A British socialite criminally charged with aiding Jeffrey Epstein in his sexual abuse of teenage girls, testified in 2016 that she had no memory of anything amiss on his properties in the 2000s despite the accusations from dozens of women and girls that they were sexually abused by Epstein.
Ghislaine Maxwell, 59, said during a July 2016 deposition for a defamation lawsuit that she learned about abuse claims “like everybody else, like the rest of the world, when it was announced in the papers.”
Asked if she tried to learn whether the assertions were accurate, Maxwell was stopped by her attorney from answering in a transcript, released late on Wednesday in the US along with other documents pursued by the Miami Herald.
She indicated that she left employment with Epstein because she “ceased to be happy in the job and I ceased to be happy spending time with Mr. Epstein.”
She said he “became more difficult to work with.” Asked to be more specific, she said: “Just…