Online auction site eBay is set to ban the sale of a sick T-shirt and badge which jokingly predict the murder of Ghislaine Maxwell behind bars. A black T-shirt offered by San Jose-based seller Empathy Trading for $20.99 features the alleged child sex abuser’s smiling face with the caption ‘Ghislaine Maxwell didn’t kill herself.’
Its seller’s description reads: ‘Get your did Ghislaine Maxwell kill herself Tee here. We all know what happened to Jeffrey Epstein… Grab yours now!’ The T-shirt’s slogan is a play on ‘Epstein didn’t kill himself’. That is a popular phrase among conspiracy theorists who refuse to believe a coroner’s ruling that Maxwell’s pedophile ex Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself while being held in a Manhattan jail in August 2019.
Meanwhile, Seattle-based trader Handmade offered a $6.99 white pin badge emblazoned with the phrase ‘Maxwell didn’t kill herself.’ A description for the bad-taste item read: ‘Get ahead of the headlines with this one of a kind pin! Perfect for adoring your backpack, jacket, hat or any other article of clothing!’
An eBay spokeswoman said the company was investigating the Maxwell-related items. She said the company had a policy of removing all Jeffrey Epstein-related merchandise as part of its disaster and tragedy policy.
Ghislaine, 58, is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Brooklyn and is being watched closely amid fears she will also harm herself, or meet a nasty end at the hands of a fellow inmate.
She and Epstein, who died aged 66, are accused of molesting underage girls, with the pair also accused of knowing about abuse perpetrated by a host of other powerful figures.
Some crime buffs believe billionaire financier Epstein was murdered to stop those high-ranking associates being exposed, with his killing made to look like a suicide. They now fear that Maxwell is also at risk of meeting a similarly grim fate.
She was arrested by the FBI at $1million home in Bradford, New Hampshire, last Friday and charged with multiple child sex crimes. The former conservationist – who is now being held at the dilapidated Metropolitan Correctional Center in Brooklyn – is accused of abusing three girls as young as 14 between 1994 and 1997 in the US and UK.She also faces a perjury charge over claims she lied at an earlier hearing.
Maxwell is said to have groomed them for her former lover Epstein to abuse, then watched and even joined in as the convicted pedophile molested them.
The power couples’ pals included Bill Clinton, Donald and Melania Trump, Naomi Campbell and Prince Andrew.
The latter has been accused of having sex with Virginia Roberts Giuffre in 2001, when she was 17.
Roberts Giuffre says she was trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell. Prince Andrew has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.
Maxwell, whose dad was disgraced British newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell, is due to have a bail hearing in New York on July 14, and has previously denied the allegations against her.
Prosecutors could strike a plea deal that would see her handed a shorter sentence if she turns over evidence that could convict others involved in Epstein’s sex trafficking.
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