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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.