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Mega Edition: Ghislaine Maxwell Gets Put On Blast By Survivor Impact Statements (4/22/26) · 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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Epstein Chronicles. Now that the campaign to rehabilitate Kallainne Maxwell
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has fully taken off, I'd like to provide you folks
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with some receipts as to why Gallaine Maxwell is nothing
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more than a monster. So let's go directly to the
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court documents themselves and let's go through the survivor impact
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statements that we're given at the sentencing of Glen Maxwell.
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But before we get to the impact statements, first, we're
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going to hear from Alison Moe, who was asking the
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court for a very very long sentence against Glaiine Maxwell.
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Miss Mo, your honor. Galaine first met Jane at summer
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camp in August of nineteen ninety four. Jane was fourteen
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years old. What Maxwell did in the years that followed
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to Jane and Kate and Annie and Virginia and Carolyn
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and Melissa was almost unspeakable. But the truth came out
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in this case, and while many years have passed, their
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pain is palpable, it's real, and it matters today. We
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asked the court to impose an above guideline sentence of
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multiple decades in prison, a sentence that holds Maxwell accountable
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for the essential role she played and in the extensive
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and disturbing child exploitation scheme, Maxwell trapped young girls in
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a horrifying nightmare. Her victims were vulnerable kids who found
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themselves alone in giant mansions where they were sexually exploited
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by adults they thought would help them. These girls were
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just kids, and they were just finding their way in
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the world, trying to figure out who they were and
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who they might be some day when they grew up.
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These kids had hopes and dreams for their future, and
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the defendant used those dreams as their tool to abuse them.
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We asked the court to take an unflinching look at
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the defendant's actions and consider what that tells you about
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who she really is. What kind of person persuades young
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girls to massage the feet of a middle aged man.
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What kind of person gets a sixteen year old girl
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all alone at a ranch in the middle of nowhere
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and tells her to take her clothes off and get
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on a massage table so she can grope that girl's chest.
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What kind of person teaches a fourteen year old girl
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how a middle aged man likes his penis to be touched.
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What kind of person sees a seventeen year old girl
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on the street and pulls over so that she can
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persuade that girl to come to the House of Horrors,
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where that young girl will be trafficked for sex. What
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kind of person flies around on a plane with underage
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girls so that when her boyfriend travels, he always has
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young girls to touch. What kind of person would use
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their privilege, their power in this world to intentionally prey
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on the vulnerable young girls from struggling families, girls without fathers,
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girls who needed help. These are the actions of a
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person who was indifferent to the suffering of other human beings.
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The defendant's actions were not a one time mistake at all.
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Maxwell was an adult woman, and she made the choice
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weak in and week out for years to commit crimes
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with Jeffrey Epstein to be his right hand to make
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his crimes possible. Those choices were hers, and they have
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to have serious consequences. What's more, her actions betrayed a
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disturbing view of the world we live in. To Maxwell,
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there were two kinds of people in this world, the
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people who really mattered and the people who were disposable.
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Maxwell wanted to make sure that she stayed among the
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people who she thought mattered. She wanted to live a
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luxurious lifestyle, jet setting around the world. She took millions
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of dollars from Epstein over the years. And that's because
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they were predators together. There were partners in crime together,
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and they molested kids together. The defendant's actions had serious
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consequences for her victims. These girls, now women, are strong.
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They have shown the world what true bravery is. And
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when the defendant prayed on them, they were just kids,
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and they'll carry that with them for their entire lives,
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the trauma of what they've experienced. What is truly remarkable
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about this case, Your Honor, is that we don't have
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to speculate about the lasting, irreparable harm that the defendants'
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actions have had. You have seen for yourself the devastating
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effects of the defendant's crimes and how much your actions
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have affected her victims even years later. The defendant has
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shown absolutely no remorse for her crimes. She has not
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owned up to the truth, She has lied repeatedly, she
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has been dishonest with the court, and she has made
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misrepresentations when it suits her, Your Honor, we recognize that
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the Court has calculated the guidelines to be one hundred
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and eighty eight to two hundred and thirty five months.
