Transcripts from Ghislaine Maxwell’s 2016 deposition, released Thursday morning pursuant to a court order issued Tuesday, show Maxwell as a “fiercely loyal defender” of her former boyfriend, convicted sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, CNN reports.
The 400 pages of testimony were taken as part of a 2015 civil defamation case against Epstein, brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein’s alleged victims. The judge in Maxwell’s ongoing criminal case — she is alleged to have aided Epstein in running a global sex trafficking network, even going so far as to recruit and “groom” women to staff a sex ring — ordered the testimony unsealed on Tuesday, calling it central to the case against the British socialite.
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