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Here's one: He was becoming a distraction and annoyance after getting a handy from a masseuse, and several civil suits, they were afraid he'd turn on them and reveal hidden trusts, shady deals, etc. so they whacked him.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/live-updates-justice-department-releases-transcript-ghislaine-maxwell-rcna226675

Justice Department releases transcript of Ghislaine Maxwell interview

Maxwell insists she never witnessed Trump do anything inappropriate. She also told Blanche she does “not believe” Epstein died by suicide.

Prodded further about a client list, Maxwell said: "Absolutely no. There is no list. There is no, I’m not aware of any blackmail. I never heard that. I never saw it, and I never imagined it," Maxwell said. ...

The prosecutors and judge involved in Maxwell's 2021 criminal trial blasted her for being dishonest and failing to accept responsibility for her actions.

“The defendant’s willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct, including some of the conduct charged in the Indictment, strongly suggests her true motive has been and remains to avoid being held accountable for her crimes,” prosecutors wrote in one pretrial motion.

She's got huge motives to lie and nothing to lose by lying. She's already in prison, so she might be hoping for a pardon, and she doesn't want to end up dead like Jeff either.

Looks like she's already been rewarded to some degree for saying what they wanted to hear:

Maxwell, 63, had been held at a low-security facility in Tallahassee, Florida, that housed men and women, but was transferred to a camp in Bryan, Texas, which houses only women. A majority of its inmates are serving time for nonviolent offenses and white-collar crimes.

Patrick says

She's got huge motives to lie and nothing to lose by lying. She's already in prison, so she might be hoping for a pardon, and she doesn't want to end up dead like Jeff either.

She's got huge motives to tell the truth, get it all out there and make whacking her pointless. And in fact, if she is whacked, people will look and see who she fingered in her testimony.

On the other hand, fingering (Hillary) Clinton is pretty yuck

There's a lot of money involved, so they can hire the best manipulators of public opinion and come up with the new strategy:

"Nothing happened, or if it did, it was just Jeff."

FBI video evidence is no doubt thoroughly cleaned by now, leaving the last copies with Mossad. Or maybe that guy "Patrick Kessler" who first reported the blackmail operation and then disappeared managed to stash a copy somewhere:

https://patrick.net/post/1380690/2024-01-03-epstein-list-delayed?start=617#comment-2189613

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/friends-with-benefits-saturday-august

The New York Times ran a story this morning headlined, “Maxwell Never Witnessed Trump in ‘Inappropriate Setting,’ Transcript Says.” The sub-headline added, “The transcripts and audio are likely to raise as many questions as they answer.” Spoiler: whatever else it might be worth, it left the Democrats feeling frustrated— with no happy ending.

Yesterday, as he’d promised, DOJ Number Two and former Trump lawyer Todd Blanche released the lightly redacted transcripts and audio from the two-day interview with oceanic explorer, daughter of disgraced British scion Robert Maxwell (who died mysteriously), convicted sex trafficker, and former Epstein Sexretary with Benefits Ghislaine Maxwell. (Epstein, ditto.)

It is a fascinating historical document and, dare I say, tantalizing. It came so close, so many times. Blanche asked all the right questions, but ultimately, there were no bombshells. To his credit, Blanche probed her about nearly everything that anyone would be curious about. His questions were direct and well-framed, if not particularly aggressive.

Now we have Maxwell’s answers.

Unsurprisingly, Maxwell generally denied, or couldn’t remember, or wasn’t involved in, key aspects of the main Epstein theories. She wasn’t aware of any voluntary intelligence contacts (though she waffled on Mossad). She supervised construction of all his luxury properties —including the neo-occult island buildout— but never knew of any video equipment except “normal” security surveillance— although she didn’t deny others were there. She knew nothing about any blackmail operation, not personally, but allowed it could’ve happened. You never know. ...

She admitted the various “massage therapists” she’d hired often gave Epstein and passengers “therapy” in various states of undress. Cagily, she did not deny that “extra services” may have been provided. ...

"He’s a disgusting guy who did terrible things to young kids. You’re not going to hear me say what he did to people who I wasn’t there to see. I didn’t see it. ..."