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That is far below the sentence that the government believes
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is appropriate in the case. We recognize that there are
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a small number of cases where the court imposes an
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above guideline sentence. This is that case, your honor. In
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the almost twenty years since the two thousand and three
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Manual was enacted, our Sentencing Commission, our Congress, and our
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country have all recognized just how serious sex crimes against
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children are. Our country now recognizes how woefully inadequate the
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two thousand and three guidelines were, and the Supreme Court
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is expressly held that sentencing courts can vary upwards for
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exactly that reason. Again, this is that case. This is
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exactly that case. This is the time to impose above
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guideline sentence. A guideline sentence in this case would create
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unwarranted sentencing disparities with individuals being sentenced today for sex
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trafficking offenses. This case calls for an above guideline sentence
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because the breathtaking scope of the defendant's conduct, the length
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of her crime, the number of victims, the vulnerability of
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her victims, the sophistication of the defendant's predatory conduct and
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the degree to which she psychologically manipulated her victims. Her
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conduct was shockingly predatory, and it calls for an above
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guideline sentence. We ask the court to impose an above
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guideline sentence, a sentence that sends a message that those
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who would conspire with sexual predators would be held responsible
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for their significant role in those crimes. We asked the
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court to send a message that nobody is above the law,
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and nobody is too rich or too powerful to be
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held accountable. We asked the court to send a message
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that it's never too late for justice. Your honor, you
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should not hesitate to hold to defendant accountable for the
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full measure of her crimes. She deserves to spend decades
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in prison for her crimes. Thank you. All Right Now,
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we're going to move on to the first survivor impact
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statement that was given at sentencing, and this is from
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Annie Farmer. For a long time, I wanted to erase
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from my mind the crimes that Calain Maxwell and Jeffrey
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Epstein committed against me and pretend they hadn't happened. It
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was the type of dark memory that feels safest to
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keep locked away, but I've had to acknowledge the long
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lasting effects. One of the most painful and ongoing impacts
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of Maxwell and Epstein's abuse was a loss to trust
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in myself, my perception, and my instincts. When predators room
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and then abuse or exploit you, they are, in a sense,
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training you to distrust yourself. When a boundary is crossed
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or an expectation violated, you tell yourself, someone who cares
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about me to do all these nice things surely wouldn't
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also be trying to harm me. And this pattern of
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thinking is insidious. So these seeds of self doubt took root,
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even as I learned my sister had also been harmed
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by them, and came to find out years later that
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many others had been exploited. For years, these memories triggered
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significant self recrimination, minimization, and guilt. I blame myself for
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believing these predators actually wanted to help me. I felt
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tremendous survivor guilt when I heard about what other girls
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and young women had experienced at the hands of Maxwell
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and Epstein. I saw about how my sister's concern about
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me weighed on her, and I felt guilty about this
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as well. This toxic combination of being sexually exposed and exploited,
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feeling confused and naive, and blaming myself all resulted in
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significant shame. That sickening feeling that makes you want to disappear.
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It was not constant, but it would come in waves,
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similar to the waves that anxiety would also show up.
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When I think back, I see a slide show of
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moments when these feelings would surface and overwhelm me. There
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are too many of these moments to name, and though
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I have come a long way in my path of healing,
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I know that these feelings will continue to be triggered
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at times. The ripple effects of trauma are undeniable. When
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one person is abused, many others are also harmed. In
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addition to the way I was impacted as an individual,
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there was the pain I experienced as a sister due
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to how Maria was abused by Maxwell and Epstein, and
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the harm cause to the rest of my family due
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to these events. My sister Maria's abuse, the sexual assault,
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Maxwell's threats that stole her sense of safety and her career,
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and the way they used her to get to me
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had devastating effects on her. As my family watched or
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grow more isolated and more physically ill from the stress
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of all of it, we all felt powerless. It was
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heartbreaking and infuriating, and we later learned how often this
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pattern was repeated. A young person on the path of
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pursuing her dreams was pulled in by Maxwell, was abused
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and exploited, and then had to try and piece together
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a life in the aftermath of the trauma that left
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them feeling distrustful and fearful. Most of these individuals had
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families who were also negatively impacted as they witnessed and
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felt the systemic efforts of their loved ones losses and struggles.
