A US federal judge has refused to grant convicted underage sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell a new trial, ruling on Friday that a juror who failed to disclose his childhood history of sexual abuse had not done so maliciously. Judge Alison Nathan declared that while juror Scotty David’s failure to reveal …
Read More »Ghislaine Maxwell’s family ‘fear for her safety’
The brother of convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell said he and the rest of the family fear for her safety after suspected Jeffrey Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel was found dead in his jail cell in France on Saturday. Following news of Brunel’s death, Ian Maxwell told the New York …
Read More »Prince Andrew suspected of ‘intimate relationship’ with Ghislaine Maxwell
In an ITV documentary scheduled to air Tuesday, Paul Page, who protected the Duke of York from 1998 to 2004, alleges that Maxwell was so close to Prince Andrew that she was allowed to enter and exit Buckingham Palace at will. While working in the Royalty and Specialist Protection Command …
Read More »Juror revelations may jeopardize Ghislaine Maxwell verdict
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers have been allowed to apply for a retrial, after reports emerged that two jurors may have swayed others to convict her for sex trafficking by revealing their own childhood sexual abuse histories. On Wednesday, New York judge Alison Nathan gave the defense until January 19 to submit …
Read More »Will Ghislaine Maxwell’s guilt end her silence?
The extraordinary life of Ghislaine Maxwell has entered its final chapter; what remains of it will be spent in an American prison following her conviction on a string of sex trafficking charges and a breathtaking fall from the dizzying heights of power, money, and the glitz of high society. A …
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Read More »Jury reaches decision in Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking trial
Ghislaine Maxwell, a former confidant of sex trafficker and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has been found guilty on five of six counts linked to helping the late financier groom and recruit teenage girls for abuse. The British socialite was convicted on Wednesday, including on the most serious charge of trafficking …
Read More »Ghislaine Maxwell trial: jurors resume deliberations
After breaking for Christmas, jurors returned to a federal court in Manhattan on Monday to decide the fate of Ghislaine Maxwell. Accused of grooming and abusing four young women, Maxwell faces 80 years behind bars if convicted. The jurors requested transcripts of witness testimony, as well as a definition of …
Read More »Ghislaine Maxwell says ‘no need’ to testify at trial
“Your honor, the government has not proven the case beyond a reasonable doubt and so there is no need for me to testify,” Maxwell told US District Judge Alison Nathan on Friday. Shortly afterward, the defense rested their case, choosing to call no further witnesses. Maxwell, 59, faces eight counts …
Read More »‘False memory’ expert called to testify in Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense trial
“I am here as a professor and a scientist who studies human memory to talk about the nature of memory, the workings of memory, how people can develop memories of things that didn’t happen or remember things differently from the way they actually were,” Loftus said on the stand Thursday. …
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