And also, as a lawyer, when a deposition witness says, “I wasn’t there to see; I didn’t see it,” that’s an evasion. “What I saw” is completely different from what a witness knows or believes using their other senses or from indirect evidence, such as former presidents emerging from the bedroom with their pants off, or the girls dishing about peculiar sausage shapes. ...

It all came so close. She essentially admitted that officials like Summers and Clinton did have sex with Epstein’s underage therapists (“maybe they did something sexual”). But she claimed she hadn’t seen it happen (“I wasn’t in the room.”). And she emphatically —and repeatedly— insisted she never saw anything nonconsensual or forcible (e.g.: “I never saw tears”).

Maybe more useful information will surface if it gets that far, and Blanche presses her. That’s the most tantalizing possibility. For instance, I was aching for him to ask her something like, “Why did you think this international massage connoisseur wanted you to hire inexperienced sixteen-year-old therapists?”

Sadly, this was just a softball proffer interview, and Blanche understandably never challenged her lack of knowledge or the many inconsistencies in her statement.

Oh, and like the rest of us, she doesn’t think Epstein killed himself. So there’s that. She didn’t speculate on why anyone would want to kill him, though. Probably just jealous.

You can read and listen to it yourself on the DOJ’s website at this link.

https://www.justice.gov/maxwell-interview

https://greeknewsondemand.com/2025/08/23/ghislaine-maxwells-bizarre-claim-epstein-couldnt-rape-girls-because-of-heart-condition/

Maxwell repeatedly tried to minimize Epstein’s ties to the powerful.

She denied that Bill Clinton ever received massages or traveled Epstein’s properties, despite photographic evidence and flight logs placing him alongside the disgraced financier.

Patrick says

https://greeknewsondemand.com/2025/08/23/ghislaine-maxwells-bizarre-claim-epstein-couldnt-rape-girls-because-of-heart-condition/

Maxwell repeatedly tried to minimize Epstein’s ties to the powerful.

She denied that Bill Clinton ever received massages or traveled Epstein’s properties, despite photographic evidence and flight logs placing him alongside the disgraced financier.

The massage photo looks like a 35 year old woman. No issue in my opinion. Ring on the right hand is interesting though. I really am not a huge Clinton fan, but I'll go back to knowing people/friends and not knowing what they're doing you don't know about. No link, but I've heard the right hand means you're available so to speak. Kind of like swingers with the upside-down pineapple.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/virginia-giuffres-family-outraged-ghislaine-35783856

The family of Virginia Giuffre today said they were "outraged" after Ghislaine Maxwell was given a "platform to rewrite history" over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

The socialite, serving 20 years for supplying girls to disgraced financier Epstein, dismissed claims Prince Andrew had sex with Ms Giuffre, describing the allegation as "bullsh**". In tapes made public by the US Justice Department, Maxwell, 63, said claims Andrew, 65, had sex in her London mews house's bathroom in 2001 were "absurd".

During the two-day-long interview in prison with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July, she said: "The bathroom where they claim it happened was so small, you couldn't lie on the floor." Reacting after the transcripts of the interview were released on Friday, Ms Giuffre's family said: "We are outraged. During Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history. ...

Ms Giuffre's family also condemned the Justice Department's decision to transfer Maxwell to a minimum-security prison following her meeting with Blanche. “By moving convicted felon Maxwell to a minimum-security, country club prison, the DOJ sends a disturbing message that child sex trafficking is acceptable and will be rewarded,” the family said.

Our statement in response to the release of the tapes and transcripts: "Ghislaine Maxwell is innocent and never should have been tried, much less convicted, in this case. She never committed or participated in sexual abuse against minors, or anyone else for that matter. In fact, the government has admitted that it did not even consider her a conspirator during the extensive investigation into Epstein in the Southern District of Florida. The only reason she was ever charged is that she served as a scapegoat after Jeffrey Epstein died in prison. Ms. Maxwell did not receive a fair trial. Jurors lied to get on the jury, and the outcome was tainted from the start.

