Jailed Ghislaine Maxwell sued by her lawyers over $1.27 million in unpaid sex-trafficking trial fees

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Jailed Ghislaine Maxwell sued by her lawyers over $1.27 million in unpaid sex-trafficking trial fees
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Maxwell’s former lawyers say her brother had agreed to pay a $1.4 million retainer before the trial but has only paid “a small fraction of the amount owed”.

This article contains references to sexual assault, child abuse and suicide.now-convicted British socialite

In a lawsuit filed on Monday in a Colorado state court in Denver, the law firm Haddon, Morgan and Foreman said Maxwell's brother Kevin promised before trial to pay a US$1 million retainer but paid just $143,500 , "a small fraction of the amount owed." Ghislaine Maxwell and her husband have separated, Maxwell's lawyers wrote in a sentencing submission earlier this year.

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