NEW YORK (AP) — Imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to toss out her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence, saying Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 non-prosecution deal with a U.S. attorney in Florida should have prevented her prosecution. Attorney Diana Fabi Samson’s argument was repeatedly challenged by one judge […]
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‘Weird’ deal should have stopped Ghislaine Maxwell prosecution, lawyers claim
Disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell “should never have been prosecuted” due to a “weird” agreement drafted more than 15 years ago, her lawyers have told a court. The 62-year-old was found guilty in December 2021 of luring young girls to massage rooms for paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein to molest between 1994 and 2004. At an […]
Ghislaine Maxwell set to appeal against sex trafficking conviction
Disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is set to appear in a New York court to appeal against her sex trafficking conviction. The 62-year-old was found guilty in December 2021 of luring young girls to massage rooms for paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein to molest between 1994 and 2004. She was sentenced to 20 years in prison […]
Ghislaine Maxwell admits Prince Andrew’s Spitting Image puppet was in Epstein’s home
Disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell admitted there was a Prince Andrew puppet in paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s New York apartment, newly released court documents show. The British royal Andrew was accused by Johanna Sjoberg of groping her breast while posing with what is reported to have been a Spitting Image puppet of himself in Epstein’s Manhattan […]
Ghislaine Maxwell said she did not introduce Andrew to Epstein, court files show
Disgraced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell claimed she “never introduced Prince Andrew to Jeffrey Epstein” in an interview under oath, court documents have revealed. The third tranche of files connected with paedophile financier Epstein were published on Friday, including the video-taped interview with Maxwell in April 2016. In the video-taped evidence, known in the US as […]
Ghislaine Maxwell lawsuit holds clues to names about to be made public
Nearly 200 names that had previously been redacted from court documents in a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s former lover and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell will soon be made public after a federal judge in New York ordered their unsealing last month. U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska issued a 51-page order explaining her reasoning on whether to […]
Hundreds of court files from Ghislaine Maxwell libel case to be published
The Duke of York’s alleged links with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are set to come under further scrutiny with the release of hundreds of files from a defamation case. US Judge Loretta Preska ruled on Monday that documents relating to more than 170 people who were either associates, friends or victims of disgraced financier […]