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[Pivar] The story is- is more bizarre than- than people begin to realize.

[Oxenberg] She says, "Jeffrey has to have three orgasms a day,

and I help him 'cause I cannot keep up with his libido."

[Farmer] Ghislaine would go and get people out of Central Park.

And I saw her give her phone number to a girl,

and then that child showed up.

Miss Maxwell did explain that there would be a lot of women around.

[Miles] She said, "You'll see lots of bees around the honey pot,

but I'm the queen bee, always remember that."

Miss Maxwell is the reason that I was abused.

She led me into that situation.

[Helm] Everybody wants to talk about him,

and it's not focused on Ghislaine.

She facilitated it. She made the network happen.

I love the smell of the ocean spray.

The sound of the waves.

The cry of the sea birds.

The sunsets, the sunrises.

I love the ocean.

[reporter] In New York, stunning testimony today

from an alleged victim in the sex trafficking trial

of Jeffry Epstein's companion Ghislaine Maxwell.

[reporter 2] The first of Ghislaine Maxwell's four accusers,

testifying under the pseudonym Jane,

graphically described the first time

Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused her.

Some of the details are absolutely harrowing.

Maxwell, she says, fondled her breasts.

Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted her with sex toys

when she was 14 years old.

It's a trial a quarter century in the making.

And of course since that time,

the victims have been looking for a reckoning.

[Sigrid McCawley] I've been working with the survivors

of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

for about seven years now.

I think for any of the women who are being called to testify,

there's a lot of anxiety with having to face your abuser

in a court of law.

There will be a lot of relief in this as well,

because they'll have the opportunity

to talk to the jurors about what happened to them.

There's been a lot of speculation

about why it took so long for Maxwell to be held accountable.

That involves power and privilege

in a way that was unique to this circumstance.

Well, there's so many of us that have walked around

feeling like we don't have the right to speak up for ourselves.

I definitely need to be here to show her

that everything that she's taken from me,

I'm taking it all back.

It has to be the turning point,

that society as a whole puts that stake in the ground,

draws that line and says

you cannot get away with these things

just because of who you are and how much money you have.

[dramatic music]

[dialing telephone]

[ringing tone]

[ticking]

[Spencer Kuvin] I'm an attorney practicing in West Palm Beach, Florida.

I represented one of the first young victims to come forward

here in Palm Beach County against Mr. Epstein.

Through that process we began to understand

the full breadth of Mr. Epstein's sexual conspiracy,

and the organization which involved Maxwell,

as well as many of the other young girls

that she had trained.

These were young girls, some of them as young as 14 years old,

who did not have the wherewithal to understand

what they were getting themselves into.

[police officer] The premises desired to be searched

is a two-story, single-family residence,

occupied or under the control of Jeffrey Epstein,

white male, date of birth 1.20.53.

[Spencer Kuvin] The first young lady that I represented

never specifically mentioned Maxwell.

But there was this older, British,

distinguished lady behind the scenes.

They didn't know who she was. She was answering the door.

She was escorting people through.

She was telling them, "Oh, go up there. Go into that room,"

or "Go into the kitchen."

When my clients visited, they would frequently see

pictures of Ghislaine Maxwell with very famous individuals,

and it was very clear she was very wealthy and powerful.

But at the beginning we weren't really focused on her,

so we never learned the full breadth of her part in this

until much later on.

we were focused on Epstein.

Later during the investigation,

when interviewing and conducting the deposition,

the name Maxwell would come up repeatedly.

Ghislaine Maxwell was a lot more than just someone

who stayed in a room at the Palm Beach mansion.

She was directing the activities that were going on there.

What we came to learn is that

by the time of this investigation,

Maxwell had stepped away

from the direct recruitment of young girls.

She had trained primary recruiters.

Those primary recruiters then would train local recruiters

to get girls to come over to the house.

This sexual pyramid scheme

really had Ghislaine Maxwell at the top.

