Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty in sex-trafficking trial

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A jury in a New York federal court has found Ghislaine Maxwell guilty on five of six counts related to her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of minor girls between 1994 and 2004.

 

The 60-year-old British former socialite was arrested in July 2020, and charged with involvement in ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of teenage girls.

Epstein, a convicted sex offender, named Prince Andrew and former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump as cronies before killing himself in a New York jail in 2019, about one month after his sex-trafficking arrest.

 

The verdict marks a dramatic conclusion to an unexpectedly fast-moving trial: proceedings were originally expected to take at least six weeks. Prosecutors called 24 witnesses over 10 days, and defense attorneys called nine witnesses over two days.

Prosecutors said that Maxwell "preyed on vulnerable young girls, manipulated them and served them up to be sexually abused" by Epstein.

 

Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty in sex-trafficking trial

 

There were four accusers in this case: Jane, Kate and Carolyn, who did not use their full names, and Annie Farmer.

 

Jane  testified that she was 14 in 1994 when Epstein started to sexually abuse her – and that sometimes Maxwell was present during this abuse. At times, Maxwell participated in the abuse, Jane said.

"There were hands everywhere," Jane recalled of an encounter with Epstein and Maxwell. The abuse continued when she was 15 and 16.

 

Kate testified that she met Maxwell in Paris around 1994, at age 17. Maxwell extended a tea invitation to her London townhouse shortly after they met, and introduced Kate to Epstein at a subsequent meeting.

 

Several weeks later, Maxwell called Kate, and said: "Jeffrey was meant to get a massage but the massage therapist had canceled. Could I do her a favor and come over … because I had strong hands."

Kate testified that Maxwell led her upstairs, where Epstein was wearing a robe. Maxwell closed the door, leaving them alone; Epstein initiated sexual contact. Kate saw Epstein a few times annually over the next several years.

 

Carolyn said that she met Maxwell and Epstein around the early 2000s, when she was 14-years-old, at his Palm Beach mansion.

 

Carolyn said she went to Epstein’s house "over 100 times" from ages 14 to 18, and testified about a physical encounter with Maxwell while setting up a massage table.

 

"I was getting fully nude, and she came in and felt my boobs and my hips and my buttocks and said … that I had a great body for Mr Epstein and his friends. She just said that I had a good body type," Carolyn said.

Annie Farmer, the only accuser to testify under her full name rather than a pseudonym or first name, testified that Maxwell gave her a nude massage when she was only 16 at Epstein’s New Mexico ranch.

 

Farmer met Epstein in late 1995, when she traveled to visit her sister, Maria, in New York City. Maria worked as a fine art painter for Epstein.

 

In spring 1996, Annie Farmer's mother informed the teen that she would be traveling to Epstein’s ranch, believing it was an educational retreat for high school students.

 

Annie didn’t want to go because Epstein had touched her hand when they went to a movie in New York, but she felt better knowing a woman, Maxwell, would be there.

 

Following an excursion into town, Maxwell said she’d teach Annie to give Epstein a foot massage. Then, Maxwell said she wanted Annie to have the "experience" of a professional massage.

"She said to get undressed and get [under] the sheet on the massage table, and I did," Annie said, saying a table was set up in the room where she was staying. "She pulled the sheet down and exposed my breasts, and started rubbing on my chest and on my upper breast."

 

Ghislaine Maxwell was tried on six counts in relation to Epstein.

 

She was found guilty of five federal charges: sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and three related counts of conspiracy.

 

She was acquitted on the charge of enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts.

 

Maxwell faces up to 65 years in prison.

 

She has maintained her innocence.



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