Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for helping late financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls, capping the former socialite's sordid fall from grace.
By Lauren del Valle, CNN Ghislaine Maxwell is set to be sentenced Tuesday for her sex trafficking conviction connected to her role facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls. Maxwell, 60, was convicted in December on five of six counts against her, including sex trafficking of a m…
The stiff sentence was the punctuation mark on a trial that explored the sordid rituals of a predator power couple who lured vulnerable girls as young as 14, and then exploited them.
The British socialite, 60, was convicted in December of five charges, including sex trafficking a minor, for recruiting and grooming four girls to have sexual encounters with Epstein, then her boyfriend, between 1994 and 2004.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday for helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.
Maxwell, 60, will likely spend much of her remaining life in prison; prosecutors say Maxwell was key accomplice to repeated rapes of women and minors by Epstein
Socialite's conduct was 'shockingly predatory,' prosecutors say, demanding she serve 30-55 years; siblings blame toxic relationship with father, Robert Maxwell
Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a New York judge Tuesday for helping the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls.
Prosecutors said Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial, sexually abused children hundreds of times over more than a decade, and couldn’t have done so without her help.
Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in a Manhattan federal courtroom, waiting to learn how many years a judge says she faces for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage
Prosecutors said the harm inflicted by Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-abuse scheme was “incalculable.” A victim said she was driven to attempt suicide. Ms. Maxwell did not apologize.
Prosecutors said Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial, sexually abused children hundreds of times over more than a decade, and couldn’t have done so without her help.
Ghislaine Maxwell, socialite parter of Jeffrey Epstein, has been sentenced to 20 years for her role in Mr. Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. Nearly three years after Mr. Epstein’s death, Ms. Maxwell says meeting him has been her “greatest regret.”
Ms. Maxwell, who was convicted of conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to recruit, groom and abuse underage girls, could spend much of the rest of her life in prison.
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