Latest / Beyond The Horizon / The Maxwell Trial Transcripts: Kate Describes Her Relationship With Ghislaine Maxwell (Part 3) (11/10/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
- 0:03Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode we're going to pick up
- 0:06Speaker 1: where we left off with the testimony from Kate during
- 0:10Speaker 1: the Glenn Maxwell trial. Question, did you give Epstein a
- 0:14Speaker 1: massage in the room? Answer yes. Question, and without telling
- 0:18Speaker 1: the jury the details, during the massage, did Epstein initiate
- 0:21Speaker 1: sexual contact with you? Answer yes. Question, did Epstein engage
- 0:26Speaker 1: in a sex act with you during the massage? Answer yes. Answer, yes. Question,
- 0:32Speaker 1: I want to move forward to the end of the massage.
- 0:34Speaker 1: After it ended, where did you go? Answer, I went
- 0:38Speaker 1: downstairs again. Question, and who, if anyone, did you see? Answer,
- 0:42Speaker 1: I saw Ghislaine Maxwell. Question, what, if anything, did Maxwell
- 0:45Speaker 1: say to you after the massage? Answer, she said, did
- 0:48Speaker 1: you have fun? You're such a good girl, and I'm
- 0:51Speaker 1: so happy you were able to come. This is really great,
- 0:54Speaker 1: and he obviously likes you a lot. Question, yes. Can
- 0:57Speaker 1: you describe Maxwell's tone when she made those statements? Answer.
- 1:01Speaker 1: She sounded really pleased. And I was really pleased that
- 1:04Speaker 1: she was pleased. Question. Did you leave Maxwell's house? Answer. Yes. Question.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Other than the three times that you saw Epstein at
- 1:12Speaker 1: Maxwell's townhouse in London, did you see anyone else at
- 1:15Speaker 1: her house? Answer. Can you repeat it? Question. Other than
- 1:19Speaker 1: the three times you saw Epstein at Maxwell's townhouse in London,
- 1:24Speaker 1: did you see anyone else at her house? Answer. Yes. Question,
- 1:27Speaker 1: who did you see? Answer, I saw a girl. Question,
- 1:31Speaker 1: how or what did the girl look like? Answer, she
- 1:34Speaker 1: was blonde and slim, around my age. Question, approximately how
- 1:38Speaker 1: old were you when you saw this girl? Answer, 17. Question,
- 1:42Speaker 1: and what did you see the girl doing at Maxwell's townhouse? Answer,
- 1:47Speaker 1: she was having tea with Ghislaine and telling Ghislaine about
- 1:50Speaker 1: the things that she was interested in. Question, what if
- 1:53Speaker 1: anything did Maxwell say to you about what she thought
- 1:55Speaker 1: Epstein would think of the girl? Answer, can you repeat
- 1:58Speaker 1: it please? Question, what if anything did Maxwell say to
- 2:02Speaker 1: you about what she thought Epstein would think of the girl? Answer,
- 2:06Speaker 1: she said, I think she would be a good fit
- 2:08Speaker 1: for him. Question, after Epstein engaged in sex acts with
- 2:12Speaker 1: you during massages in Maxwell's house in London, did you
- 2:15Speaker 1: ever see Epstein and Maxwell again? Answer, yes. Question, over
- 2:19Speaker 1: the next few years... How frequently did you see them? Answer,
- 2:23Speaker 1: I saw them. Do you mean how many individual occasions?
- 2:26Speaker 1: Or how many? Can you be specific? Question, sure. Over
- 2:31Speaker 1: the next few years, about how many times did you
- 2:34Speaker 1: see them? Answer, how many times per year? It was sporadic.
- 2:38Speaker 1: The first couple of years, more. Probably five times the
- 2:41Speaker 1: first couple of years. Question, and on the times that
- 2:44Speaker 1: you would see them, would you see them just one time?
