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ODr~wAnA OAR WNHeRF OCW WAIN OO PWN PB Page 46 GHISLAINE MAXWELL: I didn't -- I didn’t -- I didn’t -- I'm not sure even what I thought. I was like, that's weird. TODD BLANCHE: -- so after he -- after you find out about it, what happens with your relationship with him? GHISLAINE MAXWELL: I asked him. I asked him what was going on -- TODD BLANCHE: Okay. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: -- and he said, I -- I -- not to worry. Nothing, nothing, taking care. Don't worry about it (indiscernible) and then it all went quiet. I didn't -- he didn't say, he didn't share. I wasn't part of it at all. I was off with Ted and I really just -- TODD BLANCHE: Did he tell you -- well, why don't we come back to more specifics around that time period in a few minutes -- GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Okay. TODD BLANCHE: -- I want to just finish this opening part. So that case goes on, ultimately it ends. What -- what -- what was your relationship like with him during that case, when he goes, you know, when he -- when he was sentenced. Page 47 GHISLAINE MAXWELL: He asked -- he -- he -- he told me, he said, "Listen. I'm going to jail." I was like, "Okay." And he goes, "I would like you to stay on board to manage the properties, the animals, this and that, and just stay put and I'll continue to pay you. In case there's any emergency, I don't trust anyone." And I was like, "Okay." TODD BLANCHE: Well, when you said continue to pay, had he con--- has he -- GHISLAINE MAXWELL: He had never stopped paying me. TODD BLANCHE: He never stopped paying you. So even when your relationship changes, you're getting -- does the amount increase from the $25,000 or so a year from the beginning? Like how much are you getting paid yearly? GHISLAINE MAXWELL: I think it ended -- at the time, well, we had different payment structures and I'm happy to explain how that was, but I think salary wise, if I'm right, it ended at around a quarter of a million a year. TODD BLANCHE: How much? GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Quarter of a million. $250,000. TODD BLANCHE: And when -- and when did it MAGNA®© Aryan oP WNF DWM DOA HDOB WN EH NNN DN DW + Owe WNrR OW oO TN OA PWN EE NNNRPRPRPRPRPRPRP PRB NF OW DAAAUBWNHE OO © end? When was that that it stopped? GHISLAINE MAXWELL: 2008, or '09. TODD BLANCHE: So -- GHISLAINE MAXWELL: '09. When did he come out of jail? Whenever he came out of jail. TODD BLANCHE: Okay. So, and over the years, it increased from what you said was you thought about $25,000 to $250,000. That's between like '90, early '90s until 2009 or '10, whenever he stopped; is that right? GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Yes -- yes. TODD BLANCHE: And how were you paid? GHISLAINE MAXWELL: W2. TODD BLANCHE: W2 from which -- from what company? Or do you -- GHISLAINE MAXWELL: He, like I -- he just moved me around over to this company, that, I didn't care -- TODD BLANCHE: Okay. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: -- and I didn't care and I didn't think that -- I didn't understand any rhyme or reason, it doesn't, I just, you know, whatever -- TODD BLANCHE: Okay. So -- GHISLAINE MAXWELL: -- so maybe -- Page 49 TODD BLANCHE: -- so when he's going to go to jail, he says, "Can you stay around and manage everything.” GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Yeah. TODD BLANCHE: And do you do that? GHISLAINE MAXWELL: I do. TODD BLANCHE: Okay. And then -- and then we'll come back to that. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Well, not manage everything, no. I mean there are other people at this point. My specific role then was very, very diminished. TODD BLANCHE: Okay. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: I reviewed the bill structure that came from the constructions, that were still made, the island -- TODD BLANCHE: Okay. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: -- and wherever else I was going, Paris at this point, because I speak French, I'm fluent in French. And also my relationship with the French decorator was critical to him. And in the French component part of -- of that aspect, that was really vital and so you would have had to find someone who was -- well, actually, and the Spanish trilingual, 13 (Pages 46 to 49) LEGAL SERVICES DOJ-OGR- 00022668