The materials newly released by the Department of Justice make this clear. Ms. Maxwell answered every question. She did not refuse to respond and did not dodge any question. She supported her answers with documents and other objective evidence. Her demeanor and credibility are clear for anyone to hear. She was able to do this despite five torturous years in custody, some of which in the worst imaginable conditions.

That stands in stark contrast to people like Virginia Giuffre, who has been demonstrated to have fabricated claims about President Trump, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew and many others. She later had to admit her “mistakes” and was so untrustworthy that even New York prosecutors would not put her on the stand. The difference could not be more striking. It demonstrates that the case against Ghislaine Maxwell was built on lies.

We are thankful to the Department of Justice and to Todd Blanche for making these tapes and transcripts public so that people can judge for themselves. We are also grateful to the President for his continued commitment to the truth in this matter and for refusing to cave to the mob."

https://x.com/domarkus/status/1958968514360090648

There is probably malfeasance, but the primary focus on sexual misconduct in the Epstein Situation is wrong.

It's probably more about off shore trusts and grey area tax evasion schemes than anything else.

By making it into a sex scandal, the media and authorities distracted attention away from the bigger financial / influence angle.

The Jizzlaine actress toes the line? They are hoping to keep the Epstein issue in shallow waters. The deeper waters might have people going mad and jumping off of buildings.

Giuffre was estranged from all her children and her ex-husband before her death. She got "kidney damage" from a fender bender with a school bus, which is highly unlikely.
https://www.tmz.com/2025/04/04/virginia-giuffre-accused-lies-school-bus-crash-almost-killed/?adid=social-fb
https://www.tmz.com/2025/04/01/jeffrey-epstein-accuser-virginia-giuffre-crash-confirm-bus/

She was being sued by other girls who said SHE lied about them and SHE was their recruiter and manager.

Giuffre had a family restraining order on her and the ex-husband had primary custody of the children.

If you think the US is anti-male, wait until you see Australia. She would have had to have acted terribly in front on witnesses to have a chance of her husband being awarded custody.

She committed suicide before her family court hearing.

https://7news.com.au/news/virginia-giuffre-accused-of-breaching-family-violence-restraining-order-prior-to-bus-crash-post-c-18242072

https://people.com/virginia-giuffre-accused-breaching-family-violence-restraining-order-before-revealing-days-to-live-11707431

What I'd say about the innocent looking ones often being the worst?

Finally, Giuffre was never asked at many of the trials for testimony. That tells you something.

Ross Gow, then a managing partner at Mayfair-based Acuity Reputation, emailed Maxwell with links to media articles about a case from the Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s childhood in which she claimed to have been raped by two older teenagers.

The articles indicate Giuffre, then 14, had told police she was raped in a car in a wooded area near her home in Palm Beach, Florida, by the two acquaintances, who she said had given her alcohol and marijuana. The case was not pursued by prosecutors due to a low likelihood of success at trial and concerns about Giuffre’s credibility. Police records show the suspects, aged 17 and 18, did not deny having sex with the then-underage Giuffre but said the encounter was consensual.

In an email dated 24 February 2015, sent to Maxwell and her then-lawyer, Philip Barden, Gow, a “reputation manager” working as Maxwell’s spokesman, appears to have suggested the information from Giuffre’s childhood could damage her case.

“Ghislaine. Some helpful leakage,” Gow wrote, before pasting the links to the articles, in the Daily Mail and the New York Daily News. In the email’s subject line he wrote: “VR cried rape – prior case dismissed as prosecutors found her ‘not credible’.” VR refers to Virginia Roberts, Giuffre’s maiden name.

Lawyers representing Maxwell later went on to refer to the 1998 case in court, along with other incidents from Giuffre’s childhood, arguing that they showed she was unreliable.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/07/ghislaine-maxwell-pr-adviser-virginia-giuffre-rape-allegations-jeffrey-epstein

"I dunno what's happening Guise, everybody just wants to rape me. Give me money."

Gee, Satanic Abuse... where have I heard THAT before. Keep in mind this is Giuffre's Mother telling Palm Beach cops in 1998 when Giuffre was hanging with the cool older guys with a car when she was 14... Long before she met Ghislaine or Epstein.

