Ghislane Maxwell’s PR guru accused one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims of ‘crying rape’ and suggested past allegations of abuse would discredit her, according to newly unsealed court documents.
Ross Gow, worked as a managing partner at Acuity Reputation in London, he was hired to manage Maxwell’s reputation. In an email exchange with Maxwell, he sent her links of old media articles regarding a case where Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre had claimed she raped by two older teenagers when she was 14.
The article stated that Giuffre had reported two boys aged 17 and 18 for allegedly raping her in a car in a wooded area near her home in Palm Beach, Florida. She said they had given her alcohol and marijuana.
The case was dropped due to a low likelihood of success at trial and concerns about Giuffre’s credibility.
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Police records stated the boys did not deny having sex with Giuffre, but said it had been consensual.
In the email Gow sent on 24 February 2015, he suggested Giuffre’s past could damage her case. In the subject line he wrote that she had ‘cried rape – prior case dismissed as prosecutors found her ‘not credible’.
Lawyers representing Maxwell in the 2015 defamation case went on to use the email, they argued that it showed she was unreliable.
The case was brought by Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell after she accused Giuffre of being a liar. The case was later settled for an undisclosed amount.
In response to the claims, Gow released a statement to media on behalf of Maxwell where he said Giuffre’s claims were “obvious lies” and ‘“untrue”, this became the basis of Giuffre’s lawsuit.
The email was included in a trove of court documents from the lawsuit against Maxwell that were unsealed last Wednesday night, six years after the case was settled.
Judge Loretta A. Preska unsealed over 170 names in a New York court today, connected to the Jeffrey Epstein – Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking conspiracy.
Maxwell was the only person found guilty in 2021 of recruiting and grooming underage girls for Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 2004, she is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence.
Epstein took his own life in 2019 while awaiting trial on related sex-abuse charges.
The list includes victims of sexual abuse, witnesses from court cases, and former employees of Epstein.
Judge Loretta Preska ordered hundreds of files to be unsealed, including a 30-page summary of evidence from 2015 that is expected to reveal Maxwell’s email account.
Many records related to this lawsuit have been released publicly over the years, but on Monday, the judge decided what could be revealed about certain individuals mentioned in the records.
She noted that in many cases, these individuals had already given media interviews or their names had been made public in various ways, including at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial two years ago.
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