Ghislaine Maxwell

"Today's sentence holds Ghislaine Maxwell accountable for perpetrating heinous crimes against children," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a tweeted ...

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The British socialite is jailed for helping the sex offender and globetrotting financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls between 1994 and 2004.

Since then, she has been held mostly at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Centre (MDC), where she has complained of vermin and the scent of raw sewage in her cell. "Maxwell directly and repeatedly and over the course of many years participated in a horrific scheme to entice, transport and traffic underage girls, some as young as 14, for sexual abuse by and with Jeffrey Epstein," Judge Nathan said. - Maxwell was arrested in July 2020 and was repeatedly denied bail

The jet-setting socialite has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.

Maxwell’s fellow inmate also submitted a letter describing how Maxwell has helped to educate other inmates over the last two years. He pleaded guilty to sex charges in Florida and served 13 months in jail, much of it in a work-release program as part of a deal criticised as lenient. In the years that followed, many women sued Epstein over alleged abuse. Eleven months after his death, Maxwell was arrested at a New Hampshire estate. The fourth was Farmer, the sole accuser to identify herself in court by her real name, after speaking out publicly. Outside the courthouse, Kevin Maxwell said that his sister won’t give up on her legal battle, “and we as a family will be solidly behind her.” Afterward, he was required to register as a sex offender. “It’s been an incredibly long road to justice for myself and for many other survivors,” said Sarah Ransome, one of Epstein’s accusers. Judge Alison J. Nathan noted as she imposed the prison term and a $750,000 fine that Maxwell never expressed remorse for her crimes. The trial, though, revolved around allegations from only a handful of those women. Prosecutors said Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial, sexually abused children hundreds of times over more than a decade, and couldn’t have done so without the help of Maxwell, his longtime companion and onetime girlfriend who they said sometimes also participated in the abuse. After the sentencing, Maxwell’s defence attorney Bobbi Sternheim promised to appeal.

Ghislaine Maxwell has been jailed for 20 years for helping sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.

Prosecutors said the warden told them she would remain on suicide watch until she is “no longer at heightened risk of self-harm”. “She made the choice to sexually exploit numerous underage girls. She said Maxwell spoke often of sexual topics with her and asked Kate to invite other young girls for Epstein’s sexual desires. Jane, testifying under a pseudonym, said Maxwell organised sexual massages with Epstein and sometimes joined in the abuse. “For me, and for so many others, you opened the door to hell. Maxwell’s attorneys also said she suffered a “difficult, traumatic childhood” with an overbearing father, leaving her “vulnerable” to Epstein, and meeting him was the “biggest mistake she made in her life”. Carolyn, who testified using only her first name, said that when she was 14, Maxwell touched her breasts, hips and buttocks and told her she “had a great body for Epstein and his friends”. The child sex trafficking count - the most serious of all the charges - relates to her testimony. Her defence, meanwhile, said she was a “scapegoat” for Epstein’s actions and attacked the memories and motivations of the women who say they were sexually abused. “She did not take responsibility for the crimes that she committed and it felt like, once more, her trying to do something to benefit her and not at all about the harm she had caused.” “(It’s) never too late for the truth to come out and never too late for there to be accountability,” she said. “It is hard for me to address the court after listening to the pain and anguish expressed in the statements made here today,” she said. “Judge Nathan, I hope when you consider the appropriate prison sentence for the role Maxwell played in this sex trafficking operation, you take into account the ongoing suffering of the many women she abused and exploited as we will continue to live with the memories of the ways she harmed us,” she wrote.

Victims of Ghislaine Maxwell confronted the British socialite at her sentencing hearing on Tuesday about her role in helping sex offender and globetrotting ...

read more "These kids had hopes and dreams for their future, and the defendant used those dreams as her tool to abuse them," Moe said. U.S. Circuit Judge Alison Nathan said sentencing guidelines call for Maxwell, 60, to spend between 15 and 20 years in prison for recruiting and grooming girls to have sexual encounters with Epstein, then her boyfriend, between 1994 and 2004.

