Bombshell emails shatter Maxwell’s claim she’d not been in contact with Epstein since his child prostitution conviction
DAMNING emails between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell shatter her claims that the pair had not been in contact since his conviction.
In the January 2015 messages, recently unsealed by a federal court, Epstein appears to write a statement for Maxwell to use, days after allegations surrounding the pair and Prince Andrew had exploded.
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The exchanges formed part of testimony included in a defamation lawsuit brought against Maxwell by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts in September 2015.
They occurred soon after Roberts filed papers in a Florida court alleging that Epstein and Maxwell had trafficked her for sex with a number of powerful people while she was still a minor.
Among those named was Prince Andrew, though he and Maxwell have both denied any wrongdoing.
In one e-mail, Epstein appears to draft a statement on Maxwell's behalf to be used as part of her response.
“Since JE was charged in 2007 for solicitation of a prostitute, I have been the target of outright lies, innuendo, slander, defamation and salacious gossip and harassment," Epstein writes.
“Headlines made up of quotes I have never given, statements I have never made, trips with people to places I have never been, holidays with people I have never met, false allegations of impropriety and offensive behaviour that I abhor.”
“I have never been a party in any criminal action pertaining to JE.”
The suit came seven years after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution.
Several of Epstein's accusers had subsequently alleged that Maxwell played a central role in their grooming and abuse.
'GO OUTSIDE, HEAD HIGH'
Following Maxwell's arrest earlier this month, her lawyers – trying to get her out on bail – claimed “she’d had no contact with Epstein for more than a decade”.
In another unsealed 2015 email to Maxwell, Epstein then tells her: “You have done nothing wrong and I [would] urge you to start acting like it. Go outside, head high, not as an escaping convict.
“Go to parties. Deal with it.”
Epstein killed himself in August of last year while awaiting trial on charges for the sex trafficking of minors.
Maxwell was detained on July 2 after agents from the FBI raided a remote property in New Hampshire.
She has now been charged with enticement of minors, sex trafficking of children, and perjury.
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A New York judge ultimately denied Maxwell bail after prosecutors successfully argued that she was an "extreme flight risk".
Her trial is scheduled to begin in July 2021.
