Ghislaine Maxwell

An infant-age Ghislaine Maxwell would frequently be 'reduced to a pulp' by her father and was vulnerable to manipulative men, her lawyers claim.

Mr Maxwell, a man of large physical stature with a booming voice, would explode, threaten, and rant at the children until they were reduced to pulp.” She is due to be sentenced on 28 June, and is appealing for a much lighter prison term than the maximum of 65 years. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Her eldest siblings Anne Halve and Philip Maxwell wrote in a sentencing submission that Ghislaine Maxwell was dependent on her father’s approval “and vulnerable to his frequent rapid mood swings, huge rages and rejections”. Her brothers were charged and acquitted of any involvement in the scam, and Ghislaine was “left to fend for herself”, the filing stated. The children would “be put on trial, and the ‘Maxwellian Drama’ would begin”, according to the filing.

Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell say her cellmate in prison has claimed to have been offered money to kill the Jeffrey Epstein accomplice.

She has energy, drive, commitment, a strong work ethic, and desire to do good in the world,’ the lawyers wrote in the filing. She has worked hard her entire life. ‘One of the female inmates in Ms Maxwell’s housing unit told at least three other inmates that she had ben offered money to murder Ms Maxwell and that she planned to strangle her in her sleep,’ the court filing read.

Lawyers for Maxwell said her “difficult, traumatic childhood” left her vulnerable to Epstein in a court memo filed on Wednesday asking for a lighter ...

Maxwell—who pleaded not guilty—has argued she is serving as a “scapegoat” for Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges in a New York prison. It is the biggest mistake she made in her life and one that she has not and never will repeat,” her lawyers claimed in the memo. It made her vulnerable to Epstein, whom she met right after her father’s death.

Epstein was found dead in a federal detention facility shortly after being indicted for allegedly running a sex trafficking ring of underage girls, and Maxwell ...

Maxwell's attorneys say she has not been accused of "anything untoward" in the 15 years since her relationship with Epstein ended. Maxwell has been detained since her arrest in July 2020, and her attorneys say her time behind bars has been a "disproportionate pre-sentence punishment" that will not end now that she's housed with the general population. The probation department recommended a 20-year sentence, below the sentencing guidelines.

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers said that the inmate who made the threat wasn't worried about repercussions because 'an additional 20 years' incarceration would ...

Rather than mar the paint with tape, she carefully hammered a thin tack to mount the poster,” the lawyers wrote. The inmate who made the threat was later moved to a different housing unit in the prison, “presumably to protect Ms. Maxwell,” the lawyers said. The effect of having an “overbearing, narcissistic and demanding father,” Maxwell’s lawyers wrote, meant that she was “vulnerable to Epstein, whom she met right after her father’s death,” they argued. Her lawyers wrote: “One of the female inmates in Ms. Maxwell’s housing unit told at least three other inmates that she had been offered money to murder Ms. Maxwell and that she planned to strangle her in her sleep.” “This incident reflects the brutal reality that there are numerous prison inmates who would not hesitate to kill Ms. Maxwell — whether for money, fame, or simple ‘street cred,'” Maxwell’s lawyers alleged. Ghislaine Maxwell‘s lawyers are arguing that the former Jeffery Epstein associate should be sentenced to “well below” the recommended 20 years imprisonment for federal sex-trafficking crimes because of an alleged death threat from another inmate.

The British socialite was convicted in December on charges of facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's abuse. In a new court filing, her lawyers asked for a sentence ...

Maxwell’s attorneys also introduced some biographical notes that have loomed large in her broader public story but remained mostly absent from the legal process. “This incident reflects the brutal reality that there are numerous prison inmates who would not hesitate to kill Ms. Maxwell,” the memo said, “whether for money, fame, or simple ‘street cred.’” The Bureau of Prisons, which administers the MDC and other federal jails, didn’t immediately return a request for comment on the new allegation. The publishing heiress’s plea for leniency extended some of the arguments her lawyers made at trial.