BREAKING! Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and heiress who became a confidante of Jeffrey Epstein has been arrested by the FBI, two senior law enforcement sources had told News 4 New York.
The arrest happened in Bedford, New Hampshire around 8:30 a.m on charges that she conspired with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse minors. She’s expected to appear in federal court later today.
Ghislaine was a one-time girlfriend of Epstein and was always at his side for decades. She was alleged to have groomed teen girls for sex with the rich and powerful. One of those teens, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, leveled that charge against Ghislaine Maxwell in a 2015 defamation suit.
Jeffrey Epstein was a registered sex offender and kept company with many high-level individuals. He was arrested last summer on new federal charges of exploiting dozens of underage girls in New York and Florida in the early 2000s.
He attempted suicide while in custody in late July, and later died after another suicide attempt in early August. Two of the guards who were in charge of monitoring Epstein are now facing federal charges for not properly supervising him.
One day before his suicide, a federal appeals court released the transcript of a 2016 deposition in which Epstein repeatedly refused to say whether Maxwell had procured young girls for him.