Ghislaine Maxwell said under oath that she ‘never’ saw Jeffrey Epstein have sex ‘with a minor,’ unsealed deposition reveals

Giuffre has said that Maxwell instructed her to have sex with a number of men, including Andrew. The Duke of York and Maxwell have denied Giuffre’s claim.

Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on federal child sex trafficking charges related to his alleged sexual abuse of dozens of underage girls from 2002 through 2006. The then-66-year-old wealthy investor died in a Manhattan jail a month later from what has officially been ruled a suicide by hanging.

Maxwell was arrested this summer on charges related to allegedly facilitating Epstein’s abuse of underage girls during a different time frame.

She also is charged with perjury for allegedly lying under oath, by denying knowledge of Epstein’s criminal sexual misconduct, during the deposition in Giuffre’s civil defamation case against her.

Maxwell has pleaded not guilty in the case and is being held without bail, having been declared to be a flight risk by a judge.

Giuffre’s lawsuit was previously settled, but the 465-page deposition released Thursday had been sealed until The Miami Herald waged a successful effort to get it released. Maxwell’s lawyers had strongly opposed its release.

In the deposition, after being asked if Epstein had a sexual preference for underage minors, Maxwell answered: “I cannot tell you what Jeffrey’s story is. I’m not able to.”

And when asked if she had non-consensual sex with a person whose identity was redacted from the released transcript, Maxwell said, “I never had nonconsensual sex with anybody ever, at any time, at anyplace, at any time, with anybody.”

Maxwell, elsewhere in the transcript, refused to answer questions about whether she had given Epstein a massage.

Epstein had a well-known fixation on getting multiple massages each day from young women or girls.

 During the deposition, Maxwell was asked about a female who had been recruited to work for Epstein.

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