Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, sitting in the front row of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding and snapping a photo with Elon Musk, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years for helping wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.
Maxwell was also sentenced to 5 years of supervised release.
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An interesting coinkydink:
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1. Relative asks for a lighter sentence for his cousin.
2. Relative works for as a glorified file clerk for a newspaper.
3. That newspaper, like all newspapers of any substance, covered the Maxwell case.
4. Maxwell got hammered.
5. ????
6. Profit!Report
She got sentenced for trafficking sex to…
Huh.
Doesn’t say.
(Maybe that’s what the question marks are for?)Report
There are other papers in the world. Does an NYT archivist have the power to change a trial result? I’ll the Giant Left Org Chart i keep in my secret lair but i dont’ think he has quite that much power.Report
Oh, no. I’m just always fascinated when the Real World turns out to be similar to the Star Wars universe and so very many people are related to Big Names.
Anderson Cooper is a Vanderbilt, for example.
Greta Thunberg is a cousin of the Rothschilds.
Huh. Wacky.Report
Sadly imho one of the things that sucks about SW and increasingly the clearly superior sci fi franchise Star Trek is having a universe with two families and like 25 actual characters. They can’t imagine more then a tiny constrained universe.
Seems like that is the way the world has always been.
Being related to rich powerful people helps. Thunberg and Rothchilds? Is that true or a weird internet rumor? I guess there a lot of Rothchilds around. But i don’t pay attention or care about Thunberg so maybe i’m missing something.Report
Oh, that was a hoax that flew around for a month or so. (I admit to snorting when I heard it.) (Apparently it settled on Luisa-Marie Neubauer now.)
Just being related to someone isn’t a big deal and it’s not proof of anything.
But it’s always irritating when you meet a new character and, nope, they’re a Palpatine.Report
I had a supervisor whose maiden name was Rothschild. She lived on Sutton Place, which she couldn’t possibly afford on her salary, and probably couldn’t afford with her husband’s princelier compensation added on. I was always curious but I never asked.Report
I used to work with an Alexander Hamilton (yup) and also a John Q. Adams (not sure).Report
Come on, man. The Rothschild name/fame goes back to the mid-1700s. How many millions of distant cousins are there?
The fame-money linkages are always interesting. Greta became famous enough that one of Princess Caroline’s relatives offered her the use of a $4M racing yacht for the scam trip to New York. Yes, Greta sailed. Multiple replacement crew to take the yacht back flew. From a carbon-footprint perspective, she would have done much better to sit crammed in back in coach/cargo on a wide body.
My favorite, though, is Julia Louis Dreyfus. She appears to have become a hundreds-of-millionaire on the basis of her talent and effort in comedy, without ever taking advantage that she stands to inherit a considerable part of the Dreyfus Funds billions eventually.Report
And that relates to the newspaper file clerk how? That NBC, where he doesn’t even work, gives a long list of important people Maxwell and Epstein consorted with, a verifiable fact, but not a long list of important people who, conjecturally, may have indulged in sexual relations pimped by EpWell? NBC’s libel lawyers are smarter than that.Report
Looks like everybody’s are. Including those retained by the ???? folks.Report
So one would hope, though the “???” isn’t people; it’s a placeholder for whatever proposition is supposed to connect 1-4 with 6. Underpants Gnomes stuff.Report
When will the list of people that flew on Epstein’s plane, partied with him, and spent time on his island, be released?
Hmmm?Report
To borrow from CJ:
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Here’s the stuff I see in the article.
There.
That’s your long list.Report