Jeffrey Epstein’s ex gal pal and alleged fixer Ghislaine Maxwell was a guest at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ secretive writers’ retreat last year, according to a new report published Friday.
The British socialite, who has been accused of grooming young women for the convicted pedophile’s sex-trafficking ring, attended the secretive Campfire retreat just weeks before a bombshell Miami Herald investigation resurfaced Epstein’s crimes, according to the Vice report.
Two 2018 Campfire attendees broke with the shroud of secrecy surrounding the event and told Vice that Maxwell was at the exclusive annual event hosted by the Amazon founder and had previously attended two others.
Campfire is an all-expenses-paid literary retreat where dozens of well-known novelists rub shoulders with celebrities, akin to the annual blowout Google Camp.
Guests at the event, which Bezos started in 2009, are told the entire trip is off the record, but a production company that staged Campfire in 2011 described the event as a “private gathering and conference of influential artists, writers, activists and scientists for sharing of inspiration and stories.”
Reporting on Maxwell’s alleged role in Epstein’s sex-trafficking network was well documented in a 2011 Daily Mail report, but it was an investigation by Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown that saw the financier arrested on fresh charges.
According to the report, Campfire 2018 took place shortly before Brown’s Nov. 28 article.
Epstein hanged himself in a Manhattan prison on Aug. 10, although a famed pathologist hired by the pedophile’s brother, Mark Epstein, says his death was a homicide.
A Sky News report published Oct 16. alleges Maxwell is hiding out in Brazil.
Reps for Amazon could not immediately be reached for comment.