Ghislaine Maxwell’s Arrest Puts New Focus on Her Celebrity Friends

VANITY FAIR

On Monday, the fallout from Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest in New Hampshire on Thursday continued. She arrived in New York in the morning, NBC News reported, and is being held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center. According to the Associated Press, prosecutors have asked a judge to schedule a bail hearing for her in a Manhattan federal court on Friday. Maxwell has been charged with recruiting women and girls who Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused. (She has denied all the allegations.) read more »

Red Sox dogged by claims of racism, sexual abuse

BOSTON GLOBE

The former clubhouse manager, Donald “Fitzy” Fitzpatrick, pleaded guilty to criminal charges of attempted sexual battery in 2002, admitting that he used Red Sox team memorabilia to lure young, Black clubhouse workers into secluded areas of the team’s Florida spring training facility, where he abused them. Fitzpatrick did not admit to abusing young boys in other ballparks.

Since then, a growing number of men have stepped forward to allege that they, too, were abused by Fitzpatrick at Fenway Park and at major league stadiums in Baltimore and Kansas City, when the Red Sox were playing on the road. Because their claims date to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, they are too old to be included in civil lawsuits, and the men say their requests for out-of-court settlements have fallen on deaf ears. read more »

Deutsche Bank to pay $150 million fine, says making Jeffrey Epstein a client was 'mistake'

REUTERS

Deutsche Bank AG admitted it made a “critical mistake” taking on the registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a client, and agreed to pay a $150 million fine to settle New York charges over its dealings with the late financier and two other banks.

Tuesday’s settlement with the New York State Department of Financial Services is the first regulatory enforcement action against a bank related to Epstein, who committed suicide last August in a Manhattan jail, a month after his arrest for allegedly sexually exploiting dozens of girls and women. read more »