- 2:47Speaker 1: Or would you see them multiple times? Answer, multiple times. Question,
- 2:52Speaker 1: do you remember the exact details and dates of every
- 2:54Speaker 1: single time you saw Epstein and Maxwell? Answer, no. Question,
- 2:59Speaker 1: do some details and events stand out more in your
- 3:01Speaker 1: mind than others? Answer, yes. Question, I want to talk
- 3:05Speaker 1: to you about the time period from when you were
- 3:08Speaker 1: 17 years old to your early 20s. Were you in
- 3:12Speaker 1: contact with Maxwell during that time period? Answer, yes. Question,
- 3:16Speaker 1: how did you typically communicate with Maxwell during that period? Answer,
- 3:20Speaker 1: by phone. Question. When you spoke with Maxwell on the phone,
- 3:24Speaker 1: what topics did Maxwell talk to you about? Answer. She
- 3:27Speaker 1: asked me what I was up to, if things were
- 3:29Speaker 1: going well, if I was dating anybody, if I wanted
- 3:32Speaker 1: to visit, and if anything exciting was happening. Question. When
- 3:36Speaker 1: you spoke with Maxwell on the phone, what, if anything,
- 3:39Speaker 1: did Maxwell ask you to do for Epstein? Answer. She
- 3:43Speaker 1: asked me to come visit them. Question. What, if any,
- 3:47Speaker 1: sexual topics did Maxwell bring up on the phone? Answer.
- 3:51Speaker 1: she didn't bring up sexual topics on the phone. Question,
- 3:55Speaker 1: when you saw Maxwell in person, did there come a
- 3:57Speaker 1: time where she brought sexual topics up with you? Answer, yes. Question, what,
- 4:02Speaker 1: if any, sexual topics did Maxwell bring up? Answer, she
- 4:06Speaker 1: would talk a lot about the nature of, she would
- 4:08Speaker 1: say boys and boys and their willies, which was a
- 4:10Speaker 1: euphemism for a penis, how demanding Jeffrey Epstein was. And
- 4:14Speaker 1: she would ask me if I knew anybody who could
- 4:17Speaker 1: come and give Jeffrey a blowjob because it was a
- 4:19Speaker 1: lot of fun for her to do. Question, what, if anything,
- 4:22Speaker 1: did Maxwell tell you about the girls for Epstein? Bobby Sternum,
- 4:26Speaker 1: objection leading. Judge Nathan, just a moment. I'll allow it.
- 4:31Speaker 1: You may answer. Kate, thank you. She said, you know,
- 4:35Speaker 1: what he likes, cute, young, pretty, like you. Question about
- 4:39Speaker 1: how long after you met Maxwell do you remember having
- 4:42Speaker 1: conversations about those topics? Answer, within a few weeks. Question,
- 4:47Speaker 1: approximately how many times did you, did those sexual topics
- 4:50Speaker 1: come up? Answer, all the time. Question, did you tell
- 4:54Speaker 1: Maxwell about any other girls for Epstein? Answer, no. Question,
- 4:58Speaker 1: did you connect Maxwell with any girls for Epstein? Answer, no. Question,
- 5:03Speaker 1: what if anything did Maxwell say about how often Epstein
- 5:06Speaker 1: needed to have sex? Answer, she said that he needed
- 5:09Speaker 1: to have sex about three times a day. Question, approximately
- 5:13Speaker 1: when did she make those statements? Answer, in the first
- 5:16Speaker 1: couple of months. Question, what was Maxwell's demeanor like? when
- 5:20Speaker 1: she would talk to you about sexual topics? Answer, her
- 5:23Speaker 1: demeanor was very, I would say that it was almost
- 5:25Speaker 1: like a schoolgirl. And I almost felt like she was younger,
- 5:28Speaker 1: like talking like she was younger than me, which was odd.
- 5:33Speaker 1: And everything was fun, and everything was silly, and everything
- 5:36Speaker 1: was just very exciting. And just everything seemed to be
- 5:39Speaker 1: like a fun, silly joke. Question, within the first few
- 5:42Speaker 1: months of meeting Maxwell, what, if anything, did Maxwell ask
- 5:45Speaker 1: you about your sex life? Answer, she asked me if
- 5:48Speaker 1: I liked sex. She asked me, you know, if I
- 5:50Speaker 1: was dating anybody. Question, you testified earlier that when you
- 5:55Speaker 1: went for tea at Maxwell's house in London, you told
- 5:57Speaker 1: her about your family. Did you continue to tell Maxwell
- 6:00Speaker 1: about your family? Answer, yes. Question, what, if anything, did
- 6:04Speaker 1: you tell her about your family? Answer, I just continued
- 6:07Speaker 1: to tell her that, you know, my mother was struggling
- 6:10Speaker 1: and that it was very difficult and that I was
- 6:13Speaker 1: alone a lot. Question, when you first met Maxwell and Epstein...
