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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

Ghislaine Maxwell has been accused of recruiting and grooming four women to have sexual encounters with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein when they were teenagers.

Over a three-week trial, jurors heard emotional and explicit testimony from the women, three of whom said Maxwell herself touched their nude bodies.

Ghislaine, the daughter of late British media tycoon Robert Maxwell pled not guilty to six counts of sex trafficking and other crimes.

Her lawyers argued prosecutors were treating her as a scapegoat for Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 in a Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex abuse charges.

What was Ghislaine Maxwell’s crime?

Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty of five charges after she assisted Jeffrey Epstein in sexually abusing teen girls.

This ends a month-long trial where Epstein’s victims spoke of being abused in the 1990s and 2000s in his homes in Florida, New York and New Mexico.

How much prison term did Ghislaine Maxwell receive?

Ghislaine Maxwell now faces not less than 65 years in prison.

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