Ghislaine Maxwell believes her late lover and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein was murdered somewhat than took his personal life, her brother has claimed.
Disgraced paedophile businessman Epstein was discovered hanged in his New York jail cell in 2019 whereas awaiting a trial for baby intercourse expenses.
Epstein's notoriety and connections to figures together with Invoice Clinton and Prince Andrew created quite a few conspiracy theories surrounding his loss of life.
Writers have additionally made claims of a sequence of 'suspicious occasions' surrounding Epstein's loss of life, together with surveillance video of the incident disappearing and him being bunked an accused quadruple assassin.
Requested about his suicide in a Spectator podcast yesterday, Ian Maxwell, Ghislaine's older brother, stated that 'my sister does assume that he was killed'.
Ghislaine Maxwell, 59, presently faces six counts of trafficking ladies and minors for sexual functions, which she denies.
The 65-year-old brother has been seen in New York to observe the ongoing intercourse trafficking trial alongside personal of their different siblings, Isabel.
Giving his ideas on the Epstein's reported suicide, he in contrast swirling theories to these across the loss of life of his personal father, Robert Maxwell.
The physique of the billionaire media tycoon and proprietor of the Every day Mirror was found floating within the Atlantic Ocean in 1991 after he apparently fell overboard from his yacht.
He had on the time been in vital debt and was set to default on million of kilos in loans, an occasion that might later collapse his enterprise empire.
Ian advised the podcast: 'I do not purchase a whole lot of the conspiracy theories in any respect. It so occurs that one of many conspiracy theories is about my father that he was murdered somewhat than dedicated suicide or had an accident.'
He stated nonetheless, that of his father's 9 youngsters, his sister Ghislaine was the 'just one' who believed he had been murdered.
'And I might enterprise to imagine that she may additionally assume that Epstein was murdered... I do occur to assume my sister does assume that he was killed,' he added.
Ian added that he had himself solely met Epstein as soon as, in a joint 1996 assembly with Ghislaine and their brother Kevin.
The pair did not heat to one another nonetheless, with Ian describing the mysterious billionaire as a 'cagey character' who 'took issues from you somewhat than gave issues again'.
Ian has additionally batted off claims that his sister has lengthy been saved on a suicide watch regime on the Brooklyn detention centre, which has been described as 'one of the troubled services' within the Justice Division's jail system.
Although solely in a position to talk to her by way of her attorneys, he confirmed that the suicide watch tales had been 'a nonsense' and that there had been 'no proof of any self-harm intent'.
The feedback come because the prosecution yesterday rested on the tenth day of Maxwell's intercourse trafficking trial.
The high-profile trial has moved extra swiftly than anticipated, with the defence now set to argue the British socialite didn't recruit and sexually abuse ladies and pick inconsistencies in accusers' testimony.
Jeffrey Epstein sufferer Annie Farmer was the final witness to take the stand for prosecutors yesterday and is the one accuser within the case to testify underneath her actual title.
Farmer, whose older sister Maria was the primary individual to report Epstein and Maxwell's alleged sexual abuse of underage ladies in 1996,
The 42-year-old described assembly the late pedophile in New York in 1995 when she was 16, and the way he introduced her to his ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the place she met Maxwell.
She described how the 2 lavished her with items and supplied to assist her tutorial endeavors, earlier than subjecting her to undesirable fondling of her breasts and cuddling as a substitute.
Farmer stated regardless of feeling 'sick to my abdomen' she did not inform her sister Maria - then Epstein's worker, who Farmer was visiting on the time - as a result of she feared for her sibling's job.
Months later Farmer, who was 16, was invited to journey from Arizona to New Mexico, she stated.
Farmer was invited ostensibly as a part of a 'retreat' that Epstein stated would carry collectively some two dozen 'academically gifted' college students,' her mom, Janice Swain, stated.
Epstein advised Swain that Maxwell would 'chaperone' the women.
However when she arrived Farmer discovered herself alone with Maxwell and Epstein.
A weekend that included buying and flicks additionally noticed Maxwell direct Farmer to undress for a therapeutic massage, in accordance with testimony.
Maxwell then uncovered Farmer's breasts earlier than 'rubbing on my chest,' she stated.
'I feel this was all a sample of them complicated my boundaries,' Farmer advised jurors. 'With the final word aim of sexually abusing me.
Her testimony adopted harrowing accounts from three different ladies who accused Epstein of sexual abuse and pinpointed Maxwell as his accomplice.
Earlier accusers stated they had been as younger as 14 when Maxwell allegedly started grooming them and arranging for them to offer massages to Epstein that led to sexual exercise.
One lady, 'Carolyn,' stated she visited Epstein's Palm Seashore dwelling greater than 100 occasions when she was between 14 and 18 years previous.
One other key witness, who spoke underneath the pseudonym 'Jane,' detailed how Maxwell recruited her at summer season camp and made her really feel 'particular' - earlier than orchestrating or taking part in sexualized massages and intercourse acts with {the teenager} and Epstein.
The trial is predicted to renew subsequent week on Thursday.