Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother is lashing out — calling Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre a “monster” whereas insisting his convicted sister is the true sufferer.
“I do know who the monster is right here and it’s not my sister, it’s Virginia Giuffre and her falsehoods which have had devastating ramifications for Ghislaine. I didn’t shed a tear when she died,” Ian Maxwell informed The Telegraph in an interview revealed Friday.
Giuffre, who accused the late Epstein and Britain’s former Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, died by suicide at age 41 in April.
Ian Maxwell additionally claimed his 64-year-old sister is a “scapegoat” for Epstein’s crimes and is “on the fitting facet of historical past.”
“My sister is the autumn man. Any individual needed to pay the value for what Epstein did, and so the federal government and the media selected her,” he mentioned.
“I genuinely imagine that if Epstein had been alive, he could be incarcerated and she or he could be free.”
Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail in 2019 whereas awaiting trial on federal intercourse trafficking expenses.
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in 2021 of recruiting and grooming underage ladies for Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, together with intercourse trafficking of minors.
She is serving a 20-year sentence and has sought to overturn her conviction.
Ian Maxwell mentioned her trial “wasn’t honest, and her conviction isn’t secure.
“Ghislaine has performed nothing mistaken, and the size of her conviction is outrageous,” he informed the outlet.
He in contrast her sentence to that of Sean “Diddy” Combs.
“You’ve gotten a scenario the place any person like P Diddy stands in entrance of the identical federal court docket on the identical cost and receives four-and-a-half years for excessive bodily battery, and my sister receives 20 years,”
Ghislaine Maxwell is now incarcerated at FPC Bryan, a minimum-security federal jail in Texas.
The ability beforehand drew scrutiny after leaked emails confirmed Ghislaine Maxwell praising its cleanliness and saying she was “a lot happier right here and extra importantly secure,” whereas different inmates alleged she acquired “VIP remedy.”
She was transferred there in July from a higher-security facility.
Ian Maxwell mentioned he discovered of his sister’s arrest by the FBI whereas watching the information, recalling that brokers “despatched in a helicopter and 20 armed brokers, as if she had been a menace to society.”
He additionally argued that “feminists ought to actually assist Ghislaine as a result of she is a girl who has been handled abysmally by the system,” and mentioned there may be “nonetheless an opportunity that President Trump would possibly reply to her plea for clemency.”
Ian Maxwell mentioned he speaks together with his sister by cellphone and mentioned she has saved her humorousness.
“You may’t have this type of expertise and never flip it into one thing optimistic,” he mentioned. “There’s a tremendous ebook in it for a begin.”
He added that if she had anticipated her arrest, “she would have flown to France on the outset as a result of they don’t extradite their residents.”
Ian Maxwell additionally pointed to the lately launched Epstein information, claiming they comprise paperwork that “solely assist her competition that she didn’t obtain a good trial.”
“However she has no entry to a pc in jail, so she will’t learn them,” he mentioned. “Is it any surprise I’m indignant?”
He described himself as Ghislaine’s “de facto spokesman” and mentioned the household stays united behind her.
Her brother is a British businessman and the son of late media mogul Robert Maxwell, whose 1991 demise at sea sparked one of many UK’s greatest monetary scandals after it was revealed he had looted his firms’ pension funds.
“Blood is at all times thicker than water,” he mentioned. “The very fact is she’s my child sister and there’s no compassion for her, she must have somebody on her facet. That’s the place household is available in.”
