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register, because --
TODD BLANCHI!
GHISLAINE MAXWELL: -- along with all of
those -- well, not in 2006, but later when the more
salacious and other allegations came out, I knew were
utterly false, which then just reinforced my belief
that the rest was not true.
TODD BLANCHE: Let me ask you a question
about the age of the masseuses over the years.
think in my mind, there's a di rence between you
knowing or not knowing that a masseuse is under the
age of 18 and coming to give a massage, and you
knowing that Mr. Epstein, you know, sexually abused
the underage person or made her strip or something
like that, meaning -- and I want to understand
whether you believe that nobody that came to give
massages, none of the women were under 18 or that you
didn't focus on their age, but you -- you were more
focused on whether any underage woman was abused by
him.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL: I think it's better to
answer this question with corroborating evidence and
then go back and explain, so that I frame --
TODD BLANCHE: Yeah.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL: -- your understanding
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