Numerous high-profile artwork collectors and patrons are named in the primary batch of unsealed paperwork associated to a civil lawsuit towards Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted intercourse offender and affiliate of Jeffrey Epstein. Among these talked about are Thomas Pritzker, artwork collector and former chairman of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Glenn Dubin, trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The a whole lot of pages of paperwork, launched Wednesday evening, are a part of a since-settled defamation case towards Maxwell introduced by alleged sufferer Virginia Roberts Giuffre in 2016. Maxwell is at the moment serving a 20-year prison sentence for her position in a scheme to recruit and abuse underage women with Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 whereas he was in jail for baby intercourse trafficking fees.
Dubin and Pritzker’s associations with Epstein have been publicly known for years. In the newly launched deposition, Giuffre testified that Maxwell instructed her to provide Dubin a “massage,” including: “And when they say massage, that means erotic, okay? That’s their term for it. I think there are plenty of other witnesses that can attest to what massage actually means.” Dubin has denied the allegations.
Asked what number of occasions she had intercourse with Pritzker, Giuffre responded, “I believe I was with Tom once.” A consultant for Pritzker advised Reuters that he “continues to vehemently deny” the accusations.
Also named in court docket data is Les Wexner, founding father of the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University and former proprietor of Victoria’s Secret. He isn’t accused of wrongdoing in a deposition by Johanna Sjoberg, who denied ever assembly Wexner and different high-profile figures, and Maxwell, who denied offering “an outfit of a sexual nature” for a girl to put on for him. Wexner’s shut monetary and private ties to Epstein are in any other case well-documented. Epstein allegedly gained entry to younger girls by way of Wexner, posing as a Victoria’s Secret mannequin scout, and is accused of sexually assaulting artist Maria Farmer, one among Epstein’s first whistleblowers, in 1996 in Wexner’s Ohio mansion. Wexner has repeatedly said that he was unaware of Epstein’s prison actions.
Others accused in the transcripts embrace Marvin Minsky, identified for his contributions to the sphere of synthetic intelligence, whom Giuffre claimed assaulted her in Epstein’s infamous personal island in the US Virgin Islands, and Epstein’s former lawyer and antiquities collector Alan Dershowitz. Both males have denied the allegations.
The trove of unredacted data and interviews is just the primary of a number of batches anticipated to be launched in the approaching days or even weeks.
