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Maxwell Family Condemns Judge’s Rejection of Post-Conviction Claims (8/28/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. Ghislaine Maxwell's family has responded to Judge Engelmeyer's
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  Speaker 1: ruling denying her motion for an appeal. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: Ghislaine Maxwell's family says that Ghislaine Maxwell once again is
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  Speaker 1: being treated unfairly and that the judge's snide comments were
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  Speaker 1: uncalled for and that he wasn't being professional. Imagine that
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  Speaker 1: being the only complaints you have When your family member
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  Speaker 1: is in prison for what she's in prison for, and
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  Speaker 1: you're worried that the judge is being snide after her
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  Speaker 1: 400th attempt to try and get released, that's really what
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  Speaker 1: you're worried about, huh? You notice they never attack the facts.
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  Speaker 1: They never attack the testimony. They attack the loopholes and
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  Speaker 1: the technicalities because that's all they really have to go on.
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  Speaker 1: There's no evidence that points to Ghislaine Maxwell being wrongly prosecuted.
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  Speaker 1: There's no evidence that points to Ghislaine Maxwell having her
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  Speaker 1: constitutional rights stepped on. You know what we do have
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  Speaker 1: evidence for, though? That Ghislaine Maxwell did all those things
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  Speaker 1: to the people she's accused of hurting. That's what we
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  Speaker 1: have the evidence for, and that's why her bitch ass
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  Speaker 1: is sitting in prison. And that's why she's not getting out.
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  Speaker 1: So today, we have an article from ABC News and
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  Speaker 1: the headline. Ghislaine Maxwell's family says she'll continue to fight
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  Speaker 1: charges she had at Epstein. This article was authored by
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  Speaker 1: James Hill. Look, her only hope is good old Donnie
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  Speaker 1: Trump letting her out. If he grants her clemency, gives
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  Speaker 1: her a pardon, that's her only hope. But even then,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that Glenn Maxwell is not going to
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  Speaker 1: face legal jeopardy. We've already talked about dual sovereignty and
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  Speaker 1: how that works and how Glenn Maxwell is the perfect
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  Speaker 1: candidate for that. Two days after a federal judge rejected
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Maxwell's challenge to her conviction, on five counts of
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  Speaker 1: aiding Jeffrey Epstein in his abuse of underage girls, her
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  Speaker 1: family said Thursday that she'll continue to fight the verdict. Well,
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  Speaker 1: good luck. I mean, at some point, you run out
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  Speaker 1: of real estate, right? That runway runs out, and either
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  Speaker 1: the plane takes off, or that son of a bitch crashes.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we're at the point where Ghislaine Maxwell's plane,
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  Speaker 1: for all intents and purposes, is not leaving the runway.
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  Speaker 1: criticized the judge's ruling as disappointing and shocking.
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  Speaker 2: After U.S. District Judge, Judge Engelmeyer rejected Maxwell's arguments as
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  Speaker 2: frivolous and meritless. The court's opinion, as published, is marked
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  Speaker 2: by a tone of sarcasm and disdain that, in our view,
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  Speaker 2: undermines the appearance of impartiality and invites scrutiny of the
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  Speaker 2: judge's conduct, the family statement said, while indicating that Maxwell
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  Speaker 2: intends to continue to press her case. How else is
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  Speaker 2: the judge supposed to respond?
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  Speaker 1: Every single court in the land has told this skafooza
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  Speaker 1: to keep him moving. But no, it's the judge's fault.
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  Speaker 1: The judge shouldn't have any smart-ass comments for Ghislaine Maxwell,
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  Speaker 1: the bipedal serpent, the queen of talking bullshit. What are
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  Speaker 1: we ever going to do? The judge called Ghislaine Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: on her bullshit. Now her family's upset. Have they paid
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  Speaker 1: back those pensions yet? That's really the question we should
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  Speaker 1: be asking. Have they made people whole? Probably should be
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  Speaker 1: worried about that, no? We are stating clearly, our sister
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  Speaker 1: is not going to let the matter rest. The district
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  Speaker 1: court's ruling contains multiple concrete errors that she intends to
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  Speaker 1: challenge fully, the family said. In what manner? How exactly
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  Speaker 1: is she going to do that? This foul woman has
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  Speaker 1: exhausted all options. There's nothing left for her to do.
