Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell 'conspired to discredit sex abuse victims'

Jeffrey Epstein and his twisted ex-partner Ghislaine Maxwell plotted to discredit women who planned to blow the whistle on their sexual abuse, new emails have revealed.

Maxwell, 63, a longtime Epstein associate, has long de-emphasised her relationship with the disgraced financier, claiming she is a former flame turned property manager with no intimate knowledge of his sex slave ring - despite having been sentenced for sex-trafficking crimes in 2021 after she was found to have recruited and groomed women for him.

Her bid to distance herself from the convicted paedophile have been stepped up a notch in recent weeks as she bids for preferential treatment from the Trump administration. But a tranche of old emails have been recently brought to light which are said to reveal how she had conspired with Epstein to silence women who attempted to accuse him of wrongdoing.

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Bloomberg Newsreports it has received more than 18,000 emails documenting years of exchanges between Epstein and Maxwell that capture their conversations as the convicted paedophile faced sex trafficking charges.

In April 2014, when the heat turned on Maxwell following allegations by Virginia Giuffre that she had participated in the abuse of women, the emails are said to capture the moment she turned to Epstein for compromising information on her accuser. According to Bloomberg, three days after UK outlets started covering the allegations cited in a legal document, she asked for a "file on Virginia".

Bloomberg reports that in one email to Epstein sent via her Yahoo account, she asked: “Can you send me the file on Virginia that your lawyers have or what ever info you have on her.”

Ms Giuffre doubled down some time later when she joined a victims' rights lawsuit accusing Florida prosecutors of failing to notify Epstein's victims that they were offering him a plea deal. Known as Jane Doe 3 at the time, she said she was trafficked by Epstein for "sexual purposes" before publicly identifying Maxwell. Ms Giuffre, who died earlier this tear, separately made sex claims against Prince Andrew, which he has consistently denied.

She said she was "one of the main women whom Epstein used to procure under-aged girls for sexual activities and a primary co-conspirator in his sexual abuse and sex trafficking scheme".

According to the emails obtained by Bloomberg, what followed appeared to be an earnest bid by Maxwell to discredit her accuser, after she shared a document marked confidential with Epstein. The report, obtained from Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, detailed rape allegations made by 15-year-old Ms Giuffre against two male acquaintances.

The 20-page document went on to add the complaint was eventually dropped due to "the victim’s lack of credibility", something Maxwell seized on in a note to Epstein, Bloomberg reports.

The Bloomberg article claims Maxwell flagged that Ms Giuffre’s mother referenced "her drug use and possible involvement in witchcraft", and later told Epstein in a 2015 email she planned to distribute a dossier centred on her to other people. She later asks Epstein if he has "anything else to add", to which no reply was recorded.

The dossier was later published by the New York Daily News, which ran that she was found "not credible", as the documents procured by Maxwell had claimed.

According to Bloomberg, the emails contained a trove of information further tying Maxwell to Epstein, including a spreadsheet that itemised close to 2,000 gifts intended for the paedophile's friends, victims, and business associates. While Bloomberg reports it isn't clear whether these were ever accepted, among them were a $35,000 (£25,889) watch intended for an ex-Bill Clinton aide, and a $71,000 (£52,518) purchase at a Lexus dealership for and Epstein lawyer.

Some of the gifts were also earmarked for teen girls who later accused Epstein and Maxwell of sexual abuse, and a spreadsheet indicates Maxwell had played a direct role in helping arrange the items, Bloomberg's article states.