What about all the other victims ???

A good number of them are expected to testify to Congress.

Do you think they will make it that far ????

Massie and far left radical Democrat Ro Khanna working to get Epstein accusers and to smear Trump together. Press Conference scheduled for Sep 3.

"Judge" Napolitano, who is suspected of paying off multiple male accusers, will probably host Massie and has previously hosted Scott Ritter. Despite being an ultratrad he has never been married or has had any children; many such cases

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/causation-tuesday-august-26-2025

Epstein watchers! Prepare for more disclosures. Yesterday, a pair of articles painted a very provocative picture. The first ran in Politico, simply headlined “Epstein files land on Capitol Hill.” The sub-headline explained, “Now comes the waiting game as congressional Republicans and the DOJ coordinate on redactions.”

I find it simply incredible how the Epstein scandal has, within a couple months, managed to captivate nearly everyone’s attention. Before Trump’s return, it was mostly a MAGA issue. Now, even Democrats perch on their seats’ edges, obsessively rereading Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview transcript, and waiting impatiently for the next episode to drop.

“The Epstein saga,” Politico drily noted, “has brought together strange bedfellows in Congress.”

One wonders how this could’ve happened accidentally.

Anyway, earlier this month James Comer (R-Ky.), chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, subpoenaed Epstein records from DOJ, and DOJ promptly responded, delivering a tranche of records now requiring redaction to remove victims’ identifying information and XXX CSAM content. The Committee has promised to promptly release them once redactions have been made. ...

The second, and arguably even more interesting story appeared in yesterday’s Washington Post, headlined “House Oversight subpoenas Epstein estate, including for any ‘client list.’” The sub-headline explained, “Comer requested ‘any document or record that could be reasonably construed to be a potential list of clients involved in sex, sex acts or sex trafficking” facilitated by Epstein.’”

Now, in 2025, everybody is demanding to see that client list. Last year, Democrats called it a conspiracy theory. Be honest— did you ever see this turnaround coming?

The WaPo article described a new subpoena. This one is directed to Epstein’s estate lawyers, and is due by September 8th. One suspects the international man of mystery’s lawyers might not be as helpful or forthcoming as the DOJ has been. We’ll see.

In addition to any ‘client lists,’ among other things, the Committee demanded that Epstein’s estate attorneys cough up the leather-bound “wishes book” that Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly compiled for Jeffrey’s 50th birthday party. Comer also requested all nondisclosure agreements, the addresses and contacts in Epstein’s “Black Book,” flight logs, bank statements, the September 2007 non-prosecution agreement, and all video and CCTV footage from the plane and Epstein’s various residences.

All those requested documents are potentially explosive.

A dramatic sense of mounting inevitability suffuses the Epstein scandal. Not that long ago, it was the exclusive jurisdiction of conservative firebrands. Now, like an oil slick slowly spreading around a tanker collision, it is oozing far beyond the MAGA perimeter. The long-dormant story now hogs the headlines, soaks social media, and percolates throughout the podcast communities.

https://slaynews.com/news/house-investigators-subpoena-epsteins-estate-client-list-call-logs/

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) has announced that the panel is escalating its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, issuing a subpoena to the late financier’s estate and demanding extensive records.

Epstein’s estate must hand over multiple documents, including sex trafficker’s call logs and the elusive “client list,” by September 8.

In a Monday letter to attorneys representing Epstein’s estate, Comer outlined the scope of the inquiry:

“The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is reviewing the possible mismanagement of the federal government’s investigation of Mr. Jeffrey Epstein and Ms. Ghislaine Maxwell, the circumstances and subsequent investigations of Mr. Epstein’s death, the operation of sex-trafficking rings and ways for the federal government to effectively combat them, and potential violations of ethics rules related to elected officials.” ...

The subpoena demands a wide array of materials, including:

• Epstein’s will

• Financial transactions

• Call and visitor logs

• All entries in a book compiled by Maxwell for Epstein’s 50th birthday

• “Any document or record that could reasonably be construed to be a potential list of clients involved in sex, sex acts, or sex trafficking facilitated by Mr. Jeffrey Epstein.” ...

