Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted on federal charges of luring underage girls to engage in sex acts with financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell, 60, faced six counts of sex trafficking and conspiracy to entice Epstein’s victims. The trial lasted almost a month in federal court in Manhattan, and included testimony from four women who alleged that Maxwell recruited them into having sex with Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Three other women testified using only first names, two of which were pseudonyms. One of them, identified in court as Jane, alleged that Maxwell and Epstein befriended her when she was 14. She alleged that she endured years of sexual abuse at Epstein’s homes in New York, Florida and New Mexico. Sometimes the sex acts would involve Maxwell, she said.
Prosecutors also showed that Maxwell had received $30.7 million from Epstein from 1999 to 2007, and argued that the payments underscored her complicity in Epstein’s crimes.
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