“I think he was murdered” : Ghislaine Maxwell says she is convinced that the death of her ex-companion, Jeffrey Epstein, found hanged in his cell on August 10, 2019, was a murder and not a suicide. In an interview given Monday from her prison in Brooklyn to a British chain, the one who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for “sex trafficking of minors” also expressed regret at having met with the financier.
Jeffrey Epstein, arrested and imprisoned in July 2019 in New York, was found hanged on August 10 of the same year in his cell. His trial, after which he could face a sentence of up to 45 years in prison, was set by the prosecutor for June 2020. His companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the wealthy British press boss Robert Maxwell, was sentenced in June 2022 to 20 years in prison for helping, according to American justice, Jeffrey Epstein to attract underage girls to his properties in order to have sex with them.
In an interview granted to TalkTV and broadcast Monday, January 23 as part of a report, she said she was convinced “that he was assassinated”. Without detailing the reasons for her conviction or advancing a possible motive for this assassination, Ghislaine Maxwell said to herself “safe” what “Jeffrey Epstein was confident about reaching an amicable agreement”. “I was shocked. I wondered how it happened”she added, about the news of his death.
“I believe that he was murdered.”
Ghislaine Maxwell speaks on Jeffrey Epstein’s death, adding that she didn’t know “he was so awful” and “wishes that she had never met him”.pic.twitter.com/cpCBxt3SJV
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“I didn’t know he was so awful”
The one who was also his companion also expressed his regrets about their meeting. “I wish I had never met him. When I think back on it now, I tell myself that I would have done better to stay in England”, did she say. Their relationship, Maxwell continues, “clearly destroyed his life. Working with him, spending time with him and knowing him has destroyed my life and hurt so many people I care about and love.”she regrets.
The Brooklyn inmate then claimed “that she didn’t know he was so horrible. I mean, well, when I think about it today, I was obviously blind”. And “blindly” which she explains by the success of Jeffrey Epstein at the time.
Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide by hanging according to the autopsy report. Two guards, responsible for monitoring the high security cell in which the financier was imprisoned, were suspended and then charged following this event. The Manhattan court revealed that the two employees did not respect the obligation of rounds every 30 minutes, “staying at their desk surfing the net and walking around the common areas of their unit”.
Nevertheless, the conclusion of a suicide was questioned by an expert commissioned by the brother of Jeffrey Epstein, suggesting that the man was killed. “The elements testify more to a homicide than a suicide”Michael Baden told Fox News, referring to “multiples fractures” the hyoid bone, located in the neck, “which are very unusual for a suicide”.
On July 25, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was found unconscious on the floor of his cell with “marks on the neck” after “a suicide attempt”.
In February 2022, the former French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, close to the deceased American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and imprisoned since the end of 2020 in Paris for several “minor rape”was also found dead in his cell overnight.