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After Maxwell Trial, Epstein Associates Remain Silent

Harold Hutchison Contributor
January 05, 2022 8:31 PM ET

* After the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell, many people and entities
tied to financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been
quiet.
* Epstein had ties with Prince Andrew, Harvard University and Microsoft
co-founder Bill Gates.
* Most of those contacted by the Daily Caller News Foundation did not
respond to requests for comment.

Many of those connected with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein remain
silent in the face of questions after the trial of a close associate, with
some entities not even responding to inquiries from the Daily Caller News
Foundation.

Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's one-time girlfriend and associate, was
[42]convicted on five of six counts in December, including a charge of
conspiring to sex traffic minors. Epstein, who pled guilty to sex charges
in 2008, was arrested in 2019 on sex trafficking charges and [43]committed
suicide while awaiting trial.

The guards on duty at the time of his suicide were charged, but the
charges were [44]dropped during Maxwell's trial.

Epstein had extensive ties to [45]celebrities, politicians and executives,
even after he was a convicted sex offender. Among those who were known to
have been close were L Brands founder [46]Lex Wexner, Director [47]Woody
Allen, and [48]Prince Andrew. [49](RELATED: Trump All But Confirms Epstein
Was Banned From Mar-A-Lago, Says It's Proof He Has `Good Taste')

Andrew is perhaps the most famous of Epstein's friends, having first met
him in 1999 according to a 2019 report by the [50]New York Post. The Duke
of York [51]stepped back from royal duties in the wake of an interview
with the BBC about his ties with Epstein.

Attorneys representing Andrew did not respond to requests for comment.

Epstein also had ties with [54]Harvard University, where he donated over
$9 million, according to an internal report issued by the university that
showed Epstein made dozens of visits after his 2008 plea-bargain. The
university [55]took action against Martin Nowak, a professor who provided
Epstein with the access, placing limits on his research and advisory
activities.

Harvard did not respond to an email requesting comment on the university's
ties with the disgraced financier from the DCNF.

Microsoft co-founder [56]Bill Gates also met with Epstein a number of
times, as did employees of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation according
to the Wall Street Journal. Gates met with Epstein as late as 2019 despite
concerns his then-wife, Melinda, expressed.

"I had several dinners with him, you know, hoping that what he said about
getting billions of philanthropy for global health through contacts that
he had might emerge," Gates said during an interview with [57]CNN host
Anderson Cooper. "When it looked like that wasn't a real thing, that
relationship ended." [58](RELATED: British Police Open Review Of Sex
Trafficking Allegations Against Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell That Were Never
Investigated)

The Gates Foundation did not respond to the DCNF's request for comment.

When will the BBC ask Prince Andrew about his ties to Maxwell and
Epstein? [59]https://t.co/TlMx0kcV20

- Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) [60]December 30, 2021

Prior to Epstein's 2008 conviction on charges stemming from soliciting,
his legal team included lawyers from Kirkland and Ellis, including former
independent counsel Ken Starr and Jay Lefkowitz.

Lefkowitz did not respond to the DCNF's request for comment. Starr, who
also was part of the legal team, told the DCNF he was seeking to persuade
the Justice Department to drop the charges.

"My role, as Of Counsel to the law firm, was to seek to persuade the US
Attorney's Office that the matter in question was entirely a state
criminal matter, not a federal matter," Starr said in an email.

"My law firm handled the representation in an entirely professional
manner. We sought to convince the US Attorney that the offenses, as
charged at that time, were properly entrusted to the Palm Beach County
State's Attorney's Office for prosecution. Notwithstanding our arguments,
the US Attorney was not persuaded," Starr said.
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Links:

42. https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/29/ghislaine-maxwell-guilty-verdict-5-6-charges/

43. https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/16/autopsy-results-epstein-hanged-himself/

44. https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/30/prosecutors-drop-charges-against-jeffrey-epstein-jail-guards-tova-noel-michael-thomas/

45. https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/11/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-black-book-sex-trafficking/

46. https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/03/jeffrey-epstein-les-wexner-l-brands-victorias-secret-friendship/

47. https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/10/jeffrey-epstein-woody-allen-relationship-party-prince-andrew/

48. https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/10/virginia-giuffre-sues-prince-andrew-sexual-abuse-jeffrey-epstein/

49. https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/12/trump-confirms-epstein-banned-mar-a-lago/

50. https://nypost.com/2019/08/24/prince-andrew-regrets-friendship-with-jeffrey-epstein-after-arrest/

51. https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/20/prince-andrew-epstein-sex/

52. https://t.co/1nIJbH1Oge

53. https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1476734889907138567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

54. https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/02/harvard-review-ties-jeffrey-epstein/

55. https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/26/harvard-university-martin-nowak-jeffrey-epstein/

56. https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/10/bill-gates-jeffrey-epstein-meetings-melinda-gates-divorce/

57. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/business/bill-gates-regrets-jeffrey-epstein-relations/index.html

58. https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/16/ghislaine-maxwell-jeffery-epstein-prince-andrew/

59. https://t.co/TlMx0kcV20

60. https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1476670684285788161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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