Ghislaine Maxwell

Ghislaine Maxwell, who faces sentencing for sex trafficking girls with Jeffrey Epstein, is on suicide watch, her lawyer said.

Maxwell's lawyers last week asked a judge to sentence her to between 4.25 and 5.25 years in prison, saying her difficult childhood made her vulnerable to Epstein and she should not face a harsh sentence because of his actions. However, she will only be sentenced on three counts after the judge presiding over her case agreed two of the conspiracy counts she faced were repetitive. Prosecutors say Maxwell helped Epstein set up a scheme to lure young girls into sexual relationships between 1994 and 2004. A spokesman for the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment. The facility has since been closed down, possibly temporarily, to address "issues." Maxwell's lawyers last week asked a judge to sentence her to between 4.25 and 5.25 years in prison, saying her difficult childhood made her vulnerable to Epstein and she should not face a harsh sentence because of his actions. "She is not suicidal." However, she will only be sentenced on three counts after the judge presiding over her case agreed two of the conspiracy counts she faced were repetitive. Prosecutors say Maxwell helped Epstein set up a scheme to lure young girls into sexual relationships between 1994 and 2004. A spokesman for the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment. The facility has since been closed down, possibly temporarily, to address "issues." "She is not suicidal."

Move prompts Maxwell's attorney to seek to postpone her sentencing because she can't properly prepare for the hearing.

Maxwell was convicted on 29 December of sex trafficking and related charges filed against her in Manhattan federal court after she recruited girls – some as young as 14 – for Epstein to abuse. Prison officials on Friday took away Maxwell’s legal papers – along with her regular clothes, toothpaste and soap – while putting her in solitary confinement and on suicide watch, said the letter from her attorney Bobby Sternheim. Sternheim’s letter added that a psychologist evaluated Maxwell, 61, and concluded she is not suicidal.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the ex-lover of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has been placed on suicide watch ahead of her sentencing hearing, her attorneys ...

She was provided a ‘suicide smock’ and is given a few sheets of toilet paper on request," they continued in the letter. A psychologist took Epstein off of suicide watch some time before he was found hanged in his cell on Aug. 10. "Currently, she is unable to properly prepare for sentencing," the lawyer contended. "Ms. Maxwell was abruptly removed from general population and returned to solitary confinement, this time without any clothing, toothpaste, soap, legal papers, etc. "Dear Judge Nathan, I write to inform the Court of a recent development which may require postponement of Tuesday's sentencing proceeding. "This has prevented her from preparing for sentencing."

However, Sternheim added that, after speaking in person to his client, Maxwell is “not suicidal,” and that she was placed on suicide watch without a ...

“A psychologist evaluated Ms. Maxwell and determined she is not suicidal,” the lawyer wrote. In August 2019, Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide while in custody awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges; the disgraced financier’s death came 12 days after he was removed from suicide watch, where he was placed following an alleged failed suicide attempt a month earlier. However, Sternheim added that, after speaking in person to his client, Maxwell is “not suicidal,” and that she was placed on suicide watch without a psychological evaluation and “without justification,” CNN reports.

Lawyer argues observation will stop jailed socialite preparing for sentencing hearing in time.

They also noted that she had been in prison since shortly after her July 2020 arrest. Maxwell’s lawyers have argued she should be jailed for five years or less. She is due in Manhattan Federal Court for sentencing on Tuesday.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the late Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend and confidant, was placed on suicide watch, even though she is not suicidal, according to ...

Nathan said in April that she will sentence Maxwell on only three counts, noting that the two of three conspiracy counts were repetitive. She was found guilty on five of six counts in December 2021. "The BOP is committed to ensuring the safety and security of all inmates in our population, our staff, and the public.

Her counsel says now that Maxwell is in solitary confinement, she can't properly prepare for sentencing.

