After Expansion In US Sex Crime Case Ghislaine Maxwell Faces New Charges

Ghislaine Maxwell Faces New Charges: Maxwell, 59, has been held without bail in a federal prison after a judge refused three bail packages, the most recent of which contained proposals to renounce her United Kingdom and France citizenships, to be escorted by armed guards, and to post $28.5 million in assets.

Maxwell, a US citizen, has pleaded not guilty to charges  brought from Epstein's arrest on sex trafficking charges a year after Epstein was arrested. In August of 2019, he committed suicide in a Manhattan federal prison. Her lawyers got a letter for comment. The bail rejections have also been appealed by Maxwell.

Prosecutors attached sex trafficking allegations and another suspected survivor to a superseding indictment returned Monday in the criminal case against financier Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend, alleging a decade-long conspiracy to sexually harass children.

Between 1994 and 2004, a grand jury in federal court in Manhattan returned a rewritten indictment alleging a conspiracy between Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.  Following Maxwell's arrest in July, an indictment was returned that confined on a three-year stretch in the 1990s.

Maxwell was charged with a sex trafficking conspiracy and a sex trafficking charge in the rewritten indictment.

According to sources, it also attached a fourth girl to the accusations, alleging that she was sexually assaulted by Epstein several times at his Palm Beach, Florida, residence beginning when she was 14 years old, between 2001 and 2004.

According to the indictment, Maxwell allegedly groomed the girl to participate in sex acts with Epstein in a number of ways, including providing her with lingerie and hundreds of dollars in cash, as well as urging her to hire other young females to give “sexualized massages” to Epstein.

Maxwell's lawyers challenged the allegations against her earlier this year, claiming that they were obtained unfairly and that they didn't properly allege crimes. They say the indictment also breaches an agreement made by federal prosecutors a decade ago not to sue Epstein or his co-workers.

Prosecutors admitted in a letter to a judge on Monday that the rewritten indictment may require defence lawyers to supplement their claims for dismissal of charges.

However, if her lawyers do not seek a postponement of the July 12 trial, the government has vowed not to file another rewritten indictment against her.