Socialite turned sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has been a spoiled brat her entire life. The very embodiment of the poor little rich girl.
The daughter of disgraced publishing mogul Robert Maxwell, the 64-year-old one-time paramour of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been offered plenty of chances to do the right thing. Maxwell has repeatedly refused.
Now serving a 20-year sentence in a Texas Club Fed, even after her December 2021 conviction and the lurid allegations that emerged from the sex trafficking trial, she remains unbowed. Her entire life has been a series of rescues by wealthy and powerful men. First, it was her father, then Epstein, her short-lived marriage to a fabulously rich husband, and now, she is looking to U.S. President Donald Trump.
An Evil Predator
Author Barry Levine, who wrote The Spider: Inside the Tangled Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, could not withhold his contempt for Maxwell when we spoke last October. 'She is an evil, evil predator,' Levine said. 'She told her friends that these girls are nothing but trash. She was the one who recruited the girls, groomed them, and promised their parents they would get music lessons, voice lessons and acting lessons. The girls were being thrown to wolves.'
Now, Big Max is again angling for a deal that will see her released back to her fine life of foie gras, galas, parties and kinky sex. And shockingly, some Republican members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee are open to the possibility of a presidential pardon for Maxwell. Of course, she would have to share what she knows with the panel investigating Epstein's evil apparatus. Maxwell testified in February but did not say a thing. Instead, she refused to answer any substantive questions, invoking her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
It was Maxwell who was left holding the bag when Epstein, 66, died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial for sex trafficking. None of the bold-faced names whispered have ever been charged. There have been trickles and bits and bites of information released from the Epstein Files, but only Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (onetime Prince Andrew) has been charged, and that was for misconduct in public office.
Trump Mulled a Maxwell Pardon
GOP Chair James Comer claimed committee members were divided on the Maxwell pardon issue. Only Trump can grant clemency to the sleazy socialite. So far, there has been no indication from the White House on its intentions. But Trump openly mulled giving Maxwell a pardon last October.
U.S. Representative Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the committee, later wrote on X: '@OversightDems are united in opposing a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. It is outrageous that any Republicans on our committee would consider this.' Comer also said he remains opposed to the idea and that the lack of agreement reduces the likelihood of a pardon-for-testimony deal.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) echoed my thoughts on the matter in December. Maxwell, he wrote on X, 'refused to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so if she received clemency from President Trump. She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.' And that is where she should reside for the next 15 years.
Anyone who thinks Maxwell is going to say anything substantive to save herself is delusional. She wants something for nothing, no doubt. That coterie of deviants who enjoyed sex with the underage girls that Maxwell groomed? They will reward her handsomely for her discretion.
