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Molly Crane-Newman

Ghislaine Maxwell argues daddy issues drove her to Jeffrey Epstein

NEW YORK — Victim-shaming failed, so now Ghislaine Maxwell is trying the daddy issues defense.

The disgraced British socialite and her family argue in new court papers that her media mogul father primed her to be manipulated by world-class predator Jeffrey Epstein.

“(As) elder siblings we witnessed our father taking Ghislaine under his wing whereby she became over dependent on his approval and vulnerable to his frequent rapid mood swings, huge rages and rejections,” reads a letter by Maxwell’s two eldest siblings, Anne Halve and Philip Maxwell.

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