- 6:17Speaker 1: What was your understanding of their relationship? Answer. I understood
- 6:21Speaker 1: that Jeffrey was her boyfriend. Question. In the first few years,
- 6:25Speaker 1: you knew Maxwell. What did you understand to be Maxwell's job? Answer.
- 6:30Speaker 1: I understood that her job was to take care of
- 6:32Speaker 1: Jeffrey's needs. Question. What, if any, involvement did Maxwell have
- 6:37Speaker 1: in managing properties? Answer. She seemed to be pretty involved
- 6:41Speaker 1: in managing properties and making sure that everything was the
- 6:43Speaker 1: way that Jeffrey liked it. and there seemed to be
- 6:46Speaker 1: a lot of rules around that. Question, did Maxwell ever
- 6:50Speaker 1: tell you what, if any, property she owned? Answer, yes. Question,
- 6:54Speaker 1: what did she tell you? Answer, she told me that
- 6:56Speaker 1: she owned her house in London, and that at a
- 6:58Speaker 1: later time she told me that she owned her house
- 7:00Speaker 1: in New York City, and that Jeffrey had got it
- 7:02Speaker 1: for her. Question, did you ever have any conversation with
- 7:05Speaker 1: Maxwell about her social circle? Answer, yes. Question, what do
- 7:10Speaker 1: you recall her telling you about her social circle? Answer, well,
- 7:14Speaker 1: she seemed to know everybody. And she told me that
- 7:16Speaker 1: she was friends with Prince Andrew, friends with Donald Trump,
- 7:19Speaker 1: friends with lots of famous people. And sometimes her names
- 7:21Speaker 1: would just come up in conversation or she might be
- 7:24Speaker 1: talking on the phone about them with me present. Question,
- 7:28Speaker 1: I want to switch gears just for a moment. You
- 7:30Speaker 1: mentioned Oxford earlier. Did you end up going to Oxford? Answer, no. Question,
- 7:35Speaker 1: during your late teens and early 20s, what did you
- 7:37Speaker 1: do for a living? Answer, in my late teens and
- 7:40Speaker 1: early 20s, I became a musician and a model. Question,
- 7:45Speaker 1: you testified earlier that Epstein initiated sexual activity with you
- 7:48Speaker 1: when you were 17 years old. Approximately, when did he
- 7:52Speaker 1: stop initiating sexual activity with you? Answer, approximately in my
- 7:56Speaker 1: early 30s. Question, when you spent time with Epstein in
- 7:59Speaker 1: that time period, about how often did he initiate sexual
- 8:03Speaker 1: activity with you? Answer, sorry, can you repeat that? Question,
- 8:07Speaker 1: when you spent time with Epstein, how often did he
- 8:10Speaker 1: initiate sexual activity with you? Answer, every time. Question, when
- 8:15Speaker 1: Epstein initiated sexual activity with you, was that always in
- 8:18Speaker 1: the context of massage? Answer, no. Question, when you spent
- 8:22Speaker 1: time with Epstein, did you provide him with sexualized massages? Answer, yes. Question,
- 8:28Speaker 1: in what locations did these sexualized massages with Epstein take place? Answer,
- 8:33Speaker 1: in London, in Palm Beach, and on his island. Question,
- 8:37Speaker 1: we'll talk about those places in a bit. Apart from
- 8:39Speaker 1: the first massage in London, were you rubbed Epstein's feet
- 8:42Speaker 1: and shoulders? Were there any other massages you provided Epstein
- 8:46Speaker 1: in which nothing sexual happened? Answer, no. Question, was anyone
- 8:50Speaker 1: in the room with you and Epstein while you were
- 8:53Speaker 1: giving him massages? Answer, no. Question, you mentioned that after
- 8:57Speaker 1: the first two massages you gave Epstein when you were 17,
- 9:00Speaker 1: you saw Maxwell right after. Did anything like that happen
- 9:04Speaker 1: with any other sexualized massages you gave Epstein? Answer, yes. Question,
- 9:09Speaker 1: what do you remember about those interactions? Answer, well, mostly.
