Lying runs in Ghislaine Maxwell’s family; so do scandals. Her father Robert was a British media mogul, mega con man, and master criminal. Like father, like daughter.

The only good thing to be said about Robert Maxwell is that Rupert Murdoch was his sworn enemy. Otherwise, Maxwell was a grifter who embezzled from his newspaper’s pension fund and left billions of pounds in debt after his mysterious drowning death at sea.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes are not financial but the wreckage she has left in her wake is even more devastating for her victims. Note that I said HER victims. Maxwell is trying to paint herself as an innocent victim of the Epstein scandal. It’s a lie.

One of her main accusers, Virginia Giuffre, said that Maxwell was Gepetto to Epstein’s Pinocchio, the one pulling the strings. Sadly, Virginia is no longer with us: her abuse at the hands of Maxwell and Epstein led her to take her own life earlier this year. She was only 42 years old.

Jeffrey Epstein did not have all his fancy contacts until Ghislaine Maxwell entered his life after her father’s death. She was the one with the contacts among the rich, powerful, and famous in both the UK and US. For a time, her crooked father owned the New York Daily News as well as The Daily Mirror in Britain.

The dissolute and degenerate Prince Andrew was Maxwell’s bull goose contact. (That is, of course, an One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest reference.) Andrew was the bait dangled in front of the rich, powerful, and famous to bring them inside the Epstein tent. He was also accused of rape by Virginia Giuffre.

Last Friday, the MAGA Department of Justice released the transcripts of Maxwell’s interview with Todd Blanche. He claimed to be interviewing her in his capacity as Deputy Attorney General. Instead, he was there as Donald Trump’s criminal defense lawyer.

Repeat after me: Todd Blanche is a shyster.

Blanche’s mission was to get Maxwell to exonerate the Insult Comedian. Maxwell’s side of the conversation involved lies and shameless flattery. Ghislaine Maxwell and Donald Trump have two things in common: mendacity and shamelessness. Maxwell brought both to bear in her conversation with Blanche.

The transcripts are littered with lies:

• Maxwell claims that Trump and Epstein were casual acquaintances. That’s a lie.
• Maxwell claims that Prince Andrew was too English to have had sex with Virginia Giuffre. That’s a ridiculous lie.
• Maxwell claims she never recruited any “masseuses.” That’s a lie.
• Maxwell claims that she’s an innocent victim who knew nothing about Epstein’s perversions. That’s a whopper. She was there. She participated. She’s a monster.

Ghislaine Maxwell was given a fair trial and convicted of her crimes against human decency. She was called an inveterate liar by the trial judge before having the book thrown at her. It was more likely to be Lolita than One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. She was, however, the Nurse Ratched of the Epstein scandal, the virago in charge.

Jeffrey Epstein was a dim figure before Maxwell joined Team Pervert. He was a con man who wormed his way into the life of Victoria’s Secret CEO Leslie Wexner. Their relationship was complicated but Wexner was the one who recommended Epstein as a financial adviser to his wealthy friends. He was Epstein’s enabler before Maxwell took on the assignment.

Epstein reminds me of a literary character: Chance the Gardener aka Chauncey Gardner from Jerzy Kosinski’s novel Being There. That is, if Chance were a sexually deviant con artist. Like Chance, Epstein was an empty suit without his benefactors. Chance was played onscreen by Peter Sellers who was also in Lolita. It’s a small fucking world, after all.

Back to the Blanche-Maxwell interview. Both got what they wanted: Blanche got her to “exonerate” President Pennywise; Maxwell was transferred to a Club Fed, a minimum security prison that sex offenders are barred from. A waiver had to be obtained for that to happen. It’s the latest Maxwell scandal.

Will the Kaiser of Chaos pardon Maxwell? He’s certainly stupid and arrogant enough to do so. He’s more likely to commute her sentence. In his eyes, this short eyes benefits from being a woman. How could a mere woman lead a rich pervert around by his, uh, nose? #sarcasm

Ghislaine was Robert Maxwell’s favorite child. The yacht from which he disappeared was named for her. She inherited his penchant for treachery, criminality, and mendacity. Like father, like daughter.

I still hate the Epstein story, but I hate Ghislaine Maxwell even more.

The last word goes to Curtis Mayfield:

For more Epstein adjacent songs, check out Cassandra’s post, Musical Interlude: A Playlist For All The GOP Creeps.

That is all.