We as attorneys wanted to talk to her.

We knew that she was jet-setting across the world.

We knew that she could fly to France

or Virgin Islands at any moment.

We had heard that she was at some kind

of a private benefit event up in New York at one point,

so we had hired process servers to go and try and serve her.

Unfortunately, that ended up in a failure.

They couldn't get in and get her served.

So we were never able to issue a subpoena to her at the time,

because she had essentially disappeared in the wind.

[Cathy] I went down to tidy his room,

and there on his dresser was the arrest warrant.

I actually didn't read what the thing was

until he actually told us up in the kitchen.

I think I was too frightened to snoop.

When he spoke to us on that morning,

he said it was for solicitation of a minor

for prostitution, huh?

-Something like that. -Something like that.

In all honesty, I was shocked.

-We were shocked. -We were both shocked.

The way it was explained to us was basically

a "slap on the wrist" fine,

like a traffic fine that they're charging him with,

well, it seemed like it.

So I said, "Well, just pay the fine and get over and done."

"Get it out of the news. Get everything sorted."

At that point in the relationship between the two of them,

I think it was pretty antagonistic at points.

He actually told us...

that, um... she'd gone.

Yeah, one day she's...

One day, he walked into the kitchen and he said, "It's over."

I actually felt quite sorry for him at the time.

[Miles] It was a bit... traumatic.

Traumatic. We had a couple of fighting matches.

I wouldn't go too deep into that.

No, I know, which is understandable, um...

So you could see this relationship was moving

in a different direction, yeah.

Miss Maxwell was not around, um, for... for quite a while.

She got involved with a man that does computers,

as far as I remember.

[Cathy] She was completely just out of the whole...

-[Miles] Out of the loop. -Out of the loop.

So you could see she'd started a new life for herself,

which I thought was good for her, you know.

The relationship uh, between Epstein and Maxwell,

who was dominant, who was subservient,

how many of the strategies and tactics

for recruiting and grooming uh, came from Maxwell,

and how much came from Epstein,

uh, we'll never probably know completely.

But what we do know is that Maxwell bears responsibility

not only for the young women and girls

who she personally recruited,

but also for her role in the overall enterprise,

where she would recruit somebody to recruit somebody else,

to recruit somebody else, to recruit somebody else.

I think that one of the cruelest things

that Epstein and Maxwell did

is to induce, coerce, these young girls

to bring in other young girls.

[Phillips] It has been a really big journey for me

to actually get to that point

where I'm not in denial anymore,

and I can say, "Yeah, I was abused too."

I was already in the islands next to him, in St. John's,

and I just was with a friend,

and she asked me to go with her to the island.

So I didn't know about this whole private island

and, like, who Jeffrey Epstein was.

I didn't know anything when I went with her that day.

I had only met Jeffrey pretty briefly

before someone was sent to our room

to, uh, bring us there for a massage.

And so I just thought, OK, well, it's kind of weird,

but I trust the girl that brought me.

So, um, yeah, we went to his room,

and I realized at the time that the girl that brought me there,

she had done this before,

so she was very comfortable,

and she was massaging him,

and I kind of just took her lead.

And then, um...

pretty quickly afterwards, you know,

is when Jeffrey, um,

started touching me inappropriately,

and that's, like, when the abuse happened, um...

I was really confused about what happened.

I just, like, realized

maybe that's why she brought me there,

was kind of to lure me to him,

and she was the one who got paid for bringing me.

She made it seem like it was like no big deal at all.

It was hard for me to deal with it for many years after that.

And then hearing so many other women had the exact same story

of another young person, another young woman,

bringing them to Jeffrey for a massage,

but then getting sexually abused.

And every time I hear it, I'm just like thinking,

"That was me, that was me."

I'm headed to the Ghislaine Maxwell trial.

This is just like another step for me

just to realize and kind of move on and heal.

This whole nightmare never would have happened

if it wasn't for Ghislaine.

