“Ghislaine controlled the girls,” Ransome said. “She would be the one getting all the girls in check. She knew what Jeffrey liked… this was very much a joint effort.”
Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, Epstein’s longtime companion and convicted co-conspirator, is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in procuring and grooming underage girls for Epstein.
Maxwell and her attorneys have long argued that Giuffre and her associates sensationalized their stories for media attention and financial gain, claims Giuffre’s legal team has strongly denied.
Sigrid McCawley, Giuffre’s lawyer, said: “For years, and as if their lives depended upon it, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein led a relentless effort to discredit my client, Virginia Giuffre.
“But the passage of time and the facts, which have survived subsequent and substantial examination and scrutiny, have proven that the information Virginia provided about being trafficked as a young girl by Maxwell and Epstein is true’”
Despite the official findings, the release of Giuffre’s diaries is likely to reignite debate over the true extent of Epstein’s crimes and the possibility of a blackmail operation that has, for now, eluded definitive proof.
