By: Carla Arruc
The woman who has been called the late Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘madam,’ Ghislaine Maxwell, is reported to be lying low – in the lap of luxury, of course – in the pedophile’s $8.6 million apartment in Paris, France.
Maxwell “fled to France, where she was born, to avoid questioning in the US by the FBI over her links to the late disgraced billionaire,” according to The Sun. The apartment is reportedly just a five-minute drive along the ChampsElysees from Epstein’s ritzy apartment on Avenue Foch.
“The 58-year-old, who vanished from public life in 2016, moved into her secret bolthole on Avenue Matignon, in Paris’s exclusive 8th Arrondissement, to remain undetected,” reported The Sun. “Maxwell, who is a long-term friend of the Duke of York, was spotted on Avenue Matignon in the days before France announced its Covid-19 lockdown in March. She remained in Paris during the virus crisis and hopes to benefit from her status as a French citizen to avoid extradition, should she face any criminal charges in the US.”
The youngest child of disgraced publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell, she moved to the United States after her father’s death in 1991 and became a close associate of the financier and subsequently convicted sex offender Epstein. She has faced persistent allegations of procuring and sexually trafficking underage girls for Epstein and others, charges she has denied.
Maxwell founded the ocean-advocacy group The TerraMar Project in 2012, according to Wikipedia. The organization announced closure on 12 July 2019, a week after the sex trafficking charges brought by New York federal prosecutors against Epstein became public. On 27 December 2019, Reuters reported that Maxwell was among those under FBI investigation for facilitating Epstein. Since Epstein’s arrest, Maxwell has been in hiding, communicating with the courts only through her lawyers who, as of 30 January 2020, have refused to accept service of three lawsuits on Maxwell’s behalf. On March 12 of this year, she filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in the U.S. Virgin Islands seeking compensation from Epstein’s estate for her legal costs.
“Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein’s ‘Pimp’ Hiding From US Investigators in Paris, Report Claims,” blared a headline from sputniknews.com recently. “Ghislaine is moving locations every month to keep private investigators off her tail and is staying at the residences of trusted colleagues and contacts,” an insider was quoted as telling the publication, “adding that she intends to stay in France for “as long as she can to take advantage of extradition laws.”
