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Why is Ghislaine Maxwell remaining silent?

224 replies

Letsskidaddle · 02/02/2026 14:45

Posting in AIBU for traffic, but I mean ‘AIBU to wonder why she’s not said stuff…”

Is it out of loyalty? Would saying anything incriminate her even further? Will she be freed if she stays silent, and if so how/why?

I also don’t understand how she can’t be encouraged to say something. You’d think she’d be raging inside to be the only person imprisoned and would want that rectifying.

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Amalegeezer · 07/02/2026 19:30

The question was 'why is she remaining silent?' not what you think her complicity is in the dreadful Epstein affair. And the answer is, self preservation. What is so difficult to understand about that? You can all posture about how evil she is and that she facilitated the trafficking of women for the pleasure of powerful men. But let's get real here. She isn't going to shit in her own nest. Leave your moral indignation behind and answer the question. It's pretty obvious really. The world is still run by powerful men. If she wants any chance of getting out of prison or an easier time in prison, as she has already secured by not dumping on the global misogynist in chief, then she plays the game.

Kidznurse · 07/02/2026 19:33

Because she’s in prison so can’t just do tv interviews when she feels like it.

nomas · 07/02/2026 19:42

Amalegeezer · 07/02/2026 18:53

The usual. Women have to cover for the bad behaviour of men. Whistle-blowers don't get rewarded and she has to secure her future. That's what it is to live in a patriarchy when you are a woman. What is so difficult to understand about that? And that is coming from a man. I'm male and even I can see that! Wake up and smell the coffee! Ghislaine is a survivor. She had a megalomaniac father and then was drawn to an abusive manipulative but incredibly powerful man. Not unlike her father. Give the woman a break. She's just trying to survive FFS. As you would do in her situation. I'm not saying that what she did was morally acceptable or right. But look at the President of the USA. He's an abusive, racist, misogynist narcissist and millions of USA voters are OK with that. Get some perspective FFS!

Hello Ghislaine’s sibling!

You do realise that some of the girls reported Ghoslane being involved in the sexual abuse right?

Not everyone born rich expects to live the rest of their life rich!

Ghislaine studied modern history at Oxford, she was a high society socialite! After her father died she could have started a career or married. Instead she latched on to a rich scammer who paid her to groom girls.

She deserves every year of jail, and given the death of Virginia Giuffre, Ghislane should have got life in prison!

Amalegeezer · 07/02/2026 19:42

Kidznurse · 07/02/2026 19:33

Because she’s in prison so can’t just do tv interviews when she feels like it.

Well I'm not so sure about that. There have been loads of so-called documentaries with interviews with serial killers etc. Let's face it, cruelty and abominable human behaviour can be converted into screen entertainment. It's not beyond imagination that one day she could appear on a BBC programme. and certainly an Netflix or HBO 'documentary' giving her view on how she was manipulated by the evil Epstein.

nomas · 07/02/2026 19:44

Amalegeezer · 07/02/2026 19:42

Well I'm not so sure about that. There have been loads of so-called documentaries with interviews with serial killers etc. Let's face it, cruelty and abominable human behaviour can be converted into screen entertainment. It's not beyond imagination that one day she could appear on a BBC programme. and certainly an Netflix or HBO 'documentary' giving her view on how she was manipulated by the evil Epstein.

I agree. She can even release a statement through her lawyer.

The reason she isn’t talking is she knows she’ll be dead soon after.

curious79 · 07/02/2026 19:45

I imagine it’s not worth her life opening up when it would expose some of the most powerful men in the world

missmollygreen · 07/02/2026 19:49

flapjackfairy · 02/02/2026 15:01

she doesn't want to end up like Epstein I would imagine.

If someone actually went to the trouble of having Epstein killed, do you really think they would not do the same to her? You really think someone that power full, dangerous and cornered would take that risk?

Amalegeezer · 07/02/2026 19:52

nomas · 07/02/2026 19:42

Hello Ghislaine’s sibling!

You do realise that some of the girls reported Ghoslane being involved in the sexual abuse right?

Not everyone born rich expects to live the rest of their life rich!

Ghislaine studied modern history at Oxford, she was a high society socialite! After her father died she could have started a career or married. Instead she latched on to a rich scammer who paid her to groom girls.

She deserves every year of jail, and given the death of Virginia Giuffre, Ghislane should have got life in prison!

Well I'm not G's sibling. But neither am I her hyperbolic enemy or her supportive friend. And I certainly don't advocate that she should be released from prison. Clearly there is human tragedy as a consequence of her actions that she needs to be held accountable for. But this post is in answer to the original question posed. Let's get back to that. Why is she remaining silent? I think I have explained my view on that. And as have several posters before me have said, how come she gets sent to prison and all the powerful men who actually abused the girls that both she and Epstein 'provided' get a free pass? Doesn't seem like much justice to me. We can all rage at her but if that is all we do, then we miss the main target.

dandeliondandy · 07/02/2026 19:57

Letsskidaddle · 02/02/2026 14:45

Posting in AIBU for traffic, but I mean ‘AIBU to wonder why she’s not said stuff…”

Is it out of loyalty? Would saying anything incriminate her even further? Will she be freed if she stays silent, and if so how/why?

