Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison
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Ghislaine Maxwell on Tuesday was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a federal court on sex trafficking and other charges for helping Jeffrey Epstein recruit and groom underage girls.
Maxwell was also fined a $750,000 fee as well as a five-year sentence of supervised release once she gets released from prison. After 40 hours of deliberations spanning six days, the former British socialite was convicted guilty by a federal jury in Dec. 2021 on five counts of the six counts she faced. Her prison term was shorter than the 30 year-minimum that federal prosecutors in Manhattan recommended to the judge. Maxwell’s lawyers vowed to appeal her conviction.
Epstein, who was a convicted sex offender, committed suicide in August 2019 at a Manhattan correctional facility. Maxwell, 60, maintained her innocence and attempted to pin the blame on Epstein. Four women testified during the trial, highlighting the pivotal role that Maxwell had in the sex trafficking ring that ran from 1994 to 2004.
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