Their statements were put in the public case file late Friday by Manhattan prosecutors who have asked U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan to sentence Maxwell to 30 to 55 years in prison for "monstrous" crimes resulting in a December sex trafficking conviction for a socialite who has been jailed since her July 2020 arrest. Four women testified at Maxwell's monthlong trial, where they described sexual attacks on teenage girls from 1994 to 2004 by Epstein and Maxwell at Epstein's mansions and estates in Manhattan, New Mexico, Florida and the Virgin Islands. Seven women who say Maxwell helped Jeffrey Epstein steal the innocence of their youth and poison the promise of their future are asking a judge to consider their pain as she decides what prison sentence she will dispense Tuesday to the incarcerated British woman.

Ghislaine Maxwell, who faces sentencing for sex trafficking girls with Jeffrey Epstein, is on suicide watch, her lawyer said.

Maxwell's lawyers last week asked a judge to sentence her to between 4.25 and 5.25 years in prison, saying her difficult childhood made her vulnerable to Epstein and she should not face a harsh sentence because of his actions. However, she will only be sentenced on three counts after the judge presiding over her case agreed two of the conspiracy counts she faced were repetitive. Prosecutors say Maxwell helped Epstein set up a scheme to lure young girls into sexual relationships between 1994 and 2004. A spokesman for the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment. The facility has since been closed down, possibly temporarily, to address "issues." Maxwell's lawyers last week asked a judge to sentence her to between 4.25 and 5.25 years in prison, saying her difficult childhood made her vulnerable to Epstein and she should not face a harsh sentence because of his actions. "She is not suicidal." However, she will only be sentenced on three counts after the judge presiding over her case agreed two of the conspiracy counts she faced were repetitive. Prosecutors say Maxwell helped Epstein set up a scheme to lure young girls into sexual relationships between 1994 and 2004. A spokesman for the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York declined to comment. The facility has since been closed down, possibly temporarily, to address "issues." "She is not suicidal."

Red carpet, velvet ropes, bottle service and famous friends will not be on the itinerary for socialite-turned-sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

She had posed as a mentor to their parents, someone who could help them get into good schools or colleges,” Levine said. And there would be half as many victims if it wasn’t for her.” She didn’t even mind if they were under age,” Levine added. she had a fascination with finding new ways to find these girls, ordering them around and grooming them. Article content Article content

The socialite was convicted in December last year of sex trafficking minors, conspiracy to entice a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, and ...

Women abused by Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein never thought the day would come. Tuesday, the British socialite will be sentenced for sex ...

But she has come to know other victims in recent years, and appreciates the community they have formed. You could have put an end to the rapes, the molestations, the sickening manipulations that you arranged, witnessed and even took part in.” “As a way to remind myself that I had agency, I was choosing to participate.” These same girls that are now young women have had their past, current and possibly their future relationships hindered because of something that happened to them 18 years ago.” Prison officials countered that Maxwell was placed on suicide watch after writing an e-mail to the inspector general’s office of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons saying she feared for her safety and had been threatened by staff at the federal prison where she is being kept in custody. “For some of the women that I represented, they have never gone public, they have never wanted everyone to know.” She will be in New York with her husband ahead of the sentencing. The Miami Herald investigated the circumstances of Epstein’s deal in the 2018 “ Perversion of Justice” series, which led federal prosecutors to reexamine Epstein’s case and bring fresh charges against the financier in 2019. They have spent years trapped in “prison bars in their own mind,” in the words of ‘Kate,’ a woman who testified under a pseudonym about the abuse she suffered at Maxwell and Epstein’s hands starting when she was 17 after Maxwell invited her over for tea in Maxwell’s London home. “After leaving the courtroom I was incredibly shaky that day.” At her trial last year, federal prosecutors showed how Maxwell recruited and groomed girls, some as young as 14, for her ex-boyfriend Epstein’s sexual abuse and sometimes participated in the abuse herself. Epstein later molested Farmer in her bed, which she only escaped by hiding in the bathroom.

Ghislaine Maxwell was a “genuine and kind” person who volunteered to teach English and yoga in jail, a fellow inmate wrote in a letter to the judge who's ...

Jeffrey Epstein associate, convicted of sex trafficking, will learn her punishment Tuesday in federal court.

Four witnesses testified about the abuse they suffered at the hands of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Here's what they said, Rachel Sharp writes.