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  Speaker 1: There's no court to turn to at this point. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: even the Supreme Court told her to get fucked. So
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  Speaker 1: is she going to appeal to like Judge Judy next
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  Speaker 1: or something? Because the actual court system in America, they
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  Speaker 1: told her to go away. Maxwell, 64, was convicted in
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  Speaker 1: 2021 on five felony counts arising from her participation with
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  Speaker 1: Epstein and the sexual abuse of young girls over the
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  Speaker 1: course of a decade. She was sentenced to 20 years
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  Speaker 1: in prison. A federal appeals court upheld her conviction and
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up her case. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's because there's nothing there. Nothing merits the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: taking up her case. You have to have a compelling case, right?
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  Speaker 1: The Supreme Court only sees so many cases per year.
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  Speaker 1: And they're not going to waste their bench time on
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  Speaker 1: some bullshit like this. Breaking news, Ghislaine Maxwell's guilty. And
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  Speaker 1: the fact that we're still having this conversation is just bizarre.
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  Speaker 1: In court filings earlier this year, Maxwell had asked Engelmeyer
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  Speaker 1: should he decide to reject her petition to certify her
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  Speaker 1: case for an appeal to a higher court. But in
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  Speaker 1: his ruling Tuesday, Engelmeyer wrote that Maxwell had not made
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  Speaker 1: a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right,
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  Speaker 1: and appellate review is therefore not warranted. So she can't
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  Speaker 1: even appeal it. I mean, I'm sure that there's a
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  Speaker 1: way for her to do it, because our legal system
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  Speaker 1: is so fucked up. But the judge is telling her,
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  Speaker 1: it's meritless, it's frivolous, and you better not file it again.
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  Speaker 1: Notwithstanding the district court's conclusion, We have encouraged our sister
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  Speaker 1: to maintain her fight for a fair hearing and to
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  Speaker 1: apply to the court for the necessary relief, including, if required,
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  Speaker 1: a certificate of appealability so that she may lodge an
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  Speaker 1: appeal and have those issues properly reviewed in the United
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  Speaker 1: States Courts of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the family
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  Speaker 1: said Thursday. Well, I guess everybody should get this many appeals, right?
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  Speaker 1: What the fuck's Ed Kemper up to? How about Joel Rifkin?
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  Speaker 1: What about Rex Ewerman? Let's just let everybody appeal until
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  Speaker 1: they're blue in the face. At some point, enough is enough.
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  Speaker 1: And when every single court has told you that you're guilty,
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  Speaker 1: on top of a jury of your peers, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to hear anything else from you. But somehow, every
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  Speaker 1: time we turn around, the queen of bullshit is shoveling
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  Speaker 1: more bullshit. Judge Engelmeyer, in a 67-page decision, rejected each
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  Speaker 1: of the 10 principal claims Maxwell raised in what he
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  Speaker 1: referred to as her lengthy, meandering pro se petition and
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  Speaker 1: supplemental filing containing similarly discursive addenda. Engelmeyer denied her petition
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  Speaker 1: without the evidentiary hearing Maxwell sought, and rightfully so. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: has seen enough. Does she have new evidence?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: What's she going to tell the court that she hasn't
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  Speaker 1: said already? So why are we wasting time? Maxwell had argued,
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  Speaker 1: in an amended petition filed in April, that documents released
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  Speaker 1: under the Epstein File Transparency Act had exposed constitutional and
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  Speaker 1: legal violations that rendered her conviction invalid, unsafe, and infirm.
