Authorities are having trouble locating Ghislaine Maxwell

[lanlady]

Ghislaine Maxwell was, according to her accusers, Jeffrey Epstein’s protector and procurer, his girlfriend and his madam. She was, by all accounts, a soul mate and a mirror image. He grew up in Brooklyn with no money to speak of and never finished college. She is Paris-born, Oxford-educated, a jet-setter who partied with princes and billionaires.

Together, Epstein and Maxwell allegedly built what prosecutors, police and a growing number of women described as a sex-trafficking operation that crisscrossed the nation to provide Epstein with three young girls a day.

The death of Epstein, the convicted sex offender who authorities said hanged himself in a federal detention center cell in New York on Saturday, leaves those who seek to hold someone responsible for the alleged abuse of dozens of girls with one prime target: Maxwell.

According to many of the women who have spoken about what Epstein allegedly did to them, Maxwell was the financier’s chief co-conspirator.

Maxwell, 57, has not been charged and has denied any wrongdoing. According to people familiar with the investigation, authorities have had trouble locating Maxwell, who is believed to be living abroad. Her five-story Manhattan townhouse was sold in 2016 for $15 million by a company that used the address of Epstein’s New York office.

Her lawyers told a judge in 2017 that she was in London, but had no fixed address. Lawyers representing Epstein’s alleged victims said they wouldn’t expect Maxwell to return to the United States anytime soon for fear of being arrested.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/epsteins-accusers-call-her-his-protector-and-procurer-is-ghislaine-maxwell-now-prosecutors-target/2019/08/11/7af5968a-bbbd-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.html

[RockRaven]

1. She's probably in a country that doesn't extradite to the US.

Just sayin'... she's probably had a bug out plan for a while.

[lanlady]

2. I wonder if she'll end up dying a mysterious death

if anyone can find her

[rzemanfl]

55. Maybe she already has? n/t

[Hortensis]

14. Yes, but are there any where wealthy "socialites" can live

anything resembling the lives they're accustomed to?

[yellowdogintexas]

22. if she has the $$ probably anywhere

she would lose her circle of associates

If we don't have an extradition treaty with Argentina, Buenos Aires would be a possibility.

[Hortensis]

25. Argentina does. She has plenty of money, but she might

not want to live in (2015 list I just grabbed):

Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Central African Republic, Chad, Mainland China, Comoros, Congo (Kinshasa), Congo (Brazzaville), Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé & Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican, Vietnam and Yemen.

I could find a lot of lovely and acceptably safe places to live from that list, but then my needs for social scenes, shopping, cultural activities, etcetera, are far more easily met. I don't think my life'd be blighted because Prince Andrew and crowd wouldn't fly in for house parties.

I've read that some advanced European nations we have treaties with, and other places more fitted to her lifestyle, won't extradite for some financial crimes but do for others, very much including sex crimes.

[mr_lebowski]

27. One country kinda sticks out to me on that particular list ...

See if you can guess which one?

Hint, it's in the 'later middle' part ...

Also ... this list seems wrong. Micronesia is a US territory ... Guam is part of it ... just off the top of my head.

[Hortensis]

30. :) Is it one of the few where only those living in remote

mountain towns (assuming they exist) escape year-round heat?

[mr_lebowski]

31. I'm not SUPER familiar with the climate in this theoretical place, but that jibes w/my understanding

Yes, most definitely.

What I do know it that it tends to be on the colder side, being mostly located relatively close to the Arctic Circle.

Well, for the time being anyway.

OTOH, it could rather conveniently become something of a 'climate paradise' in 20-30 years or so of continued fossil fuel extraction.

[LisaL]

33. Not sure which country you are talking about, but if it is Russia, it doesn't have

an extradition treaty with US and it's not bad for someone with a lot of money. It also has areas with warm climate, if one so desires.

[mr_lebowski]

41. That would be precisely the country ...

We weren't saying there's no warm climes there, but rather that one generally doesn't have to retreat to mountain towns to escape excessive heat in Russia ... unlike a lot of countries on the list of no-extradition countries.

(re-read the post I responded to )

[LisaL]

29. Those countries might not be perfect, but presumably they beat prison cell.

[Hortensis]

32. Would to me. Maybe she's reached an point where

she's ready to give up the world and indulge a new passion for growing rare orchids in her lath house.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Imagine that. nt

[FakeNoose]

4. She may have ties to Putin for all we know

... considering the mysterious circumstances of her father's death.

[Baclava]

5. On the lam, but better check all floating suitcases in the East river first

Just to be sure

[Midnight Writer]

12. Have they checked under the 18th hole at Mar a Lago?

[struggle4progress]

6. ... by 2016, Maxwell was no longer being photographed at events. In April 2016,

the New York town house where she had lived was sold for $15 million. By 2017, her lawyers claimed before a judge that they did not know her address; they further claimed that she was in London but that they did not believe she had a permanent residence ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislaine_Maxwell

[UTUSN]

7. K&R

[2naSalit]

8. Of course they are...nt

[lanlady]

9. Another failure in Fla.

was letting Ghislaine get off scot-free.

Lots of books and newspaper articles and PhDs will be written about this sordid, squalid mess.