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The number of people harmed is impossible to measure. Maxwell
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had many opportunities to come clean, but instead continue to
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make choices that cause more harm. When my sister and
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I first spoke out to the media about what happened
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to us, Maxwell lied about us and threatened Maria, thus
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helping shut down investigations into their behavior so they could
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together continue to harm children and young women. After this
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attempt to alert people to Epstein and Maxwell's abuse of behavior,
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I avoided being public about it for two decades. My
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shame told me that I should hide this fact because
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it was embarrassing. Later, as I pursued my profession as
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a psychologist, I feared it could potentially ruin my career.
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I worried clients would not want to work with me
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if I was associated with this story wrongly labeled as
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one of child prostitution. I feared being on Epstein and
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Maxwell's radar as a problem because of their previous lies
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and threats. Once arrested, Maxwell faced another choice. She could
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admit her participation in the scheme, acknowledged the harm caused,
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or even provide information that could have helped others be
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held accountable. Instead, she chose to again to lie about
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her behavior, causing additional harm to all those she victimized.
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Judge Nathan, I hope when you consider the appropriate prison
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sentence for the role Maxwell played in this sex trafficking operation,
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you take into account the ongoing suffering of the many
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women whom she abused and exploited. As we will continue
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to live with the memories of the way she harmed us,
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I hope you weigh the systemic effects of the crimes
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she perpetrated, the ways that our family members, romantic partners,
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and friends have been hurt through our suffering. I ask
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you to bear in mind how Maxwell's unwillingness to acknowledge
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her crime, her lack of remorse, and her repeated lies
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about her victims created the need for many of us
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to engage in a long fight for justice that is
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felt like a black hole sucking in our precious time, energy,
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and well being for much too long now, things that
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cannot be replaced. Thank you. All right, We're going to
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wrap up right here with episode one, and in the
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next episode, we're going to pick up where we left
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off with the next survivor impact statement, and this one's
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going to be from Kate. All of the information that
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goes with this episode can be found in the description box.
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What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to continue pulling
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the mask off the monster known as Glynn Maxwell, and
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to do that, we're once again going to turn to
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the survivor impact statements that were given during her sentencing. Kate,
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good afternoon, your honor, Thank you for hearing me. I
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believe you've already seen my victim impact statement, So I
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have something else to say at a time when women's
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rights are so callously been discarded. As the mother of
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a young daughter, I fear for the safety and freedom
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of my child. Today offers hope that change is possible.
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Our voices may not have been heard before, but we
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united to bring justice to a common enemy. If we
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cannot stop women who have been raped from being forced
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to bear the children of their rapists, then we must
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take a stand on zero tolerance to those who abuse
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their power to groom and traffic and rape the vulnerable.
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How you do anything is how you should do everything.
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Every single person should have equal value. Every single person
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should have an equal right to be protected. Every single
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child must have their innocence defended. No person should be
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shielded from the consequence of their actions, no matter their
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status or class. Glen's lack of remorse and or blatant
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refusal to take responsibility for her crimes towards us is
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the final insult. Having a difficult childhood is irrelevant to
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the choices she made to traffic and supply women and
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children to Jeffrey Epstein and other powerful men. Despite the
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atrocities perpetrated on me, I have never recruited a child
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or any person to be sexually abused. Someone being a
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hard worker does not excuse sex trafficking of miners. Someone
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starting a nonprofit does not excuse sex trafficking of miners.
