BREAKING: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein confidante, hit with 20 years for sex-trafficking teen girls
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U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan handed down the stiff term after the British socialite's lawyers asked for no more than five years.in December after a month-long trial of sex trafficking, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts and two conspiracy charges. Epstein, a convicted pedophile, killed himself at 66 in his jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on a sex trafficking indictment. Before the sentence was handed down, Maxwell walked to the podium and addressed the court blaming her one-time lover for her plight."I believe that Jeffrey Epstein was a manipulative, cunning and controlling man who lived a profoundly compartmentalized life and filled all of those in his orbit," said Maxwell, 60, who wore blue prison scrubs.
A photo illustration of Ghislaine Maxwell attending National Urban Tech Center in 2014 in New York City and an image of her and Jeffrey Epstein.
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