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Wednesday 16 december 2020

Ex-Epstein pal seeks bail with $28.5M and armed guards

By LARRY NEUMEISTER place over 25 years ago."
Associated Press To support the bail request,
NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers the lawyers included a let-
for the former girlfriend of ter from Maxwell's spouse.
Jeffrey Epstein are urging a They said the letter tells how
judge to free her to await Ms. Maxwell was forced to
trial under a $28.5 million leave her family and drop
bail package that would out of public view, not be-
include armed guards to cause she was eluding law
ensure she remains safe enforcement, but because
and doesn't flee a New of "the intense media frenzy
York City residence. and threats following the
The bail arguments on be- arrest and death of Jeffrey
half of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein."
first filed under seal last In one letter attached to
Tuesday, were publicly re- the bail request as an ex-
leased late Monday with hibit, an individual wrote:
redactions in Manhattan "Her love for ... her husband
federal court that were was a principal reason that
approved by Judge Alison she stayed close by as pos-
J. Nathan. They were sup- sible while fighting for her
ported by numerous let- innocence."
ters from family and friends "I can attest that when she
who insisted that Maxwell In this July 2, 2020, file photo, Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New moved, it was always and
sought seclusion in a New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during a news conference in New only due to fear of being
York.
Hampshire home in De- Associated Press discovered by the press or
cember 2019 after receiv- 'vigilantes' — the fear was
ing death threats and wor- rest was rejected. The law- spouse. It said the assets, those corporate entities. palpable," the unidentified
rying that the public and yers said Maxwell and her $16 million of which was The identities of seven oth- individual wrote. "The only
media would find her at a spouse, with whom she has in cash or equities, were er close friends and family reason that she was forced
home where she lived with been living for most of the worth $22.5 million on Oct. members who the lawyers to find quiet places to be
her husband. past four years, were offer- 31. said were willing to pledge in all this time, is due to the
A security specialist who of- ing a bail package partially The financial report also about $5 million of their howling 'mobs' screaming
fered to pledge $1 million consisting of a $22.5 million noted that prosecutors own assets toward the bail for her 'scalp' on Twitter and
toward the bail package personal recognizance in their initial bail submis- package were also not re- other social media outlets."
and to provide armed se- bond secured by $8 million sion cited transfers totaling vealed. The lawyers said The individual added: "She
curity for Maxwell if she is re- in property and $500,000 more than $20 million from bail would include elec- has never hid from the au-
leased on bail said Maxwell in cash. They said it repre- 2007 to 2011, describing tronic monitoring. thorities and is frustrated
retreated into a back room sents all of Maxwell and her them as transfers from Ep- "Ms. Maxwell vehemently that she never had the op-
of her residence when the husband's assets, including stein's accounts to Max- maintains her innocence portunity to talk to them
FBI approached on July 2 three homes. well's accounts and vice and is committed to de- personally to counteract all
because it was thought re- The husband was not iden- versa. fending herself," the law- the lies pouring out in the
porters had found her. tified in court papers, but a The financial report noted yers wrote. "She wants media." Epstein killed him-
Maxwell, 58, is scheduled to financial report among ex- that Maxwell during those nothing more than to re- self in a federal Manhattan
face a July trial on charges hibits said the couple was years acted as an officer of main in this country to fight lockup in August 2019 as he
that she recruited three married in 2016 and that various corporate entities the allegations against her, awaited trial on sex traffick-
teenage girls for Epstein to Maxwell had put the ma- related to aircraft and air which are based on the ing charges. He was 66.
abuse in the mid-1990s. jority of the $20.2 million in travel associated with Ep- uncorroborated testimony A spokesperson for pros-
Her first attempt at bail assets she had in 2015 into stein and there were sub- of a handful of witnesses ecutors declined to
shortly after her July ar- a trust controlled by her stantial transfers involving about events that took comment.q
Judge approves settlement in women’s sports case at Brown

sports. challenge in June to the American Civil Liberties
U.S. District Judge John Providence, Rhode Island Union of Rhode Island.
McConnell Jr. signed off school's decision to reduce "These are valuable ben-
on the agreement, ending several women's varsity efits for our women ath-
more than two decades sports teams to club status. letes in the face of a grow-
of legal battles centering Several men's sports were ing national trend to shrink
on gender discrimination in also reduced to club status, college sports programs
collegiate athletics. although some were later across the country," Labin-
The settlement originally restored. ger added.
announced in Septem- "While we wish we could The June motion by stu-
ber restores the women's have convinced Brown to dent-athletes represented
equestrian and women's restore all five teams, we by attorneys with the ACLU
In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, people rest on grass while fencing teams to varsity were able to hammer out of Rhode Island, Public
reading at Brown University in Providence, R.I. status, and calls for an end an agreement that has re- Justice and two private
Associated Press to a 1998 legal agreement stored at least two and will law firms, alleged that
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A student-athletes who had ensuring gender equity in hold the line against any the cuts violated the 1998
federal judge on Tuesday challenged the Ivy League varsity sports at Brown on more cuts for the next four pact known as the Cohen
approved a settlement be- school's decision to drop Aug. 31, 2024. years," said Lynette Labin- agreement after the lead
tween Brown University and several women's varsity It stemmed from a legal ger, an attorney with the plaintiff.q