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. …
Read More »Ghislaine Maxwell answering for ‘crimes of men,’ says Amanda Knox
In a Monday Substack post, Knox claimed to be having “flashbacks” to her own experience when looking at the trials of Maxwell and Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos being charged with fraud over blood test technology prosecutors claim she knew was phony from the start. Knox blasted coverage …
Read More »Maxwell accuser details graphic sexual abuse
Farmer, who first accused Epstein of sexually abusing her 25 years ago, took the stand on Friday in the trial of Maxwell, Epstein’s girlfriend and alleged madam. As well as accusing Epstein of sexually abusing her, Farmer has previously called Maxwell “a sexual predator who groomed and abused me and …
Read More »Epstein & Maxwell pictured lounging in Queen’s log cabin
The previously unseen image – which shows Epstein and Maxwell cuddling on a bench outside the cabin on the Queen’s Balmoral Castle estate in Scotland – was released as part of Maxwell’s trial in New York this week. The image had been seized from Epstein’s house during an FBI raid …
Read More »Ghislaine Maxwell family detail ‘unnecessary trauma’
In a letter sent Monday to US Attorney General Merrick Garland, a representative for Maxwell’s family claimed she is receiving “minimal sustenance” during her trial and has bruising and “unnecessary trauma” from having to wear her shackle restraints. The family has requested authorities cease using four-point restraints on Maxwell and …
Read More »Epstein accuser explains how she was groomed by Maxwell
The woman, testifying under the pseudonym ‘Jane’, described the grooming process during testimony on Tuesday, from being spotted at the prestigious Interlochen music camp in Michigan to being chatted up by Maxwell and Epstein. Their apparent concern for her near-bankrupt family’s financial situation following the death of her father from …
Read More »Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ pilot testifies in Maxwell trial as flight data leaks
Larry Visoski, who testified he flew Epstein to his private island in the Caribbean “at least every 10 days for 20 years,” told the court on Tuesday during the second day of Maxwell’s trial that it was “not unusual” for Maxwell – Epstein’s close confidante and the alleged procurer of …
Read More »Ghislaine Maxwell defense invokes Adam & Eve story as her trial opens
After the 18-member jury was seated on Monday, Assistant US attorney Lara Elizabeth Pomerantz laid out the government’s opening arguments with a story of Jane – a reference to three minor victims named in the complaint only as “Jane Doe” – who met “dangerous predators” Epstein and Maxwell at the …
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