— | 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 the 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 § 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 & : with, or with any criminal activities committed by Jeffrey Epstein. ‘But Ghislaine, who had grown 4 In a 2016 answer to a defamation lawsuit brought by Roberts, md counted the Duke of York, “4 i Maxwell called the allegations fabricated for financial gain.) yates, could not escape the dark q The case of Nadia Bjorlin, who was thirteen when she was king to start fresh, she took the E 4 first noticed by Epstein, raises questions in this regard, at least } inthe eyes of her mother. i 4 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 q a and Epstein. Bjorlin’s father, a celebrated conductor of classical _a longtime friend of Ghislaine’s. 7 q __ music, had died a year earlier, the mother said. She believed that more. Ghislaine took care of 3 q this made the girl a vulnerable and easy target. ch e managed his household and 8 q “She was at school at the famed Interlochen Arts Center, in ooklyn-born Jewi sh