My latest dispatch from the #GhislaineMaxwellTrial: heart-wrenching testimony from Accuser Number Four, increasingly combative exchanges between the prosecution and defense, and “an expletive that rhymes with ‘front.’” vickyward.substack.com/p/day-seven-an…
The prosecution said yesterday that they will rest—most likely by the end of Thursday. Now, that is quicker than most of us had thought.
It means that most of the government’s case is now already out there. Have they proven that Maxwell is guilty on all of the six counts she is charged with in terms of enabling Epstein to abuse and traffic underage girls—and done so beyond reasonable doubt?
Part of the prosecution’s argument was establishing a pattern of abuse. Even though there are inconsistencies in each of the witnesses, there is a pattern emerging of how the abuse occurred.
That pattern follows the pattern outlined by Dr. Lisa Rocchio about how predators groom their victims, which I wrote about last week: vickyward.substack.com/p/day-four-wha…
The other part of the prosecution’s argument is dependent on the narrative that, as some witnesses have suggested, Epstein and Maxwell had a relationship that went far beyond the merely professional or platonic.
I remember so vividly how Epstein denied to me in the fall of 2002 that he and Maxwell were romantic. Instead, he’d “promoted her.”
“She’s my best friend,” he told me.
When I asked him if they were mutually dependent on each other, he’d been almost indignant.
“She’s my best friend,” he told me.
When I asked him if they were mutually dependent on each other, he’d been almost indignant.
Yesterday in court, we were shown images taken from a hard drive owned by “Gmax” that had been seized by the FBI. A Word doc created on that drive on Oct 14, 2002— the same time I was reporting on Epstein and talking to him daily—was a list of points their relationship: 
The final line—“the best of friends.”
What was striking was how different the context was from how Epstein had used it with me. He’d said it pejoratively; here, it’s used as a positive.
What’s the truth? Maybe by the end of this trial, we will find out. vickyward.substack.com/p/day-seven-an…
What was striking was how different the context was from how Epstein had used it with me. He’d said it pejoratively; here, it’s used as a positive.
What’s the truth? Maybe by the end of this trial, we will find out. vickyward.substack.com/p/day-seven-an…
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