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Sweeney Talks

Hunting Ghislaine: Monsters

Sweeney Talks

Global

Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ghislaine Maxwell has been charged with helping rich paedophile Jeffrey Epstein sexually exploit and abuse multiple minor girls – she denies all wrongdoing. This episode looks at the first monster in her life: her father, Robert Maxwell, a liar, a thief and a sadist. He named the yacht he fell from after her: The Lady Ghislaine. Did he form or, perhaps, deform her too? If you or someone you know is a victim of sexual assault, you can contact victim support free on 0808 16 89 111 or visit www.victimsupport.org.uk Hunting Ghislaine is a Global Original podcast written and reported by John Sweeney. Co-commissioned by Global and The Story Lab, produced in association with Chalk & Blade

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0:30.9

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0:34.0

The following episode contains descriptions of sexual abuse, some bad language, and may not be suitable for everyone.

0:42.0

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0:50.1

This is a fairy story which happens the wrong way round, of how a princess ends up becoming something of a monster herself,

0:58.0

of cruelty empowered, where no one at all ends up happily ever after.

1:04.0

And I told her that, I'm like, you know, I'm not going if you're not going to be in the room with me.

1:08.0

And I was unaware that I was going to be alone with him for that 10 minutes, and I thought I was going to die.

1:12.6

Jeffrey Epstein is rich, very, but he has a problem.

1:17.6

Mr. Epstein, how long have you been sexually attracted to underage minor females?

1:23.6

Objection, harassing, argumentative.

1:26.6

Are you kidding? I mean, I don't feel like I'm divulging any secrets here, right?

1:31.3

Move to strike.

1:33.3

I assert my fifth, sixth, and fourth, and fourth amendment right to the United States Constitution.

1:40.3

That's Jeffrey Epstein, claiming his right to silence.

1:43.3

His enabler, his victims say, is an English woman, Jelaine Maxwell.

1:49.0

He's arrested in July 2019 and dies in custody a month later.

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