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10 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
As the afternoon turned and Laura Menninger’s cross-examination became truly brutal, Annie Farmer held her own today under extraordinary pressure. #GhislaineMaxwellTrial
I noticed alarm in her lawyer Sigrid McCawley, but, during a sidebar, Farmer smiled at McCawley as if to say, “Don’t worry—I’ve got this.”
Annie Farmer’s story differs from that of the other victims in that she only met Maxwell over the course of a single weekend and there was no pattern of abuse that involved Maxwell.
But Farmer’s story also has very few discrepancies. And, as I know all too well, she was ready to go public in 2002. She was and always has been deeply credible.
The big story from today is that the prosecution has rested and the defense says it has witnesses who are now willing to testify if they can do so anonymously. The huge question here being: Who are they?

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8 Dec
Testimony from David Rodgers, Epstein’s "chief pilot," has begun.
Rodgers says Maxwell and Epstein were romantically involved in the early 1990s but not beyond, as far as he could see.
Judge Nathan has instructed the government to un-redact the details of the passenger names in Rodgers’ flight logs—except for those needing anonymity related to the trial.
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8 Dec
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?
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7 Dec
Accuser Number Four, "Carolyn," dropped out of school in 7th grade. She told a heart-wrenching story of being addicted to drugs and alcohol and having an alcoholic mother. She been convicted of a couple of felonies. She had a child at 16.
This is a terrible story of sheer poverty.
She says she couldn’t pronounce Ghislaine’s first name, so she always called her "Maxwell."
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7 Dec
This morning in court, we were shown evidence from a hard drive that was taken by the FBI from Epstein’s home in 2019. From username “GMax” was a Word doc from Oct 2002 with what appears to me to be talking points about the nature of the relationship between Maxwell and Epstein.
It says they are “best friends” and insists that, though lots of people thought they were not a couple, they were in fact a couple for 11 years.
What I am wondering is if these are talking points that had possibly been prepared for me, as I was doing my reporting for Vanity Fair at that time.
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3 Dec
"Day Four: What the Butler Saw"

My latest dispatch from inside the #GhislaineMaxwellTrial: vickyward.substack.com/p/day-four-wha…
Longtime Epstein housekeeper Juan Alessi put Maxwell much closer to Epstein’s Palm Beach bedroom—literally—than anyone else in the witness box has so far.
Alessi’s testimony was most damning for Maxwell in that he clearly said he’d seen two females he thought were under-age: “Jane” and Virginia Roberts. He said both had frequently visited Maxwell and Epstein in Palm Beach and accompanied them on trips on Epstein’s private plane.
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2 Dec
Here’s the latest — my new dispatch from Day Three of the #GhislaineMaxwellTrial. vickyward.substack.com/p/maxwell-day-…
In the past two years while I’ve been researching “Chasing Ghislaine,” sources close to Maxwell’s defense team have told me consistently that they are unbothered by the fact that the Southern District of New York’s conviction rate is extraordinarily high—reportedly over 95%.
“I don’t care what the statistics are,” someone close to Maxwell and her lawyers told me nine months ago. “Ghislaine is innocent, and we will prove that.”

At the time, I thought this person was crazy. Now, however, I’m beginning to see why the defense appears so confident.
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