ms. Maxwell’s lawyers did not respond to a request for comment.
While the deposition is rife with denials about various forms of sexual activity, Ms. Maxwell does explain that she performed several jobs for Mr. Epstein at his properties in New York and Florida. She said she was in charge of hiring his pool attendants, gardeners, chefs, butlers, housekeepers and chauffeurs. All of them, she added, were “age appropriate adult people.”
The deposition also provided a glimpse into how Mr. Epstein financially supported Ms. Maxwell over the years. She said he lent her money to buy a townhouse and bought a car for her — though she acknowledged that she could not recall the make or model. She also said Mr. Epstein donated $50,000 to TerraMar, an ocean conservation charity she founded.
Ms. Maxwell further noted that Mr. Epstein liked to have at least one massage a day and that more than one masseuse would be on call to perform them, but she refused to answer questions about whether the word “massage” was a code word for sex, saying only that the massages involved private adult sexual relationships, according to the separate document released with her deposition.
Ms. Maxwell, the daughter of a publishing magnate and a onetime fixture on New York’s social scene, had fought for months to bar the release of the deposition, as well as a second one — both of which emerged from a 2015 civil case brought by Virginia Giuffre, one of her and Mr. Epstein’s accusers.
Though Ms. Maxwell had argued that the documents contained sensitive personal information, a federal appeals court in Manhattan upheld on Monday a lower court’s decision that one of them could be made public. After a flurry of motions by her lawyers, the deposition was released on Thursday morning.
Ms. Giuffre has accused Ms. Maxwell in a defamation lawsuit of recruiting her as a teenager to become a victim in Mr. Epstein’s sex-trafficking scheme. She claims that at age 17 she met Ms. Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla., where Mr. Epstein also kept a home.
Mr. Trump’s name does not appear in Ms. Maxwell’s deposition, and Ms. Giuffre, in her own sworn testimony, has not accused Mr. Trump of any wrongdoing.
Shortly after Ms. Maxwell’s arrest on July 2, Mr. Trump wished her well at a news conference, saying he had met her several times over the years in Palm Beach, where he had also come to know Mr. Epstein.
The two men had known each other since at least the early 1990s, when they were recorded on video at a party watching and commenting on women. Last year, Mr. Trump said he had had a falling out with Mr. Epstein. “I haven’t spoken to him in 15 years,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you.”
This is why they never get to the bottom of the elite pedophile rings; all our "leaders" are compromised in one way or another. That's how outside or upper forces exert control one them.
In her own deposition, Ms. Giuffre said Ms. Maxwell trained her to give erotic massages to Mr. Epstein at his mansion in Palm Beach. Before long, she said, she was being flown on Mr. Epstein’s private Gulfstream jet to perform sexual services on his acquaintances.
Ms. Giuffre has accused Ms. Maxwell and Mr. Epstein of directing her to have sex with several prominent men, including Prince Andrew of Britain and the lawyer Alan Dershowitz, both of whom have strongly denied the allegations. Because of heavy redactions in Ms. Maxwell’s deposition, it was unclear whether she was asked about these accusations.
On one point, Ms. Maxwell was adamant. She said former President Bill Clinton had never visited Mr. Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean, as Ms. Giuffre had contended.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Ms. Giuffre’s lawyers, David Boies and Sigrid McCawley, hailed the release of the deposition, calling it “a small part of the total evidence.”
“As the evidence comes out,” the lawyers said, “it will be clear why Ms. Maxwell and others who enabled Jeffrey Epstein are fighting so hard to keep it concealed.”
When Ms. Maxwell was arrested, prosecutors said that from 1994 to 1997 she contributed to Mr. Epstein’s abuse of multiple teenage girls — one as young as 14 — and in some cases participated in the abuse. She also was charged with lying under oath in her depositions, which were taken in 2016. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Her arrest came almost one year after Mr. Epstein was taken into custody and charged in New York with sexually exploiting and abusing dozens of girls and young women at his mansion in Manhattan, his estate in Palm Beach and other locations. While awaiting trial, he was found hanged in his jail cell in Manhattan in August 2019, and a city medical examiner ruled the death a suicide.
The pre$$ has accepted the official story without question.
Ms. Maxwell’s long association with Mr. Epstein has led to both criminal charges and a lawsuit being filed against her, but at the time of her deposition, she acknowledged that she was loyal to him.
“Why did you continue to maintain contact with Jeffrey Epstein after he pled guilty?” Ms. McCawley asked her.
