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7ERSON Brooklyn boy knew nothing about. One friend jokes that she taught Epstein the difference between a fish fork and a salad fork. ‘e his demise. “It was poor. It | Fitrtuy Ricw : | We were very poor. We didn't id. They had shoes, they had But despite—or was it because of?—-Maxwell’s devotion to the war, I discovered the fate of Epstein, she, too, graduated from girlfriend to friend status. thers, relatives, and neighbors. According to Jane Doe 102 vs. Jeffrey Epstein, a civil complaint 1 their minds as they realized | filed in 2009 by a woman later identified as Virginia Roberts, one ; chamber.” . of the services Maxwell provided for Epstein was the procure- owed by an international scan- ; ment of underage women. (Through her lawyer and in court hundreds of millions of pounds bE papers, Maxwell has vehemently denied any involvement with js and used them to prop up his 4 Virginia, with any other young woman Epstein was involved ried for conspiracy to commit s : with, or with any criminal activities committed by Jeffrey Epstein. ‘But Ghislaine, who had grown 4 In a 2016 answer to a defamation lawsuit brought by Roberts, md counted the Duke of York, “4 i Maxwell called the allegations fabricated for financial gain.) sates, could not escape the dark 1 The case of Nadia Bjorlin, who was thirteen when she was king to start fresh, she took the first noticed by Epstein, raises questions in this regard, at least in the eyes of her mother. Bjorlin’s Iranian-born mother spoke to a British tabloid some years ago about her family’s disturbing experience with Maxwell and Epstein. Bjorlin’s father, a celebrated conductor of classical music, had died a year earlier, the mother said. She believed that this made the girl a vulnerable and easy target. | Epstein were lovers. “She was _a longtime friend of Ghislaine's. j more. Ghislaine took care of 3 She managed his household and 4 rooklyn-born Jewish boys coull 4 1g to lawsuits and witness teste = “She was at school at the famed Interlochen Arts Center, in 1 Michigan, when she met Epstein,” the mother said. “My daughter was a singer. She was a baby. She was a skinny 4 little girl, not mature for her age. She was thirteen, but everyone 3 thought she was nine or ten. “Epstein was a big donor, and he heard about Nadia and that her father had died, so she was vulnerable, and he contacted her. H e said, ‘Here’s my number. if several women who procured ~ ing to people who knew her back” ‘emed to take pleasure in satisly “He kept saying, ‘Come—will you come?’ He said he wanted L ein to a fabulous world that they 116 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022086