What Ghislaine Maxwell’s Trial Is Revealing About the Workaday Cruelty of Life Under Epstein

On Tuesday morning, an FBI analyst read aloud to a jury part of an email that Ghislaine Maxwell sent in May of 2001. “I need to know what if any list John is using and he needs to understand that he is doing a truly awful job,” she wrote, before enumerating six reasons why she thought Juan Alessi—the longtime manager of Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach estate—was shirking his duties. (As Alessi testified earlier in the British heiress’s federal sex trafficking trial, Epstein and Maxwell referred to him as “John.”) Among Maxwell’s complaints were that the black Mercedes (or “Merc” in… Read Full Article