Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison for five crimes in the Jeffrey Epstein case

Updated with the expected address: Jeffrey Epstein’s mystic and accomplice girlfriend Gislen Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined up to $ 750,000 for her involvement in juvenile delinquency in a sex crime operation.

Lawyers said this afternoon that they would appeal the sentence, which gives him a two-year sentence, meaning 60-year-old Maxwell will be free in the late 1970s.

He risks up to 65 years after being convicted of 5 crimes, including child sex trafficking. Prosecutors asked for between 30 and 55 years in prison, while Maxwell’s lawyers asked for less than six years. The US Department of Probation has recommended a 20-year prison sentence based on his crimes, which are “horrific and predatory in nature.”

United States District Judge Alison Nathan, who oversaw the trial, allowed the testimony of seven victims to be read before she could deliver the sentence. You said earlier, after examining the facts of the case, “I understand that the criminal activity of the defendant was widespread.”

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Maxwell, who was arrested in June 2020, is the daughter of embarrassed British media baron Robert Maxwell, who died in 1991 under mysterious circumstances in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands. She was on his yacht, called Lady Gisliani.

Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan prison cell in August 2019, a month after being charged with federal sex trafficking and conspiracy involving girls under the age of 14.

Read here for details on the Maxwell-Epstein case, which involved a circle of friends and acquaintances that likely included many rich and famous people.

You can read the indictment of the grand jury United States versus Gislen Maxwell Here.

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