New court papers show that Ghislaine Maxwell complained of an increased number of “humiliating” body-cavity and strip searches at NYC’s Metropolitan Detention Center, according to…
Maxwell, who awaits sentencing after being convicted of serving as the late sex predator’s ruthless handmaiden, spent 22 months in solitary confinement at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
Maxwell’s attorneys note that another inmate threatened to strangle her in her sleep and that she feared being shot dead by a sniper. Stressing her “humiliating” incarceration in the grim Brooklyn lockup, they are pushing for a term far softer than the 20 years meted out to Epstein.Baron/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesEpstein, they argue, manipulated Maxwell into corralling young girls for his personal pleasure and that her giving nature made it difficult to decline his requests.
Maxwell’s lawyers argue she shouldn’t bear the brunt of the punishment that was meant for Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial in 2019.Her lawyer, Bobbi Sternheim, adds: “She was subjected to an excessive number of physical searches on a daily basis: strip searches, body-cavity searches.
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