The woman who brought me to Jeffrey's island

was recruited by her.

There were so many people that she brought

that brought others, that brought others,

so it was just all these, like, layers.

It's scary that I fit into that story somehow.

[Boies] That's the way pyramid schemes work.

That's the way enterprises of this scope and scale work.

That was part of the power,

part of the reason why it was able to recruit

not just a handful of young girls,

but dozens, hundreds of young girls.

There was no one else in the pyramid

who had her position.

No one else who had her wealth, her status.

No one else did Epstein give $30 million to.

So if you put Epstein at the top of the pyramid,

Maxwell's right next to him.

And the only question is,

is she right next to him at the same level,

or is she right next to him

at the level immediately below him?

[reporter] Jeffrey Epstein's personal 727 aircraft

arrived at PBIA from Newark at 5 p.m.

The investor, traveling with a small entourage,

was met at the private Galaxy Aviation.

Jeffrey Epstein went to jail just before ten this morning.

He pleaded guilty in open court.

He agreed to serve a total of 18 months

in a Palm Beach detention facility,

12 for felony solicitation of prostitutes,

and an additional six for procuring persons under 18 for prostitution.

The guilty plea and deal end a years-long process

that could have sent Epstein to jail for 15 years.

I couldn't believe that he got the sweetheart deal.

The federal government interviewed

at least 40 young girls,

but, for some reason, the government decided

that they were gonna use one case

as the case that they would convict him of.

They're letting him out during the day

to walk around and have lunch,

and have massages at his office.

He got out after only one year.

[reporter] A few steps, a smile,

and a wave to the deputy at the door.

We watched Jeffrey Epstein walk out of jail,

but only his attorneys heard from him.

He's very happy that his jail sentence is over

and uh, he can begin a new chapter in his life.

[Kuvin] They entered into what's called

a non-prosecution agreement.

That prevented any further prosecution

of not just Jeffrey Epstein,

but also any others

who may have been involved.

Maxwell is not mentioned,

and we have to assume that that was intentional.

Jeffery probably told her, "Just disappear,

go away, stay away from all of this,

and don't worry about it, I'll take care of it."

[Boies] The non-prosecution agreement was a corrupt agreement,

and it should never have let

people like Maxwell walk.

I think it led

to a sense of invulnerability,

uh, it- it led to a sense of confidence,

that having beat that, she was free.

[ticking]

If the United Nations create

a stand-alone ocean development goal,

that is a needle mover.

That will make new laws, new governance,

and a new way at looking at the ocean,

and that is what will change the world.

Thank you.

So how does it... does it all look? Is my hair good?

Do I...? It's all good? [laughs]

[woman] All right, we're rolling.

[woman 2] Ghislaine, you've been a philanthropist your whole career.

Tell us about your idea and how global citizens

can save our common oceans.

The ocean is absolutely vital

to all planetary life systems.

I call it the blue heart of the planet.

I met Ghislaine at a party at the Four Seasons restaurant.

There was a lot of major celebrities there,

a lot of air kissing going on.

She knew a lot of people there.

I thought she was utterly charming.

I had no clue, um,

that she was involved in any of these things.

The thing that she talked about the most

was, of course, the ocean.

I mean, in many ways, the ocean became like her baby.

Your excellencies, presidents, lords, ladies and gentlemen,

um, I just would like to thank you so much,

and it's such a honor to be here.

Who doesn't wanna have a clean ocean?

I mean, it's, you know, it's kind of a worthy project.

[Ghislaine] All you're signing is that you want the ocean

to be sustainably managed.

And that is the message we're bringing here. Thank you.

[man] Thank you.

At the end of the night, the party's breaking up,

and she asked me, "Can you give me a lift home?"

I drove her home and dropped her off

in front of her townhouse.

And then she made this astonishing offer.

She says to me, uh, "If you come in and fuck me,

I will tell you the secrets of my father."

