Federal authorities fear that Ghislaine Maxwell, arrested last week in connection with grooming and recruiting sex slaves for Wall Street financier and sex fiend Jeffrey Epstein, will be murdered in jail. Or might try to kill herself.
Authorities at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, are moving Maxwell from one cell to another, and won’t even give her a bedsheet, one news report says, while another sheds light on why authorities are worried: Maxwell has prominent U.S. politicians on tape having sex and orgies with minor girls.
If true, it comports with Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre’s claim that Epstein gathered compromising information on those who used the girls under his control.
Thus, without protection, Maxwell might commit “suicide” or otherwise die, just like her former lover, Epstein.
He was found hanged in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center a month after the feds arrested and indicted him a year ago on sex-trafficking charges.
Paper Clothes
Jail officials, the Mail On Sunday reported, are moving Maxwell “cell-to-cell” in the federal facility because they fear someone will whack the jet-setting party girl, who faces six counts in connection with Epstein’s nefarious sex-slave enteprise.
In an account in which Maxwell’s pals say she’s not the person the media makes her out to be, the Mail revealed that the feds don’t want to lose Maxwell in a manner similar to that of Epstein, who was found hanging by a sheet attached to his bed.
“Jeffrey Epstein died behind bars and they [the authorities] are terrified someone will try to kill Ghislaine,” a source told the Mail.
“She is being moved from cell to cell and sometimes has a cellmate, sometimes not,” the Mail reported. “They [the authorities] are terrified someone will try to kill her so they keep moving her around.”
Beyond that, they don’t want Maxwell to commit suicide. So she’s wearing paper clothes and sleeping on a bare mattress, the New York Post reported.
The Associated Press reported that Maxwell is also required to have a roommate.
Epstein’s roommate was removed the day before Epstein was found dead, and his guards took a powder in the hours before he was found.
The circumstances of Epstein’s death, not least an autopsy that revealed injuries more consistent with strangulation, led some to conclude that he was murdered.
Nympho Maxwell
A top reason the feds are concerned might well be the report that Epstein and Maxwell recorded the rich and powerful having sex with his slaves.
Last week, Britain’s Sun newspaper reported that a “reformed jewel thief,” who writes under the name William Steel, said “the couple made him watch [videos] to prove how they ‘owned’ people”:
“I saw videos of very powerful people — celebrities, world figures — in those videos having sex, threesomes, even orgies with minors,” he told the Sun.
He now wants to see Maxwell punished for her alleged crimes.
And he pledged to give all his information to the authorities and testify in court.
He says: “I saw videos and photos of people having sex with various young girls and with Jeff.
“There was footage of two very high-profile society figures and an under-age girl together.
“Two high-profile American politicians were also in different videos with minors.”
The writer, who called Maxwell a “nymphomaniac,” told the Sun that he met Epstein, accompanied by a young girl, at a “very high-end diamond dealer” in Palm Beach, Florida. Steel was waiting for his fence.
“I suspected what they were doing with the under-age girls,” he told the Sun. “I knew their routine, so when they tried to get me involved, I said, ‘No, I’m not into that — you’re not getting me on video doing any of that.’”
The writer said Maxwell thought Epstein would ruin her, and that she had a “Polanski Plan” to flee to France because France does not extradite its citizens to foreign countries to stand trial for crimes.
Roman Polanski fled to France the day before he was to be sentenced for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
Epstein victim Giuffre’s account is consistent with Steel’s. She said Epstein was collecting compromising information on the rich, powerful men to whom he trafficked young girls.
Maxwell’s Arrest and Charges
FBI agents caught Maxwell at her exclusive estate in Bradford, New Hampshire, on July 2.
She faces four charges directly related to sex trafficking, and two charges of perjury in connection with her testimony in a civil lawsuit in 2016.
Federal prosecutors have filed two memoranda to block her release on bail.
Image: Thinkstock
R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.
