The daughter of former British press mogul Robert Maxwell faces life in prison for child trafficking.
This week begins the selection of the jury that will judge Ghislaine Maxwell, 15 months after the British millionaire was accused of recruiting minors for the late American financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The daughter of former British press mogul Robert Maxwell faces life in prison for child trafficking for Epstein, who committed suicide in jail two years ago.
Following the death of Epstein, a billionaire friend of celebrities like British Prince Andrew, the prosecution vowed to hunt down those who helped him, leading to Maxwell’s arrest in July 2020.
Since then, it has been in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he has constantly complained of unsanitary and inhumane conditions.
“I have been mugged and abused for close to a year and a half”, According to statements published by the newspaper Mail on Sunday this Sunday, in which she adds that the guards constantly wake her up and project powerful lights in her eyes.
“I am weak and fragile. I have no strength. I’m tired. I have no shoes that fit me. They give me rotten food. An apple had worms. They don’t allow me to exercise, ”said this 59-year-old woman.
Prince Andrés, accused of sexual abuse, requested to dismiss the complaint in New York
So were the testimonies of the victims of millionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in prison
Four women who remain anonymous have sat her on the bench for crimes that occurred between 1994 and 2004. Two of them were between 14 and 15 years old at the time they were abused.
The selection of the 12 members of the jury who will try Maxwell begins this Tuesday, while the trial will begin on November 29 in a federal court in Manhattan. It is expected to last around six weeks.
Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to all six charges against him., including the trafficking of minors, and if his guilt is confirmed in all of them he could spend 80 years in jail.
The indictment claims that Maxwell gained the confidence of the young women by taking them shopping or to the theater, and then persuaded them to massage Epstein naked in one of his residences, before having sex with him in exchange for money.
Lawyers for the US government assure that Maxwell was sometimes involved in the alleged abuses both at his London home and at Epstein’s homes in Manhattan, Palm Beach, and New Mexico.
Epstein died at age 66 in a Manhattan jail in August 2019 while awaiting trial on allegations of child sex trafficking, in what New York authorities deemed suicide.
Perjury
Born in France, Maxwell has also been doubly accused of perjury, which will be judged after the case for sexual crimes.
The perjury charges are related to testimony she gave in 2016 in a defamation case brought against her by Virginia Giuffre, an alleged victim and one of Epstein’s main opponents.
Giuffre alleges that Epstein used to lend it to have sex with powerful friends, such as him. prince Andrew.
Maxwell, an old friend of Andres, introduced him to Epstein.
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Giuffre has denounced the Duke of York in New York, alleging that he had sex with her more than 20 years ago when he was 17 and a minor, according to US law.
This case is expected to be tried before a jury in late 2022.
Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, has not been criminally charged and has refuted those allegations.
Giuffre, now 38, is not part of the current case against Maxwell.
The accusation has been made by four women, who are presented as minor victims 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Agreement
All four are expected to testify that Maxwell operated a girls network taken to other states to provide sexual services to Epstein for which they received hundreds of dollars.
The defense argues that Maxwell will only be tried because Epstein escaped justice and hopes to attack the memory of the complainants for cases that occurred decades ago.
Epstein was convicted in Florida in 2008 of paying young people for massages, but he spent just 13 months in jail following a secret agreement with the then state attorney.
His suicide deprived dozens of whistleblowers of seeing him sitting on the bench and sparked countless conspiracy theories, including that he was murdered to protect powerful friends.
Maxwell has been denied bail six times since his arrest, considering that there is a risk of fleeing the country.
It is unlikely that he will testify at trial. (I)
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