I was completely speechless,

and I came up with a very lame excuse

that I needed to go home and walk the dog.

And she knew it was a kind of a BS excuse,

but she gave me a kiss on the cheek and she said,

uh, you know, "Hope to see you soon."

It's kind of like, by day,

she's very, very involved

in trying to save the oceans uh, and- and fix the world,

but by night, it's like turning into Dracula or something.

It was like a switch.

[Celhia de Lavarene] I just came back from uh, Haiti,

where children are trafficked for sex.

And I wanted to open uh, a safe uh, haven,

if we can say, to help those kids.

And my friend decided to have a fundraising event for that.

I hear that uh, Ghislaine Maxwell came.

I don't know why she was in the picture.

I didn't even know who she was.

I guess it's because the French ambassador was there

and she wanted to look good.

She was in the picture and then she left.

I know one thing.

That woman you're talking about, uh, Maxwell, did not give a cent.

[Boies] The way she was able to manipulate the media

to think of her as a, quote, environmentalist,

um, as opposed to a sex trafficker,

um, probably continued to contribute

to her sense of being above the law, of being invulnerable.

I think it led her

to be perhaps careless.

It may have contributed to her ultimate undoing.

[reporter] Emotions running high in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial.

A tearful accuser said she was 14

when Maxwell told her she had a great body

for Jeffrey Epstein and his friends.

We're up to our third accuser, and her name is Carolyn.

She is testifying under her first name,

and she is the second accuser to allege that Ghislaine Maxwell

had fondled her breasts when she was 14 years old.

She said she was brought into Epstein's orbit

via Virginia Giuffre, Roberts,

who was a- a very key figure

in the whole Ghislaine Maxwell saga.

Virginia was one of the first people, if not the first person,

to come forward with the evidence

that not only were Epstein and Maxwell

abusing young women themselves,

but they were actually trafficking

young women to other men.

The highest profile person

that uh, Virginia uh, identified

as someone to whom she was trafficked

by Epstein and Maxwell was Prince Andrew.

Ghislaine woke me up in the morning, excited,

and she said, "You're gonna meet a prince today."

Ghislaine said, "He's coming back to the house,

and I want you to do for him what you do for Epstein."

The abuse went on for a little bit in the bathroom,

and then it continued to the bedroom,

and he wasn't rude or anything about it,

he said, you know, thank you.

[Boies] My first reaction was did this really happen?

You know, is it- is it really true?

To hear that...

a member of the royal family,

a prince of England, uh,

was engaged in that conduct, um,

was- was something that I found surprising,

uh, shocking, disturbing.

Sex trafficking tends to be something that you associate

with Third World countries.

It's not something that you think happens

in the United States, in the United Kingdom.

She said she had sex with you three times.

Once in a London house when she was trafficked to you.

-In Maxwell's house. -Yes.

Once in New York,

a month or so later, at Epstein's mansion.

And once on his private island

in a group of seven or eight other girls.

No.

She says she dined with you,

danced with you at Tramp nightclub in London.

She went on to have sex with you in a house in Belgravia

belonging to Ghislaine Maxwell, your friend.

Your response?

I have no recollection

of ever meeting this lady.

[McCawley] I talked to my partner, David Boies,

and he said, "I have this new case that's come in

that I think really is suited for you

because of the work you've done um, in foster care

and with sex trafficking victims."

I went to New York and I met with Virginia,

and within moments of that meeting,

my life really turned upside down in many ways.

Virginia made public that Maxwell had been involved

at the head of the sex trafficking scheme

along with Epstein.

[reporter] Can I ask you about the- the- all the allegations

that have come out, Ghislaine?

Have you got no comment at all?

I've made a statement. Thank you.

Then Maxwell came forward and made the statement

that Virginia's claims were, quote, obvious lies.

That gave us the hook to be able to sue Maxwell for defamation,

and that really started the journey

in being able to hold Maxwell accountable

for the crimes she committed.

We were a tight female team, and we just dug into it.

