Inside the wicked saga of Jeffrey Epstein: the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell | 60 Minutes Australia

There was little that Jeffrey Epstein wouldn't do to satisfy his lust for young women and girls. He spent millions planning a global sex trafficking operation. A year ago he was

arrest

ed and a month later he died in custody. Investigators refused to let this scandal go. Arriving at the grave with him, they turned their attention to his high-profile friends, including Prince Andrew, who continues to dodge interview requests from the FBI, but there has now been substantial progress with the

arrest

of accused socialite Gillan Maxwell of being Epstein's right hand man. She is a woman, she has been accused of multiple sexual crimes against children and, for the first time in a long time, the countless victims of this

wicked

saga

feel relief instead of terror.

Little James in the Virgin Islands is a perfect playground for the super-rich, but it's never looked like this before. This now abandoned island is the guardian of terrible secrets. A place haunted by what happened here at the hands of the now-dead Jeffrey Epstein, a man who knew no limits in 2003, as he told a reporter. his world was governed by his rules and what a dark personality he was driven to sexually abuse countless girls his private sanctuary an isolated prison known as pedo island where he would share girls as prisoners with his rich and powerful friends we were nothing important to them We were not even a human being to them we were just another toy that was passed around and that is what they did Jeffrey Epstein may be dead but the fight for justice is not there today we announced the arrest of one of the villains In this investigation, just four years ago days, Glenn Maxwell, the most wanted woman in the world, was found hiding in New Hampshire.

She ruined so many lives. She belongs in prison. You want to hurt children. That's where you go. Epstein's number one accomplice was finally arrested. after a year on the run she helped him exploit girls who were as young as 14 she's repellent she's really evil now a new criminal investigation into Epstein's Caribbean island exposes the true extent of this predator's shocking behavior what happened beneath the Sink James was so His horrible actions were simply reprehensible and add pressure on Prince Andrew, who is still hiding in the palace and refusing to be interviewed by the FBI. Byrnes Andrew just completely stole from all of Epstein's victims.

It is the accusations of the real friar of Virginia Robert that have had the greatest consequences. Around the world, among many others, he claims that Epstein trafficked her to Prince Andrew three times, the first in London when she was 17, then once in New York, and the third and final time here in the Virgin Islands. Prince Andrew, a close friend of Glenn Maxwell, denies the allegations. The third time you were trafficked to him, were you alone with him? No, there were a lot of younger girls with us and it was very shocking how many young women with you.

I think there were eight. Prince Andrew abstained through Maxwell, a British socialite. daughter of disgraced media baron Robert Maxwell with the arrest of Gillen Maxwell, how do you think Prince Andrew is feeling right now? Oh, Prince Andrew should be panicking right now because Gillen doesn't really care about anyone but Keeling, everything is a bear in her mariya artwork. Farmer is filling her canvas with the story of Epstein, the bad and the ugly for her, a story that began in 1995, when, as a talented student at the New York Academy of Art, she met patrons Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell, it makes me so sad because the only thing I did wrong was go to the wrong grad school, that's the only thing I did wrong.

Jeffrey fell in love with Maria's art, bought her first major work and hired her in 1995 to purchase art for his New York mansion, during that year she had a front row seat to what happened behind these closed doors and saw to Glenn Maxwell in mid-flight, she would turn like this and, like a school going out, say, "I've got to get the new vials, I'm going to get the new vials, what did she mean by that and what did you witness? Several times she was in the car with her and she would ask the driver to stop the car and she would run to school or the park or wherever she was going and she I would like to write down her phone number for a girl, a girl and then she would see that girl in the house and she was saying they're auditioning you know I found a model in the park and I thought it was very strange because I saw a couple of girls with braces and I had never seen a model of braces of course it was a ruse that Epstein claimed to help run Victoria's Secret and Maxwell was their enthusiastic Scout model, as Maria unknowingly witnessed Maxwell happily searching for girls to feed.

