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Court hears four women met Ghislaine Maxwell as teens, accusing her as adults
Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team is seeking to call lawyers who represent three of her accusers to testify when her defence case opens on Thursday.
Ms Maxwell’s attorneys said in court filings they intend to call Jack Scarola, Brad Edwards and Robert Glassman as witnesses to ask them about multi-million dollar payouts their clients received from a compensation fund set up for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein.
Prosecutors have asked Judge Alison Nathan to block the three lawyers from having to testify.
Ms Maxwell’s attorneys have said they plan to call up to 35 witnesses when her defence opens on Thursday, including three who have requested to testify anonymously.
Meanwhile, Ms Maxwell is “unlikely” to testify in her defence as she is “too fragile”, her family’s spokesman told The Telegraph.
The socialite’s family and friends are concerned about how the 59-year-old would hold up in the witness box.
It comes as two judges in New York ruled that a secret Jeffrey Epstein settlement deal that Prince Andrew says shields him from a sexual assault lawsuit should be made public.
The deal was signed in 2009 between Epstein and Virginia Roberts Guiffre, who is suing Prince Andrew for allegedly having sex with her three times when she was 17.
He strongly denies the allegations.
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Show latest update 1639623644 Ghislaine Maxwell ‘unlikely’ to testify in her defence as she is ‘too fragile,’ family spokesman says
Ghislaine Maxwell is unlikely to testify in her defence as she is “too fragile”, the family’s spokesman told The Telegraph.
Ms Maxwell’s friends and family said they are concerned about how the 59-year-old would hold up in the witness box.
Ms Maxwell’s legal team have said in court filings that want to call lawyers who represent three of her accusers to testify when her defence case opens on Thursday.
Ms Maxwell’s attorneys said they intend to call Jack Scarola, Brad Edwards and Robert Glassman as witnesses to ask them about multi-million dollar payouts their clients received from a compensation fund set up for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein.
Prosecutors have asked Judge Alison Nathan to block the three lawyers from having to testify.
Ghislaine Maxwell is unlikely to testify in her own defence
(PA Media)
Bevan Hurley 16 December 2021 03:00
1639616444 Were Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell really in a romantic relationship?
A recurring motif from accusers in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking trial is the playful, intimate, almost adolescent nature of her relationshipwith Jeffrey Epstein.
Two of the four women to testify have described how the pair would laugh and fool around with each other like doting teenagers, even though Ms Maxwell was well into her 30s at the time, and Epstein nearly a decade older.
Prosecutors have portrayed their intimate relationship as an essential part of Epstein’s and Ms Maxwell’s alleged predatory behaviour, as they supposedly partnered in luring young victims in to be sexually abused.
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1639612844 FBI found diamonds, cash, passports, CDs and hard drives after cracking open safe in 2019 raid on Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse
Photos taken during an FBI raid on Jeffrey Epstein’s eight-story townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 2019 have been released for the first time.
Among the images shown to the jury in Ghislaine Maxwell’s underage sex-trafficking trial was one showing a safe found in a fifth-floor dressing room that was sawed open by the FBI and contained hard drives, CDs, diamonds, a large amount of US currency, and passports belonging to Epstein.
FBI special agent Kelly Maguire led the team that searched the 40-room, 19,000 square foot property at 9 East 71st Street on 6 and 7 July 2019 and walked the jury through what the photos depicted.
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Bevan Hurley 16 December 2021 00:00
1639609244 Who is Scott Borgerson, the rumoured husband of Epstein girlfriend and alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell?
The trial of Jeffrey Epstein‘s former girlfriend and alleged pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell, has uncovered a surprising detail about the British socialite’s personal life; apparently she is married.
Rumours have circulated for years that Ms Maxwell, who faces accusations that she groomed and recruited young girls for Epstein to sexually abuse, was secretly married. She has denied all the charges against her.
Ms Maxwell’s husband is reportedly millionaire tech CEO and former US Coast Guard officer Scott Borgerson, 44, who is said to be “very connected” to the former Trump administration.
