Disgraced R&B star R. Kelly has been on a suicide watch since his sentencing last week for running a sex trafficking ring targeting young women and girls, and federal prosecutors say it’s “for his own safety.” Kelly, 55, was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The temporary suicide watch …
On Tuesday, a New York federal court sentenced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to 20 years in prison for procuring underage girls for late billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein. The New York Times reported that Judge Alison Nathan handed down the sentence, saying Maxwell “worked with Epstein to select young victims who were vulnerable” and facilitated the abuse. …
Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was put on suicide watch Friday ahead of her sentencing, scheduled for Tuesday morning. The former confidante of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s attorney wrote to the court on Saturday complaining that her client was forced to wear a “suicide smock” and had been removed from the general population. Bobbie Sternheim …
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.