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Someone who had a difficult or even an abusive father
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does not excuse sex trafficking of miners. Losing money or
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prestige does not excuse sex trafficking of miners. The lacquer,
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remorse or responsibility taken by Golaine for how she ruined
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the lives of countless women and children is exactly how
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we can tell that she doesn't think what she did
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was wrong, She's not sorry, she would do it again.
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I have known Golaane for many years now, and I
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have seen her be kind and generous to me and
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many others until she doesn't get what she wants from
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that person, and then I have seen her stop at
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nothing to enforce her will. A manipulative, cruel, and merciless
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person who only uses kindness to manipulate and generosity to
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seek recognition. Today, for the first time, I stand at
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my sisters, bonded by a trauma that I wish on
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no one to draw a line and to set a
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precedent to say enough is enough to say no with
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a chorus of voices that you can't ignore. May that
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chorus ring through the years of people still being victimized
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and give them strength. May it echo in the ears
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of the perpetrators to remind them that there are those
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of us who will never stop until we stop them.
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Today is not a happy day. I take no pleasure
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in being part of a world where this is necessary.
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But I'm proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with these
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brave women and do what is necessary to stop Glaine,
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to hold her accountable, and for the first time in
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my life, not to feel afraid. I cannot have done
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this alone, and I thank those who walked alongside me
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and those who carried me. Today I can look at
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Golaine and tell her that I became what I am
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today in spite of her and her efforts to make
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me feel powerless and insignificant. And I will pass that
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empowerment to my daughter that she may never consider being
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silent when faced with injustice, because she will feel all
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of us standing behind her. Thank you. Next up, Virginia Roberts,
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good afternoon. Your honor may have pleased the court this
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statement I am reading on behalf of my client. Virginia Roberts.
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Is written to Glene Maxwell and for all of you
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out there who are trying to rehabilitate Glanne Maxwell's reputation.
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Listen up. Twenty two years ago, in the summer of
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two thousand, you spotted me at mar A Lago in Florida,
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and you made a choice. You chose to follow me
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and procure me for Epstein. Just hours later, you and
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he abused me together for the first time. Together. You
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damaged me physically, mentally, sexually, and emotionally. Together, you did
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unthinkable things that still have a corrosive impact on me
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to this day. I want to be clear about one thing,
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without question. Jeffrey Epstein was a terrible pedophile. But I
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would have never met Jeffrey Epstein if not for you.
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For me, and for so many others, you opened the
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door to hell and then Golaine like a wolf in
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sheep's clothing. You use being a female to betray us,
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and you let us all through it. When you did that,
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you changed the course of our lives forever. You joked
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that you were like a new mother to us as
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a woman. I think you understood the damage that you
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were causing the price you were making us victims pay.
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You could have put an end to the rapes, the molestation,
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the sickening manipulation that you arranged, witnessed, and even took
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part in. You could have called the authorities and reported
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that you were part of something awful. I was young
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and naive when we met, but you knew that, in fact,
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you were counting on it. My life as a young
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person was just beginning. You robbed me of that by
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exploiting my hopes and my ambitions. Golayne, the pain you
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have caused me is almost indescribable because of your choices
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and the world you brought me into. I don't sleep.
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Nightmares wake me at all hours. In those dreams, I
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relive the awful things that you and others did to
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me and the things that you forced me to do.
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Those memories will never go away. I have trouble meeting
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new people without questioning if somehow they're going to hurt
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me too. There's not a day that doesn't go by
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that I don't ask why why did you enjoy hurting
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us so much? I worry every single day and night
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that you will get away with it and evade being punished.
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I will worry about that until you're brought to justice.
