Friend, lover, fixer? Ghislaine Maxwell prosecutors home in on nature of Epstein relationship
by Victoria Bekiempis in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#5SXVJ)
Federal sex-trafficking trial has shed more light on pair's ties, and how their lives seemed intimately interwoven
Ghislaine Maxwell has long been accused of luring teenage girls into Jeffrey Epstein's orbit for him to sexually abuse, but whatever motive for allegedly doing so has long remained a mystery.
The answer hinges somewhat on the nature of their relationship. Did Maxwell serve as the late financier's consigliere, or act as his girlfriend and procurer?
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