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AAD OPFWNF DH OATH UBF WNY HE have to -- TODD BLANCHE: Yeah. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: -- hear my point of view. It's better if it comes from her own words and that way there's no second-guessing whether -- what I'm saying. recruited her, trained her. Those are BIQMINSeyXeugiey) own words. Where was I going with this? TODD BLANCHE: That you were -- that you didn't know. I mean, I assume you were saying that you weren't -- GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Oh yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. TODD BLANCHE: Yeah. That's okay -- GHISLAINE MAXWELL: I'm trying toremember 1 where I was. TODD BLANCHE: -- that's all right. It's okay. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: I really do have some slow cognition issues. The -- TODD BLANCHE: So she says -- she testifies that it was alii that recruited her Page 123 and trained her and not you. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: So wait. So then in her first FBI meeting, she reports seeing a woman with short dark hair at the house, which then is used as evidence that that person was myself. But the maid, lady that who helped keep the house, John Alessi's wife -- oh, and with an accent, I believe she said. John Alessi's wife had short, dark hair and an accent. I'm sorry, but I find -- and you can ask yourselves this, I mean, I've obviously modified my accent. I've been in America a long time, but I'm British. I've been brought up with a very strong British accent. And I don't believe there's an American on planet Earth that doesn't recognize this to be British or Australian, maybe, if you really don't know. But it's not some random accent. Now the Hispanic, maybe. Okay. That was John's wife that she saw, not me. And I'd like to point out further how you -- potentially her own -- through her own words. She identify -- DAVID MARKUS: Why don't we -- why don't we -- GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Okay. ABAD OBFWNF OHM WAT HANO B WN EP Nt oO © oO TN OA PWN EE ay oO © Page 124 DAVID MARKUS: -- stop there and let him ask the next question. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Sorry. TODD BLANCHE: You're good. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Okay. TODD BLANCHE: So it's -- so just -- and look, I want to -- I want to try to -- I think probably tomorrow we will -- I want to talk more about kind of the evidence against you and how to address that. So -- GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Okay. Sorry. TODD BLANCHE: No, don't apologize. That's -- so that's helpful but -- GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Okay. TODD BLANCHE: -- I don't want you to be burdened. I want you to just tell the truth the best you can, so I don't want you to be burdened by what people said at trial or what you know the press says about you, so -- GHISLAINE MAXWELL: I just thought it was illustrative when you asked the question -- TODD BLANCHE: And it was. It was. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: -- because it doesn't -- I did not -- I absolutely have no memory at any -- now I'm leaving RUINS eae scparate Page 125 to this obviously -- TODD BLANCHE: Uh-huh. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: -- so that's a separate story. I'm not going to pretend -- well, we'll come to her. TODD BLANCHE: We'll get to her. Go ahead. GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Yes, she -- but in the terms of the scheme or whatever, however you want to determine what you're calling that, I have no -- no memory, no active anything of having seen anybody that resembles a young -- a child, let's call it what it is, at that house giving him a massage at all. It's not even like I did this. It's an at all. And 44 people didn't see me or talk about me either, including reese TODD BLANCHE: Did -- and when you say "that house," I -- GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Oh, sorry. Palm Beach. TODD BLANCHE: Yeah, no, I understand what you mean but, and I -- does the same memory or lack thereof, apply to on planes, at -- in New Mexico, in New York, in -- GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Well, with some other MAGNA® ~° °°” LEGAL SERVICES DOJ-OGR- 00022687