We pieced together the flight logs

in a way that no one ever had before,

to really map that out

and understand the trafficking scheme as a whole.

We had the police reports

from the 2005 investigation in Florida

that showed Maxwell at the centerpiece of this,

helping arrange the girls, being very active there,

despite her claims that she was not.

We spoke to many, many survivors

of Epstein and Maxwell's abuse.

Some of those survivors uh, would say,

"I-I can't give you any information. I'm too scared."

It was a very scary time period.

I myself had threats and I was scared at times.

I also had people following me.

As you can imagine, there are incredibly powerful people

who are involved in this sex trafficking scheme.

They certainly didn't like

that I was turning over stones,

finding out more information.

Maxwell's deposition is significant

because it's really the only document we have

that shows testimony she has given

about the sexual trafficking scheme.

One of the things that stood out to me right away

was how obstructionist Maxwell was going to be.

I asked her a- a pretty simple question,

"So, Miss Maxwell, when did you first recruit a female

to work for Mr. Epstein?"

She said, "I don't understand what you mean by female."

"I don't understand what you mean by recruit."

"Please be more specific and clear."

So that just shows you how difficult

she was willing to make that deposition,

how she was going to stop at nothing

to um, not give information.

Maxwell definitely had an air of entitlement,

is the best way I can describe it.

"How dare you bring me into a conference room

and ask me questions."

"I know presidents. I know princes,

and I should not be bothered

with these kinds of allegations."

There was another significant moment in the deposition

where she actually gets so frustrated with me and so angry

that she slams her fist on my conference room table,

causing my court reporter's

uh, stenographer machine to fall over.

And my court reporter looked at me

and said, "I'm so scared."

In that moment, I realized

what the women that I represent have gone through,

and to- to see how willing she was

to come forward in that environment

and attack at this level

um, just confirmed everything that I knew about her.

In the final analysis, they paid a lot of money to resolve it.

The result of the defamation case

was very important to Virginia,

not only because of the economic security it gave her,

but also it was a vindication.

Remember, she had been accused by Maxwell

of making this all up.

I sometimes felt angry

at the way she dismissed

the victims of the sex trafficking,

but there were times when I-I felt sorry for her too.

You know, I tried to understand

what led somebody to do these things.

I would never describe her as a victim,

but I would describe her

as a damaged human being,

and what caused that damage, I don't know.

I've never been able to understand

why after our civil litigation was resolved,

Maxwell did not go to the prosecutors

and try to do a deal.

She could have given them Epstein.

Now, maybe she was just still

too under Epstein's sway,

but she somehow almost seemed

to put that out of her mind

and go forward uh, as is- as if it didn't happen.

She should have known that her days were numbered.

[Anne McElvoy] She started to turn up more again in London

in the late 20 teens.

I felt that was probably quite shrewd

and strategic on her part,

that she wanted something that was away

from the whole Epstein story.

I think probably also she wanted to know

if London was still talking to her.

Things were clearly still unraveling at a- at a rate,

of which I certainly was not aware at the time.

You would never be able to tell,

if you met Ghislaine Maxwell, what was going on.

I mean, it was always the same smooth,

ocean-going confidence.

I met her uh, through friends

who'd brought her to a party that we were at.

We talked about our Oxford years.

And she said "It was a great time, wasn't it?"

And I said, "Yeah, it was a great time."

And she said, "Yes, it's... it's sad, isn't it,

how things turn out?"

[newsreader] A judge ruled this afternoon

that federal prosecutors broke the law

when they signed a plea agreement with Jeffrey Epstein.

That's because the agreement was hidden

from 30 of his underage victims.

The case received renewed attention

after theMiami Herald published

a lengthy investigation into the plea deal.

[Christina Oxenberg] January 2019,

oddly enough she likes,

clicks "like", on an Instagram post of mine.

And her timing was pretty appalling

because by now I know everything,

and I'm furious, I'm appalled,

I'm disgusted.

