Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred to a low security federal prison in Florida to continue serving her 20-year sentence for sex trafficking
Maxwell, 60, has been assigned to Tallahassee FCI, described on its website as a"low security federal correctional institution with a detention center."She was convicted in December on five federal charges, including sex trafficking of a minor, as part of a yearslong scheme with Jeffrey Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls.
Four women testified during the trial that Epstein abused them and that Maxwell facilitated the abuse and sometimes participated in it as well.Her defense, meanwhile, argued she was a scapegoat for Epstein's wrongdoing and attacked the memories and motivations of the women who said they were sexually abused.Read MoreEpstein, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to state prostitution charges, was indicted on federal sex trafficking charges in July 2019 but died by suicide in prison a month later.