According to the former butler of the businessman, the British worldly was responsible for preserving the secret of his sexual crimes.
Le Monde with AFP
At its trial in New York for minor sex traffic, Ghislaine Maxwell, ancient companion and a member of US billionaire Jeffrey Epstein dead in 2019, was depressed, Thursday, December 2, like the “Maisse de Maison” of the financier, charged to preserve the secret of his sexual crimes.
Juan Alessi, former butler of Epstein in his residence of Palm Beach in Florida in the 1990s, testified before the Federal Court of Manhattan, who has justified the ultra-worldly Ghislaine Maxwell. The daughter of the magnat of the press Robert Maxwell is suspected of being Epstein’s “removing machine” for him to sexually exploit minor girls between 1994 and 2004. If it is convicted, the Franco-American-British 59 years old incurs perpetuity criminal imprisonment.
Juan Alessi, an Ecuadorian, told the jurors how M Maxwell had imposed an “incalculable” number of very strict rules in the house of Palm Beach, the most terrifying of which prohibited to cross the Jeffrey Epstein’s look. “Do not look in his eyes, turn his head and answer him,” remember having heard Juan Alessi.
“You do not see anything, do not hear anything”
“Remember: You do not see anything, do not hear anything, say nothing, except to answer a question that is directly addressed to you”, lists a kind of internal settlement of 58 pages from the house of Epstein , New York financial influential accused of sexual crimes but committed suicide in prison in the summer of 2019 before they could be judged. “Never reveal to anyone what Mr. Epstein do or M Maxwell,” orders the rules, according to Juan Alessi, who left his work at the end of the 1990s.
Among the many things that the butler had to prepare before the arrival of Epstein in his Florida residence, he had to make sure that a pistol was in the finance night table drawer.
Dressed in black, M me Maxwell listened to the deposition in silence. She has been in pre-trial detention since the summer of 2020 and pleading not guilty of the six charges, including the sexual trafficking of minor girls.
Tuesday and Wednesday, a crucial witness of the trial, “Jane”, sometimes explained in tears how the couple Epstein-Maxwell had approached him in 1994 and how the financier had sexually attacked him to Palm Beach, while she was only 14 years old. Juan Alessi said to remember two young girls at the time, among whom “Jane”, that he had seen a first time with his mother. He even said went to get her at school.