[donkeypoofed]

10. Where oh where has she slithered off to?

Come out, Maxwell or your picture will be plastered all over the internet and we'll find you the hard way. You WILL be found. The world is thirsty for revenge and you're it - unless you're already dead. That.wouldnt surprise me. You have FAR too much info on the world's richest douchebags. Yep, you're dead - either on your own or in custody.

[mr_lebowski]

34. It would actually make quite a bit of sense ... gotta give ya that (nt)

[customerserviceguy]

48. If she can stay out of sight

the douchebags will be OK with that. If she gets nabbed, then it's time to wipe her out.

[PandoraAwakened]

53. Commentary from a reporter having intermittent contact

with Maxwell said last night (either on MSNBC or CNN, don't remember which) that the most recent siting of Maxwell was on a plane to NYC and she had completely changed her physical appearance.

Certainly has enough money to undergo plastic surgery, buy new ID, throw on a Magat hat, and blend right in somewhere in the Midwest where most will never have even heard her name, let alone know what she previously looked like enough to correlate it to her current look. Just sayin'...not inconceivable to be hiding in plain sight right here in good ole 'Merica.

[emmaverybo]

11. Bizarre relationship. Makes all manner of arrangements between couples sound conventional. Folie

à deux comes to mind, a damaging duo. But they had joiners, also repugnant, as they helped themselves with no concern for the young, entrapped victims.

[uponit7771]

13. Get ready for the rolleyes crew to tell everyone how much we're conspiracy theorist

[ancianita]

15. Well, she is an experienced pilot, so maybe she's flown to parts unknown.

[LisaL]

18. My feelings exactly.

She is a pilot so wouldn't need to fly commercial.

[ancianita]

42. She can fly under radar, therefore without flight plan, to any areas that have runways.

[rictofen]

44. Maxwell almost sounds like the real life version of Goldfinger's Pussy Galore

When not flying Auric Goldfinger around, Galore delivered to him his guests and captives and also had a prominent role in his criminal schemes.

[ancianita]

46. She's the stuff of movies, all right.

[MyOwnPeace]

16. I can't imagine this ending well for her........

I would think she knows TOO MANY NAMES - and must be terrified after what's happened to Epstein.

Wow, how high will she jump every time a door slams shut or a car backfires?

[LisaL]

17. She probably took off to a country with no extradition treaty with the US.

[Botany]

19. I hear Marge Gunderson, "Oh my she has gone missing up near Brainerd."

[amywalk]

20. She's on a beach somewhere having pina coladas with Jeffrey Epstein.

[Meadowoak]

24. +1

[ancianita]

43. Entirely possible that the body double thing could have been worked out.

[zackymilly]

51. I heard she's now dating the Trivago spokesman. He and Epstein could be twins. n/t

[underpants]

56. I've been floating that around

Sort of as a joke on other conspiracy theories

[SunSeeker]

21. Great. I'm sure Trump's DOJ will really work hard to find her.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

23. Kidding me? We have an extradition treaty with the U.K.

Arrest her in London and bring her back.

[jberryhill]

28. Good idea

Where in London would you suggest she be arrested?

[sharedvalues]

37. So there's this thing called UK police...

Scotland Yard and local cops. There is law enforcement in the UK, you know. They even identified the Russian spies who came in to poison Skripal.

Plus, we have this alliance called Five Eyes which monitors a lot of conversations in the UK. I’m not sure if we pass info to the UK for purposes of their domestic law enforcement or for our federal law enforcement, but we certainly do so for spy cases. In either case, I think we can presume that UK police can find her if she’s in London.

[muriel_volestrangler]

50. "we can presume that UK police can find her if she's in London" - well, that's the "if"

She was in London, 2 years ago. But people move around, and she has very good reason to. What the article is saying is not that she cannot be arrested, but that no-one is sure where she is now.

[mr_lebowski]

38. The part of London where she currently is, of course ...

It's not that complicated

[jberryhill]

40. Well that does narrow it down quite a bit

Just eliminate all the places where she’s not and, bang, you got her.

[mr_lebowski]

45. You got it man ... easy-peasy! (nt)

[Upthevibe]

26. Surprise, Surprise that they don't know where she is....

My guess is that she's in a country where they don't extradite (to the U.S. -as others have mentioned). However, I would think there would be a hit on her (obviously, she knows too much and she could probably be able to get some kind of a deal if she talks) so I wouldn't think she'd be able to casually roam around or really go anywhere. I'd say her life is pretty much going to be a nightmare and (if the allegations against her are correct) rightly so.

[CincyDem]

35. All this talk about extradition treaties. But how many countries...

...will not extradite to a country with the death penalty? Like the US today.

[LisaL]

36. She would not be eligible for the death penalty (not accused of murder) so

that wouldn't be a concern.

[MasonDreams]

39. We will never know. Maxwell AND Epstein can hide forever.

They have friends in low places, very low places.

[dalton99a]

47. Well, she's not Ghislaine Maxwell anymore because her passport doesn't say Ghislaine Maxwell

and she has a couple dozen millions in the bank to live on. So she could be anywhere - she probably likes Switzerland

[rusty fender]

49. Australia

All she has to worry about now are crocodiles and poisonous snakes

[zackymilly]

52. Plus don't eat the slugs or geckos. n/t

[rusty fender]

57. Indeed

[Cracklin Charlie]

54. Witness protection?

They did actually arrest the monster, after all.