Ghislaine Maxwell is talking – but what can she tell and can she be believed?

Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend ‘knows where the bodies are buried’, his lawyer says, but her previous testimony may count against her

Early one afternoon in April 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell got so angry that she struck a table.

Maxwell, who was facing a defamation lawsuit from the late Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre Roberts, was being deposed by attorneys and seemed to grow incensed during questioning.

“I am going to put on the record, Ms Maxwell very inappropriately and very harshly pounded our law firm table in an inappropriate manner,” said Roberts’s attorney Sigrid McCawley. “I ask she take a deep breath, and calm down. I know this is a difficult position, but physical assault or threats is not appropriate – so no pounding, no stomping, no, that’s not appropriate.”

“Can we be clear, I didn’t threaten anybody,” retorted the British socialite, who in 2021 was convicted of sex trafficking in relation to Epstein. Maxwell’s attorney, Jeffrey Pagliuca, came to her defense: “Stop, you made your record, there is no dent in the table. I don’t see any chips.”