She will have to stay in prison: Ghislaine Maxwell, the former collaborator of Jeffrey Epstein indicted in the United States for trafficking in minors, was refused, for the third time, Monday, a release on bail.
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After unsuccessfully asking for her release in July and then in December 2020, the daughter of the late British media mogul Robert Maxwell had this time offered to renounce her British and French nationality in particular, to allay the fears of prosecutors that she could go abroad to escape American justice.
In vain. Manhattan federal judge Alison Nathan said “no combination of conditions” could “reasonably” ensure that she would show up in court if she was released before her trial, which was supposed to start in July.
Ghislaine Maxwell, 59, continues to denounce the conditions of his preventive detention. Last month, the jet set regular claimed to have “suffered physical violence” at the hands of guards at her Brooklyn prison.
She also denounces surveillance, according to her, to be exaggerated – including a lamp that sweeps through the ceiling of her cell every 15 minutes at night, due to the risk of suspected suicide.
The financier Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sexually assaulting dozens of minors in his luxurious residences, was found hanged dead in his cell in August 2019. The investigation concluded in a suicide and in malfunctions in the functioning of the guards in charge. to watch him in the Manhattan prison where he was incarcerated.
Arrested in New Hampshire, state in the northeast of the United States, in July 2020, after several months on the run, Ghislaine Maxwell is suspected of having recruited teenage girls for him in several cities around the world.
She faces six charges, including trafficking in minors, and incitement to prostitution between 1994 and 1997, and of having lied under oath in 2016 in civil proceedings. She faces life imprisonment if convicted.