- 9:15Speaker 1: She would ask me if it went well, if I
- 9:17Speaker 1: had fun. Question, what, if any, gifts did you receive
- 9:20Speaker 1: from Maxwell? I received a small black Prada handbag. Question,
- 9:24Speaker 1: where did you receive that gift? Answer, in London. Question,
- 9:28Speaker 1: and how did you know that the gift was from Maxwell? Answer,
- 9:32Speaker 1: there was a note that said from Ghislaine and Jeffrey. Question,
- 9:35Speaker 1: and what was that a gift for? Answer, for my birthday. Question,
- 9:39Speaker 1: what birthday? Answer, I believe my 18th. Question. Answer. Question. Answer.
- 9:50Speaker 1: during massages at Maxwell's house? Answer, after. Question, what, if any,
- 9:55Speaker 1: conversation do you remember having with Maxwell about travel? Answer,
- 10:00Speaker 1: I remember that she was always accommodating and told me
- 10:02Speaker 1: that whenever I wanted to come and visit, that she'd
- 10:05Speaker 1: take care of everything and that they would take care
- 10:07Speaker 1: of everything. Question, did those conversations about travel happen before
- 10:11Speaker 1: or after she gave you the handbag? Answer, before. Question,
- 10:16Speaker 1: did there come a time when you traveled to meet
- 10:18Speaker 1: Epstein and Maxwell? Answer, yes. Question, approximately how many times
- 10:24Speaker 1: did you travel to meet them? Answer, to meet both
- 10:27Speaker 1: of them. Question, yes. Answer, four or five times. Question,
- 10:31Speaker 1: do you remember approximately how old you were when you
- 10:34Speaker 1: first traveled to meet Maxwell and Epstein? Answer, approximately 18. Question,
- 10:39Speaker 1: and do you remember approximately how old you were when
- 10:41Speaker 1: you last traveled to meet both Maxwell and Epstein? Answer,
- 10:45Speaker 1: approximately 24. Question, during that time period... Where did you
- 10:49Speaker 1: travel to meet Epstein and Maxwell? Answer, I traveled to
- 10:52Speaker 1: Palm Beach, to New York, and to the island. Question,
- 10:56Speaker 1: when you traveled to meet Maxwell and Epstein, how did
- 10:58Speaker 1: you travel? Answer, I traveled on commercial planes. Question, who
- 11:03Speaker 1: booked your travel? Answer, I'm not always sure who booked it,
- 11:06Speaker 1: but usually Ghislaine informed me about it. Sometimes one of
- 11:10Speaker 1: the assistants would book it, maybe Leslie Groff. Question, generally speaking,
- 11:16Speaker 1: Where did you stay when you visited Epstein and Maxwell? Answer.
- 11:21Speaker 1: I generally stayed with them. Question. And when you say
- 11:24Speaker 1: you stayed with them, where did you stay? Answer. At
- 11:27Speaker 1: their house. Question. Who owned the properties? Answer. Jeffrey, I think. Question.
- 11:33Speaker 1: How did Maxwell talk about the properties that Epstein owned? Answer.
- 11:36Speaker 1: She talked. She talked about them as if they were
- 11:39Speaker 1: her homes. Question. Who worked at Epstein's homes? Answer. I
- 11:43Speaker 1: would see staff sometimes, but I didn't know their names
- 11:46Speaker 1: and I didn't have much interaction with them. Question, what,
- 11:49Speaker 1: if anything, did you observe about Maxwell and her interactions
- 11:52Speaker 1: with the staff? Answer, I noticed that she was the
- 11:55Speaker 1: one who mainly communicated with the staff. She seemed to
- 11:58Speaker 1: be telling them, giving them a lot of direction around
- 12:00Speaker 1: doing things the way that Jeffrey wanted them done. Detailed
- 12:04Speaker 1: instructions around food and just quite aggressive communication with them.
- 12:08Speaker 1: All right, folks, we're going to wrap up right here.
- 12:10Speaker 1: And in the next episode, we're going to pick up
- 12:12Speaker 1: where we left off. All the information that goes with
- 12:14Speaker 1: this episode can be found in the description box.