Ghislaine Maxwell’s Bombshell Filing Raises Questions About Epstein’s Hidden Network

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By Dina Doll

Buried in a footnote of Ghislaine Maxwell’s court filing, she makes the bombshell claim that there twenty-five accomplices of Jeffrey Epstein entered into secret settlements and that there are four unnamed employee co-conspirators of Epstein.

The fact is, Maxwell is no longer content with the conditions of her confinement. She has tasted a glimpse of freedom and appears determined to push for more. After losing her appeal to the Supreme Court, she filed a habeas corpus petition. This is the legal equivalent of a last resort. It asks a court to overturn a conviction on the grounds that it is so fundamentally unfair or unconstitutional that it cannot stand, even after all other appellate avenues have been exhausted.

In her petition, Maxwell alleges that twenty-five accomplices of Epstein entered into secret agreements with Epstein survivors through their lawyers. She also asserts that four employees of Epstein were co-conspirators but were never charged. Maxwell does not stop there. She specifically names two men closely associated with both Epstein and Donald Trump: Leon Black and Leslie Wexner.

When you piece it altogether Maxwell’s court filling starts looking less like a plea to a Judge but a pardon plea to Trump.

Leon Black, co-founder of Apollo Global Management, who had a longstanding financial relationship with Epstein. Between roughly 2012 and 2017, Black paid Epstein more than $170 million for tax and estate planning services. In 2023, he agreed to pay $62.5 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands in a civil settlement related to Epstein the lawsuit claimed his financial dealings with Epstein helped fund the sex trafficking operation Epstein ran. In 2023, he agreed to pay $62.5 million to the U.S. Virgin Islands in a civil settlement related to Epstein. Black did not admit guilt, but the settlement alone is notable. Maxwell references this in her filing and highlights that she was never provided discovery on Black, implying that critical information was withheld from her defense.

The Daily Beast in its reporting of Maxwell’s claim states: “Notably, Black is the same person who, in 2018, as Congress probed foreign interference in the 2016 election, gave evidence about being with Trump during a trip to Russia in the naughty ‘90s, where they attended a concert, a discotheque, and, according to Black’s sworn testimony, “might have been in a strip club together.”

Maxwell also references Leslie Wexner, the billionaire founder of L Brands, formerly Victoria’s Secret. Wexner had a financial and personal relationship with Epstein for many years, with Epstein managing Wexner’s finances.

Maxwell’s filing raises the real possibility that this is a signal to Trump. Given her knowledge of Epstein’s network, she may be leveraging what she knows to seek a pardon or additional leniency.

The filing underscores a much larger pattern: Epstein did not operate alone, and many individuals connected to his inner circle may have evaded accountability through settlements. In every settlement agreement there is almost always a non-disclosure agreement. NDAs are likely in place for the twenty-five settlements she claims exist, which could explain why the names of those involved have never been publicly released by the victim or their lawyers.

Virginia Giuffre has repeatedly described how these agreements silenced victims, and Maxwell’s filing hints that the Department of Justice may already possess information about the four unnamed co-conspirators. If so, why has it not been disclosed? Why have critical details about Epstein’s network remained hidden for so long?

As the story develops, the central question remains: when will justice for Epstein’s victims be served. Maxwell’s bid for release is most certainly self-serving, but it also provides perhaps the number of the men on the Epstein client list.

We will continue to follow this story closely. Justice for the victims is not optional, and holding Epstein’s network accountable is essential.

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