Ghislaine Maxwell fought for months to keep sealed the deposition she gave in a now-settled defamation lawsuit filed against her by a woman who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse. This week, a Manhattan federal court rejected her pleas and made public hundreds of pages of documents Thursday morning. The transcript of the April 2016 deposition details more than nine hours of combative questioning and elusive answers. “You are asking me to speculate, and I won’t speculate,” she said. Throughout the 465-page deposition, Ms. Maxwell said she never recruited girls for or “saw any inappropriate underage activities with Jeffrey ever.”

Source: Wall Street Journal October 22, 2020 19:18 UTC