I just wanted so badly to get off the table and have this massage be done.” Maxwell’s defence team tried to discredit her account, saying that in an FBI interview in 2007 the accuser did not mention Maxwell once. Carolyn testified that she was also asked to recruit friends around her age to give Epstein sexualised massages. The second accuser “Kate” said Maxwell first instructed her to give Epstein sexualised massages at the socialite’s London townhouse when she was 17. She said that I had a great body type,” she told the court. The visits were arranged by Maxwell, she said, who would call her to arrange “appointment times” for when the abuse took place. “She was instructing me. I had a great body for Mr Epstein and his friends. After making her feel special, the relationship soon escalated – first to sexualised massages with Epstein and then to other sexual encounters. The teenager was also forced into sexualised orgies with other older women, she alleged. Was it good?” She also met several influential people including Prince Andrew on Epstein’s private jet, she said.

Maxwell's attorneys call for 4-5 year sentence · May seek delay after socialite placed on suicide watch · Several victims likely to speak in court on Tuesday ...

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Jeffrey Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell is on suicide watch at the Brooklyn MDC ahead of her sex trafficking sentencing Tuesday.

They wrote, "apparently the defendant claimed to the IG that she feared MDC staff members were threatening her safety." At least two other inmates recently experienced the same protocol, they added. Bobbi Sternheim wrote that Maxwell had been provided a “suicide smock” to wear and asserted, in bold type in her letter, that Maxwell "is not suicidal."

Maxwell, who has been held at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center since the summer of 2020, was “abruptly removed from general population and returned ...

Defense lawyers have argued that Ghislaine Maxwell became the primary target in the sex-abuse case only after Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.

“She manipulated her victims, and she groomed them for sexual abuse.” “The government now had a huge hole to fill: Epstein’s empty chair.” One said Ms. Maxwell was sometimes present in the encounters, and the other said Ms. Maxwell directly molested her by touching her breasts. Two of the women said Mr. Epstein engaged in sex acts with them starting when they were 14 years old. The lawyers claimed the government turned its attention to Ms. Maxwell only after the public uproar following Mr. Epstein’s death while in the Justice Department and the Bureau of Prisons’ custody. Several of her accusers, including some who testified at her trial, have asked to address the judge, and Ms. Maxwell also will be given the opportunity to speak. Her lawyers have said she is planning to appeal, and it is possible that Ms. Maxwell, who did not testify at her trial, will choose to remain silent in court on Tuesday as well. The disgraced financier hanged himself in a Manhattan jail cell one month after his July 2019 arrest as he awaited his own trial on sex trafficking charges. There is no minimum sentence for Ms. Maxwell, who has been jailed ever since she was denied bail after her arrest on July 2, 2020. “Maxwell was a sophisticated predator who knew exactly what she was doing,” Alison Moe, a federal prosecutor, told the jury in her summation. They said the authorities urgently wanted to “appease the renewed distress of Epstein’s accusers and to repair the tarnished reputations of the D.O.J. and B.O.P.” “There would be no trial for Epstein and no public vindication and justice for his accusers,” the lawyers wrote.

Ghislaine Maxwell is “genuine and kind” and offered to teach fellow inmates yoga, a jailhouse friend wrote to the judge who is set to sentence the convicted ...

“When Ghislane [sic] Maxwell first arrived in the unit, she introduced herself to everyone with a handshake. ‘Hi, I am Maxwell’ she says with a smile genuine and kind,” Venegas, 31, wrote. Maxwell, 60, has been held at the federal lockup since she was arrested in July 2020.

The judge who will determine Ghislaine Maxwell's prison term for sex trafficking and other crimes is letting more accusers speak at her sentencing.

Ghislaine Maxwell will learn her fate Tuesday in Manhattan federal court when she's sentenced to up to 55 years in prison for recruiting and grooming young girls to be abused by late financier Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell, 60, was convicted after trial of ...

Graphic photos of her taken inside a hospital room after those attempts were included in the filing. Maxwell "enjoyed a life of extraordinary luxury and privilege" while preying on troubled young girls, prosecutors wrote in the sentencing submission. Farmer and Kate testified at the trial, while the others did not.