Jeffery Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell — a British socialite who many believe helped procure underaged girls for Epstein’s “Pedophile Island” — is reportedly being hidden from FBI scrutiny and protected by unknown forces because of information she might have on some of the world’s most powerful people.
According to the New York Post’s Page Six, Maxwell is being shuffled from safehouse to safehouse in an effort to keep the FBI from getting to her. The 58-year-old Maxwell has become an important piece of the FBI’s ongoing investigation into the now-deceased Epstein’s pedophilia ring, whose clients may have included some of the most powerful people in the world.
An anonymous source told Page Six: “Ghislaine is protected. She and Jeffery were assets of sorts for multiple foreign governments. They would trade information about the powerful people caught in his net — caught at Epstein’s house.”
On December 27, Reutersreported that Maxwell, along with other “people who facilitated” Epstein’s behavior, was now a main focus of the FBI’s probe.
“She is not in the U.S., she moves around. She is sometimes in the U.K., but most often in other countries, such as Israel, where her powerful contacts have provided her with safehouses and protection,” the source claimed.
The source also claims that Britain’s Prince Andrew begged Maxwell to come forward and rescue him from the firestorm that erupted after Virginia Roberts Giuffre accused him of having a sexual tryst with her, set up by Epstein, while she was a minor. Prince Andrew vehemently denies the charge but has been stripped of all royal duties.
According to the source, “Andrew pleaded with Ghislaine to publicly defend him. She carefully considered it, but decided no good would come of it [if she came forward]. It isn’t in her best interest.”
Maxwell has kept a very low profile since 2016 and has been, more or less, in hiding since Epstein was arrested in July in New York and charged with sex trafficking by federal prosecutors.
Once Epstein’s girlfriend, Maxwell is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, a former member of Parliament and the founder of publishing house Pergamon Press and the owner of tabloid newspapers including the Daily Mirror. After Robert Maxell died mysteriously in 1991, it came out that he had stolen millions of dollars from employee pension funds to keep his business afloat.
Maxwell was a real estate agent in New York in the early nineties when she began her relationship with Epstein. In an interview with Vanity Fair in 2003, Epstein referred to Maxwell as his “best friend.” She has been a longtime member of Epstein’s “inner circle,” and, of course, has been accused of procuring young girls for Epstein and his “friends” to prey upon.
In August of last year, the Washington Post reported that Maxwell may have been living in the secluded Massachusetts oceanfront mansion of technology magnate Scott Borgerson. Maxwell and Borgerson had been romantically linked, but the tech entrepreneur denied that and said that Maxwell was not living with him.
In November, British tabloid The Sunoffered £10,000 for information on Maxwell’s whereabouts.
Maxwell has not yet been formally charged with any crimes.
In her former life as a socialite and environmental activist, Maxwell thrived on attention. She even addressed the United Nations in 2013 and 2014 in her role as founder of the TerraMar, an environmentalist NGO with a stated purpose of protecting the world’s oceans. One week after Epstein’s arrest, TerraMar announced the closure of its U.S. operations.
Such a woman would not go into hiding unless she has something to hide. And, in this day and age, you don’t stay in hiding for very long without powerful friends to assist you. Page Six may be looked down upon as a “gossip site,” but they’re clearly on to something here that the mainstream media doesn’t seem to care about.
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James Murphy is a freelance journalist who writes on a variety of subjects with a primary focus on the ongoing anthropogenic climate-change hoax and cultural issues. He can be reached at [email protected].
