— | Firtuy Ricu e his demise. “It was poor. It | Brooklyn boy knew nothing about. One friend jokes that she We were very poor. We didn’t | taught Epstein the difference between a fish fork and a salad fork. id. They had shoes, they had | But despite—or was it because of?—-Maxwell’s devotion to she war, I discovered the fate of Epstein, she, too, graduated from girlfriend to friend status. thers, relatives, and neighbors. According to Jane Doe 102 vs. Jeffrey Epstein, a civil complaint 1 their minds as they realized | filed in 2009 by a woman later identified as Virginia Roberts, one ; chamber.” | of the services Maxwell provided for Epstein was the procure- owed by an international scan- : ment of underage women. (Through her lawyer and in court hundreds of millions of pounds it papers, Maxwell has vehemently denied any involvement with Js and used them to prop up his a Virginia, with any other young woman Epstein was involved ried for conspiracy to commit i E with, or with any criminal activities committed by Jeffrey Epstein. But Ghislaine, who had grown ; y In a 2016 answer to a defamation lawsuit brought by Roberts, nd counted the Duke of York, q 3 Maxwell called the allegations fabricated for financial gain.) yates, could not escape the dark q a The case of Nadia Bjorlin, who was thirteen when she was king to start fresh, she took the 4 E first noticed by Epstein, raises questions in this regard, at least "} _ inthe eyes of her mother. a q Bjorlin’s Iranian-born mother spoke to a British tabloid some 3 . q years ago about her family’s disturbing experience with Maxwell | Epstein were lovers. “She was 4 ’ and Epstein. Bjorlin’s father, a celebrated conductor of classical .a longtime friend of Ghislaine’s. 5 _ music, had died a year earlier, the mother said. She believed that nore. Ghislaine took care of 4 ‘ this made the girl a vulnerable and easy target. She managed his household and a q “She was at school at the famed Interlochen Arts Center, in rooklyn-born Je