With the subpoena of Epstein’s estate, the committee is demanding access to records that could finally shed light on the financier’s network, his associates, and the failures that allowed him to operate for years.

I decided to look up Epstein's Palm Beach mansion at 358 El Brillo Way.

Aaaaand it's gone:



For some reason, it's labelled "The Valencia Specialists" now. Seems to be some kind of real estate company. And you can't even do the street view. See how the blue line turns at Travers Way? Huh.

Ah, here's another pedo name: Glenn Dubin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Dubin

There are several connections between Dubin and Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein invested millions in Dubin's hedge fund and helped JPMorgan acquire Dubin's firm. Epstein had dated Dubin's wife, Eva Andersson, for nearly a decade starting in the 1980s and the Dubins continued to maintain a friendship with Epstein, including after Epstein's arrest for sex trafficking in 2006. In testimony in Virginia Giuffre's 2015 civil suit against Ghislaine Maxwell, Giuffre testified that Maxwell instructed her to "have sex with Glenn Dubin" and others.

And here's yet another motive some people may have wanted Epstein dead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hoffenberg

In 1987, he met Jeffrey Epstein through a British defense contractor named Douglas Leese...

Leese told Hoffenberg about Epstein: "The guy's a genius, he's great at selling securities. And he has no moral compass." ...

During this period, Hoffenberg and Epstein worked closely together and traveled everywhere on Hoffenberg's private jet. Hoffenberg began using Towers Financial funds to pay off earlier investors and pay for a lavish lifestyle ...

In court documents, Hoffenberg claimed that Epstein was intimately involved in the Ponzi scheme. Epstein left Towers Financial before it collapsed and was never charged for being involved with the massive investor fraud committed. ...

In 2016, Hoffenberg and some of his victims sued Epstein, seeking restitution. He asserted in court that Epstein had been intimately involved in Tower's financial practices and called Epstein the "architect of the scam". In July 2019, following Epstein's arrest on charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, Hoffenberg again claimed that Epstein was his "uncharged co-conspirator" in the Ponzi scheme.

Reminds me of Madoff's co-conspirator Jeffry Picower who happened to drown in a pool. Just an accident.

I've been reading "Filthy Rich" a 1996 book by James Patterson about Epstein. Ran across a mention of the blackmail scheme from back then. Testimony from Virginia Roberts, who was a coat clerk girl at $9/hour at Mar-a-Lago when Ghislaine recruited her to have sex with Epstein for cash:

"In addition to constantly finding underage girls to satisfy their personal desires, Epstein and Maxwell also got girls for Epstein's friends and acquaintances. Epstein specifically told me that the reason for him doing this was so that they would "owe him," they would "be in his pocket," and he would "have something on them." I understood that Epstein thought he could get leniency if he was ever caught doing anything illegal, or that he could escape trouble altogether."

Roberts submitted her declaration in support of a motion to be added as a plaintiff in a suit (ongoing, as of this writing) that sought to overturn a non-prosecution agreement that Jeffrey Epstein would reach with the government. Roberts was seeking to join a case brought against the government by two other victims, but a judge denied her motion in April of 2015, explaining that the case had already been pending for several years, and it was unnecessary to add an additional plaintiff.

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https://san.com/cc/impressive-island-ex-israeli-prime-ministers-hacked-emails-reveal-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein/

Ehud Barak is the main reason you don't see the NY Times joining the chorus of AntiFa and Blue Hairs demanding the release of the Epstein "client" list and "files"

Like I said, Epstein did the bidding of Ehud Barak (former Mossad head and Prime Minister of Israel) and Mossad shell companies

The money Epstein made for them ranged from paying off informants in order to track down and kill General Soleimani, and to report on Iran nuclear weapon development

If this info makes it into the mainstream media than it will be like exposing Mossad and CIA tradecraft as much as it will be embarrassing info

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Patrick says

For some reason, it's labelled "The Valencia Specialists" now.