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And what should that justice look like? Golayne, You deserve
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to spend the rest of your life in prison, in
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a jail cell. You deserve to be trapped in a
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cage forever, just like you trapped your victims. But I
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want you to know that while you tried to break me,
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you did not succeed. Despite you, I've grown into a
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woman who tries to do good in the world, a
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woman on her best days, who feels like she's making
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a difference. My promise to you is as follows. As
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long as you and perpetrators like you continue to pray
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on the vulnerable, I will not stop standing up and
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speaking out. Together with so many others you abused, we
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will do all we can to keep predators from stealing
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the innocence of children. I will never give up. I
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will never go away. If you ever get out of prison,
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I will be here watching you and making sure you
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never hurt anyone else again. Next up, Sarah Ransom, your honor.
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It's been a long journey to bring Maxwell to justice.
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Although I have physically escaped the hideous traps that by Epstein,
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Maxwell and other co conspirators. I continue, now seventeen years later,
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to suffer from the horrific trauma that it caused. I
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came to New York at the age of twenty two,
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hoping to attend New York's Fit and work in the
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fashion industry. Soon after arriving, I met an Epstein Maxwell
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recruiter named Natalia Malashev. She described him as a kind
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philanthropist who could help me get into fit and provide
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much needed support. Over the next seven to eight months,
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I became, against my will, nothing more than a sex
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toy for the entertainment of Epstein, Maxwell and others. I
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was subjected to sexual predation multiple times per day, both
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in his New York mansion and on his private island
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in the US Virgin Islands. On one of the visits
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to the island, xtual demands, degradation, and humiliation became so
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horrific that I tried to escape by attempting to jump
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off a cliff into shark infested water. Epstein and Maxwell
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were masters at finding young, vulnerable girls and young women
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to exploit. Upon targeting vulnerable girls or young women, they
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would ingratiate themselves tour giving her compliments and small gifts,
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telling her how special she was. Soon after lulling me
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and others into a false sense of security and comfort,
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they pounced, ensnaring us in the upside down twisted world
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of rape, rape rape. Like Hotel California, you can check
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into the Epstein Maxwell dungeon of sexual hell, but you
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can never leave. The manipulation, intimidation, and emotional abuse used
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to control the victims took many forms. In my case,
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Epstein and Maxwell used my dysfunctional family history, being naive
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VISA status, lack of education, and desire to go to
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FIT to manipulate, Scarein and stare me. She told me
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that I was exceptionally intelligent and that I had the
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real potential to be someone and something in life. One
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day Epstein and Maxwell's strong ties to Fit could make
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this happen. With their help, my admission was almost assured,
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but there was always a butt. First, I had to
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write my application, which I did, but Maxwell had to
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review it and conveniently always found fault. Then another butt.
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I needed to lose thirty pounds because I was a piglet.
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Maxwell's numerous degrading descriptions of me. Epstein and Maxwell put
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me on the strict Atgin's diet while simultaneously sending me
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to a psychiatrist who prescribed antidepressants that caused weight gain.
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It was a classic no win situation, and they knew
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it precisely what human traffickers seek. I never lost the weight,
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my application was never good enough, and it never got submitted.
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I thank the almighty God that in two thousand and
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seven I managed to escape the whole by fleeing to
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the UK. Since then, I've been coping as best as
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I can, and frequently experience flashbacks and wake up in
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cold sweat from nightmares from reliving the awful experience. I'm hypervigilant.
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I do not trust people easily. I experience dramatic mood changes.
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I will sometimes start crying uncontrollably for reasons I cannot
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always comprehend. I work hard with several mental health professionals.
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They have diagnosed me with extreme symptoms of anxiety depression,
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low self esteem PTSD, and tendency to self harm. Despite
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my earnest effort, I have not realized life's true potential professionally,
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nor entered any healthy personal relationships. I have never married
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and I don't have children. Something I always wish for
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When I was a little girl. I shy away from
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meeting new people, and I have difficulty making new friends
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because I fear they too could be associated with Epstein
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and Maxwell and their enablers and co conspirators. To this day,
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attend meetings to treat alcoholism, but I have had numerous
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relapses and I can't always control that. I know that
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only by the grace of God do I continue to live.
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I've attempted suicide twice since the abuse. Both You're fatal.
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Last year, I traveled to New York to attend Maxwell's trial.
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It was therapeutic to hear the testimony of the four
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brave victim waitnesses whose experiences paralleled my own, to know
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that I was not alone and that our story was
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finally being told for the world to hear. I'm grateful
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the jury believe the victims and return to guilty verdict,
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but a question still tears up my soul. After all
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of this, how can this five star general of this
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enormous sex trafficking conspiracy involving hundreds, if not thousands, of
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vulnerable girls and young women over three decades, continue to
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maintain her innocence reflecting on it, I know the answer
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to my questions. Maxwell is today the same woman I
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met almost twenty years ago, incapable of compassion and human
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common decency. Because of her wealth, her social status, and connection,
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she believes herself beyond her approach above The law. Sentencing
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her to the rest of her life in prison will
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not change that, but it will give the other survivors
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and I a slight sense of justice and help us
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to continue to work to recover from the sex trafficking
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hill she perpetrated. She will never hurt another young woman
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or child again in this lifetime, and for that I
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am sure to Glane. I say, you broke me in
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unfathomable ways, but you did not break my spirit, nor
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did you dampen my internal flame that now burns brighter
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than ever before. All right, folks, we're gonna wrap up
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right there, and in the next episode, we're gonna pick
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up where we left off. All of the information that
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goes with this episode can be found in the description box.
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What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're gonna pick up with
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our final impact statements and the first one we're going
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to take a look at is from Elizabeth Stein. Good afternoon,
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your honor. I came to New York in nineteen ninety
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one at the age of eighteen to attend FIT and
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immediately began to excel academically. In my sophomore year, I
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accepted a Christmas time internship at Henry Bendel, New York.
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I performed well and was asked to stay on as
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a part time employee. In the fall semester of my
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senior year at FIT, Glaine Maxwell came into the store,
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where she was a frequent customer. Her usual salesperson wasn't there,
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so I helped her. Golaine was electrifying. We hit it
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off immediately. In the first meeting, we spoke of our
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mutual love of fashion, of difficult fathers, and formal upbringing
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of boyfriends, and of how we both saw New York
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as a chance to start over. She told me that
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her boss, who I later came to understand was Jeffrey Epstein,
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was close friends with Les Wexner, the CEO and founder
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of the Limited which owned Henry Bendell at the time.
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When she completed her purchase, I offered to deliver them
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to her, so she didn't have to carry them around
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all day. This was the courtesy I frequently extended to
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my high end clients. Later that day, I called her
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office for delivery instructions and was told to bring them
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to a hotel close to the store. When I arrived,
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the hotel concierge told me Miss Maxwell was in the
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bar and wanted me to meet someone. It was Jeffrey Epstein.
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That night in the hotel was the first of many
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times they sexually assaulted me. Afterwards, I tried to pretend
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everything was normal. I returned to my classes at FIT
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and continued to work at Henry Bendell, but I started
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to crack. I failed a course that was necessary for
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my degree and had to retake it to get my diploma.
