At the end of several days of deliberation, the jurors of a New York court recognized, Wednesday, December 29, Ghislaine Maxwell, the ex-companion of the financier Jeffrey Epstein, guilty of sex crimes.
Mme Maxwell, incarcerated in a New York prison since the summer of 2020, was prosecuted, among other things, for having provided Mr. Epstein with sexually exploited underage girls between the years 1994 and 2004. She was accused of six crimes, all related to sexual violence committed by Jeffrey Epstein on four victims, minors at the time of the facts, and who testified during the trial.
The trial in Manhattan federal court began on November 29. The deliberations were long because the jurors could not all agree on the guilt or innocence of this woman with triple British, French and American nationality. The 12 jurors asked to have in hand the transcripts of several interrogations, including those of several victims.
“Right arm” by Jeffrey Epstein
This international jet set regular, daughter of media mogul Robert Maxwell, who died in 1991, was portrayed by prosecutor Alison Moe in “Sophisticated predator” and key figure in the system set up with Jeffrey Epstein, of which she was the “Partner in love” and ” the right arm “.
One of the victims, “Carolyn”, recounted how she was paid, from the age of 14, $ 300 for each massage; which always ended with a sexual act. She named Ghislaine Maxwell as one of the women who set the dates and assured that she had seen her naked and touched her breast in the Palm Beach villa. Another victim, “Jane” had recounted how the couple approached and put her at ease, promising to help this young girl from a disadvantaged family in Palm Beach.
On the contrary, the defense pleaded acquittal, assuring that there was no “No proof that Ghislaine Maxwell” recruited only one of the four victims to deliver it to Jeffrey Epstein and lambasted “Very bad and variable memory” accusers of events more than 25 years old.