On Monday, the fallout from Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest in New Hampshire on Thursday continued. She arrived in New York in the morning, NBC News reported, and is being held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center. According to the Associated Press, prosecutors have asked a judge to schedule a bail hearing for her in a Manhattan federal court on Friday. Maxwell has been charged with recruiting women and girls who Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused. (She has denied all the allegations.)
Over the weekend, a series of tabloid reports emerged about how Maxwell was apprehended in New Hampshire, and what her 156-acre hideaway there was like. The New York Post surveyed drone footage of the mountaintop property, called “Tuckedaway.” The Daily Mirror reported that FBI agents nearly blew their cover when they lied to a neighbor who had complained about the buzzing noise from their planes overhead, and the Daily Mail recounted some details of the 24-agent raid. As Vanity Fair’s Mark Seal reported in a new account of the year Maxwell spent on the run following Epstein’s arrest, the scramble around Maxwell had already had echoes of when her father, Robert, died in 1991.
Meanwhile, the arrest prompted renewed focus on Maxwell’s many high-profile relationships and who might come up in relation to her case. Fox News aired a segment about Maxwell that included a photo of her, Epstein, and Melania Trump but cropped out Donald. The Telegraph published a newly surfaced old sighting: Maxwell with Kevin Spacey on a throne at Buckingham Palace in 2002. Disavowals and attempted preemptions were swift. After a photo of Elon Musk and Maxwell at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar party circulated again on social media, Musk’s ex-wife Talulah Riley said in a statement that she’d never met Maxwell. “I don’t usually comment on such things, but given the truly horrific nature of what is being implied up and down my timeline today, I wanted to respond publicly,” Riley wrote, adding that one rumor “I have seen implied is that Maxwell procured me as some kind of child-bride for Elon.” Alan Dershowitz defended Maxwell in an essay for the Spectator.
“Ghislaine Maxwell prepared to snitch on ‘big names’ to save herself,” was Page Six’s headline on Saturday. As the legal case against Maxwell begins to further unfold on Friday, one pressing question is who else will end up being implicated. “Prince Andrew should be panicking at the moment because Ghislaine doesn’t really care about anyone else but Ghislaine,” Virginia Roberts Giuffre told 60 Minutes Australia.
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