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New York Post, Tuesday, August 13, 2019

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HE WENT DOWN

By LARRY CELONA, EMILY SAUL

and BRUCE GOLDING

Jeffrey Epstein’s jailhouse

death has shifted the focus of

federal authorities to the ac-

complices who helped him sex-

ually traffic and abuse underage

girls, Attorney General William

Barr said on Monday.

The nation’s top lawman de-

livered the stern warning to the

late pedophile’s cronies during a

speech to the Fraternal Order of

Police in New Orleans, saying,

“Any co-conspirators should not

rest easy.”

Barr did not name any sus-

pects, but the feds’ list is most

likely headed by Ghislaine Max-

well, 57, who has been described

variously over the years as the

late multimillionaire financier’s

girlfriend, closest pal and key

player in his alleged

sex-trafficking ring.

Court papers unsealed Friday

— just hours before Epstein was

found “unresponsive” in his cell

at the Metropolitan Correction

Center in lower Manhattan —

also claim that she served as the

“madam” in his alleged ring.

The papers, part of a defama-

tion suit that Maxwell settled

with Epstein accuser Virginia

Giuffre shortly before a sched-

uled 2017 trial, said “multiple

witnesses” had testified that

Maxwell was responsible for

“recruiting, maintaining, har-

boring and trafficking girls for

Epstein.”

Even worse for Maxwell, the

court papers allege that she was

a “ ‘co-conspirator’ in Epstein’s

sexual abuse,” taking “numer-

ous sexually explicit photo-

graphs of underage girls in-

volved in sexual activities” and

engaging in three-way sex with

Epstein and various girls, ac-

cording to an opinion written

by the late Manhattan federal

Judge Robert Sweet.

Among the witnesses who tes-

tified against Maxwell — the so-

cialite daughter of the late, dis-

graced British media mogul

Robert Maxwell — during pre-

trial proceedings was Rinaldo

Rizzo, the house manager for

her friend and Epstein’s ex-girl-

friend Eva Dubin.

“Mr. Rizzo testified — through

tears — how, while working at

Dubin’s house, he observed

[Maxwell] bring a 15-year-old

Swedish girl to Dubin’s house,”

Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCaw-

ley wrote in motion papers.

“In distress, the 15-year-old

girl tearfully explained to him

that [Maxwell] tried to force

her to have sex with Epstein

through threats and stealing her

passport.”

McCawley also wrote that it

was an “undisputed fact” that

one of Epstein’s private pilots,

David Rodgers, “testified that

he flew [Maxwell] and Ms.

Giuffre at least 23 times on Ep-

stein’s jet, the ‘Lolita Express,’

and that ‘GM’ on the flight log

stands for Ghislaine Maxwell.”

Rodgers and another Epstein

pilot, Larry Visoski, have coop-

erated with the federal investi-

gation, The New York Times re-

ported last month.

Another “undisputed fact” that

McCawley cited in her motion

was testimony by Juan Alessi,

the house manager at Epstein’s

waterfront mansion in Palm

Beach, Fla., that Maxwell was

“one of the people who procured

some of the over 100 girls he

witnessed visit Epstein, and that

he had to clean [her] sex toys.”

Maxwell “has not been able to

procure a single witness — not

one — to testify that [she] did

not procure girls for sex with

Epstein or participate in the

sex,” McCawley wrote.

“Even one of her own wit-

nesses, [former Giuffre fiancé]

Tony Figueroa, testified that she

both procured girls and partici-

pated in the sex.”

Maxwell’s debt-ridden dad, a

former member of British Par-

liament, went missing from his

yacht while cruising off the Ca-

nary Islands in 1991.

Robert Maxwell’s naked body

was found by a Spanish fisher-

man about 15 miles away, and

three pathologists who exam-

ined it differed on the cause of

death, blaming it on a heart at-

tack and/or drowning.

Ghislaine Maxwell is believed

to be living in London, where

she has a historic townhouse in

the swank Belgravia section

near Hyde Park and a brick

country cottage about 90 miles

southwest of the city.

A lawyer for Maxwell did not

return a request for comment.

She was last photographed in

public by The Post, which in

January 2015 caught her coming

out of an Upper East Side

townhouse in which she lived

at the time.

The five-story Beaux Arts

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alleged to have alleged to have alleged to have

been Jeffrey been Jeffrey been Jeffrey

Epstein’s madam” Epstein’s madam” Epstein’s madam”

in procuring in procuring in procuring

underage girls underage girls underage girls

for the twisted for the twisted for the twisted

pedophile and pedophile and

even taking part even taking part even taking part

in three-way sex in three-way sex in three-way sex

romps with the romps with the romps with the

financier and financier and financier and

his victims.

HE WENT DOWN

AIDES AND ‘ABETTORS’AIDES AND ‘ABETTORS’

Nadia

Marcinko, 33

Epstein allegedly

purchased the

Yugoslavian

former model to

act as his own

live-in sex slave

and assistant, and

she is accused of

engaging in

sexual encounters

with underage

girls. She is now

an FAA-certified

commercial

pilot and

changed her

name from

Nadia

Marcinkova.

act as his own

live­in sex slave

and assistant, and

she is accused of

engaging in

sexual encounters

with underage

girls. She is now

an FAA­certified

commercial

pilot and

changed her

name from

Nadia

Marcinkova.

Haley Robson,

33

She was a college

student when she

was accused of

rounding up

dozens of high-

school girls in the

Palm Beach area

and delivering

them to Epstein’s

home in exchange

for $200 cash per

girl. “I’m like Heidi

Fleiss,” police

records say she

told Florida cops,

referencing the

madam of a high-

end Hollywood

prostitution ring.

Adriana Ross,

age unknown

The Polish-born

model is

accused of

helping

orchestrate

Epstein’s

massages and

sexual abuse.

She is also

listed as having

accompanied

former

President Bill

Clinton on the

pedophile

financier’s

private jet,

nicknamed the

“Lolita Express.”

Sarah Kellen,

39

As Epstein’s

assistant, she

allegedly

scheduled his

massage

appointments

with a litany of

girls, even

setting up the

table and oils.

Kellen has since

married

NASCAR driver

Brian Vickers

and goes by the

name Sarah

Vickers or

Sarah

Kensington.

Lesley Groff,

51

She was an

executive

assistant and

allegedly helped

coordinate travel

and massage

sessions with the

financier’s victims.

Groff’s lawyer,

Michael Bachner,

said his client had

no knowledge of

Epstein’s

predation and “is

shocked and

deeply distraught

by the accusations

concerning her

former employer.”