Ghislaine Maxwell was placed in solitary confinement days before her conviction was announced on a suicidal conviction.
Former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted in late 2021 in New York, United States, of sex trafficking minors on behalf of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, was placed in solitary confinement and monitored for suicidal tendencies, condemned his defense.
If such a situation persists, his attorneys intend to apply for the postponement of the sentencing scheduled for Tuesday.
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“Mrs. Maxwell was brutally (…) returned to solitary confinement on Friday,” one of her attorneys, Bobbi Sternheim, wrote in a letter to Judge Alison Nathan on Saturday.
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He assures that his client was denied access to legal documents and time to speak with her lawyers, which “prevented her from preparing for her sentencing”.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, 60, has been placed on suicidal behavior without a psychological evaluation and “without reason,” continues Mr Sternheim, who announced that if that was still the case, his lawyers would ask on Monday for the postponement of the sentencing .
A psychological report was carried out on Saturday and “found that she was not suicidal,” the lawyer continues to assure.
You face up to 55 years in prison.
The daughter of British media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who has triple British, American and French citizenship, was found guilty on Epstein’s behalf on five of the six charges against her on December 29, including the most serious of child sex trafficking.
You face 30 to 55 years imprisonment.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein formed a couple and then were collaborators and accomplices for 30 years.
The multimillionaire financier with powerful economic and political networks in the United States and abroad was himself accused of raping young girls, but his prison suicide ended public charges against him.
Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in the northeastern United States in the summer of 2020, a year after Epstein’s death, and is being held in New York.