Ghislaine Maxwell last night said she wished that she had never met billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and claimed he was murdered in prison in a bombshell interview with Talk TV.
In her first TV interview since she was jailed for child sex trafficking, the British socialite boasted of meeting the Queen and ex-US president Bill Clinton.
During an hour-long show on TalkTV, Maxwell, 61, offered no apology to her victims and told them to take out their anger on the authorities who ‘allowed’ her former boyfriend Epstein to die in prison.
She branded the infamous photo of her with Prince Andrew – showing his arm around accuser Virginia Roberts (now Giuffre), then 17 – as ‘fake’, triggering a backlash as victims condemned her controversial remarks.
Maxwell was jailed for 20 years last June after being convicted in the US of masterminding a scheme to round up schoolgirls for Wall Street financier Epstein to molest. The daughter of disgraced newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell had two US presidents, a Pope and A-lister celebrities on speed-dial on her phone.
But she was abandoned in court by friends, including Andrew, with none offering a character reference.
However, Maxwell last night called the prince her ‘dear friend’ and branded the accusations against him baseless.
She said: ‘In [Ms Giuffre’s] deposition…her stories are very detailed and elaborate. If your memories are so poor then how can you rely on anything that she says?
‘Once you retract on men you make claims against on the grounds that your memory is faulty, you have to question everything she says.’
Maxwell was referring to Ms Giuffre dropping a separate sexual abuse claim against Epstein’s former lawyer Alan Dershowitz last year.
Andrew paid up to £12million to Ms Giuffre, now 39, in an out-of-court settlement last year – but now hopes to overturn the legal deal and ‘prove’ his innocence to end his royal exile.
In last night’s edition of Jeremy Kyle’s TalkTV show, viewers saw Maxwell speaking for the first time since she was jailed. The show featured video and audio phone calls from prison in Florida, in which she told her brother Ian Maxwell and journalist Daphne Barak that the biggest misconception about her was that she was the ‘cruellest, meanest, most poisonous person’.
And she rued the day she met Epstein, for whom she procured schoolgirls to molest. She said: ‘I honestly wish I had never met him.’
Laughing, she added: ‘I didn’t know that he was so awful. I mean obviously now, looking back with hindsight, of course. But at the time, I mean he had lots of friends. He was friendly with just about everybody you could imagine.’
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