Details of their marriage emerged last year when Ms Maxwell told court clerks she tried filing for a divorce to spare her husband from being dragged into the proceedings.
Graig Graziosi reports.
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Bevan Hurley 15 December 2021 23:00
1639605644 Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Most explosive revelations so far from inside the courtroom
The Ghislaine Maxwell trial began with a sentence that attempted to distill the complex case which spans decades and jurisdictions, and pierces the normally secretive world of America’s ultra wealthy elite.
“I want to tell you about a young girl named Jane,” prosecutor Lara Pomerantz told the jury of five men and seven women.
The US federal government’s case against Ms Maxwell, 59, centres around her decades-long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. It alleges she operated as his enabler in luring vulnerable teenage girls with promises of scholarships, attention and financial assistance for their families, and coerced them into becoming objects for his sexual gratification.
This later expanded to a “pyramid scheme of abuse”, according to prosecutors, in which young girls already in Epstein’s orbit would offer to recruit classmates and friends with the promise of easy money.
Read a day-by-day account of the trial here.
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Bevan Hurley 15 December 2021 22:00
1639602793 Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘little black book’ to remain secret after judge warns against ‘needless’ namedropping
Ghislaine Maxwell’s “little black book” containing the names and addresses of nearly 2,000 world leaders, celebrities and alleged victims will remain secret.
Ms Maxwell’s defence attorneys came to an agreement with prosecutors over the weekend not to release the 97-page directory to the public.
Judge Alison Nathan had previously said she wanted to avoid “needless” namedropping during the trial.
The book was filled with contact details of Ms Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein’s famous friends, including Prince Andrew, and former US presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, and had been mentioned sporadically during her sex-trafficking trial.
Prince Andrew, Mr Clinton and others mentioned in the directory have denied all accusations they were involved in any alleged sexual abuse.
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Bevan Hurley 15 December 2021 21:13
1639598444 Epstein’s island: What really happened there?
The guests came from across the world, and from the highest ranks of society: celebrities and scientists and members of royal families, touching down in a private jet and then boarding a helicopter to the island. Its owner liked to call it “Little St Jeff”; locals called it “paedophile island”.
But what is the truth about Little St James, the 75-acre private paradise in the US Virgin Islands that billionaire sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein once called home?
Io Dodds reports.
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Bevan Hurley 15 December 2021 20:00
1639594975 Ghislaine Maxwell: What have we learned from the prosecution’s case?
The US Government rested its case on Friday in the sex trafficking trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell in New York.
Ms Maxwell, 59, is accused of luring young girls to massage rooms to be molested by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein between 1994 and 2004.
Here, is a look at what we learned from the prosecution’s case.
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Bevan Hurley 15 December 2021 19:02
1639590782 Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘little black book’ to remain secret after judge warns against ‘needless’ namedropping
Ghislaine Maxwell’s “little black book” containing the names and addresses of nearly 2,000 world leaders, celebrities and alleged victims will remain secret.
Ms Maxwell’s defence attorneys came to an agreement with prosecutors over the weekend not to release the 97-page directory to the public.
Judge Alison Nathan had previously said she wanted to avoid “needless” namedropping during the trial.
The book was filled with contact details of Ms Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein’s famous friends, including Prince Andrew, and former US presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, and had been mentioned sporadically during her sex-trafficking trial.
Prince Andrew, Mr Clinton and others mentioned in the directory have denied all accusations they were involved in any alleged sexual abuse.
Read the full story here.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘little black book’ to remain secret A redacted version of the infamous contact book featuring Maxwell and Epstein’s network of famous friends was published online in 2015
Bevan Hurley 15 December 2021 17:53
1639587524 Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Who is judge Alison Nathan?
“Greatly respected” by Elon Musk, targeted by conservatives for her LGBTQ pro bono work, the Ghislaine Maxwell case is likely to be Judge Alison Nathan’s last as a district court judge after she was nominated for a coveted federal circuit court post.
Read more about Judge Nathan’s crucial rulings during Ms Maxwell’s trial here.
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Bevan Hurley 15 December 2021 16:58
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