“Her Life Has Been Ruined”: Ghislaine Maxwell Asks for Leniency

As the case against Ghislaine Maxwell comes to a close, her lawyers have turned to the tenor of the discussions leading up to it. “The media coverage was relentless and voluminous,” the British socialite’s attorneys wrote in a sentencing memorandum on Wednesday. “Dozens of broadcast documentaries, tens of streamed videos and podcasts, and publication of some 50 books and thousands of superficially written articles.” In December a federal jury convicted Maxwell of facilitating the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of minors. The Southern District of New York’s probation office has called for a 20-year sentence; on Wednesday, Maxwell’s counsel… Read Full Article