One thing rings out clear as a bell from Ben Reid’s four-part ITVX documentary Ghislaine Maxwell: Partner in Crime – she was no observer. This masterpiece of dissection leaves viewers in little doubt about the culpability of the disgraced British socialite when it comes to her paedophile lover Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. Both, it reveals, were as bad as each other. If police said DJ Jimmy Savile “groomed a nation”, they did it on both sides of the Atlantic.
Reid’s series contains graphic testimony of sexual abuse and threats to kill young women if they dared speak, and like an onion, slowly unpeels to reveal Maxwell at the centre of it all.