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Shortly after my first meeting with Epstein and Maxwell, I
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was offered a full time position at Henry Bendell. It
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was a newly created position at the store, and it
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would required me to leave FIT a semester short of
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completing my degree. I had aspirations of going to law school,
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and I knew I cannot do so without my undergraduate degree,
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so I declined it. When Golane found out, she flew
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into a rage. I didn't understand why until she told
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me that she and Epstein were responsible for giving me
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that opportunity, and that in turning it down, I was
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being ungrateful. I now know that this was their standard
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operating procedure, give a gift or a favor, and then
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demand sex in return. Nevertheless, I completed my coursework for
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my degree from FIT, at which point I left Henry
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Bendall and took a position at Bloomingdale's. I wanted to
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leave Epstein at Maxwell and the abuse they perpetrated against
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me behind. As I started my professional life. I never
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wanted to or expected to see them again. One day
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in the fall of nineteen ninety five, Glaine showed up
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at Bloomingdal's looking for me. When I asked her how
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she knew where I was, she said she asked my
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colleagues at Henry Bendall. She immediately began befriending me once again,
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asking me to go out socially. I tried to resist,
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but eventually she wore me down and I began spending
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time with them again. They made me feel like they
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were my friends contemporaries. In one instance, they took me
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to Florida and insisted that I stay longer than planned,
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which caused me to miss work and led to me
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being fired. Seizing on this new vulnerability, they began trafficking
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me to their friends. By that time, I was trapped.
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I was assaulted, raped, and trafficked countless times in New
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York and Florida. During the three year period, things happened
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that were so traumatizing that to this day I'm unable
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to speak about I don't even have the vocabulary to
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describe them in the most literal sense of the word.
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Epstein and Maxwell terrified me. They told me that if
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I told anyone, no one would believe me, and if
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they did, they would kill me and the people closest
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to me. And I believe them. I was once bright, fun, outgoing,
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in kind, I love people, and people genuinely enjoyed being
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around me. After meeting Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell, it
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felt like someone shut off the lights to my soul.
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My secrets became too much for me to handle, and
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I began doing whatever I could to try to get
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away from Maxwell and Epstein. I changed jobs, apartments, cities,
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and even states to try to get away. Everywhere I went,
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they found me In nineteen ninety seven, I moved to
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Philadelphia with the hopes of finally starting law school. They
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found me again and it was more than I could take.
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I was hospitalized with a nervous breakdown. It would be
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the first of over two dozen hospitalizations in a decade
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following my involvement with Epstein and Maxwell. In addition to
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my escalating mental health problems, I began to experience physical
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symptoms that doctors could never put their fingers on. I
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can no longer even pretend to be able to hold
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down a job or take care of myself in any
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meaningful way, and I had to move back home once again. Emotionally,
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I had cracked, and nobody thought I would ever get better.
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But I didn't give up. I was determined to do
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whatever I had to to prove everyone wrong. I wasn't crazy.
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I was hurt. For over a decade and a half,
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I went to all kinds of medical specialists and was
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in and out of medical psychiatric hospitals, having tests and procedures,
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even submitting to clinical trials and an experimental, implannable medical device.
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Nothing helped. Just as I began to repair the emotional damage,
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I was diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome CRPS is
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a rare neuro inflammatory disorder characterized raised by intense, relentless
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physical pain. Both CRPS and PTSD are psychophysical states in
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which the sympathetic nervous system is engaged and remains inappropriately
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hyper aroused. There is no cure. The mind and the
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body are interconnected. Despite of this, I immersed myself this
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trauma therapy and repaired my emotional health. I began physical
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therapy and regained my physical mobility. I started to rebuild
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my life. The arrest to Epstein in twenty nineteen and
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Maxwell in twenty twenty helped me immensely. For the first time,
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I was finally able to disclose their abuse to friends
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and medical providers twenty five years after meeting them. My
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experience was validated. I could finally see the possibility of closure,
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and this past November and December, I commuted almost every
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day from my home in Philadelphia to attend Glen Maxwell's
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trial in Manhattan. For weeks, I sat in this courtroom anonymously,
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only revealing my identity. The day before the verdict, I
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had to see justice myself. At the age of forty eight,
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I feel like I'm just starting my life. All those
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things I assumed I would have in life, the things
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that my siblings and my friends have achieved, a career, success, partner, family,
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a home, a legacy to be proud of leaving behind,
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were jeopardized for more than two and a half decades.