“I believe that you need to be a good friend in people’s hour of need,” Ms. Maxwell said, “and I felt that it was a very thoughtful, nice thing for me to do to help in very limited fashion.”
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Of course, the New York Times is the paper that sat on the Weinstein story for 14 years although I'm sure they will get to the bottom of this.
The Globe's web version reported the story at the bottom of their metro section:
"During seven hours in deposition, Ghislaine Maxwell denies she recruited underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein" by Travis Andersen Globe Staff, October 22, 2020
A 2016 deposition from Ghislaine Maxwell - the British socialite currently facing federal charges for allegedly helping the late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls in the 1990s - in a separate civil suit was unsealed Thursday.
The transcript of the seven-hour deposition runs to more than 400 pages and was made public in US District Court in New York. Here’s a few highlights.
Maxwell, now 58, repeatedly denied during the 2016 questioning that she ever recruited underage girls to provide sexual favors to Epstein under the guise of giving him massages.
At one point, Maxwell was asked if she ever provided masseuses with school girl outfits to wear.
"I have no recollection of providing anybody with a school girl outfit,” she said.
Maxwell was also confronted with a police report in which a number of minors told Florida investigators that Epstein had sexually assaulted them in his Palm Beach mansion.
“I have read these reports,” Maxwell said. “ ... I can tell from you my personal knowledge I did not know what you are referring to.”
Maxwell, who said she worked for Epstein in various capacities between 1992 and 2009 and for a time “would have liked to think of myself as his girlfriend,” was also asked if she told anyone that recruiting girls for sexual massages “takes the pressure off her” so she “won’t have to have sex with Jeffrey.”
She pushed back forcefully.
“You don’t ask me questions like that,” Maxwell said. “First of all, you are trying to trap me, I will not be trapped. You are asking me if I recruit, I told you no. Girls meaning underage, I already said I don’t do that with underage people and as to ask me about a specific conversation I had with language, we [are] talking about almost 17 years ago when this took place. I cannot testify to an actual conversation or language that I used with anybody at any time.”
Asked again if Maxwell ever told anyone that she recruits “girls to take the pressure off you to have sex with Jeffrey,” she held firm.
“First of all I resent and despise the [word] recruit,” she said. “Would you like to define what you mean by recruit and by girls, you mean underage people. I never had to do anything with underage people. So why don’t you re-ask the question in a way that I am able to answer it.”
And at another point, a lawyer chided Maxwell for striking the table they were seated at, noting that she “very inappropriately and very harshly pounded our law firm table in an inappropriate manner. I ask she take a deep breath, and calm down.”
Maxwell later apologized for the outburst.
“I have been so absolutely appalled by her story and appalled by the entire characterization of it and I apologize sincerely for my banging at the table earlier, I hope you accept my apology," she said. "It’s borne out of years of feeling the pressure of this entire lie that she has perpetrated from our first time and whilst I recognize that was -- I hope you forgive me sincerely because it was just the length of time that that terrible story has been told and retold and rehashed when I know it to be 100 percent false.”
Yeah, she is the victim here. That's what all predators claim.
She also laid out what she described as her job duties for Epstein, a jet-setting financier who counted US presidents, British royalty, stars of academia and Hollywood celebrities among his friends. Epstein died in custody last year while awaiting federal sex trafficking charges. His death has been ruled a suicide.
“My job included hiring many people,” Maxwell said in the deposition. “There were six homes. As I sit here, I hired assistants, I hired architects, I hired decorators, I hired cooks, I hired cleaners, I hired gardeners, I hired pool people, I hired pilots, I hired all sorts of people. In the course and a very small part of my job was from from time to time to find adult professional massage therapists for Jeffrey.”
Asked if she was aware that Epstein for a time had been having sexual contact with a 13-year-old alleged victim, Maxwell said no.
“I would be very shocked and surprised if that were true,” she said, and a combative Maxwell also denied asking another underage victim how old she was during the “many flights” the two took together on Epstein’s private plane.
“First of all, I don’t know I was on many flights with her, you are making stories up again as usual," Maxwell said, “and secondly, if I was on a flight with her, there would not be any reason why I would ask her how old she was.”
Maxwell also testified that Epstein received a massage “about once a day on average,” prompting a question about whether he ever received as many as four or five in a given day.
“When I was present at the house, I never saw something like that," Maxwell replied.
She also testified that she flew on Epstein’s planes with former President Clinton, who has said he had no knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.