Just because there's nothing above ground any more doesn't mean there isn't a lot of stuff still underground i.e. tunnel networks and underground chambers. A lot of these locations have much more underground than they ever had above ground.

https://x.com/realaf_patriot/status/1960946207955554556?s=46

Patrick says

For some reason, it's labelled "The Valencia Specialists" now. Seems to be some kind of real estate company. And you can't even do the street view. See how the blue line turns at Travers Way? Huh.

I know you don't do google, but they're building a house. So likely a real estate developer. Epstein's estate likely sold it. New owner demolished the old place as it wouldn't sell as high. Build a newer nicer place. Probably got the place at a super deal as well as most wouldn't want to be associated with it. That's prime real estate though and the new house going in is a monster.

Our buddy Benjamin Fulford's take on the real Jizzlaine rather than the Jizzlaine Actress Lite they are trying to flog.

https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=258757

Going to start listening to the Ghislaine audio to see if there's anything interesting there:

https://www.justice.gov/maxwell-interview

Audio is not great, so reading transcripts instead:

https://www.justice.gov/storage/audio-files/Interview%20Transcript/Interview%20Transcript%20-%20Maxwell%202025.07.24%20(Redacted).pdf

GHISLAINE MAXWELL: That's true and I did
5 speak to him and I did ask him if -- oh, and did tell
6 him that I would be very keen to talk to anyone,
7 because no one from the government, at any time, ever
8 in the -- since the inception of the case, so dating
9 back to the early 2000s, has ever spoken to me, and
10 indeed, I believe ever reached out to me at any time
11 to even speak to me. And that includes up to when I
12 was indicted and prosecuted.

This is very strange. She was tried, convicted, and sent to prison, without ever speaking to anyone from the government?

18 TODD BLANCHE: Do you know what kind of
19 work Mr. Epstein was doing for Mr. Black over the
20 years?
21 GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Same as what he did
22 for Wexner.

Ah, another bit of leverage Epstein had over very rich people was his tax evasion advice. He would advise them and then get a percentage of what they "saved":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Black

The review conducted by Dechert LLP was released on January 25, 2021. It showed that Black had paid Epstein around $158 million from 2012 through 2017 for financial services.[42] Using Epstein's tax avoidance strategies, Black saved at least $1.3 billion in taxes.

But then Epstein knew that these guys were evading taxes, because he helped them do it.

Ceffer says

Our buddy Benjamin Fulford's take on the real Jizzlaine rather than the Jizzlaine Actress Lite they are trying to flog.

So they are creating children from cloning ? why ? as test specimens for a lab ?

part of life extension efforts funding by Gates and the elites and they use the blood from children as part of that ?

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Having read a lot of the first transcript, my conclusion is that Ghislaine is a bullshitter.

First she talks about how she left England partly to escape continuously working on her father's businesses. Then she talks about how after it came out that her father Robert Maxwell defrauded one of his company's pension funds of 100M pounds, she denied ever having anything to do with his businesses.

Also, she admits hiring "masseuses" for Epstein, and knew that he was sexually abusing them, but says the girls all looked 18 to her. She never once asked for ID.

Patrick says

Having read a lot of the first transcript, my conclusion is that Ghislaine is a bullshitter.

First she talks about how she left England partly to escape continuously working on her father's businesses. Then she talks about how after it came out that her father Robert Maxwell defrauded one of his company's pension funds of 100M pounds, she denied ever having anything to do with his businesses.

Also, she admits hiring "masseuses" for Epstein, and knew that he was sexually abusing them, but says the girls all looked 18 to her. She never once asked for ID.

Agreed, she’s clearly lying

Here's another lie by Ghislaine:

2 GHISLAINE MAXWELL: I've never recruited a
3 masseuse from Mar-a-Lago for that, as far as I
4 remember. I can't ever recollect doing that.

Virginia Giuffre said Maxwell recruited her out of Mar-a-Lago, and Trump himself says he was angry upon learning that Maxwell did that.

Funny that she has a posh English accent on the one hand, but on the other hand throws in Yiddish words now and then:

7 GHISLAINE MAXWELL: So I -- I just -- I
8 think it's really helpful to understand a few things
9 that has been missed in this whole mishigas.

mishigas = craziness

"So that's how they came, because also it was a schlep."

A schlep is a long trip.