Ghislaine Maxwell’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein on trial as ‘GMax’ essay presented as evidence

Ghislaine Maxwell did not take the stand at her sex-trafficking trial, but the jury may have heard from her nonetheless.

Prosecutors presented as evidence of her close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein a brief 2002 essay they said she wrote under the name “GMax”. Maxwell, 60, has pleaded not guilty to charges she procured underage girls for sexual abuse by Epstein, her ex-boyfriend and employer, and took part in some of the abuse herself.

“Jeffrey and Ghislaine have been together, a couple, for the last 11 years,” GMax wrote. “They are, contrary to what many people think, rarely apart – I almost always see them together.”

Maxwell’s lawyers dispute her authorship of the essay. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents found it on a hard drive, along with at least a dozen pictures of the couple and tens of thousands of photographs of nude women and underage girls, when they raided Epstein’s Manhattan town house after his July 2019 arrest on sex-trafficking charges. He was found dead in his jail cell a month later while awaiting trial.

Her defence team said at trial that she dated Epstein, but they maintain the romance cooled and that she served primarily as his top aide, managing his five homes. Maxwell denies knowing of any illegal conduct by Epstein towards underage girls, and her lawyers argued that she has being scapegoated for his crimes.