Jeffrey Epstein

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Today's sentence holds Ghislaine Maxwell accountable for perpetrating heinous crimes against children. This sentence sends ...

In the later phase, from approximately 2001 until at least approximately 2004, MAXWELL and Epstein enticed and recruited, and caused to be enticed and recruited, minor girls to visit Epstein’s Palm Beach Residence to engage in sex acts with Epstein, after which Epstein, MAXWELL, or another employee of Epstein’s would give the victims hundreds of dollars in cash. MAXWELL and Epstein’s victims were groomed or abused at Epstein’s residences in New York, Florida, and New Mexico, as well as MAXWELL’s residence in London, England. The victims were as young as 14 years old when they were groomed and abused by MAXWELL and Epstein, both of whom knew that their victims were in fact minors. MAXWELL also acclimated victims to Epstein’s conduct simply by being present for victim interactions with Epstein, which put victims at ease by providing the assurance and comfort of an adult woman who seemingly approved of Epstein’s behavior. From at least 1994, up to and including in or about 2004, GHISLAINE MAXWELL assisted, facilitated, and participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse victims known to MAXWELL and Epstein to be under the age of 18. Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GHISLANE MAXWELL was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court by United States Circuit Judge Alison J. Nathan to 240 months in prison for her role in a scheme to sexual exploit and abuse multiple minor girls with Jeffrey Epstein over the course of a decade.

A new documentary traces the relationship between the predator, his benefactor, and the New York media.

Wexner had the money that Epstein was seeking, and Wexner got from Epstein the glamour and smoothness that he was seeking.” In 1996, Christopher Mason wrote in the New York Times how Wexner had bought the uptown mansion and dumped millions into it, only to sell it to his “protégé,” Epstein. “Les never spent more than two months there,” Epstein told the paper. In 2003, Wexner would gush to Vicky Ward in her now infamous report in Vanity Fair that Epstein was “a most loyal friend” who is “very smart with a combination of excellent judgment and unusually high standards.” “That’s unethical!” Kosner could be heard shouting in the background of the call.) Yet Wexner would appear on the cover of New York again two years later after buying Bendel’s, the department store hailed as “New York’s citadel of chic.” He got Jackie O. to stand next to him at the store’s reopening. “A lot of it played out in the New York City of the late ’80s, ’90s, and aughts,” says Tyrnauer. “There’s a particular flavor to that world, which now seems like a lost world. That’s when an elfin Wexner appeared on the cover, flanked by two models, under the headline “The Bachelor Billionaire.” Wexner, the mag noted, “Doesn’t go to galas, he doesn’t read WWD or W, and he doesn’t pronounce ‘La Grenouille’ right. (“I did get very excited about the stock, which I wanted to buy, and Ed would not let me buy it,” she added, referring to Ed Kosner, then the editor of New York and now her husband. What Angels and Demons magnifies is how Victoria’s Secret was both a calling card and the ideal hunting ground for Epstein. The documentary presents interviews with company executives and never-before-seen footage of Epstein at the first Victoria’s Secret fashion show, in 1995, and tells how Epstein would pose as a Victoria’s Secret recruiter to women around the country. And it doesn’t matter … The bachelor billionaire is written about by gossip columnists, courted by women, and wooed by charities.” Tyrnauer says, “The cover of New York magazine then was the curtain-up for the next new billionaire who was going to make a go in the arena. “Turning a blind eye is a very key phrase with this series,” says director Matt Tyrnauer. Epstein had been introduced to Wexner in the mid-1980s by an insurance executive and soon became money manager to the mall magnate at a time when his company (then called the Limited, later renamed L Brands) was riding high. The film contains a scoop: In 2006, a fax appearing to come from inside L Brands shared an Epstein victim’s employee records — she worked at a Victoria’s Secret in Florida — with Epstein’s defense attorney, which showed that she had been fired for an alleged theft of approximately $209 in merchandise. But that’s what set the stage for this.”

The British socialite and close confidante to Epstein was convicted in December on federal sex trafficking charges for luring underage girls to engage in sex ...

