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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump won’t rule out pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell. Can anyone trust her?

Over the course of a decade, Ghislaine Maxwell “facilitated and participated in the sexual abuse of multiple young girls” alongside her partner Jeffrey Epstein while enjoying a “life of extraordinary luxury and privilege,” according to federal prosecutors.

From 1994 to 2004, Maxwell and Epstein worked together to groom young girls — some as young as 14 years old — and enticed them to travel to Epstein’s properties, prosecutors said. During a monthlong trial in 2021, survivors testified in federal court in Manhattan that Maxwell had groomed them, took their passports, and sexually abused them.

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