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struggle4progress

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Sun Jul 27, 2025, 08:29 AM Jul 2025

Victims Say Ghislaine Was Even Worse [View all]

... Tara Palmeri, who has reported extensively on the two, told The Daily Beast Podcast that narratives online that Maxwell is being “persecuted just because she’s a woman” are “extremely frustrating.”

“She assaulted a lot of the girls,” Palmeri told host Joanna Coles. “I mean, she did that herself. She was with him, sexually assaulting them, on top of grooming them.”

“When I talk to a lot of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, so many of them are actually even more angry at Ghislaine Maxwell than they are at Jeffrey, because they feel that she used the fact that she was a woman to lure them in,” added Palmeri, who hosted the Broken: Jeffrey Epstein podcast.

“Because little girls don’t just show up on a 50-year-old man’s doorstep. They were brought in by a woman who not only was posh, well-educated, elegant, spoke well, showed interest in them, wanted to show mentorship, promised them that she could fulfil their dreams” ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/why-epstein-victims-ghislaine-even-025010141.html

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Victims Say Ghislaine Was Even Worse [View all] struggle4progress Jul 2025 OP
Why would anybody believe one word out of her mouth? Botany Jul 2025 #1
I'm wondering the same thing. SheltieLover Jul 2025 #2
But expect after she is "interviewed" by Trump's attorney much of the media will repeat what she says as .. Botany Jul 2025 #3
" after paying Jeffery Epstein " speak easy Jul 2025 #19
Trump only cares what his MAGA moron base believes, whatever tall tale Maxwell tells will be tailored to satisfy them. sop Jul 2025 #4
Now Maxwell is being groomed by our own DOJ department. Nixie Jul 2025 #6
I'm guessing TheFarseer Jul 2025 #5
I never thought of Epstein and her as doing any of this to make money Maraya1969 Jul 2025 #9
Epstein made his money by charging his rich clients* to have sex with girls and by blackmailing them too. Botany Jul 2025 #13
No, it was surely a blackmail operation, enticing them to invest their money out of fear and favor lostnfound Jul 2025 #20
Really? Chi67 Jul 2025 #10
Donald will probably offer her a cabinet position mdbl Jul 2025 #7
Sarcasm not needed KentuckyWoman Jul 2025 #8
Old Tubbs would vote to confirm the paedo Celerity Jul 2025 #11
New Dept popsdenver Jul 2025 #12
How cynical and desperate does one need to be to even attempt to portray this monster Passages Jul 2025 #14
She would approach young girls (some she just saw on the street) and tell them how pretty they are. Midnight Writer Jul 2025 #15
As Newsmax and other RW sources have been trying to start the meme that Liberal In Texas Jul 2025 #16
Maxwell treated these victims as sex slaves LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2025 #17
I have no doubt this is true. Makes me wonder Joinfortmill Jul 2025 #18
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