The indictment says Maxwell took part in the abuse of the four unidentified women, wooing them with shopping and movie theater trips before coaxing them to engage in sex acts with Epstein before giving them money. Maxwell "knew exactly what Epstein was going to do to those children when she sent them in those massage rooms" in Epstein's luxurious homes in New Mexico, Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida, as well as her own London home, the prosecutor said.Įpstein was a multi-million-dollar money manager who befriended countless celebrities, including Britain's Prince Andrew, and was accused of providing them with women, including minors. Her attorneys have claimed she is being prosecuted only because US authorities were unable to bring Epstein himself to justice.īut Pomerantz said that during the period the charges against her cover, 1994-2004, she was Epstein's "right-hand" partner, winning the trust of girls as young as 14 and then conditioning to give nude massages and then sex to Epstein. Maxwell, whose sister Isabel was also inside the courtroom, has pleaded not guilty to all six counts. She faces the possibility of spending the rest of her life in prison if convicted. Masked and wearing in a beige sweater and black slacks, the 59-year-old daughter of the late newspaper baron Robert Maxwell stared straight ahead during proceedings. Two years after Epstein killed himself in jail before he went on trial for similar charges, Maxwell sat in the packed Manhattan courtroom facing six counts of enticing and transporting minors for sex.įour unnamed women who allegedly suffered at the hands of the two are the key witnesses in the trial, which takes place under intense media attention. In fact, she "served them up to be sexually abused," Pomerantz said.
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