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rescued by Epstein
From a life of abject wealth and privilege.
The poor dear.
No wonder she sought solace in soliciting and trafficking underage girls.
Thoughts and prayers.
NotThamesWater-
Thing is, none of this is mutually exclusive.
While she grew up in wealth, her dad was a grade A cunt who clearly fucked all the kids up. It seems pretty likely that she was groomed by Epstein, and that had she had a different childhood/father she'd probably not fallen victim to him, or even got involved in the first place.
Likewise imo there is an awful lot of focus on her to the exclusion of everyone else. Epstein couldn't have run things with just her help. Is there a word or phrase for a scapegoat who's also a guilty cunt?
All that said, she was an adult and what she did was hideous. Explaining isn't condoning.
hugo7
Not a lot. It's just a factoid which caught my eye. The town is in Carpathian Ruthenia, which changed hands many times. It was in Hungary for most of the war. The Nazis rounded up the Jews, including most of Robert Maxwell's family, who were killed in Auschwitz. Ghislaine is sometimes presented as a member of the English upper class, but I wonder whether she sees herself more as a persecuted minority, struggling to survive. After her father's death she was rescued by Epstein. Was she another of his victims? Would she ever have preyed on young girls if she hadn't needed to pay her debt to him?