‘Evil’ Ghislaine Maxwell ‘helped Jeffrey Epstein gang-rape child dozens of times’
The unnamed victim says she was attacked by Maxwell and Epstein from when she was just 14
Ghislaine Maxwell helped her pedophile ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein gang-rape an underage girl dozens of times, the alleged victim claims. The woman, who has been anonymized as Jane Doe, said Maxwell, 58, began targeting her in 1991, when she was just 14.
Jane Doe said the abuse only came to an end when she fell pregnant with Epstein’s baby when she was 16. She subsequently had an abortion, and said she would now be willing to testify against Maxwell in court at her upcoming criminal trial.
The woman told Fox News: ‘She did rape me. I would say it’s more than 20 or 30 times. She is just as evil as Jeffrey Epstein… She is a rapist.
‘I had never been with anyone except for him (Epstein). The fact that I had to kill my child really affected me and my family.’ The woman said that Maxwell, Epstein and others gang-raped her one final time to punish her after the had the abortion, over fears she would talk to authorities.
She said: ‘Ghislaine was a part of it. I was drugged.’ Jane Doe is one of several alleged victims of Epstein who has filed a claim against the late pedophile’s estate.
He hanged himself at the age of 66 in a Manhattan jail last August while awaiting trial on multiple sex abuse charges. Maxwell was arrested in Bedford, New Hampshire on Thursday afternoon and charged with sexually abusing three girls as young as 14.
Her alleged offenses took place between 1991 and 1994 in the US and UK. Maxwell is said to have groomed the youngsters for her billionaire ex, watched as Epstein sexually abused them, and joined in the abuse herself on multiple occasions.
Maxwell also faces a charge of perjury after allegedly lying to investigators about her activities in 2016. FBI Assistant Director for New York William Sweeney branded the socialite a ‘villain’ who ‘slithered away’ to a ‘gorgeous’ mansion while her alleged offenses were probed.
The French-born British socialite, whose father was disgraced British newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell, appeared in court via videolink on Thursday, and was ordered to remain in custody ahead of her extradition to New York.
Maxwell has long denied the sex abuse charges against her. She is rumored to be willing to spill the beans on Epstein’s high-profile accomplices. The late pedophile famously formed a friendship with Prince Andrew. One of his victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, claims Maxwell pressured her into having sex with Andrew in 2001, when she was 17.
The royal has denied any wrongdoing, with prosecutors making a further plea for him to get in touch while announcing charges against Maxwell Thursday.
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