Rumors of Ghislaine Maxwell's TV Appearance May Be Overstated
They seek her here, they seek her there, they seek the fixer everywhere. But is she about to turn up on TV?
Ghislaine Maxwell has not been seen publicly since the death in July of her former employer, financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, for whom she is accused of procuring underage girls.
Now The Sun, Rupert Murdoch’s London tabloid, is floating a report, citing an unnamed source, that an American television network is planning an on-camera interview with Maxwell at an unspecified time.
It would be a juicy development—but is it likely?
The UK has recently seen dueling high-profile TV interviews dealing with the aftermath of Epstein’s crimes. Prince Andrew, the Queen’s second son, stepped down from public duties after a poorly-received attempt to disassociate himself with Epstein on BBC’s Newsnight program.
It was followed in December by an interview with Virginia Giuffre, the Prince’s most public accuser, aired on BBC’s Panorama. She reiterated her claims that she was procured by Epstein for sex with Prince Andrew after meeting the royal at a London nightclub in 2001, when she was 17.
In the interview, Giuffre described a life of intimidation and sexual servitude. (Prince Andrew has repeatedly denied these claims.)
“I was sitting there, like I was always told to do,” she told the program. “Sit there, be quiet, be polite, laugh if someone says something funny. I wasn’t chained to a sink, but these powerful people were my chains. I didn’t know what would happen.”
While the British public may be primed for a third televised installment of the Epstein saga, The Sun’s thin sourcing suggests that audiences should hold off on boiling their tea kettles just yet. Maxwell’s main problem is not with the court of public opinion, after all, but with the actual court.
The only documented sighting of the woman accused of being Epstein’s “madam” since the scandal re-ignited was a likely staged photograph at an In-N-Out hamburger restaurant in Los Angeles, published in August. She has also been traced to a waterfront estate in the monied enclave of Manchester-by-the-Sea, outside Boston, although there has been no evidence beyond these Yeti-like sightings.
In New York, where she made a home over the decades, she was a regular society fixture until this summer. Many of her onetime cronies among the city’s upper crust believe her current address is somewhere in the witness protection program.
“People are guessing she must have turned on Epstein before he was re-arrested this summer,” said one former friend, who declined to be identified just in case Maxwell unexpectedly rematerializes. “Her cooperating with the Feds is the thing that makes most sense right now.”
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