Ghislaine Maxwell’s Trial Is Offering a Fresh Look at Jeffrey Epstein’s M.O.

For most of the first week of Ghislaine Maxwell’s federal sex-trafficking trial, the defendant sat motionless in front of her siblings, who looked on from the gallery. Wearing a turtleneck sweater each day, Maxwell occasionally rose to hug her attorney Bobbi Sternheim or whispered intently to other members of her four-lawyer defense team. But for some stretches of testimony, as Maxwell occupied a small corner of the video feed that streams into three overflow courtrooms for reporters and observers, her presence could almost register as an afterthought. So far, her long-awaited trial has tended to focus more squarely on the… Read Full Article