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  Speaker 1: She cited DOJ documents from the Epstein files that she
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  Speaker 1: contended offer new support to her arguments that the government
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  Speaker 1: withheld relevant evidence, that witnesses testified falsely, and that attorneys
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  Speaker 1: for Epstein's victims acted as de facto prosecutors in her
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  Speaker 1: criminal case. Everybody's a liar, but Ghislaine. Does anyone actually
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  Speaker 1: believe that? Well, besides Glenn Maxwell. I doubt her family
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  Speaker 1: even believes it. They know the kind of serpent she is.
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  Speaker 1: And you know who else knows? Al Seckle. That's who.
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell's petition falls very far from the mark, Engelmeyer wrote,
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  Speaker 1: describing her claims as demonstrably meritless and based on speculation, distortions,
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  Speaker 1: and or outright falsehoods. The judge also rebuked Maxwell's contention
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  Speaker 1: that federal prosecutors... selectively targeted her as a substitute for Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: after he died by suicide, allegedly, while in federal custody
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  Speaker 1: in 2019. As the trial showed, the case against Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: was based on abundant, admissible evidence, establishing her knowing participation
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  Speaker 1: in enabling a notorious child sex abuser to carry out
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  Speaker 1: historically heinous crimes, Engelmayer wrote. Far from being discriminatory or unjust,
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  Speaker 1: This was the epitome of a virtuous prosecution. Boy, that
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  Speaker 1: really slammed the door shut on Ghislaine Maxwell and her supporters.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine saying Ghislaine Maxwell didn't get a fair shake, that
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  Speaker 1: she was only being tried in substitute for Epstein. Then congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: you have no idea what you're talking about. The government
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  Speaker 1: and the jury justly held Maxwell accountable for gravely serious
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  Speaker 1: federal offenses. Maxwell met for nine hours with then-Deputy Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General Todd Blanche in July of 2025, about a week
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  Speaker 1: before she was moved to a more relaxed federal prison
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  Speaker 1: camp in Texas. The Justice Department denied there was any
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  Speaker 1: connection between the two occurrences. Oh, no, no, just a
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  Speaker 1: big coincidence. Meets with Todd Blanche, and then she gets moved. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I guess we should just overlook that, huh? Sure, there's
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  Speaker 1: no cover-up going on. just like there is nothing to
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  Speaker 1: see when it comes to Epstein in general, right? Maxwell,
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  Speaker 1: born in France on Christmas Day in 1961, is the
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  Speaker 1: youngest of nine children. Her father, Robert Maxwell, was a
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  Speaker 1: flamboyant billionaire and larger-than-life British icon and media tycoon in
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  Speaker 1: the 70s and 80s. She lived an extravagant life among
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  Speaker 1: the British elite until her father's business empire collapsed in
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  Speaker 1: the wake of his death. She fled to New York
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  Speaker 1: looking for a fresh start and was soon seen in
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  Speaker 1: the company of the mysterious multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein. During her
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  Speaker 1: criminal trial in Manhattan, several of her siblings were in
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  Speaker 1: regular attendance in the courtroom. We remain steadfast in our support.
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  Speaker 1: of Ghislaine, who will continue to pursue every legal avenue
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  Speaker 1: available to her to ensure that the constitutional and due
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  Speaker 1: process questions in this case receive the serious, neutral consideration
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  Speaker 1: that they deserve. The family statement said on Thursday, Talk
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  Speaker 1: about being tone deaf. They have received All of the
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  Speaker 1: consideration that they deserve already. And after that careful review,
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  Speaker 1: Ghislaine Maxwell and her narrative have been found lacking. So
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  Speaker 1: you can throw as many fits as you want. You
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  Speaker 1: can say you're going to file as many motions as
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  Speaker 1: you want to file. But at the end of all
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  Speaker 1: of it, the result is going to be the same.
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  Speaker 1: And that result is Ghislaine Maxwell is exactly where she belongs.
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  Speaker 1: All the information that goes with this episode can be
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