Because 20 years ago,

Ghislaine told me that she recruits three girls a day,

but she was using the word "girls."

I literally just thought she was just talking about

human beings, women.

In that article, I see all of that,

and I'm horrified...

that she was talking about children.

We had been discussing children.

It was hard to take on, um...

on a lot of levels, because, um...

I felt responsible, in a way,

that I had known information

that could have maybe made a difference.

And, um, I felt sick.

I was disgusted with her.

I felt I had let humanity down.

And yet I didn't know what I didn't know.

The billionaire American financier Jeffrey Epstein

has been formally charged with the sex trafficking

of dozens of underage teenage girls.

The alleged behavior shocks the conscience.

And while the charge conduct is from a number of years ago,

it is still profoundly important

to the many alleged victims, now young women.

They deserve their day in court.

[McCawley] This is a great day for victims,

and I am humbled and inspired by their voices.

Our clients are extremely gratified

that these charges have finally been brought.

[reporter] Jeffrey Epstein found dead in an apparent suicide.

The financier, arrested on charges

that he ran a sex trafficking ring,

apparently killed himself today in prison.

[reporter] He took the easy way out,

not having to face justice,

not having to face the victims,

And now it's entirely possible this entire- this entire thing

may be put in a file and never seen again.

[Helm] I had plugged my phone in to charge,

and when I plugged it in, I accidentally had swiped it

to, like, the news thing.

Then there was his face.

I looked at this headline, and it read:

"Jeffrey Epstein found in fetal position in jail cell."

I was shaking, you know.

My heart was racing. I was scared.

I was... I was crying.

I... I didn't know what to do.

I had spent 17 years

replaying all of that countless times.

And I had spent 17 years...

keeping that in a very, very tightly sealed,

buttoned-up space of shame.

It was like a re-traumatization all over again.

It was...

The world, you know, shifted.

But I knew, that was that moment that I was, like,

"You are not gonna sit here anymore and stay silent."

"It's not how Jeffrey died, but it's how he lived,

and we need to get to the bottom

of everybody who was involved with that,

starting with Ghislaine Maxwell.

I went to New York City

and spoke in federal court

in August of 2019.

I said, "Ghislaine Maxwell needs to be held accountable

because she's what got me there."

She groomed me to walk myself

to the home of a predator willingly.

If it were not for her,

I would not have been abused.

Jeffrey Epstein may be dead,

but the investigation continues into his web of abuse.

According to new reports,

the FBI has launched an investigation

of the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.

The big question, Lady Victoria, now

is where is Ghislaine Maxwell?

You knew her well. When did you last have any contact with her?

I haven't seen her since September last year.

Um, I don't think we'll... you're gonna...

No one's gonna find her.

[ticking]

[reporter] For months, prosecutors say Ghislaine Maxwell hid away

in this New Hampshire mansion.

But Thursday, FBI agents moved in.

[woman] Good morning.

Today we announce charges

against Ghislaine Maxwell

for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually exploit and abuse

multiple minor girls

who were as young as 14 years old.

The moment I got the phone call that Maxwell had been arrested,

I called all of my clients.

I remember crying on the phone with them.

It was around nine o'clock in the morning,

and I got a phone call from my lawyer,

and she let me know that Ghislaine had been arrested.

And... I... It wa...

I mean, it was like a cel... It was a celebration.

I was laughing and crying at the same time.

Today, after many years,

Ghislaine Maxwell finally stands charged

for her role in these crimes.

She had hoped she could be released

to a luxury hotel in New York to wait out the trial,

but ultimately a judge said there were no set of conditions

that could ensure she would not flee,

the risk simply too great.

[reporter] After a life of luxury,

this is now Ghislaine Maxwell's stone-cold reality.

Denied bail, imprisoned in solitary confinement,

and heavily guarded here,

at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn,

with her trial at least a year away.

[Maloney] I'm still in a state of shock.

