GHISLAINE MAXWELL

Accuser Annie Farmer said she believed Ghislaine Maxwell's sentencing was "very fair."

Witnesses in Maxwell's trial testified that Sarah Kellen played a major role in Epstein's sex-trafficking scheme — but Kellen says she's a victim.

Prince Andrew previously told BBC Newsnight that he first met Ghislaine Maxwell when she was in university in the 1980s.

Juror 50, who identified himself as Scotty David, threw Ghislaine Maxwell's guilty verdict into doubt after he "flew through" his jury questionnaire.

Girls and young women who say they were victimized by a sex trafficking ring led by the multi-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein described his properties as a place where girls lounged topless by the pool and photos of half-naked women adorned the hallways and common areas.

Maxwell, a longtime associate of the financier who was convicted of sex trafficking, called Epstein a "manipulative and controlling man."

From the moment he first faced criminal charges, in 2006, Jeffrey Epstein has been the object of public fascination, conspiracy theories and outrage.

"Today's sentence holds Ghislaine Maxwell accountable for perpetrating heinous crimes against children," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a tweeted statement.

The 60-year-old socialite was convicted in December of helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.

Maxwell was found guilty last December of conspiring with her ex-boyfriend, financier Jeffrey Epstein, to groom, recruit and sexually abuse minors as part of an infamous trafficking ring.

The sentencing is the culmination of a prosecution that detailed how she and Jeffrey Esptein lured and exploited girls as young as 14 years old.

The sentencing will give several women who say they were abused by Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein a chance to speak about their torment.

The sentencing is the culmination of a prosecution that detailed how Maxwell and financier Jeffrey Epstein flaunted their riches and prominent connections to exploit vulnerable girls.

Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls.

Seven women who say Ghislaine Maxwell helped Jeffrey Epstein steal the innocence of their youth and poison the promise of their future are asking a judge to consider their pain as she decides what prison sentence she will dispense Tuesday to the incarcerated British woman. Four women testified at Maxwell's monthlong trial, where they described sexual attacks on teenage girls from 1994 to 2004 by Epstein and Maxwell at Epstein's mansions and estates in Manhattan, New Mexico, Florida and the Virgin Islands. In a statement, Annie Farmer, who testified at trial and spoke at Epstein's bail hearing before he killed himself in August 2019 as he awaited a sex trafficking trial, said Maxwell's lack of remorse and her repeated lies about victims forced “a long fight for justice that has felt like a black hole sucking in our precious time, energy and wellbeing.”

Two of four women who testified that Ghislaine Maxwell played a role in their sexual abuse at the hands of financier Jeffrey Epstein may be speaking at her sentencing or have their statements read aloud.

Maxwell was found guilty of sex trafficking and convicted in December for helping Jeffrey Epstein abuse teenage girls.

Prosecutors say British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell should spend at least 30 years in prison for her role in the sexual abuse of teenage girls over a 10-year period by her onetime boyfriend, financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Earlier this month, the judge refused to toss out her conviction after a juror disclosed during deliberations that he had been sexually abused as a child.

One juror failed to disclose his personal history as an abuse survivor on a questionnaire during the jury selection process.

Maxwell, a British socialite, was convicted in December of helping Jeffrey Epstein​ sexually abuse several teenage girls.

A judge has declined to throw out Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction, despite a juror’s failure to disclose he’d been a victim of childhood sexual abuse.

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of procuring underage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew.

The Ghislaine Maxwell juror who failed to disclose that he was a victim of sexual abuse putting her sex trafficking conviction in jeopardy made a "bombshell revelation" in a TV interview, according to the British socialite's attorney.

A judge questioned the juror extensively as part of an effort to decide whether the revelation about his personal history as a sex abuse survivor will spoil the verdict in the sex trafficking trial.

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of procuring girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein, an ex-friend of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew.

A juror in the sex trafficking trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell says his failure to reveal his own child sex abuse history during jury selection was one of the biggest mistakes of his life.

Ghislaine Maxwell, who socialized with Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew, wants a new trial in her sex crime case related to Jeffrey Epstein.

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New YorkJean-Luc Brunel, a French modeling agent accused of procuring underage women for Jeffrey Epstein, was found hanged in his Paris jail cell—in a shocking replay of how Epstein himself died, French newspapers reported.The 76-year-old was found during a night-time check by guards at La Santé early Saturday, officials told Le Monde.His attorneys told the paper that the apparent suicide “was not driven by guilt, but by a deep sense of injustice.”Frenc

A federal judge ruled that Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted in December of conspiring to recruit and groom teenage girls to be abused by Jeffrey Epstein, must air her bid for a new trial out in the open. U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan on Friday denied Maxwell's request to keep her motions for a new trial temporarily under seal, saying doing so was not in the public interest. The judge said public access to the documents and any ensuing publicity would not violate Maxwell's right to fair proceedings.

