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Judged in New York, the Briton, a figure of international worldliness, was found guilty of taking part in the numerous sexual abuses of very young girls in which her companion and accomplice Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019, was engaged.
As often, the ax of the Wikipedia update fell just a few minutes after the verdict finally made public on Wednesday evening: “Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell, born December 25, 1961 in Maisons-Laffitte (France), is a socialite, businesswoman and Franco-American-British sexual criminal. “
She had also been the companion, confidante and associate of Jeffrey Epstein, a businessman accused by dozens of women – often teenagers at the time of the facts – of rape, abuse and sexual slavery. Misdeeds with which he would have, according to testimonies, associated his vast network of powerful in this world, which led figures such as Bill Gates, Donald Trump or Bill Clinton to have to firmly deny any complicity or complacency vis-à-vis the abuses , perpetrated over decades, of their ex-comrade. Epstein has long evaded justice, including in a troubled first case in 2008, which he was able to extricate in a deal that has become very controversial. And he will have evaded the courts to the end, for having committed suicide, according to the medical report, in his cell just a month after his arrest, when the scandal really broke out, in the summer of 2019.
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