Documents allege Epstein’s accomplice and ex-girlfriend ‘normalized’ his grooming and ‘directed’ girls on what to do

A document among the tranche of newly released Jeffrey Epstein files casts fresh light on psychological tricks that his ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell deployed in her effort to lure vulnerable teen girls into his abusive orbit.

She doted. She joked. She even seemed to listen.

And while Maxwell’s grooming of victims has long been known, the disclosure of some grand jury documents in her Manhattan federal court case comes as she angles for a reprieve from her sex-trafficking conviction and resulting 20-year prison sentence. Maxwell’s maneuvers have received renewed attention throughout Donald Trump’s second presidency – particularly in the wake of her controversial transfer to a minimum-security prison camp known for being more comfortable than other facilities of its kind.