The former editor, Graydon Carter, and a journalist, Vicky Ward, give conflicting accounts of why the magazine didn’t publish sexual-abuse allegations in 2003.

Most papers report on a demand by Prince Andrew's lawyers to have a US jury trial in Virginia Giuffre's case.

Prince Andrew wants a jury to decide a lawsuit by a sexual assault accuser if he can’t get the case dismissed altogether.

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Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell have pointed to revelations of a juror who convicted her of crimes related to sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein in a bid for a new trial.

Maxwell was convicted of conspiring to recruit and groom teenage girls to be sexually abused by her partner Jeffrey Epstein.

Ghislaine Maxwell has formally requested a new trial, less than a month after her conviction on sex trafficking charges.

"[Bill] Clinton was definitely very close to Jeffrey," Prince Andrew's ex Lady Victoria Hervey said in the documentary. "They were like brothers."

On Thursday, a judge refuses to dismiss a sexual-assault lawsuit against Prince Andrew brought by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre.

Ryan Grim and Robby Soave speculate about the identities of the eight "John Does" who Ghislaine Maxwell has dropped her fight to hide the identities of. About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like never before. The show leans into the day's political cycle with cutting edge analysis from DC insiders who can predict what is going to happen. It also sets the day's political agenda by breaking exclusive news with a team of scoop-driven reporters and demanding answers during interviews with the country's most important political newsmakers. Follow Rising on social media: Website: Hill.TV Facebook: facebook.com/HillTVLive/ Instagram: @HillTVLive Twitter: @HillTVLive

Ghislaine Maxwell and the Duke of York may have dated, friends have said, as the pair had an “easy warmth” around each other.

Lawyers for Prince Andrew and his accuser Virginia Giuffre have filed their initial requests for witnesses in her lawsuit accusing the British royal of sexually abusing her at age 17.

Ghislaine Maxwell will no longer stand in the way of keeping the names of 8 'John Does' sealed in the Virginia Giuffre lawsuit, her attorney said.

Prince Andrew was a Chief Commodore of the Fleet Air Arm. He’ll face sexual-abuse allegations as a private citizen.

A judge’s ruling against Prince Andrew in a sexual abuse lawsuit is bad news for the British Royal.

A woman sued the 61-year-old in August, saying she was coerced into sexual encounters with him in 2001 by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

The British prince's lawyers argued that a $500,000 settlement Virginia Giuffre and Jeffrey Epstein reached in 2009 should prevent her from suing him.

Prosecutors say the U.S. government will agree to drop pending perjury charges against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell if her sex trafficking case goes to sentencing later this year.

Maxwell was found guilty of child-sex-trafficking last month, but still has two perjury charges pending against her.

Maxwell requested a new trial after a juror told media that sharing his own sexual abuse experience with other jurors helped persuade them to convict.

Carolyn Andriano's interview with the Daily Mail is the first independent account of the teenager Virginia Giuffre discussing her encounter with Prince Andrew.

"It's an absolute disaster," a former federal prosecutor told Insider. "This entire conviction may get tossed and we may have to retry the case."

Prosecutors on Wednesday also asked the court to open an inquiry into the juror, who told media that his remarks helped some of the jurors convict.

The conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell for abetting the abuse of underage girls by Jeffrey Epstein could be in peril because of a juror's media interviews.

NEW YORK — Manhattan federal prosecutors called for an inquiry Wednesday into a juror on the Ghislaine Maxwell trial after he admitted to a journalist that he could not remember if he’d shared during jury selection that he’d once been sexually abused. “While the Court instructed jurors that they were free to discuss their jury service with anyone of their choosing, some of the statements, as ...

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers say she'll request a new trial after revelations by a juror in her case that he was a victim of sexual abuse.

Prosecutors urged the judge who presided over the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell on Wednesday to conduct an inquiry into a juror’s reported claims that he was a victim of sexual abuse. Maxwell, 60, was convicted last week of charges that she conspired to recruit and groom teenage girls to be sexually abused by the financier Jeffrey Epstein. In interviews published Wednesday by The Independen t and the Daily Mail, one juror in the case described a moment during the deliberations when he told fellow jurors that, like some of Epstein's victims, he had been sexually abused as a child.

Elizabeth Williams was the eyes of the public throughout Ghislaine Maxwell's monthlong sex-trafficking trial.

As Ghislaine Maxwell strode into the courtroom for the first day of her sex-trafficking trial, no photographer was allowed to catch it. Courtroom artist Elizabeth Williams, however, was at the ready and before the hour was up, the curtain-raising scene was transmitted to news outlets around the world. “I’m basically the substitute camera," Williams said, emphasizing that she's “not using artistic license to move anything around.”

A judge appears to be mostly dismissive of arguments by a lawyer for Prince Andrew who wants rejection of a lawsuit alleging the prince sexually assaulted a 17-year-old American who was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.

