‘Villain’ Ghislaine Maxwell ‘slithered away’ to ‘gorgeous’ mansion after ‘lying about child sex abuse’
Ghislaine Maxwell is a ‘villain’ who ‘slithered away’ to a ‘gorgeous’ luxury mansion after lying to investigators about sexually abusing children, it was claimed. FBI Assistant Director for New York William Sweeney made the spectacular attack on the heiress, 58, at a press conference announcing child sex abuse and perjury charges against her Thursday.
Addressing reporters in New York, Sweeney said: ‘Too often adults in society have turned a blind eye to the type the villains in these outrageous crimes are the adult perpetrators, not the youth…
‘Today we announce the arrest of one of the villains in this investigation. Earlier this morning Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in Bradford, New Hampshire, by FBI special agents and NYPD detectives.
‘We have been discreetly keeping tabs on Maxwell’s whereabouts since we began this investigation, and more recently learned she had slithered away to a gorgeous property in New Hampshire, continuing to live a life of privilege while her victims live with the trauma inflicted on them years ago.’
Sweeney spoke as Maxwell, 58, was formally charged with grooming three girls as young as 14 for her pedophile ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse between 1994 and 1997.
Maxwell is also said to have watched as Epstein, who killed himself in a Manhattan jail last August, molested the youngsters, who are said to have been targeted in the UK and US.
Prosecutors have also accused her of joining in with Epstein’s sex abuse.
The heiress and socialite – whose father was late British newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell – faces further charges over claims she lied to investigators about her alleged crimes during a 2016 interview.
Maxwell is due to appear before a federal court later on Thursday.
She has disappeared from public view in recent months, and was last photographed in Los Angeles last year, amid speculation she had moved to Paris.
Thursday’s press conference also saw Prosecutor Audrey Strauss ask Prince Andrew to contact her investigators to help them with their investigation into Maxwell’s alleged crimes.
Virginia Giuffre claims Maxwell told her to have sex with Andrew in 2001, when she was 17. She claims to have been one of the youngsters groomed by Maxwell and Epstein. The royal has denied any wrongdoing. He insists he has made himself available to investigators in the US, although they say no offer of help with their enquiries has been forthcoming.
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