by Luc Cohen
NEW YORK, December 29 (Reuters) – Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime UK partner with late US financier Jeffrey Epstein, has been convicted of helping Epstein sexually assault teenage girls, a verdict delivered by a US jury on Wednesday. five days of deliberation.
It is the pedigree of one of the most resounding trials since the start of the #MeToo movement, including the conviction of former American film mogul Harvey Weinstein.
60-year-old Ghislaine Maxwell was accused of recruiting and preparing four teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein between 1994 and 2004.
She was convicted of five of the six charges against her, including trafficking in minors.
Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in 2019 in a prison cell in Manhattan, New York, where he was being held pending trial on charges of trafficking and abuse of minors. (Report Luc Cohen; French version Jean Terzian)