A judge has ordered charges dropped against two Bureau of Prisons guards who admitted falsifying records after Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in jail.

Maxwell's brother told The Sunday Times that she will not cooperate with investigators following her conviction on sex-trafficking charges.

Maxwell's brother told The Sunday Times that she will not cooperate with investigators following her conviction on sex-trafficking charges.

The Senate will try to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and will consider filibuster rule changes if the voting-rights bill fails, Chuck Schumer said.

A judge has rejected Prince Andrew's attempt to block the progression of a lawsuit by claiming that a woman who says he sexually assaulted her when she was 17 doesn't live in the U.S. Judge Lewis A.

The Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking trial was a four-week winding road with sordid testimony by four women accusing the British socialite of grooming their teenage selves for abuse at the hands of financier Jeffrey Epstein.

With a guilty verdict in the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, here’s a look at what the once high-flying Jeffrey Epstein confidante was accused of and what’s next for her.

Prince Andrew wasn’t on trial in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking case but her conviction is bad news for the man who is ninth in line to the British throne.

Members of Ghislaine Maxwell’s family say they still believe she is innocent after a New York jury found her guilty of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of helping lure teenage girls to be sexually abused by the late Jeffrey Epstein.

The jury weighing the fate Ghislaine Maxwell’s fate has told a judge it is “making progress” in reaching a verdict after four full days of deliberations.

A jury has signaled that it's settled into deliberations at the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell with a request for a white board and different colored sticky notes.

Ghislaine Maxwell has reached her 60th birthday behind bars as she awaits the outcome of her sex trafficking trial.

Defendants spoke directly to jurors in a series of recent high-profile trials, defying conventional wisdom that the risks of a client taking the stand usually outweigh the benefits.

A jury has ended an abbreviated first week of deliberations without reaching a verdict at the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell.

A jury has finished its first full day of deliberations without reaching a verdict in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell.

The sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell is speeding to a conclusion.

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has appeared in court for a rare weekend hearing where attorneys made arguments about how the judge should instruct a jury on the law in Maxwell’s sex abuse trial.

After 12 days of testimony over three weeks, jurors heard from the final witnesses in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking trial.

A former office worker for financier Jeffrey Epstein has testified at Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial that she didn't witness misconduct by Maxwell during the six years she worked with her.

The case for and against Ghislaine Maxwell has been made, and as soon as Monday, her fate will rest squarely in the jury’s hands.

An aspiring musician, a young British model, a struggling middle school dropout and an impressionable high school student were the four key witnesses to testify against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell in her sex-abuse trial.

Prosecutors at the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell have completed presenting their case against the British socialite accused of sexually abusing teenage girls with her late companion, financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell has been paused because an attorney on the case has gotten sick.

A British woman has testified that Ghislaine Maxwell pressured her into giving Jeffrey Epstein sexual massages when she was still a teenager, assuring her she would have “fun” with him.

The family of the British woman charged with helping the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein exploit underage girls has asked the U_S_ attorney general to improve the treatment she is receiving during her trial “in the interest of justice and common humanity.”.

The first week of the sex-abuse trial of Ghislaine Maxwell saw the first of her four main accusers taking the witness stand to give emotional testimony accusing the British socialite of coaxing her into sexual encounters with financier Jeffrey Epstein.

A folding massage table used by financier Jeffrey Epstein was carried into a Manhattan courtroom and set up in front of a jury on Friday to bolster allegations he teamed up with British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to sexually exploit underage victims.

A former housekeeper is testifying that two women who have accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing them as teens were repeated visitors to his Palm Beach mansion and that they were summoned by Epstein or his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

A woman has testified she had repeated sexual contact with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein when she was 14 and that Ghislaine Maxwell was there when it happened.

A prosecutor says Ghislaine Maxwell and the late Jeffrey Epstein were partners in crime in the sexual abuse of teenage girls.

Ghislaine Maxwell spent the first half of her life with her father, a rags-to-riches billionaire who looted his companies' pension funds.

The brother of a British socialite charged with helping Jeffrey Epstein exploit underage girls says her prosecution is “the most over-hyped trial of the century,” designed to break a woman targeted by authorities who are desperate to blame someone for the late financier’s crimes.

The prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell doesn't involve the salacious allegations that the British socialite offered up one of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers to England’s Prince Andrew for sex.

Prospective jurors got their first glimpse of a British socialite charged with helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls and women when a judge began questioning them individually.

Despite his suicide, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein will still be put on trial in a sense in the coming weeks by a proxy: his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell.

The weekslong process of selecting a jury for the federal sex trafficking trial of financier Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend has begun.

The U.S. district judge presiding over a lawsuit in which an American woman claims she was sexually assaulted by Prince Andrew says a trial would probably occur late next year.

A judge has rejected British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to block the public and news media from jury selection in her New York City trial on charges she recruited teenage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse.