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By Chris Spargo
Published on August 28, 2025 03:41PM EDT
Jeffrey Epstein made his fortune hunting down money that had been stolen from some of the wealthiest people in the world, according to Ghislaine Maxwell, who shared this information during a July interview with the Department of Justice ...
The longtime Epstein confidante who is currently serving a 20 year prison sentence after being convicted on federal charges of: conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors to participate in illegal sex acts, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts, sex trafficking conspiracy, and sex trafficking of a minor said that in this endeavor, he either worked with or for African warlords.
The idea came from a girlfriend at the time, said Maxwell, though she did not identify the woman by name.
"She was the daughter of a billionaire, for instance. And that billionaire, whoever his whatever his name was had had some money stolen, and for some reason this woman introduced Jeffrey, and Jeffrey I think that's how that business started. That's what I remember," Maxwell said in her interview ...
https://people.com/jeffrey-epstein-african-warlords-fortune-ghislaine-maxwell-interview-11799265
Scrivener7
(60,076 posts)struggle4progress
(126,683 posts)Marco Margaritoff
Fri 29 August 2025 at 5:50 pm GMT-4
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Friday said convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, who told the Justice Department in a recent interview that she never saw President Donald Trump engage in any inappropriate behavior, has no credibility.
The Trump administration has faced notable public backlash for withholding additional files on Maxwells late accomplice, the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, particularly after Johnson abruptly shut down the House in July blocking a vote that would force the release of said files.
Maxwell is currently seeking a pardon from the administration, recently telling Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, I never, ever saw any man doing something inappropriate with a woman of any age. She was subsequently transferred to a more comfortable prison ...
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mike-johnson-shares-thoughts-ghislaine-215029427.html
JanMichael
(25,725 posts)RockRaven
(19,755 posts)sop
(19,330 posts)Kid Berwyn
(25,109 posts)New York.
City of London.
Miami.
Yep. Right-o.
While I remember people from those places who work WITH warlords from Africa, I dont know too many interested in returning any money they looted from Africa.
Irish_Dem
(82,366 posts)underpants
(197,191 posts)
PufPuf23
(9,947 posts)Consider Ghislaine Maxwell's father and siblings and his known employers like Wexner.
Squirrel!
Hekate
(100,133 posts)Skittles
(172,886 posts)canetoad
(21,031 posts)
Everyone has seen this image (this version is not cropped). It was taken in Maxwell's townhouse after a dinner engagement, by Jeffrey Epstein. That's his finger in shot, on the right.
Ghislaine is smiling because she and Epstein know that they have their next blackmail victim on camera.
Their business was blackmail. The photo was planned for this very purpose.
stopdiggin
(15,639 posts)bounty hunting - because ... ?
Volaris
(11,796 posts)Or tracking cash did he have?
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