Ghislaine Maxwell participates in VIP Evening of Conversation for Women’s Brain Health Initiative, Moderated by Tina Brown at Spring Studios on October 18, 2016 in New York City.
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British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday stated she would not affirm at her trial on federal criminal charges associated with her supposed abetting of the late cash supervisor Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual assault of minor women.
“Your honor, the Government has not proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt and so there’s no reason for me to testify,” the 59- year-old Maxwell informed the judge at her trial in Manhattan federal court.
Maxwell’s defense attorney rested their case onFriday Prosecutors stated they will not provide proof or testament to rebut the defense’s case.
Closing arguments in the trial are set forMonday Jurors might start pondering Maxwell’s fate later on that very same day.
Ghislaine Maxwell talks with her lawyers throughout the trial of Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein associate implicated of sex trafficking, in a courtroom sketch in New York City, December 17, 2021.
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Maxwell, who has actually been held without bail given that her arrest, is charged with conspiracy to attract and push minors to take a trip to participate in unlawful sex acts, sex trafficking and other charges.
Her trial started more than 2 years after the arrest of Epstein on kid sex trafficking charges. Epstein passed away from what has actually formally been ruled a suicide by hanging while being kept in a federal prison in Manhattan in August 2019.
Epstein years previously had actually been a pal to 2 previous presidents, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Britan’s Prince Andrew, and a variety of other rich, prominent individuals.
One of Epstein’s accusers, Virginia Giuffre, previously this year took legal action against Prince Andrew in Manhattan federal court, declaring that she made love with the royal member of the family 3 times in London, New York and the Virgin Islands in 2001, when she was simply 17 years of ages.
Giuffre declares that she made love with Andrew at the instructions of Maxwell and Epstein.
