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According to Maxwell's testimony, she was responsible for the staffing and management of Epstein's various properties.

\"There were six homes,\" Maxwell said. \"I hired assistants, I hired architects, I hired decorators, I hired cooks, I hired cleaners, I hired gardeners, I hired pool people, I hired pilots, I hired all sorts of people.\"

\"A very small part of my job,\" she added, \"was from time to time to find adult professional massage therapists for Jeffrey.\"

She denied, under oath, that she had ever hired underage girls to work for Epstein, assertions that are now the subject of perjury charges.

\"As far as I'm concerned, everyone who came to his house was an adult, professional person,\" Maxwell said. \"I am not aware of teenagers who worked in his home.\"

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PHOTO: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend de Grisogono Sponsors The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series Benefitting Wall Street Rising, with a Performance by Rod Stewart at Cipriani Wall Street on March 15, 2005 in New York.
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But in lawsuits several of Epstein's alleged victims tell an entirely different story, one that often places Maxwell in a role that was central to their abuse.

One anonymous victim, identified only as Jane Doe, alleged that Epstein and Maxwell \"attempted to groom and mentor\" her when she was just 13 years old.

\"They took her to movies, went shopping with her and lounged around Epstein's estate with her,\" Doe alleged in her complaint. \"Epstein and Maxwell then started to make sexual references when they were with her.\"

Ultimately, according to Doe's complaint, Maxwell \"regularly facilitated Epstein's abuse of Doe and was frequently present when it occurred.\"

Virginia Giuffre, Annie Farmer and another anonymous alleged victim identified only as Doe 1000, have alleged that Maxwell not only recruited girls for Epstein but, in their cases, even participated in their abuse. Giuffre alleged Epstein and Maxwell sexually abused her between 2000 and 2002 and claims that she was directed to have sex with some of their prominent friends; Farmer alleged that Maxwell \"groped her\" and \"touched intimate parts of [her] body against her will for the sexual benefit of Maxwell and Epstein\"; Doe alleged \"Epstein and Maxwell proceeded to sexually assault Jane Doe simultaneously and by forcible compulsion\" and that Maxwell \"forcibly penetrated Jane Doe with a sex toy.\"

Maxwell has, in court filings, strenuously denied any such misconduct.

\"She absolutely denies that she participated in this or any other sexual abuse or trafficking or assault,\" her lawyer wrote in response to Farmer's allegations, \"and no court, judge or jury has ever determined that she has.\"

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PHOTO: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend an event in New York City, June 13, 1995.
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Following Epstein's arrest last July and his death in prison a month later, Maxwell's whereabouts became the subject of intense scrutiny. She sold her former residences in New York and London and shuttered her non-profit ocean conservation organization. Various press reports placed her in Massachusetts, California, France and Israel, and attorneys for several of Epstein's alleged victims struggled to locate her in order to serve their lawsuits. She was ultimately arrested by the FBI in Bradford, New Hampshire, where prosecutors say she was living at a 156-acre property, nicknamed \"Tucked Away.\"

Prosecutors are now arguing that Maxwell poses an \"extreme\" flight risk, citing her \"three passports, large sums of money, extensive international connections.\"

Maxwell is a citizen of the United States, United Kingdom and France, prosecutors said, and she has traveled abroad frequently within the last three years. Prosecutors also believe she possesses \"significant sums of money,\" citing a government investigation that identified \"more than 15 different bank accounts held by or associated with the defendant from 2016 to the present, and during that same period, the total balances of those accounts have ranged from a total of hundreds of thousands of dollars to more than $20 million.\"

As with Epstein, however, prosecutors have found the full extent of Maxwell's wealth difficult to determine.

\"The defendant's financial resources appear to be substantial,\" prosecutors wrote, \"and her numerous accounts and substantial money movements render her total financial picture opaque and indeterminate, even upon a review of bank records available to the Government.\"

Brad Edwards, an attorney who represents several of Epstein's alleged victims, believes that there is still much more to learn about Maxwell.

\"I think that's the tip of the iceberg,\" Edwards told ABC News. \"And I would expect the same thing that happened after Jeffrey Epstein was arrested. There's going to be a flood of calls and more information coming in.\"

But her role in Epstein's story, he said, is already clear.

\"Ghislaine Maxwell created Jeffrey Epstein,\" Edwards told ABC News. \"She helped to create the monster that we later understood him to be.\"

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