Ghislaine Maxwell has begged for release from jail because she says she is “not a danger” and is not her paedophile billionaire ex-lover Jeffrey Epstein.
Lawyers for the heiress filed court paperwork on Friday trying to spring her free by claiming she was not a flight risk and could catch the coronavirus in prison.
“She was not named in the government’s indictment of Epstein in 2019, despite the fact that the government has been investigating this case for years. In them, her lawyers argued that she was at “significant risk” of contracting COVID-19 at her jail – Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Centre. They say coronavirus “has begun to spread” throughout the jail.
But lawyers for the socialite, in court papers filed yesterday, claimed that fact “obscures the critical point” that she has not left the US sinceHer legal team even blame Epstein’s alleged victims for adding “fuel to the fire” by calling for her prosecution – stating she had been “substituted” for the billionaire paedo after his death.Ghislaine Maxwell at the Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche 57th Street Boutique Opening Party in New York City in 2003.
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