During the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted Wednesday of sex crimes, intimate images of her with Jeffrey Epstein were shown to the jury.
The images that Ghislaine Maxwell did not want to show. During the trial of the Briton, found guilty on Wednesday of five of the six charges against her, private photos showing her with Jeffrey Epstein were presented to the jurors. These photos show the travels of those who were for a few years a couple and then very close friends, Ghislaine Maxwell having been convicted of having recruited very young girls, sometimes minors, to fuel an orchestrated sex traffic for Jeffrey Epstein, ensuring hire them at a high price just to give massages to the millionaire. The wealthy financier committed suicide in prison in 2019, before his trial.
It was at his home on the Upper East Side that the police discovered these photos in 2019, during a search. But Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers tried to oppose the presentation of the images to the jury: “You do not need 20 photographs to show what two are enough to show”, had advanced Laura Menninger, one of the lawyers of the 60-year-old British heiress. But the judge agreed with prosecutor Alison Moe, who recalled that the relationship between the accused and Jeffrey Epstein was “central in this case” and that the defense had “on several occasions tried to put the distance between Miss Maxwell and Mr. Epstein and his business, ensuring that these things were compartmentalized ”. “These photos show their close relationship through the years,” Alison Moe recalled.
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“Even when she wasn’t there, make no mistake, she knew exactly what Epstein was going to do to the children she sent him to massage rooms, rooms located in houses the accused has. managed for a decade, had completed Deputy Prosecutor Lara Pomerantz. When the accused sent a 14-year-old girl to a massage room with an adult man, she knew exactly what was going to happen. ” The images indeed show the proximity between them: they often pose side by side, multiplying the gestures of affection. In some pictures, we witness a foot massage given by Ghislaine Maxwell to Jeffrey Epstein, on board a private plane.
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