Ghislaine Maxwell faces a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison after being convicted of five counts.
"I never thought this day would ever happen," Ransome told"CBS Mornings.""For me it's really important to thank the prosecutors and to thank the four incredibly brave, beautiful women that testified because without them, without their truth, we would never have got Ghislaine behind bars. We would never have had this verdict. So yes, this is justice. But this is just the beginning.
Ransome said in an earlier interview that justice would mean Maxwell spending the rest of her life in jail. Thursday morning, Ransome said it still hadn't dawned on her that"justice has finally been served." Ransome has said she was recruited into Epstein's ring in 2006 when she was 22. In her new book,"Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back," sheand her experience with Maxwell. Ransome said Thursday she felt Maxwell's acts made her worse than Epstein.
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