In 2020, Netflix launched the miniseries “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.” That same year, Lifetime aired “Surviving Jeffrey Epstein,” a documentary that centered around the survivors of Epstein and Maxwell. Maxwell spoke ahead of the sentencing, telling the judge, “Your honor, it is hard for me to address the court after listening to the pain and anguish expressed in the statements made here today. Annie Farmer, who testified that Epstein and Maxwell lured her to Epstein’s ranch when she was 16 years old in 1996, told the court, “Maxwell had many opportunities to come clean… “Ghislaine, you deserve to spend the rest of your life in a jail cell. You deserve to be trapped in a cage forever, just like you trapped your victims.” “And to those of you who spoke here today and those of you who did not, may this day help you travel from darkness into the light.”

Prosecutors said that Ghislaine Maxwell deserved 30 to 55 years in prison for helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.

The fourth was Farmer, who identified herself in court by her real name after speaking out publicly. He was arrested in 2019, and killed himself in prison a month later. Outside the courthouse, Kevin Maxwell said that his sister won’t give up on her legal battle, “and we as a family will be solidly behind her.” In the years that followed, many women sued Epstein over alleged abuse. But she did not admit culpability and laid blame for the abuse on Epstein, saying meeting him was the “greatest regret of my life.” Judge Alison J. Nathan noted as she imposed the prison term and a $750,000 fine that Maxwell never expressed remorse for her crimes. Afterward, he was required to register as a sex offender. The allegations against Epstein first surfaced publicly in 2005. Over the last 17 years, scores of women have accused Epstein of abusing them. “It’s been an incredibly long road to justice for myself and for many other survivors,” said Sarah Ransome, one of Epstein’s accusers. Prosecutors said he couldn’t have done so without the help of Maxwell, his onetime girlfriend and longtime companion. She wore leg shackles that could be heard rattling when she walked into the courtroom.

Maxwell was found guilty last December of conspiring with her ex-boyfriend, financier Jeffrey Epstein, to groom, recruit and sexually abuse minors as part ...

Maxwell pleaded not guilty to all charges originally brought against her, and was acquitted of one count of enticing a minor to travel across state lines to engage in an illegal sex act. And to those of you who spoke here today and those who did not, may this day help you travel from darkness into light," Maxwell said. He should have stood before you years ago, in 2005, in 2009, and again in 2019 — all the many times he was accused, charged, prosecuted — he should have spare victims the years of chasing justice. "I acknowledge their suffering and empathize deeply with all the victims in this case." "It is the greatest regret of my life that I ever met Jeffrey Epstein," Maxwell said. The terrible impact on the lives of so many women is difficult to hear and even more difficult to absorb," she told the court. Maxwell, now 60, was initially indicted in July of 2020 and taken into federal custody, where she was held without bail for 16 months leading up to her trial. "As part of a disturbing agreement with Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell identified, groomed, and abused multiple victims, while she enjoyed a life of extraordinary luxury and privilege. Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls for at least a decade between the 1990s and 2000s. Nathan ruled Monday up to six may share a shortened oral version of those statements in person Tuesday, though all are on the record. "Today's sentence holds Ghislaine Maxwell accountable for perpetrating heinous crimes against children," Williams wrote in a statement. Maxwell was convicted of multiple charges related to sex trafficking and conspiracy.

From the moment he first faced criminal charges, in 2006, Jeffrey Epstein has been the object of public fascination, conspiracy theories and outrage.

June 2008: Epstein pleads guilty to state charges: one count of solicitating prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18. For the next decade, multiple women who say they are Epstein’s victims wage a legal fight to get his federal non-prosecution agreement voided, and hold him and others liable for the abuse. Days later, Acosta resigns as labor secretary amid public outrage over his role in the initial investigation. The coverage renews public interest in the case. July 2006: Epstein is arrested after a grand jury indicts him on a single count of soliciting prostitution. March 2005: Police in Palm Beach, Florida, begin investigating Epstein after the family of a 14-year-old girl reports she was molested at his mansion.

Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial, sexually abused children hundreds of times over more than a decade, exploiting vulnerable girls as ...

The fourth was Farmer, the sole accuser to identify herself in court by her real name, after speaking out publicly. Maxwell’s lawyers fought to have her conviction tossed out on the grounds of juror misconduct. Outside the courthouse, Kevin Maxwell said that his sister won’t give up on her legal battle, “and we as a family will be solidly behind her.” But she did not admit culpability and laid blame for the abuse on Epstein, saying meeting him was the “greatest regret of my life.” In the years that followed, many women sued Epstein over alleged abuse. Judge Alison J. Nathan noted as she imposed the prison term and a $750,000 fine that Maxwell never expressed remorse for her crimes. Eleven months after his death, Maxwell was arrested at a New Hampshire estate. Afterward, he was required to register as a sex offender. The allegations against Epstein first surfaced in 2005. “It’s been an incredibly long road to justice for myself and for many other survivors,” said Sarah Ransome, one of Epstein’s accusers. She wore leg shackles that could be heard rattling when she walked into the courtroom. Prosecutors said he couldn’t have done so without the help of Maxwell, his longtime companion.

Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and a $750000 fine after being found guilty on five felony counts in Jeffrey Epstein case.

The U.S. Probation Department had recommended a 20-year sentence based on her crimes being “heinous and predatory in nature.” U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan, who oversaw the trial, allowed seven victim-impact statements to be read before he handed down the sentence. Maxwell, who was arrested in June 2020, is the daughter of the disgraced British media baron Robert Maxwell, who died in 1991 under mysterious circumstances in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands. He had been on his yacht named Lady Ghisliane.

Prosecutors said the harm inflicted by Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein's sex-abuse scheme was “incalculable.” A victim said she was driven to attempt ...

She described Ms. Maxwell as the “five-star general” of a decades-long sex-trafficking conspiracy. Several of the women testified at trial that Ms. Maxwell at first seemed elegant and sophisticated, that her presence made them feel comfortable as they were introduced to Mr. Epstein and his life of luxury. But Mr. Epstein’s and Ms. Maxwell’s offers of friendship and support turned swiftly to sexualized massages, with Ms. Maxwell serving as a guide and sometimes as a participant. (The fourth, who testified using only her first name, Carolyn, testified that she was recruited by another young woman to work as a masseuse in Mr. Epstein’s Florida home.) Ghislaine Maxwell, once a fixture in New York’s social scene, was a longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself after his arrest on sex trafficking charges in 2019. Minutes later, she was led from the courtroom, her ankle shackles clanking. In court on Tuesday, one of those lawyers, Bobbi C. Sternheim, described the way Ms. Maxwell’s life had been clouded by two men: her “narcissistic, brutish” father and the “controlling, demanding, manipulative” Mr. Epstein. Even after his plea rendered him a convicted sex offender, Mr. Epstein socialized with powerful figures in his Manhattan mansion, his Palm Beach, Fla., estate, his private island in the Caribbean and elsewhere. The case against Ms. Maxwell showed how she and Mr. Epstein, her longtime companion, used wealth and status to exploit and abuse the vulnerable. Ms. Maxwell’s trial and conviction were widely seen as the legal reckoning that Mr. Epstein, 66, never had. If the conviction is upheld, Ms. Maxwell, with potential credit for good behavior and the two years she has spent in jail, could leave prison in her 70s. Mr. Epstein’s high-flying lifestyle, mysterious wealth and cast of famous friends earned him notoriety, even as he was dogged by allegations of sexual abuse.

NEW YORK (AP) — From the moment he first faced criminal charges, in 2006, Jeffrey Epstein has been the object of public fascination, conspiracy theories and ...

June 2008: Epstein pleads guilty to state charges: one count of solicitating prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18. For the next decade, multiple women who say they are Epstein’s victims wage a legal fight to get his federal non-prosecution agreement voided, and hold him and others liable for the abuse. Days later, Acosta resigns as labor secretary amid public outrage over his role in the initial investigation. The coverage renews public interest in the case. July 2006: Epstein is arrested after a grand jury indicts him on a single count of soliciting prostitution. March 2005: Police in Palm Beach, Florida, begin investigating Epstein after the family of a 14-year-old girl reports she was molested at his mansion.

From the moment he first faced criminal charges, in 2006, Jeffrey Epstein has been the object of public fascination, conspiracy theories and outrage.

June 2008: Epstein pleads guilty to state charges: one count of solicitating prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18. For the next decade, multiple women who say they are Epstein’s victims wage a legal fight to get his federal non-prosecution agreement voided, and hold him and others liable for the abuse. Days later, Acosta resigns as labor secretary amid public outrage over his role in the initial investigation. The coverage renews public interest in the case. March 2005: Police in Palm Beach, Florida, begin investigating Epstein after the family of a 14-year-old girl reports she was molested at his mansion. July 2006: Epstein is arrested after a grand jury indicts him on a single count of soliciting prostitution.