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James PATTERSON Maxwell said a few months before his demise. “It was poor. It was Orthodox. And it was Jewish. We were very poor. We didn't have things that other people had. They had shoes, they had food, and we didn't. At the end of the war, | discovered the fate of my parents and my sisters and brothers, relatives, and neighbors. 1 don’t know what went through their minds as they realized that they’d been tricked into a gas chamber.” Maxwell's own death was followed by an international scan- dal. It turned out that he’d stolen hundreds of millions of pounds from his companies’ pension funds and used them to prop Up his empire. Two of his sons were tried for conspiracy to commit fraud and ultimately exonerated. But Ghislaine, who had grown up in luxurious surroundings and counted the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, among her intimates, could not escape the dark shadow her father had cast. Looking to start fresh, she took the Concorde to New York City. At first, it seems, Maxwell and Epstei madly in love with Jeffrey Then they became somethin Epstein’s travel arrangements. S opened doors that very few Brooklyn have passed through. mony, she also became one 0 young girls for Epstein. She was not jealous, then. If anything, Ghisla ing Epstein’s needs. Ghislaine introduced Epstein to a £ several women who pr ine seemed to take pleasure in s fabulous world that he 116 n were lovers. “She was F » says a longtime friend of Ghislaines. : g more. Ghislaine took care of he managed his household and q -born Jewish boys could According to lawsuits and witness testi-” ocured © according to people who knew her back atisfy- Brooklyn boy knew not taught Epstein the differ But despite—or was il Epstein, she, too, gradi According to Jane Doe : filed in 2009 by a womar | of the services Maxwell : ment of underage wom papers, Maxwell has ve Virginia, with any othe with, or with any criminz In a 2016 answer to a ¢ Maxwell called the alleg: The case of Nadia B first noticed by Fucteia, in the eyes of her mothe Bjorlin’s Iranian-borr | years ago about her famil 4 and Epstein. Bjorlin’s fat q music, had died a year ez 7 this made the girl a vuln ;. “She was at school a’ 4 Michigan, when she met | My daughter was a s little girl, not mature for thought she was nine or q “Epstein was a big dc her father had died, so st He said, ‘Here’s my numt 4 “He kept saying, ‘Cor HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021974