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Ghislaine Maxwell embarked on an “important dishonest driving scheme”, allowed and participated in the abuse of several teenage girls and did not assume responsibility for her crimes.
It was the evaluation of federal prosecutors who carried a criminal case against the long -standing partner of Jeffrey Epstein And sent her to prison for 20 years.
Now, three years later – and in the midst of the in progress controversy surrounding the Trump administration of Epstein files – the Ministry of Justice has decided to approach Maxwell, 63, to find out more about his knowledge of the question of whether Epstein’s sexual trafficking has spread to people other than him.
Ghislaine Maxwell attends VIP Eventing of Conversation for Women’s Brain Health Initiative, October 18, 2016 in New York.
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The memorandum of determining the sentence of prosecutors after the sentence of Maxwell in 2021, he offered a frank evaluation of “monstrous” crimes of Maxwell and casts doubt on his honesty Before his meeting With the deputy prosecutor Todd Blanche later this week.
“In short, the accused lied several times on his crimes, has shown total failure to accept responsibility and demonstrated a repeated lack of respect for the law and the court”, the federal prosecutors of the American prosecutor’s office for the South New York District Written in June 2022.
Blanche should meet Maxwell in the coming days to potentially learn more information “on anyone who has committed crimes against the victims”.
Before the meeting, Maxwell’s Council of Appeal, David Oscar, Markus, promised that she “would honestly testify” and thanked President Donald Trump for his “commitment to discover the truth in this case”.
Maxwell continues to appeal his conviction. His lawyers asked the Supreme Court to throw his case, arguing that Epstein’s non-receiving agreement concluded with Federal Prosecutors in Florida in 2007 would have prohibited his further prosecution in New York more than a decade later.
General Tedd Blanche sub-procurer speaks to the media in the White House press room on June 27, 2025.
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The Trump administration asked the high court earlier this month To deny Maxwell’s petition.
In their memo of determining the sentence in 2022, the defense lawyers argued that Maxwell “should not bear all the punishment for which Epstein should have been held responsible.”
“Epstein was the brain, Epstein was the main attacker, and Epstein orchestrated crimes for his personal satisfaction.
Prosecutors said Maxwell had allowed Epstein and had participated directly in the abuse.
According to the prosecutors, the testimony caused Maxwell’s trial demonstrated that she was a vital participant in Epstein crimes, offering a complaint of respectability and confidence before the condemned sex offender has abused dozens of adolescent girls.
She identified and practiced vulnerable young women, prepared them to normalize their abuses and participated in abuse – directly allowing one of the most important sex traffic operations in the history of the United States, prosecutors have said.
“Maxwell became friends with his victims, gained their confidence, slowly broke their limits and standardized sexual abuses,” the prosecutors wrote in the note. “The victims of Maxwell trusted him: she was an apparently respectable woman who showed interest in them and promised to help them. She was the key to the whole operation of the program, and Epstein could not have filled these crimes without her.”
This image of proof of undated trial obtained on December 8, 2021 of the American district court of the South District of New York shows the British worldly Ghislaine Maxwell and the American financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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According to the memorandum of determining the government’s sentence, Maxwell “has personally engaged in sexual abuses when she caressed the breasts” of three victims. She was also “the person who was most often in the room when Epstein abused” one of the victims, who testified under the name of Jane.
“Years of sexual abuse, several victims, devastating psychological damage: none of that could have occurred without Maxwell,” the prosecutors wrote.
Maxwell has lied to officials several times, prosecutors said
The prosecutors have repeatedly stressed the trial that Maxwell should not trust, arguing that she “engaged in an important dishonest conduct, which says a lot about her character”.
They identified at least four cases in which Maxwell would have lied or made dishonest representations to the authorities or in civil proceedings.
During a 2016 deposition, she declared under oath that she had never given Annie Farmer, a victim who testified at trial, a massage. Farmer’s testimony at the “established” lying trial, “said prosecutors.
She would have lied to court officials during an interview concerning her assets. When the court rejected his request for release on bond, the judge noted that Maxwell “distorted[ed] Key facts to preliminary services and, by extension, to court. “”
The prosecutors said Maxwell had lied in November 2021 when she declared in court: “I did not commit any crime” in response to a question of whether she is involved in discussions on plea with the government.
Maxwell also said that she had no assets when she interviewed the court office of the court, despite her claims before, that she had $ 22 million in assets. She also refused to provide information on the circumstances of her marriage, prosecutors said.
“In short, the accused decides when she wishes to disclose facts to the court, and these facts change when he serves the interests of the accused,” the prosecutors wrote.
Maxwell took advantage of the relationship with Epstein, prosecutors said
Prosecutors allegedly alleged that Maxwell lived a “remarkable life of privileges” and had received around $ 23 million in Epstein during the period of their alleged crimes.
Maxwell also received a townhouse in New York in Epstein and benefited from his sumptuous lifestyle, according to the prosecutors. Epstein also bequeathed him $ 10 million from his succession, although Maxwell did not receive these funds because the succession is homologation.
“As part of a disturbing agreement with Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell identified, treated and abused of several victims, while she benefited from an extraordinary lifetime and privileges. In her wake, Maxwell left her victims permanently marked with emotional and psychological injuries,” the prosecutors wrote.
Maxwell has deflected his crimes, said prosecutors
To his convictionSome of the witnesses who testified at the trial urged judge Alison Nathan to impose a serious sentence due to the damage that Maxwell had caused and his apparent lack of remorse.
A witness who testified under the name of Kate described Maxwell as “a manipulative, cruel and ruthless person who only uses kindness to manipulate and generosity to seek recognition”.
“The lack of remorse or responsibilities taken by Ghislaine for the way she ruined the life of countless women and children is exactly the way we can say that she does not think what she has done is bad. She is not sorry and she would do it again,” said Kate.
Annie Farmer asked the judge to examine “the current suffering of many women she has abused and exploited” and how Maxwell’s inability to accept the consequences of her crimes continued to harm the victims.
“I ask you to keep in mind how Maxwell’s reluctance to recognize his crimes, his lack of remorse and his repeated lies about his victims have created the need for many of us to engage in a long fight for justice which felt a black hole suck our precious time, our energy and well-being for far too long, things that cannot be replaced.”
When Maxwell briefly approached the court, she said she “sympathizes[s] Deeply with all the victims in this case “and this meeting with Epstein for years earlier was his” greatest regret “.
His lawyers have long argued that Maxwell was unfairly targeted for Epstein’s crimes after his death, and his statement to sentencing echo this argument.
“Jeffrey Epstein should have been here before all of you. He should have been in front of you all these years ago,” she said. “He should have been in front of you in 2005, again in 2009, and again in 2019, every time he was accused, charged and prosecuted. But today, this is not Epstein.
Peter Charalambous, from ABC News, contributed to this report.