Epstein's insatiable appetite for sex with teenagers and young women begins to turn him on and Mr. Fisher himself, a compulsion Maria would soon experience firsthand. LAN came to pick me up one night. Basically, they took me to Gillan. He escorts me to Geoffrey's room and he's lying there and leaves. Sit, you know, right next to him. and then he landed, sat on the other side and they started attacking me, but actually, while I was lying there the whole time, I thought my sister had been with these people, my sister was 16, she had been alone with them.

Mary's fears were well founded. The younger sister, Annie, revealed that she was also sexually abused by the couple. Maria went to the FBI, it was 1996 and she was the first victim to officially report Jeffrey Epstein and Angeline Maxwell to the authorities, but following a pattern that would be established in the following decades. The complaint was ignored, they just kept everything quiet, put it in the bottom drawer and were so dismissive that I felt intimidated and stopped, but when I went to the police, Maria felt the full force of Maxwell's fury, terrified. Maria hid and abandoned her art. career what kind of threat did she make against you originally it started with things like I'm going to burn your arms and then I'm going to burn your career and then I'm going to burn you and the house you live in and then it was oh be careful al cross a street, you know they could shoot you in the back of the head, you know they were threats against my life and I told the FBI.

Do you reflect on how different the lives of so many women would be today if the FBI had investigated their complaints in 1996, yes, they, yes, I think about it all the time and it hurts me a lot, and they never had children because of that, because I didn't feel that were certain threats, he did not hesitate to say that he could. inflicting harm, lies, she wanted me to believe she was Jeffrey's girlfriend and deals we processed, this is the O like no other I have heard about how Epstein and Maxwell, she is the repellent much worse than I understood, they did what they wanted. far from it makes me very angry that's next on 60

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in july of last year the slippery jeffery

epstein

was finally arrested and charged with sex trafficking a minor was actually arrested aboard his private jet for years he had used his wealth and power To avoid the full force of the law, the charges allege that Epstein sexually abused girls by inciting them to engage in sexual acts in exchange for money, but he was ultimately detained in New York without bail and with no other way out.

Attorney Brad Edwards believes Epstein committed suicide in prison despite some speculation that he was murdered. I think once his bond was revoked he just crashed and the only control he had left was over his life, so taking an audience directly with a victim is the only way anyone will truly understand that Brad represents the victims and describes Epstein as a sociopathic genius one of his most confusing and dangerous adversaries was charming, charismatic, funny, he made you want to like him, which is why he was able to access over a hundred young girls and do the kind of things he could talk about . the charisma and charm of him, but in a way he had a double whammy, right?

Because he was always hinting at threats that he could hurt you and that he would hurt you, feel free to say yes, he could inflict harm, you know, he could say, I'll tell you what. If you keep processing me this way, someone is going to get hurt and it was clearly a threat, you know there's no other way to perceive it, but his delivery was as non-threatening as possible. I think they were in disguise. Wolf in Sheep's Clothing In the early '90s, the well-connected Christina Oxenberg, a member of the Serbian royal family and cousin of the British royals, met Steen Angeline Maxwell, his supposed Madame, now in charge of getting him girls and sometimes , to join in the abuse that she did to him.

She wanted me to believe she was Jeffrey's girlfriend, but I knew she was them, but she wanted that to be the story. How did you know she wasn't his girlfriend? Because she's not 12 years old. With Epstein's death, Maxwell went on the run, but Christina remembers the time when both Maxwell and Epstein were desperate to be seen, they fit together perfectly, they needed each other, they were both halves of a whole, they wanted to be, he had the money. She had the connections. You liked Jeffrey Epstein, didn't you, not at all? He was just a Goomba from Queens, call me a snob, but no, he was the typical greedy person who wants more than what he already has.

Jeffrey Epstein, 66, was in court today for allegedly engaging in sex trafficking crimes. How serious are these charges against F. Steen David? When Epstein's arrests last year made headlines, Christina was moved to call the FBI, so disturbed was she by what Glenn Maxwell had told her privately all those years ago that she was so smug and told me he had just gotten his helicopter pilot's license and that as a gift as a reward for her, Jeffrey had bought her a helicopter and I said how dangerous, why would you want to do that? and she said okay, because this way we have full control over the privacy of who does who is with us and Maxwell let her in on another. secret this time about the infamous Lolita Express, her private plane used to transport young girls and high-profile friends, including Bill Clinton, she also told me at that meeting that the private plane she and Jeffrey used was wired first for audio video Christina in At what point were there warning signs for you?