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The only pronounced difference between my life experience and theirs
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is that one day, when I was doing my job,
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I'm met Glene Maxwell, who fed me to Jeffrey Epstein
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in more ways than one. They almost killed me, but
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I wasn't going to let them. Overcoming what happened to
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me became my decades long full time career and that
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I have been successful for the past twenty five years.
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Glainne Maxwell has been free to live a life of
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wealth and privilege that is almost incomprehensible. Meanwhile, I have
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had virtually none of the life experiences I might have
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had had we never met for over two and a
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half decades, I felt like I was in prison. She
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has had her life. She needs to be imprisoned so
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that all of the victims can finally be free. Next,
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we have a short one from Teresa Helm Glenn Maxwell.
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I was twenty two years old, when you entirely derailed
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the trajectory of my life. You made a choice to
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view me as an individual lesson you. You saw me
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as an object whose only purpose was to be manipulated, used, abused,
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regarded as trash, and sent back from where I came.
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You meticulously convinced me, through your deceptive charm and your conversation,
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that you were someone worthy of my bright and inspired
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young mind to look up to. You crafted your impact
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on me. You groom me. Then you sent me off
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to another monster. I trusted you. You had groomed me
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so well, I unsuspectingly walked myself to the home of
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that monster. I walked myself to the home of that
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predator that hurt me. You manipulated and betrayed me into
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feeling and believing that I was safe. One of the
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most devastating outcomes to you hurting me is how I
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then began to view and treat myself. I began to
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view myself as unworthy of love. I began treating myself
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as the garbage I was regarded as. My life got
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so dark, the despair so intense, I nearly did not
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make it out alive. Do you even remember me? I
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am on the outside of the prison walls freedom. Yet
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I will forever fight for the freedom that you callously
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stole from me. Teresa Jhilm. Remember my face, hear my voice,
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remember my name, and last, but certainly not least, the
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impact statement delivered by Maria Farmer. My life was on
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a trajectory to be a well known and well respected
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artist when I was derailed by Glenn Maxwell. I was
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studying with the phenomenal artist Eric Fischel and Shull close
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while doing art for director James Brooks. When I was
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held captive and assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein and Glenne Maxwell
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on the Wexner estate in nineteen ninety six. I was
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freshly graduated from a master's program in art, something I
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worked towards all of my life. Golaine began threatening my
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life and destroying my livelihood following my return from being
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falsely imprisoned at Wexner's. She wasn't happy just destroying my career.
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She also assured me my future was destroyed, and she
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did everything in her vast power to accomplish this goal.
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She threatened my family and my friends. I have severe
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PTSD in two cancers as a result. Of my four solitude, poverty,
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and quality of life. While in hiding the shame I
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associated with art following Gallaine's abuse was overwhelming. I stopped painting.
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The thing is this was never my shame to carry.
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I was a figurative artist doing what art is due pain.
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The beholders of my art, Epstein and Maxwell, perverted it
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into what they wanted. The art was always pure and beautiful,
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something I now recognize. Glaine, Epstein, and Wexner are the
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ones who should have carried the shame for perverting what
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was beautiful. It should be known that Golaine's impact on
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my life cannot be understated. Once she gleaned from Vicky
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Ward that I went to the FBI, my life no
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longer belonged to me. Aside from living in poverty and obscurity,
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I have also had to face public scrutiny as a whistleblower.
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I'm bullied regularly. Golaine changed everything for the worse. She
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seemingly derailed me without thought after I got in her way.
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She assured me that I could be killed walking down
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my favorite path in NYC. I never feel safe outside
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as a result of the massive trauma from being held
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captive by Wexner's thugs via Glaine and Jeffrey. Her threats
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have never left my mind, and I believe she will
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harm me if she ever has a way. Please keep
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this in mind when determining her terms of imprisonment. She
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is a very dangerous and devious individual. All right, folks,
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that's gonna do it for the impact statements, and I
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think they said more than anything that any of us
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could ever say about Glaine Maxwell. So we're gonna wrap
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up right here, and all of the information that goes
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