Asked if Clinton and Epstein were friends, Maxwell said, “I wouldn’t be able to characterize it like that, no.”
I'm sure the pre$$ will look into that.
Maxwell was also asked about a message on a pad left for Epstein on June 1, 2005 that said, “He has a teacher for you to teach you how to speak Russian. She is two times eight years old. Not blond. Lessons are free and you can have your first today if you call.”
Maxwell said she was “not aware of any 16 year old Russian girl that I can recall in Jeffrey Epstein’s home."
She also denied ever taking nude photos of underage girls.
“We already covered this,” Maxwell said. “Girls we are not referring to -- I can only testify to taking pictures of adult people and I already testified they are not nude, per se.”
Asked if Epstein had a sexual preference for underage minors, she said, “I cannot tell you what Jeffrey’s story is. I’m not able to.”
She was also asked if she ever told a man, whose name’s redacted in the transcript, that “he better watch out and better keep his mouth shut with respect to what occurred at Mr. Epstein’s home?”
“It doesn’t sound like anything I would say,” Maxwell said, later adding, “No, I never threatened him in any way.”
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The prosecutions first witness (I believe there is a photograph out there that showed Trump, Hilton, and Maxwell together):
"Paris Hilton protest calls for closure of Utah school" by Brady McCombs and Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated press October 10, 2020
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Paris Hilton has been speaking out about abuse she said she suffered at a boarding school in Utah, and on Friday she took her push nearly to the school’s front doors.
Hilton organized a protest in a park near Provo Canyon School, along with several hundreds of others who share stories of abuse they say they suffered there or at similar schools for troubled youth. She is calling for the closure of the school.
Hilton, a socialite who became a reality TV star, and many others wore black T-shirts with red letters on the back that said, “survivor” and on the front read, “breaking code silence,” a reference to Hilton’s new campaign to compel others to shed light on what she believes is a corrupt industry that manipulates parents and traumatizes youth. It was Hilton’s first time back to the area since she was there as a teen, when she says she was verbally, emotionally and physically abused in what she described as “torture.”
She gets dumped on so much, and now I just want to cry for her.
Yes, folks, the sex rings are massive and ubiquitous.
Since a documentary titled “This is Paris” was released on YouTube last month, other celebrities have also spoken out about their experiences at that school or others like it, including Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris Jackson and tattoo artist Kat Von D.
“It’s something so traumatic that you don’t even want to think it’s real,” Hilton said in a speech to the crowd. “It’s something I blocked from my memory for forever.”
The institution is now under new ownership and the administration has said it can’t comment on anything that came before, including Hilton’s time there. Owners of the school declined comment Friday, pointing to a statement on the school website that said the previous owners sold the school in 2000. The school aims to help youth who have struggled in typical home and school environments, some of whom are dealing with drug addiction or acting out violently, according to the website. “We are committed to providing high-quality care to youth with special, and often complex, emotional, behavioral and psychiatric needs,” the statement read.
In the documentary, Hilton says she got into the nightlife scene in New York as a teenager and would sneak out and go to clubs while her family lived at the Waldorf Astoria hotel.
Her exasperated parents sent her away to various programs to straighten out. When she was 17, Hilton was finally sent to what she describes as “the worst of the worst”: Provo Canyon School in Utah.
She stayed at Provo for 11 months and says while there, she was abused mentally and physically, claiming staff would beat her, force her to take unknown pills, watch her shower and send her to solitary confinement without clothes as punishment.
The 39-year-old says the treatment was so “traumatizing” that she suffered nightmares and insomnia for years. After she went home, she was determined to protect herself and eventually constructed the persona that she embodied when she became famous on the reality show “The Simple Life” in the early 2000s, the documentary revealed.
Hilton and others at the protest vowed to push forward until all schools that mistreat youth are shut down. After she and others spoke at the park, she led the group in a protest walk until they arrives at the front gates of the school, where she stopped to pose in front of a school sign holding her own poster that said, “Shut down Provo.”
“There is thousands of these schools all around. Provo Canyon is just the first one that I want to go down,” Hilton said. “From there, it will be a domino effect.”
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One reason I think the Globe minimizes the elite sex stories is because they themselves may be pimping pro$titutes based on the advertisements from the service they contracted for their website.
Just an observation, and something I would never have thought of until the dark deeds of the elite ruling class were exposed. It's something you can never unsee, even if their pre$$ mouthpieces obfuscate and bury the stories after the cursory one-day coverage.