At that time, did she think that children were at risk here? Unfortunately, she did not even have the means to think of such a tremendous evil. Frankly, I just thought she was the stale personality type. She had no idea we were dealing with real evil. Justice has long been denied in this sordid case. Why did you continue to push back in 2005 when an investigation was launched into Epstein for the sexual abuse of more than 40 girls in Florida? Prosecutors had the evidence and the opportunity to expose this sexual case. Instead, Epstein negotiated a secret and sordid deal in which he would plead guilty to the lesser charge of illegally paying for sex with a teenage girl, for which he would serve just over a year in prison; in exchange, he would be cleared of all other charges and Incredibly, his co-conspirators, including Glenn Maxwell, were given full immunity in Florida, but only for crimes committed there between 2001 and 2007.

The fact that not only was he able to get away with his in dozens, if not hundreds, of crimes, but also somehow obtaining immunity for his named and unnamed co-conspirators is something that even the judges who have reviewed this case have never seen with his immunity agreement in Florida and as the criminal investigation had gone cold, Maxwell settled into a luxury hideaway hidden in New Hampshire. It seems Maxwell wasn't counting on being prosecuted for her crimes outside the immunity period at her remote court hearing on Thursday, where reporters were only able to listen in thanks to Maxwell's covered disbelief.

A British woman could be heard screaming very loudly why is this happening, how is she? This happened, how could this happen? and she was just crying her eyes out. Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss, as alleged, from 1994 until at least 1997, Maxwell was among Epstein's closest associates and helped him exploit girls as young as 14. Maxwell has been charged with multiple counts of child sexual abuse related to the sexual abstinence network, as well as perjury for lying about it under oath while the world played the genius gal guessing game. FBI investigators knew from the beginning waiting for the right moment to strike.

We have been discreetly monitoring. Maxwell's whereabouts as we worked on this investigation and, more recently, we learned that he had slipped away to a beautiful estate in New Hampshire and continued to live a privileged life while his victims live with the trauma that was inflicted on them years ago, haunted by that trauma. Virginia Roberts Zhu Frey was not only abused by Epstein and Maxwell, she was also trafficked by them to, she claims, some of the most powerful people in the world. Virginia is now married and lives in Queensland, from where she runs the Victims Reject Silence Foundation.

The news of Maxwell's arrest makes this a good day this day for me has been like one of the best days of my life I have not stopped smiling andcry tears of happiness and simply say yes, I am elated to know that she is where she belongs, she is the most narcissistic, evil and vain woman than me. Have I ever known it and she has finally been knocked off her pedestal. The actions are simply reprehensible, there is no escape. These young women subjected to sexual assault. Sexual exploitation from an island. He will help us victims get some accountability.

Women refuse to give up. I'm very proud of myself for standing up for myself and how the Justice Department now feels about royal playboy Prince Andrew who just completely stole their nets on Jeffrey Epstein's 60 Minutes Virgin Islands paradise getaway may just be Now it is abandoned and desolate, but it has the The secrets of a sexual network are even more extensive than previously thought. Once you get to that island, how do you get out? Virgin Islands Attorney General Denis George paints a terrifying picture of what the young women who found themselves trapped here faced. It's not like a person who is there and needs help to be able to sneak out and run outside and stop a police car.

Now there is evidence that abstinence here in a Florida jail in 2007 did not stop him from sexually abusing young girls. It is alleged that he did so up to a year before his death here in the Virgin Islands. and women were subjected to sexual assault, sexual exploitation through coercion, false imprisonment where at some points their passports were taken away and it was a good number of women, at least until 2018, who continued and that is the surprising aspect of this. So what your investigation is showing is the wide scope of Jeffrey Epstein's nefarious activities that simply continued based on the evidence we found so far and then there is the FBI investigation in New York that ensnared Ghilane Maxwell and still has its sights in her.

