As lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell filed a trove of court documents requesting leniency at her sentencing in Manhattan federal court later this month for trafficking girls on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein, the late multimillionaire sex predator who was her former boyfriend and employer, the name of one other wealthy former flame kept coming up: Billionaire Gateway computers co-founder Ted Waitt.
As part of her bid for a lighter sentence, Maxwell claims she developed a “loving bond” with Waitt’s young children and hoped to become their stepmom before her relationship with the tech magnate disintegrated because of the Epstein scandal.
Waitt hasn’t commented on his onetime love affair with the British heiress and now convicted sex-trafficker, but news reports have mentioned him repeatedly in connection to her, including as her former beau and a fellow friend of the Clinton family. Indeed, Maxwell was reportedly Waitt’s date to Chelsea Clinton’s 2010 nuptials. The billionaire philanthropist’s name also surfaced at Maxwell’s criminal trial in late December.
According to Maxwell’s latest filings, her years-long romance with Waitt only ended because of a former Miami lawyer who “attempted to blackmail” him. (That legal eagle, Scott Rothstein, helmed a law firm that once employed Brad Edwards, a well-known lawyer for Epstein victims. Unrelated to the Epstein case and Edwards himself, Rothstein was disbarred and convicted of running a $1.2 million Ponzi scheme.)
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