I also don’t understand how she can’t be encouraged to say something. You’d think she’d be raging inside to be the only person imprisoned and would want that rectifying.

Because she might forced to go for a swim like dear old daddy!

Strictlysober · 07/02/2026 20:09

flapjackfairy · 02/02/2026 15:01

she doesn't want to end up like Epstein I would imagine.

But isn't the idea that you bump someone off before they talk? Wouldn't she be safer if she talked?

choccytime · 07/02/2026 20:21

Haven't RTWT and I never believed he d killed himself but now there's rumours he's alive , where's it all going to end

MO0N · 07/02/2026 22:02

Strictlysober · 07/02/2026 20:09

But isn't the idea that you bump someone off before they talk? Wouldn't she be safer if she talked?

If they talk you have to bump them off so that others know what happens if they talk.

Plasticdreams · 07/02/2026 22:04

I would have thought she’d be worried about being bumped off like JE

BluesBird19764 · 08/02/2026 09:56

Perhaps no one has asked her. She is only a woman after all.

Gardenservant · 08/02/2026 10:30

She has doubtless been promised a pardon from Trump if she keeps her mouth shut.
Why did Todd Blanche make a totally unprecedented visit to her in prison?
There are a lot of very powerful men who need her to keep her mouth shut or she may end up like Epstein 'comitting suicide'. Watch 'Inside Trump's Head' on Youtube if you really want to know what's happening.

Labelledelune · 08/02/2026 12:58

She’s doing exactly what she’s being told to do.

EmeraldShamrock000 · 08/02/2026 13:18

Gardenservant · 08/02/2026 10:30

She has doubtless been promised a pardon from Trump if she keeps her mouth shut.
Why did Todd Blanche make a totally unprecedented visit to her in prison?
There are a lot of very powerful men who need her to keep her mouth shut or she may end up like Epstein 'comitting suicide'. Watch 'Inside Trump's Head' on Youtube if you really want to know what's happening.

I hope and beg the universe that Trump will be removed before he gives her a pardon, I think Fergie was involved in recruiting young women too. All the men rightly deserved to be punished. The submarine exit under the island is haunting. I have no doubt that it was used to dispose of certain people when they were finished with them. Even now she’s in a low security prison with all the trimmings. Privileged people.
They’re all savages. I don’t want to believe in the human sacrifices “allegedly” who knows at this stage. They’re trying to justify child sexual abise. Madness.

Pherian · 08/02/2026 14:18

Letsskidaddle · 02/02/2026 14:45

Posting in AIBU for traffic, but I mean ‘AIBU to wonder why she’s not said stuff…”

Is it out of loyalty? Would saying anything incriminate her even further? Will she be freed if she stays silent, and if so how/why?

I also don’t understand how she can’t be encouraged to say something. You’d think she’d be raging inside to be the only person imprisoned and would want that rectifying.

It serves her to be quiet. I am sure she is fearful of what would happen if she spoke. She knows alot about what powerful people have been getting up to.

Based on the unhinged information that is coming out now - she sees no point in risking her own skin.

If right/wrong ever played a role in these people’s lives it’s been a long time. They don’t have little to no moral compass.

feellikeanalien · 08/02/2026 14:36

Apart from self preservation I would imagine that she doesnt want to incriminate herself any further. The whole Epstein saga goes so much deeper than the vile sexual abuse that took place.

For all we know she may have some sort of "insurance policy" whereby certain information would be released if she came to a suspicious end. I know that sounds a bit tinfoil hat like but after what happened to Epstein and her father it could be a possibility.

HeadCookandBottleWasher · 09/02/2026 09:24

Her discretion or lack of is I imagine her currency - once that is spent there might be little left to bargain with

Twinkletopz · 10/02/2026 01:15

She has said SHE will say Clinton and Trump were not involved if she is let out!!

Why would she think that anyone would believe the slippery words of a trafficking paedophile who spent her life grooming, gaslighting and abusing hundreds of children.

Shes totally delusional and grandiose that anyone would believe her - but somehow I think she will get her wish - this will be the only thing the Republicans and Democrat inner working machinery will collaborate on.

Valeriekat · 10/02/2026 08:14

Coffeeishot · 02/02/2026 14:57

Oh i didn't know this, although i very much doubt she will be very forthcoming.

She'll take the 5th!

Coffeeishot · 10/02/2026 09:13

Valeriekat · 10/02/2026 08:14

She'll take the 5th!

Indeed !

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