Prince Andrew Virginia Roberts Drew Frey has long maintained that Epstein trafficked her to the prince. He says he met you in 2001, had dinner with you, danced with you and had sex with you at a house in Belgravia belonging to a girl from Maxwell didn't happen, it's a claim the Prince denied in this famous car crash interview with the BBC last year. I don't remember meeting her. She was very specific about that night. She described dancing with you and you sweating profusely and she continued. Possibly there is a little problem with sweating because I have a peculiar medical condition which is that I do not sweat or I did not sweat at that time and that was a machine.

Yes, I didn't sweat at that moment. Prince Andrew is probably sweating right now over his arrest. It is speculated that Maxwell will reveal all the dark and dirty secrets by naming all the men who participated in them in case she becomes a cooperator. I think we can deal with that. I really hope she comes forward and says ABCDE was involved that's how it played out you know just help us victims get some accountability Last month, the Duke of York's legal team issued a statement stating that it was cooperating with the FBI investigation that the Duke of York has in At least three times this year he offered his assistance as a witness before the Department of Justice;

In turn, today Prince Andrew once again attempted to falsely present himself to the public as eager and willing to cooperate. The United States Department of Justice issued its own statement denying that Prince Andrew was telling the truth, according to Virginia lawyer David Boies, this is an extraordinary step and is very significant in terms of the extent to which the Department of Justice feels that Prince Andrew has just totally stalled what the endgame is here in terms of bringing Prince Andrew before the Department of Justice. Justice, they want to interview him as a witness as someone who was present in the sex trafficking, someone close to Jeffrey Epstein.

The second thing they're obviously going to look at is Prince Andrew as a participant just for the record. on his private plane yes you have been to stay on his private island yes you have stayed at his house in Palm Beach yes you have visited Galen Maxwell's house in Belgravia in London yes Epstein's luxury properties on the island in Paris New York New Mexico and Florida is where so many girls were abused and many of them say they were recruited by Glenn Maxwell and the other co-conspirators. They must all be held accountable for being involved with Jeffrey Epstein and all the crimes they committed.

Courtney Wild was just 14 years old when Ella became trapped in Epstein's abusive web for the past 12 years. She has been fighting in court to hold him and all co-conspirators accountable for her crimes. I feel like I'm fighting the baddest people in the world, but in the long years. Since Epstein's arrest and death, his victims have been offered some compassion and can now seek compensation without the pain of lengthy court cases. Do you have any idea yet how many women will claim and what kind of numbers we are talking about as individuals? payments my expectation is that it will probably be in the 50 to 100 range.

I think you are certainly talking about a million dollars or more, the recoveries will be quite substantial in a move that has shocked and horrified many ghilane Maxwell as well. He made a claim on Epstein's estate demanding that he pay his legal bills. I like what she's doing, I just can't believe she has the guts to do something like that. She basically conspired with him and the fact that she was coming. coming back for money after her passing is just offensive, things would have been very different for Cortney if she hadn't been hurt like that. It would have been very different for Virginia if she hadn't been hurt like that.

These are very sweet people who have a lot of love. creativity and are very intelligent as women Mary the Farmer Courtney Wild and Virginia Roberts Drew Frey are fighting the unthinkable crimes committed against them when they were teenagers with Epstein dead and Maxwell potentially facing more than 30 years in prison that the fight now turns against the other colleagues. -conspirators who allowed Epstein to inflict his monstrous acts on the most vulnerable at the end of the day, I am so proud of myself for standing up to someone like him and fighting no matter who it was, this is the end of the world. refrain from the story, this is just the beginning, there were so many women in Epstein's orbit who participated, obtained and benefited from Epstein's illness.

Jeffrey was dirty, he was sick, he was a pedophile, Gulin left, she is the evil one and these women with her deserve the same. punishment they deserve to be eliminated too so just the beginning just the beginning yeah hi I'm Tara Brown thanks for watching to keep up to date with the latest news from 60 Minutes Australia. Make sure to subscribe to our channel. You can also download 9 now. app for full episodes and other exclusive 60 minute content