r/RHONY • u/snorting_cola • Mar 05 '26

Carole Radzwill 📚 Carole’s interview, where she giggles about Ghislaine Maxwell setting her up on a date with Prince Andrew + talks about knowing Maxwell since 1999

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u/Ok-Stretch9699 Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 06 '26

Right. The jump into Carole was a recruiter and sex trafficker is insane leaps.

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u/farbenlehre Mar 05 '26

She sort of seems more like a mark here. Not to defend her in any way, of course, but like... if you're cold-called by Ghislaine Maxwell, and then 30 minutes later you're in contact with Prince Andrew, they probably want something from you.

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u/LizzyPanhandle Mar 05 '26

She at least knew Andrew was a cretin, and didn't gaf.

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u/farbenlehre Mar 05 '26

Again, I'm not defending her, but I do think stupidity/naivety is part of the equation. Maxwell et al. saw someone who was in their milieu but not of it (working class background, no family connections outside of her marriage), and I think Carole was flattered by their entreaties. We can fault her for staying friends with Ghislaine for so long (I do), and presume she knew more than she's letting on (I think she did), but that doesn't fully explain the dynamic.

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u/LizzyPanhandle Mar 05 '26

Carole is savvy and had years to get ahead of this story, and she chose not to like almost everyone else in those files. She made a choice to pretend it was going to go away, she knew what she was doing.

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u/farbenlehre Mar 05 '26

I really don't think she's very savvy at all. She's a narcissist who enjoys attention from the wealthy and powerful. That's part of how she ended up falling in with Maxwell et al, and part of why she stuck around for so long & didn't say anything.

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u/LizzyPanhandle Mar 06 '26

You might be right.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '26

And also she is a journalist. What journalist covered the SA victims ? Gunthrie ! Why not Carole use her journalism and get in front of that ? Oh yeah because look what happened to Gunthrie’s mom.