According to her brother Ian, Ghislaine Maxwell could ask to serve the end of her sentence in England.
The sentence has not yet been announced, but Ghislaine Maxwell is already making plans. According to the “Daily Telegraph”, the former socialite found guilty of complicity in the trafficking of minors could ask to serve her prison sentence in England. “There is a program for foreigners to serve their prison sentence in their country of nationality”, explained to the daily Ian Maxwell, his brother, deploring not having been able to visit him in the United States during his last trip, last week, due to a fight that had broken out in the prison, leading to a confinement decided by the management of the penitentiary establishment. “We will appeal his conviction,” he said. The sexagenarian, daughter of British media mogul Robert Maxwell who died in 1991, may request a transfer to England after three years in prison.
Narrative : Ghislaine Maxwell, the demon in the skin
Ghislaine Maxwell, who faces a 55-year prison sentence, will be set for June 28. She has already spent nearly two years in custody, mostly in solitary confinement but for a month with around 40 other detainees, since her July 2020 arrest by the FBI in New Hampshire. “Maxwell assisted, enabled and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minors by, among other things, assisting Epstein in recruiting, coaxing and eventually abusing victims whom Maxwell and Epstein knew were under the age of 18”, could -we read in the indictment justifying his arrest.
“You just have to do what he asks of you and everything will be fine,” assured Ghislaine Maxwell to Chauntae Davies, a young masseuse who told Paris Match of their meeting at the Beverly Hills Hotel spa. The Briton would have recruited several young women, officially to provide massages to the billionaire but which turned out to be a system of prostitution of minors, even if she always denied the accusations made against her like Jeffrey Epstein, who pleaded no guilty of the charges against him in 2019. “I took him for an uncle. At first I had chaste relations with him, I was just a secretary and my friends were jealous of me. As for Ghislaine, I respected her enormously. She was very maternal with us. She told us that we were her “kids”, her children,” said Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims.
“One of the worst crimes imaginable”
The Briton was found guilty of five counts last December, after 40 hours of deliberations. Manhattan District Court District Attorney Damian Williams called the charges “one of the worst crimes imaginable: facilitating and participating in the sexual assault of children.” The jurors had estimated that she had helped the billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein to constitute a traffic of very young women, some of whom were only 14 years old, whom he abused, sometimes in the presence of Ghislaine Maxwell, his former companion. He himself committed suicide in prison in August 2019, before being tried for sex crimes, after being sentenced to only a small sentence for “solicitation of underage prostitutes” in 2008, under an agreement since very decried with the prosecutor of Palm Beach. Then-magistrate Alex Acosta, who became Trump administration labor secretary, was forced to resign in 2019 when the deal resurfaced in the media.
In April, federal judge Alison Nathan denied Ghislaine Maxwell the right to appeal her conviction, her lawyers having criticized one of the jurors for not disclosing to the court that he himself had been the victim of sexual abuse. The man had revealed it in a series of interventions in the media at the end of the trial, but that was not enough in the eyes of the judge to motivate the opening of a new trial.