I can't believe that Ghislaine

would have stooped to that level.

I really...

Part of me doesn't want to believe it,

and part of me doesn't believe it.

Not the Ghislaine I knew.

But, then again, a lot can happen in 40 years.

I'm sure that there are many people

who do not view Ghislaine Maxwell

through those lenses of a predator or a monster.

They view her as whatever fun party they attended,

or whatever holiday they attended with her.

She's not walking around

shouting to the world that she was a predator.

She wasn't sharing that at the holiday parties, you know.

So I don't necessarily blame folks

that can't see her that way.

I think that sometimes people have very deep, dark secrets,

and this is a very deep, dark secret

that she carried on, you know.

The unfortunate harsh reality it is

for those that love and care for her.

[ticking]

We're back this morning with the latest

on the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking trial.

She denies all of the charges against her.

[reporter] Three women who say as teenagers they were exploited

have so far given evidence at this trial.

Today began the long anticipated testimony of Annie Farmer,

the only accusing witness

stepping forward against Ghislaine Maxwell

in her real name.

And it began with the prosecution saying,

"Is there anyone in this courtroom

who has ever given you a massage?"

And she said yes and identified the defendant.

She said that she was asked to disrobe

and told to turn around, lying on her back,

that Ghislaine Maxwell pulled down the sheet,

exposing her breast and touching her breast.

It was definitely Ghislaine who asked me first

about my sister Annie.

Because I was always bragging about her to everyone.

I mean, she was my whole world, so I was like,

"Oh, my gosh, my sister's the smartest,

the most beautiful, the most angelic."

And I had definitely bragged about her

to Epstein and to Ghislaine.

This is in 1995. I was in Palm Beach.

And I was sitting outside by the pool,

and Ghislaine was, you know,

leaning on a chaise, and she said,

"Oh, it's too bad Annie's not here with us, you know."

"It would be very nice to have her here."

And I said, "Oh, she would love it."

"She would have so much fun, definitely."

Ghislaine's role with Annie was huge, it- it's everything,

because my mother and everyone believed,

we all believed, that Annie would be safe

with a married couple.

They told my mother that they were married.

They told me they were married,

you know, right when I first started working for them,

but it was to make us feel safe.

Because what woman is gonna attack a child, right?

We didn't know that women did that.

And we didn't understand when we found out

how a woman could participate in this.

It was really the most shocking part.

[Klasfeld] So, after two very brisk weeks of trial,

the government has rested,

and it's rested with this explosive testimony

from Annie Farmer.

The other witnesses were crying

as they recounted these really troubling memories.

With Annie Farmer, it's a different dynamic.

It's the unflappable Annie Farmer.

I did tell Annie that I was very...

I- that I was very proud of her,

that she... that she was so brave.

She did it for everybody, like Virginia and Teresa and myself.

She's just that generous, you know,

that she would be thinking of everyone.

This trial is incredibly important

for everyone who's ever suffered,

I think, any kind of sexual abuse.

I'm concerned, very concerned, if she's released.

Um, if she's not held accountable,

that would be very damaging.

I reported this thing 26 years ago to the federal government.

They nursed it, allowed it to exist very clearly for 26 years.

And it just makes me really mad

that, um, these people are able to get away

with abusing as many people as they do,

'cause you don't recover from those things.

They have all that power, all that credibility,

and Ghislaine gave... lent that credibility to Epstein.

That's what she provided in this charade.

What it did do to me, this experience,

is it took away my trust

in every human being on this earth,

because if you can't trust the people

who are running the whole show, who can you trust?

[Helm] Walking into that courtroom,

my body was shaking, my heart was racing.

Being in the same room with Ghislaine

for the first time in 19 years,

I was overwhelmed physically.

Her and I looked straight at one another.

I didn't look away, not... I didn't blink.

She looked away.

This is me asserting my freedom, and asserting my power,

and taking back what was taken from me.

