The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Who is Ghislaine Maxwell?
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The Times
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🗓️ 10 July 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell - who was a close companion of Jeffrey Epstein - is facing decades in jail after being arrested over charges which include the enticement of minors and sex trafficking of children.
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Henry Zeffman, Times Washington Correspondent.
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| 0:00.0 | We start with breaking news and the FBI says that they have arrested the British |
| 0:05.2 | socialised. |
| 0:06.2 | G Lane Max. |
| 0:07.2 | Ex-girlfriend of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested. |
| 0:10.8 | Gilane Maxwell was Jeffrey Epstein's faithful companion. |
| 0:17.6 | Ms Maxwell has previously denied any involvement in or knowledge of her late friends alleged sexual misconduct. |
| 0:24.0 | After being located by police in a secluded hideaway, |
| 0:27.0 | Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire. |
| 0:29.0 | She faces years in jail. |
| 0:31.0 | You're listening to stories of our times and the |
| 0:33.8 | times, I'm David Erronovich. Today, the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, who is |
| 0:41.4 | Gilane Maxwell? Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:57.0 | Now, picture you, zooming past it all. |
| 1:04.0 | Light and breezy. |
| 1:06.0 | Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
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| 1:15.0 | Avanti West Coast. |
| 1:17.0 | Feel Good Travel. The At about five in the morning, |
| 1:35.0 | five in the morning, units from three different branches of the FBI, |
| 1:41.0 | from the New York Police Department, from the New Hampshire Gangs Task Force, and from different |
| 1:47.0 | bits of local New Hampshire police began to congregate at the bottom of the half mile driveway of a pretty mysterious, pretty anonymous and very isolated house. |
| 2:00.0 | That's Henry Zefman, the Times Washington correspondent. |
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