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...e his demise. "It was poor. It
We were very poor. We didn't
...d. They had shoes, they had
...the war, I discovered the fate of
...others, relatives, and neighbors.
...in their minds as they realized
...s chamber."
...owed by an international scan-
...hundreds of millions of pounds
...ds and used them to prop up his
...ried for conspiracy to commit
...But Ghislaine, who had grown
...nd counted the Duke of York,
...nates, could not escape the dark
...king to start fresh, she took the

...l Epstein were lovers. "She was
...a longtime friend of Ghislaine's.
...; more. Ghislaine took care of
...She managed his household and
...rooklyn-born Jewish boys could
...ng to lawsuits and witness testi-
...of several women who procured

...ing to people who knew her back
...eemed to take pleasure in satisfy-

...ein to a fabulous world that the

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Brooklyn boy knew nothing about. One friend jokes that she taught Epstein the difference between a fish fork and a salad fork.
But despite—or was it because of?—Maxwell's devotion to Epstein, she, too, graduated from girlfriend to friend status. According to Jane Doe 102 vs. Jeffrey Epstein, a civil complaint filed in 2009 by a woman later identified as Virginia Roberts, one of the services Maxwell provided for Epstein was the procurement of underage women. (Through her lawyer and in court papers, Maxwell has vehemently denied any involvement with Virginia, with any other young woman Epstein was involved with, or with any criminal activities committed by Jeffrey Epstein. In a 2016 answer to a defamation lawsuit brought by Roberts, Maxwell called the allegations fabricated for financial gain.)

The case of Nadia Bjorlin, who was thirteen when she was first noticed by Epstein, raises questions in this regard, at least in the eyes of her mother.

Bjorlin's Iranian-born mother spoke to a British tabloid some years ago about her family's disturbing experience with Maxwell and Epstein. Bjorlin's father, a celebrated conductor of classical music, had died a year earlier, the mother said. She believed that this made the girl a vulnerable and easy target.

"She was at school at the famed Interlochen Arts Center, in Michigan, when she met Epstein," the mother said.

"My daughter was a singer. She was a baby. She was a skinny little girl, not mature for her age. She was thirteen, but everyone thought she was nine or ten.

"Epstein was a big donor, and he heard about Nadia and that her father had died, so she was vulnerable, and he contacted her. He said, 'Here's my number.'

"He kept saying, 'Come—will you come?' He said he wanted

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