Eight women sent the court victim impact statements — unredacted, over Maxwell's objections — describing the long-lasting effects of Maxwell's crimes. Nathan ruled that six of the victims were also free to speak at the hearing if they chose to. Prosecutors ...

Another survivor, Sarah Ransome, said Epstein and Maxwell threatened that her family would be killed if she ever tried to escape what she calls a "dungeon of sexual hell." As in other statements, Bryant also said she was grateful to see the crimes exposed, with the hope of justice finally found. Maria Farmer said her future as an artist was ruined by Maxwell and Epstein when she met them in 1996. Eight women who say Maxwell manipulated and abused them for years sent victim impact statements for the court to consider in weighing Maxwell's punishment. "This toxic combination of being sexually exposed and exploited, feeling confused and naïve, blaming myself all resulted in significant shame," Annie Farmer wrote in her statement. Prosecutors also asked Nathan to impose a $750,000 fine on Maxwell — the maximum allowed for her crimes. She is a very dangerous and devious individual." They say the pair often traveled between Epstein's mansion on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a villa in Palm Beach, a ranch in New Mexico, a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and an apartment in Paris. But prosecutors sought a sentence between 30 and 55 years, citing the number of victims and Maxwell's refusal to take responsibility. But prosecutors dismissed those claims and cited Maxwell's "utter lack of remorse" for her actions. Nathan ruled that six of the victims were also free to speak at the hearing if they chose to. Several of those girls, now adults, testified during the trial, bravely pulling the curtain back on years of abuse they suffered after Maxwell and Epstein tugged them into their orbit.

The British socialite maintained her innocence as women came forward to accuse her of sexual abuse and trafficking.

“I called her office for delivery instructions and was told to bring them to a hotel close by to the store,” Stein said. Elizabeth Stein, who came to New York City in 1991 to study at Fashion Institute of Technology, said she was lured into Maxwell and Epstein’s orbit as a college senior. “Just hours later, you and [Epstein] abused me together for the first time.” “For a long time I wanted to erase from my mind the crimes that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell committed against me … but I’ve had to acknowledge the long-lasting effects. Virginia Giuffre has alleged Maxwell and Epstein forced her into a sexual encounter with Britain’s Prince Andrew when she was just 17; he denies all wrongdoing. Kate said that Maxwell “ruined the lives of countless women and children” but was unrepentant.

Maxwell, 60, could be sentenced to up to 55 years in prison — the most concrete punishment yet for the sex-trafficking conspiracy she operated with ...

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Ghislaine Maxwell was ordered to spend 20 years in prison after a hearing at which victims described how their lives had been devastated by the sexual abuse ...

The British socialite, 60, was convicted of five charges in December for recruiting and grooming four girls to have sexual encounters with Epstein, then her ...

Her lawyer has compared her confinement conditions to those of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs. Since then, she has been held mostly at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Centre (MDC), where she has complained of vermin and the scent of raw sewage in her cell. It was one of the highest-profile cases in the wake of the #MeToo movement, which encouraged women to speak out about sexual abuse, often at the hands of wealthy and powerful people.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Today's sentence holds Ghislaine Maxwell accountable for perpetrating heinous crimes against children. This sentence sends ...

In the later phase, from approximately 2001 until at least approximately 2004, MAXWELL and Epstein enticed and recruited, and caused to be enticed and recruited, minor girls to visit Epstein’s Palm Beach Residence to engage in sex acts with Epstein, after which Epstein, MAXWELL, or another employee of Epstein’s would give the victims hundreds of dollars in cash. MAXWELL and Epstein’s victims were groomed or abused at Epstein’s residences in New York, Florida, and New Mexico, as well as MAXWELL’s residence in London, England. The victims were as young as 14 years old when they were groomed and abused by MAXWELL and Epstein, both of whom knew that their victims were in fact minors. MAXWELL also acclimated victims to Epstein’s conduct simply by being present for victim interactions with Epstein, which put victims at ease by providing the assurance and comfort of an adult woman who seemingly approved of Epstein’s behavior. From at least 1994, up to and including in or about 2004, GHISLAINE MAXWELL assisted, facilitated, and participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse victims known to MAXWELL and Epstein to be under the age of 18. Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GHISLANE MAXWELL was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court by United States Circuit Judge Alison J. Nathan to 240 months in prison for her role in a scheme to sexual exploit and abuse multiple minor girls with Jeffrey Epstein over the course of a decade.

Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial, sexually abused children hundreds of times over more than a decade, exploiting vulnerable girls as ...

The fourth was Farmer, the sole accuser to identify herself in court by her real name, after speaking out publicly. Maxwell’s lawyers fought to have her conviction tossed out on the grounds of juror misconduct. Outside the courthouse, Kevin Maxwell said that his sister won’t give up on her legal battle, “and we as a family will be solidly behind her.” But she did not admit culpability and laid blame for the abuse on Epstein, saying meeting him was the “greatest regret of my life.” In the years that followed, many women sued Epstein over alleged abuse. Judge Alison J. Nathan noted as she imposed the prison term and a $750,000 fine that Maxwell never expressed remorse for her crimes. Eleven months after his death, Maxwell was arrested at a New Hampshire estate. Afterward, he was required to register as a sex offender. The allegations against Epstein first surfaced in 2005. “It’s been an incredibly long road to justice for myself and for many other survivors,” said Sarah Ransome, one of Epstein’s accusers. She wore leg shackles that could be heard rattling when she walked into the courtroom. Prosecutors said he couldn’t have done so without the help of Maxwell, his longtime companion.

Annie Farmer, Sarah Ransome and Elizabeth Stein tell reporters the sentencing is a "big victory" and pay tribute to all survivors, as Ghislaine Maxwell's ...

"But it was passive acknowledgement. "I think our system works. If you facilitate these crimes, you will be punished. "I wish she was sorry when she was busy forcing me into a room to be raped," she said. If you commit these crimes, you will be punished. "There's still a lot of work to be done on this issue, but in this fight, we need to celebrate the victories, and today this is a big victory," Ms Farmer said.

Ghislaine Maxwell's 20-year prison sentence finally delivers some measure of justice to the victims of the child sex trafficking ring she ran with Jeffrey ...

I hope this brings the women who have suffered some measure of peace and finality.” And I was not the only girl; there was a constant stream of girls being raped over and over and over again. “Each of the listed Does has counsel who have ably asserted their own respective privacy rights. “Aversion to embarrassment and negativity that may come from being associated with Epstein and Maxwell is not enough to warrant continued sealing of information. “It’s just the beginning. “Who are the clients? “I was raped repeatedly. Who was she getting the girls for? “We should be told. We need names.” It doesn’t stop with Maxwell,” Ms Guiffre said. There are so many more people involved with this.

British socialite sidesteps responsibility before receiving 20 years for aiding Jeffrey Epstein's abuse.

Jailed for 20 years yesterday, she was a wicked, greedy and depraved criminal that no childhood troubles can excuse, says documentary film-maker Dorothy ...

Sadly, the oceans will not have the benefit of her altruism during her 20 years in jail. One of the interviewees in our documentary, The Making of a Monster, describes Maxwell’s attitude towards her victims. My favourite section of the mitigation statement makes the point that later in life, Ghislaine set up a charity to save the oceans. Why should we assume that the woman is not responsible for her own actions and the man is the person really to blame for her crimes? At the age of three, allegedly suffering from anorexia, Maxwell declared to her mother, “Mummy, I exist.” Her father was often away and when at home was an overbearing bully. Her father, the publisher Robert Maxwell, was one of the biggest fraudsters in British corporate history.

The sordid tale of the billionaire's daughter turned predator reached a conclusion in New York as she was jailed for helping Jeffrey Epstein abuse young ...

Maxwell made a point of apologising to her family for the shame she had brought them. “Let me be clear,” said Judge Nathan, dismissing the calls, “Maxwell is not being punished in place of Epstein. She is not his proxy. “I acknowledge the pain this case has brought my family,” she said in her address. ”Maxwell is today the same woman I met almost 20 years ago – incapable of compassion or common human decency,” she said. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan had asked the judge to impose a sentence of at least 30 years. “She showed a pattern of deflection of blame,” she said.