Prosecutors have asked a Manhattan federal judge to send Jeffrey Epstein gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell to prison for at least 30 years. Maxwell, 60, was found guilty on five of six counts of sex trafficking and perjury last December, charges that alleged she helped Epstein groom and abuse at least four girls between 1994 and …
Ghislaine Maxwell argues she should receive a lighter prison sentence partly because she has been subjected to allegedly horrific conditions while detained at a federal jail in New York during the prosecution of her case, Rolling Stone reports.Maxwell, the longtime friend and accomplice of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was convicted in January of sex trafficking.Lawyers …
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers claimed on Wednesday that a female inmate planned to kill Maxwell, who remains jailed in New York while awaiting sentencing on federal sex trafficking charges. Maxwell’s legal team made the allegations in a pre-sentencing report. Her attorneys not only asked for a lighter sentence due to the threat — which authorities have …
A New York federal judge ruled on Friday that Ghislaine Maxwell will not get a new trial even though a juror admitted to lying about his own sexual assault. Maxwell, 60, was convicted in December 2021 of five counts of federal sex trafficking for grooming at least underage girls, as young as 14, for Jeffrey …
Attorneys for Ghilsaine Maxwell have asked for a retrial after being convicted of sex trafficking earlier this month. The New York Post reports that attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein’s close confidant have requested a retrial, reportedly because one juror did not disclose during jury selection that they were a victim of childhood sex abuse. As CrimeOnline …
Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorneys are calling for a new trial after the news that at least one juror failed to disclose that he was a victim of sexual abuse. There may be as many as four jurors. The identified juror, Number 50, has given several interviews and has divulged that he told the other jurors his …
A juror in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial reportedly answered negatively to a query on the juror questionnaire asking if he, a friend, or family member had ever been a victim of sexual abuse, harassment, or assault, Fox News reports. The juror, identified only as Scott David, later told reporters he had revealed his own childhood sexual assault during deliberations and helped persuade other members of the panel to convict Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Prosecutors have asked Judge Allison Nathan to hold a hearing on Scotty David’s comments, while defense attorneys asked for the convictions to be thrown out. Nathan has set a briefing schedule for the issue.
Prosecutors in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial have asked the judge to launch an inquiry about statements made by one of the jurors in the case, but Maxwell’s attorneys said Judge Alison Nathan should just order a new trial. A member of the panel told Reuters that he shared his experiences with sexual abuse with …
Ghislaine Maxwell’s husband apparently told her during a jailhouse call that he had left her for a yoga teacher. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 12 jurors reached a verdict on their fifth full day of deliberations and returned a guilty verdict against Maxwell, who has now been convicted of five counts of sex trafficking. Maxwell remains …
Ghislaine Maxwell is unlikely to incriminate others in exchange for a lighter sentence, according to a new interview with her brother, The Sunday Times of London reports.Earlier this week, a federal jury convicted Maxwell of sex trafficking underage girls, for which she faces up to 65 years in jail.Prosecutors alleged that Maxwell, now 60, helped longtime friend Jeffrey …
Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty on five counts of sex trafficking, and CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace tells Fox News that the jury made the right decision. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 12 jurors reached a verdict on their fifth full day of deliberations on Wednesday. During their deliberations, the jury asked the court …
Who will be ‘sleeping uneasily’ in the wake of the Ghislaine Maxwell conviction? Nancy Grace weighs in on the verdict.
