Accused Jeffrey Epstein sex crimes accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell arrested at $1 million New Hampshire home

“The defendant appears to have been hiding on a 156-acre property acquired in an all-cash purchase in December 2019 (through a carefully anonymized LLC) in Bradford, New Hampshire, an area to which she has no other known connections,” said a court filing by Manhattan federal prosecutors. An LLC is a limited liability corporation.

Other records show the buyer was Granite Reality LLC, which was set up by a Boston lawyer named Jeffrey Roberts. He did not respond to a request for comment.

The property was featured by WMUR-9 in May 2019 in an article titled “Mansion Monday: Peace, quiet and breathtaking views in Bradford,” which says: “this custom-built timber frame home in Bradford is one where you can truly get away from it all.”

The main residence has “four bedrooms, three full bathrooms and one half-bath,” according to WMUR, which called the home “an amazing retreat for the nature lover who also wants total privacy.”

“From every room, there are views of the Mt. Sunapee foothills to the west,” the article said.

Maxwell, 58, appeared in New Hampshire federal court hours after her arrest to begin facing charges of conspiring with the now-dead Epstein in the mid-1990s to sexually abuse underage girls, as well as on two counts of perjury.

The daughter of crooked media mogul Robert Maxwell is accused of helping Epstein recruit and groom girls as young as 14 to satisfy his sexual obsessions, and of participating in the alleged abuse at times herself.

The charges were filed in Manhattan federal court by the same prosecutors’ office that had Epstein arrested last July on child sex trafficking charges related to alleged conduct from 2002 through 2005.

At Thursday’s hearing in New Hampshire, a magistrate judge granted Maxwell her request to be sent to Manhattan, in the custody of U.S. marshals, for a detention hearing that will decide whether she can be released on bail.

Epstein, a wealthy investor who was a former friend of Prince Andrew and of Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton hanged himself in a Manhattan federal jail last August after being denied bail.

The property where the FBI said Maxwell “slithered” to as she was under investigation in connection with Epstein was until late last year owned by a lawyer.

The lawyer’s real estate agent said the property features an “absolutely gorgeous home. It had a main house and a guest house.”

Article source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/ghislaine-maxwell-accused-jeffrey-epstein-procurer-caught-in-1-million-home.html