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We Cracked the Redactions in the Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition Here’s what it says about Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, and Prince Andrew. Plus: Help us decode more names https://slate.com/news-and-politics...position-redactions-epstein-how-to-crack.html On Thursday morning, a federal court released a 2016 deposition given by Ghislaine Maxwell, the 58-year-old British woman charged by the federal government with enticing underage girls to have sex with Jeffrey Epstein. That deposition, which Maxwell has fought to withhold, was given as part of a defamation suit brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who alleges that she was lured to become Epstein’s sex slave. That defamation suit was settled in 2017. Epstein died by suicide in 2019. In the deposition, Maxwell was pressed to answer questions about the many famous men in Epstein’s orbit, among them Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz, and Prince Andrew. In the document that was released on Thursday, those names and others appear under black bars. According to the Miami Herald, which sued for this and other documents to be released, the deposition was released only after “days of wrangling over redactions.” It turns out, though, that those redactions are possible to crack. That’s because the deposition—which you can read in full here—includes a complete alphabetized index of the redacted and unredacted words that appear in the document. For example, after cracking the redactions, we know that Maxwell was asked about an email that Dershowitz allegedly sent to Epstein. In that email, Dershowitz reportedly wrote that he was “working on several possible articles about unfairness in the legal process that allows false charges to be inserted into legal documents.” Here’s how to deduce the redacted words, using former President Bill Clinton as an example. You can see in the index that a word that falls alphabetically between clients and clock appears on quite a number of pages. From this, we know that the word starts with the letters CL. The index indicates that this word shows up on the seventh line of page 135. If we go to page 135, we can see that in this instance the word Clinton has not been redacted. On other pages listed in the same index entry, the word Clinton has been redacted. See page 104. (The redacted word that appears before Clinton, in these cases, is President.) That Clinton example is representative. Maxwell’s most common responses in the deposition: that she doesn’t know anything and that the accusations against her and Epstein are lies. But it’s still worthwhile to see who Maxwell was asked about, and how exactly she responded. Consider the example of Alan Dershowitz. The index indicated that there’s a redacted word that comes after airport and before alcohol. There’s also a redacted word that comes after depth and before describe. The A-word and the D-word, the index reports, appear consecutively on pages 211, 299, 368, and 407. Based on context, we can easily deduce that those two words are Alan and Dershowitz. Here’s a redacted case of Dershowitz on page 210. (Virginia Roberts Giuffre has publicly accused Dershowitz of having sex with her while she was underage, which he has denied.) And here’s one more example: We know that one of the blacked-out words, which appears unredacted on line 10 of page two, is Andrews. That index entry also indicates that two of those words show up multiple times on page 290. Roberts Giuffre wrote about an identical incident involving a puppet and Prince Andrew in her memoir. From this, we can deduce that the words here are Andrews and Andrew. (“Do you recollect asking Virginia Roberts to sit on Andrew’s lap with the caricature of Andrew?”) What else does Maxwell say about Prince Andrew? In an exchange starting on page 105, Maxwell says that she’s known him for “a very long time” but that she never introduced him to Jeffrey Epstein or Virginia Roberts Giuffre, and that Andrew never told her that he’d had sex with Roberts Giuffre. Then there’s this exchange on page 232: “So did Prince Andrew tell you that he did not have sex with Virginia Roberts?” “He doesn’t even know who Virginia Roberts is.” “Did he tell you that he didn’t have sex with her?” “It would be difficult to have sex with someone you don’t know.” Here are some of the other names we cracked: • Doug Band (page 137 of deposition) • Rebecca Boylan (page 352) • Jean Luc Brunel (pages 99, 116, 166, 167, 379, 380) • Chelsea Clinton (page 377) • Eva Dubin (pages 57-58, 339) • Glenn Dubin (pages 57-58, 61, 237, 303-304, 339) • Al Gore (pages 230-231) • Ross Gow (pages 201-204, 210, 273, 348-349, 353, 361, 391, 405) • Sarah Kellen (pages 47-49, 56-57, 255, 328-329, 378, 395, 396, 411, 412) • Nadia Marcinko, also known as Nadia Marcinkova (pages 40-47, 87, 255, 396) • Marvin Minsky (page 145) • David Rodgers (pages 129, 410) • Alfredo Rodriguez (pages 317, 328, 329, 330, 331, 334, 335) • Kevin Spacey (page 266) • Emmy Tayler (63-65, 67, 120-121, 126-127, 142) • Chris Tucker (page 266) • Leslie Wexner (pages 117, 314, 380, 381, 403, 404) Want to help us crack some more redactions? Email us what you find at tips@slate.com. This is a breaking news story and will be updated with new information as it becomes available.
The worldwide investigation gains momentum... French modeling agent arrested in Jeffrey Epstein investigation https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/17/europe/france-jean-luc-brunel-intl/index.html A French modeling agent has been arrested in Paris as part of an investigation by the city's prosecutor's office connected to accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Jean-Luc Brunel was arrested at Charles de Gaulle Airport on Wednesday, according to prosecutor's office. He was taken into custody on "counts of rape and sexual assault, rape and sexual assault on a minor under 15, rape and sexual assault on a minor over 15, sexual harassment, criminal associations and human trafficking to the detriment of minor victims for the purposes of sexual exploitation," the Paris prosecutor's office said in a statement. Brunel's lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Paris probe was launched on August 23, 2019 and targets "acts of sexual nature likely to have been committed by Jeffrey Epstein and possible accomplices," the prosecutor's office said. That same year, prosecutors said the investigation was based on checks and cross-checks carried out on information provided to the public prosecutor's office and exchanges with US authorities. In 2019, US federal prosecutors alleged that Epstein ran a sex trafficking enterprise between 2002 and 2005 at his homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida. The indictment also said Epstein worked with employees and associates to lure the girls to his residences and paid some of his victims to recruit other girls for him to abuse. Epstein died on August 10, 2019, while awaiting trial in federal prison. In July this year, Ghislaine Maxwell was charged by New York federal prosecutors with helping recruit, groom and ultimately sexually abuse minors as young as 14 as part of a sex-trafficking ring allegedly operated by Epstein. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Ghislaine Maxwell could have suffered same fate as Princess Diana, her security guard says https://www.nydailynews.com/new-yor...0201215-jogbq4qkxzcetpqumyxsytjjgm-story.html Ghislaine Maxwell was at risk of dying just like Princess Diana due to relentless press interest, a security expert for the accused Jeffrey Epstein madam wrote in a new court filing. The unexpected comparison between the beloved British royal who died in a car crash and the socialite charged with grooming underage girls in an international sex trafficking ring came in Maxwell’s $28.5 million bail proposal filed Monday. Maxwell’s security consultant since July 2019 wrote in a Manhattan Federal Court filing that she faced constant death threats and “aggressive behavior” from the press. (More at above url)
Maybe it's just me, but that looks a lot like Hillary Clinton in that picture. Heh. I could be wrong.