Epstein and The Prince (The Useful Idiot),The Woman and Her Rich Father
If Prince Andrew does not give evidence to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation he may never "hold his head up in public again," a royal biographer says.
The Duke of York will today be able to do no more than watch from Windsor as his former friend Ghislaine Maxwell applies for $5 million bail.
She is facing allegations she helped Epstein groom girls as young as 14 for sex between 1994 and 1997 and faces up to 35 years jail if convicted.
Private sources say Ghislaine's father Robert Maxwell got Epstein and the Prince together. Eventually Maxwell met a death similar to Epstein. He knew too much and he had the Israelis after him. We can see how Ghislaine got how she did and also Epstein. These were not the offsprings of saints but the interesting part is how did Prince Andrew got the way he did. May be the royal family was too stiff for him and he needed a release and what else in the world is seen as sickening as going for little girls? He could stick his finger to his mom the Queen, when the royals where not looking and were not willing to look and have the illegal fun Epstein was supplying.
Ghislaine Maxwell Due in Court For Bail Hearing on Jeffrey Epstein Charges. An intelligent woman who is been said could
Her arrest created a new dimension to Prince Andrew's negotiations with prosecutors over whether he will testify about his friendship with Epstein.
Nigel Cawthorne, author of Prince Andrew, Epstein and the Palace, said: "He can't just hide behind palace walls forever.
"He has a very tough decision to make whether to get on a plane and go and turn up there and be cross-examined by a red-hot Manhattan prosecutor—who won't give him such an easy time as BBC journalist Emily Maitlis did, and he didn't handle that too brilliantly—or he can refuse to go.
"And if he does that then I don't know how he'll be able to hold his head up in public again."
Andrew's interview with Maitlis in November led to him stepping back from public life and by January U.S. prosecutors had made it clear they wanted to speak with him.
Prince Andrew's Lawyers Will Fear a Ghislaine Maxwell Plea Bargain.
The duke's lawyers claim they told the U.S. Department of Justice at the time that he was willing to give a statement and have repeated the offer several times since. However, prosecutors appear to want him to face questioning and have put concerted pressure through a series of public statements.
U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York, Audrey Strauss, this month said: "We would welcome Prince Andrew coming in to talk to us, we would like to have the benefit of his statement."
However, Mark Stephens, a U.K. based attorney with Howard Kennedy, recently claimed the investigation may be setting a trap for the duke.
He recently told ITV: "They are not treating him like any ordinary suspect or witness. It's a kind of trap that's been set for Prince Andrew because they know they can't extradite him to the U.S. What they're trying to do is get him over voluntarily and if they think they've got enough evidence, charge him there.
"The fact they are insisting on a face-to-face interview in America tells me that actually they think they might be able to charge him if they get him to America and he's not really a witness, he's a covert target of this operation. Of course he remains innocent but they aren't treating him like any ordinary witness."
The Maxwell Family. a crime family. Protected at times by a couple Presidents of the United States. One Democrat and one Republican. These family was close to the US, UK and Israel governments
to name a few.
Was it murder? Suicide? Or just an accident? Almost 30 years before Jeffrey Epstein’s demise, Ghislaine Maxwell was caught up in another shocking and scandal-ridden mystery
At one time, everyone knew where to find Ghislaine Maxwell. The former aide-de-camp of the disgraced, now deceased, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was a fixture in Manhattan’s most fashionable salons. With an impressive list of contacts, including Prince Andrew and Chelsea Clinton, she was a regular at fundraisers, book launches and society weddings.
The last place anyone would have expected to see her was a Los Angeles shopping mall, where the 57-year-old was photographed in a burger joint last week, just days after Epstein’s suicide in a New York jail, where he was being held on charges of sex trafficking underage girls.
Amid some speculation as to whether the photograph may have been staged, and with mystery still surrounding her whereabouts, one thing is undeniable: for the second time, Ghislaine’s life has been turned upside down by the death of a controversial and powerful man.
It is almost 30 years since her father, the press baron Robert Maxwell, fell to his death from his £15m yacht, Lady Ghislaine, off the Canary Islands, aged 68. Even now there is talk of suicide, or murder – perhaps by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service.
“He was a man who could not face the ignominy of jail, of being shown to be a liar and a thief. And he very much knew that was coming,” says Roy Greenslade, a former editor of one of Maxwell’s newspapers, the Daily Mirror. “So I am a suicide theorist. I believe Maxwell threw himself off.”
His death on 5 November 1991 shocked the country. Shock turned to anger within weeks when a £460m hole was discovered in the pension funds of his companies. A borrower of unimaginable scale, he had illegally raided the funds to prop up his empire, which was on the brink of collapse. Headlines such as The Man Who Saved the Mirror were swiftly replaced by Maxwell: The Robber.
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| He was an enormous figure in British national life’ ... Maxwell, then the chairman of Oxford United, and Malcolm Shotton celebrate the club winning the 1986 Milk Cup. |
Lennox found himself at the heart of this drama when he was dispatched to help Maxwell’s widow, Betty, as she flew by private jet to the Canary Islands. On take-off, her husband was still missing. Mid-flight, Lennox recalls, he was summoned to the cockpit by the co-pilot. A body had been found in the Atlantic by a fisherman. The Spanish were unsure it was Maxwell. Would Lennox agree to look first to spare his widow unnecessary distress in case it was not her husband?
They landed at an airbase and Lennox was ushered into a room. “And there was Maxwell. Completely naked, lying on top of the air-sea rescue officers’ mess table with a sheet underneath him. And, I know it sounds crazy, but he looked good. His hair still slicked back, his complexion; he looked as if he was still alive.” Apart from a graze to his left shoulder, Maxwell’s body was unmarked, Lennox says.
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