But I couldn't help but notice,

some of her body language, you know,

just tossing her hair all about,

like, she didn't really come across

as someone fearful of outcomes.

And that seems to be what she's still carrying,

that presumption that all will turn out in her favor,

and that's someone that's unwell.

That's complete disconnect from what she's done.

[reporter] Now to Lower Manhattan, where the Ghislaine Maxwell

sex trafficking trial is now in its 12th day.

Well, first of all, the defense team for Ghislaine Maxwell,

they did not start off the day today well at all,

the judge scolding them

for not having some of their witnesses ready to testify.

Now, one of them is going to be ignoring a federal subpoena,

another one has COVID, another one is 81 years old,

lives in the UK and cannot be here until Monday,

and then a fourth witness who is scheduled to testify

is pleading the Fifth.

[Klasfeld] The defense case rested only two days in

in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell,

and usually when asked whether or not

a criminal defendant will testify in their defense,

it's yes or no.

Not Ghislaine Maxwell. She said:

"Your Honor, the government has not proven its case

beyond a reasonable doubt,

and so there is no need for me to testify."

And that's the kind of Ghislaine Maxwell

we've seen throughout this trial.

Confident, relaxed, awaiting a fate

that could see the rest of her life in prison.

If she's feeling any sense of panic over that,

she's not putting on a face that would show that.

[ticking]

[reporter] Breaking news in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial.

She has been convicted.

[reporter 2] She stood there stony-faced as the jury read out the verdict.

When the jury filed out,

Ghislaine Maxwell poured a glass of water,

hugged one of her lawyers and was led out of the courtroom.

Ghislaine Maxwell just got convicted

of five of six of the serious counts against her,

including the most serious counts,

sex trafficking of a minor,

which has a possible maximum penalty

of 40 years imprisonment.

[camera shutters click]

[reporter] Mr. Maxwell, Mr. Maxwell,

can we have a statement on behalf of the family, please?

What is your reaction to the verdict?

We firmly believe in Ghislaine's innocence.

Obviously we are very disappointed with the verdict.

We have already started working on the appeal.

Everyone, be healthy. Have a happy new year.

It's a tremendous relief to be here.

I- I, um, wasn't sure that this day would ever come,

and uh, I just feel so grateful that the jury believed us

and sent a strong message that perpetrators

of sexual abuse and exploitation will be held accountable,

no matter how much power and privilege that they have.

[Anne McElvoy] I don't think the verdict was a shock,

but I did find it- it made me recoil.

Looking at Ghislaine Maxwell striding around Oxford

all those years ago,

there was something very attractive,

very engaging, commanding about her,

and that did make her someone you...

people wanted to know, they enjoyed her company.

And yet those same attributes

were turned to... really to something very, very wicked.

If you'd said to me this is where

Ghislaine Maxwell will end up,

this is what you'd be talking about today,

I'd have said, "That's crazy. You've got the wrong person."

What Epstein did

is almost a microcosm

of how the world works,

of very rich and powerful people

exploiting people without that wealth and power.

She was the facilitator of that rapacity,

that predatory determination to meet your needs

regardless of anybody else's costs.

Maxwell did not do this because Epstein told her to.

She did it in her- her own agency, her own will.

She chose to perpetrate these crimes against young victims,

and she benefited from those crimes.

[Boies] Epstein and Maxwell could not have accomplished what they did

acting alone.

They could not have had the scope and scale and duration

of the sexual trafficking and abuse.

Their collaborators, their enablers, their coconspirators

are all people who need to be brought to justice.

The horrible heartache,

collective heartache, of all of this.

For these two people

to have created for so many people,

and then so many other people off of that,

families and parents and all the other things

that... that stem off of this, you know, shame on you.

Shame on you, so...

And not on me.

I don't wish... harm.

However, she does not deserve to be free.

I can only hope

that at some point

she admits to herself

what she's done,

'cause I don't think she has,

at this point... no.