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Dec 06 2021
News
Ghislaine Maxwell 'told me I was one of [Epstein's] favorites,' accuser testifies
A second woman who says Ghislaine Maxwell groomed her for abuse by late financier Jeffrey Epstein while she was a teenager testified on Monday that the British socialite "told me I was one of his favorites" after one of her encounters with Epstein.
The woman, who is testifying under the pseudonym Kate, is the second of four women named in a 2021 indictment to take the stand at Maxwell's
Reuters
Nov 29 2021
News
Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial to begin in New York City
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is due to go on trial in New York City on sex trafficking and other charges.
She is expected to challenge claims she groomed underage girls for convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein for sexual abuse. He died in prison in 2019.
Ms Maxwell, 59, has been in a US jail since her arrest last year, awaiting the high-profile six-week trial.
Ms
BBC News
Jul 02 2020
Opinion
Powerful men are scared about what Ghislaine Maxwell will say
Jeffrey Epstein’s victims have another shot at justice. Here’s hoping they get it.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged child sex trafficker and abuser in league with Epstein, was finally arrested Thursday morning.
Her guilt, in the court of public opinion, isn’t in question.
The only question is: Will the federal government keep Maxwell alive to stand trial?
New York Post (News)
Dec 07 2021
News
Ghislaine Maxwell: Jury sees never-before-seen photos of Epstein and defendant
Prosecutors in Ghislaine Maxwell's trial have presented previously unseen photos linking the socialite to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The evidence to show their closeness came as a third accuser testified that Ms Maxwell, 59, set up paid "massages" for Epstein that turned sexual.
Ms Maxwell is accused of grooming underage girls for abuse between 1994 and 2004.
She has
BBC News
Dec 07 2021
News
Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers ask to bar accuser's brother from testifying at trial
Ghislaine Maxwell's defense lawyers on Tuesday asked a judge to prevent the brother of a witness who accused the British socialite of setting her up for abuse by late financier Jeffrey Epstein from testifying at Maxwell's sex abuse trial.
Prosecutors anticipate calling the brother of a woman known by the pseudonym Jane to corroborate certain aspects of the account she gave on the stand
Reuters
Dec 03 2021
News
Jeffrey Epstein introduced me to Trump at 14, Ghislaine Maxwell accuser says
One of the four women who say they were “groomed” for sex by Ghislaine Maxwell testified Wednesday that the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein took her to meet Donald Trump when she was just 14.
Testifying at Maxwell’s trial in New York City, the woman, who is being identified by the pseudonym Jane, said on cross-examination that she met the future president in the 1990s at Mar-a-Lago
NBC News (Online)
Nov 29 2021
News
Ghislaine Maxwell's trial begins today. Here's what the defense will likely argue
Opening statements begin today in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is charged with sex trafficking underage girls for her friend, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, to sexually abuse.
NPR's Jasmine Garsd joined Morning Edition to lay out what to expect from the start of the much-anticipated trial. Listen here.
Maxwell faces six federal charges of sex trafficking. She's
NPR (Online News)
Nov 23 2021
News
Ghislaine Maxwell: Brother Ian says she will not get fair hearing at trial
Ghislaine Maxwell's brother, Ian, has said he doubts his sister will get a fair hearing at her trial on sex trafficking and other charges which is due to start next week.
Ms Maxwell, the daughter of the late media mogul Robert Maxwell, has been accused of trafficking minors for her former lover Jeffrey Epstein.
She has been in a New York jail since her arrest in July 2020.
BBC News
Nov 23 2021
Analysis
Ghislaine Maxwell's Trial Opens a New Chapter in Heinous Jeffrey Epstein Saga
For those following the Jeffrey Epstein story, the past two years have felt like driving around a curve that never ends. Answers to the key questions at the heart of the vast scandal have seemed tantalizingly close and frustratingly out of reach. How did the late pedophile earn his estimated half-billion-dollar fortune? Which powerful men participated in his sex-trafficking ring? What about
Vanity Fair
Oct 24 2020
News
Jeffrey Epstein Update: Read The Deposition That Ghislaine Maxwell Fought To Hide
Ghislaine Maxwell's answers to questions about the sex-trafficking operation she allegedly ran with the late Jeffrey Epstein were made public Thursday as a federal court released Maxwell's 2016 deposition. The transcript is more than 400 pages long, but it has been redacted to protect the privacy of some people it mentions.
The transcript is finally being unsealed after a back-and-forth
NPR (Online News)