Despite Ghislaine Maxwell’s eleventh-hour attempt to prevent an explosive document dump from alleged victim Virginia Roberts’s defamation suit, testimonies and legal filings from 2016 were released to the public late on Thursday night, notably revealing what tabloids had long reported, mainly that Maxwell had been in contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein well after his initial prison stint.
In Maxwell’s legal request to be released on bail after her arrest earlier this month, her attorneys asserted that “she’s had no contact with Epstein for more than a decade” before his death in August 2019. The documents released on Thursday belie that claim.
Emails from 2015, that is, a decade after Palm Beach, Florida, police began investigating claims that the inexplicable billionaire had sexually abused a minor, show a “Jeffrey E.” emailing talking points about Maxwell’s association with him in light of his 2008 sweetheart deal for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
“You have done nothing wrong and i woudl [sic] urge you to start acting like it,” Epstein wrote to Maxwell on how to act.
A sampling of Epstein’s talking points below:
Here we go: Email from Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell from Jan. 21, 2015. #MaxwellFiles @CourthouseNews pic.twitter.com/wg0xIwP3oX
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 31, 2020
This is hardly the most important scoop in the document dump, which includes new aspects of the allegations against Alan Dershowitz and illustrates more Epstein events with A-listers such as former President Bill Clinton. But if the immediate takeaway of the dump has any legal consequence for Maxwell, it’s that her lawyers lied for her criminal case about evidence clearly contradicted in a civil case.
