Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case

Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 in prison Tuesday for her role in helping powerful pedophile Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls, capping off a dramatic fall from grace for the British socialite turned-convicted sex-trafficker.

US District Judge Alison Nathan said the sentence of 240 months was “sufficient and not greater than necessary,” for Maxwell, who earlier addressed the court and told victims in a half-hearted apology, “I am sorry for the pain that you experienced.”

As she finally learned her fate, the 60-year-old predator’s face remained inscrutable, and she briefly hugged her attorney before leaving the courtroom, wearing blue jail scrubs, her dark brown locks cut in a bob and her ankles in shackles. She did not speak to her siblings, who were seated in the row behind her.

One of her accusers, Sarah Ransome, who sobbed during the hearing when she detailed the horrors Maxwell and Epstein subjected her to, told reporters outside the courthouse that, “‘I am sorry’ doesn’t cut it.”

“I wish she was sorry when she was forcing me into a room to be raped,” Ransome said. “That’s when I wish she was sorry.”