The madam/procurer will be shipped off to her home country before the end of the summer.

Ghislaine Maxwell

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Ghislaine Maxwell appeals US court to throw out sex trafficking conviction

Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a US appeals court to throw out her conviction for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, saying she was immune from prosecution and citing a slew of errors that allegedly tainted her trial.

In a Tuesday night filing with the second US circuit court of appeals in Manhattan, Maxwell said that if her conviction and the underlying indictment were not thrown out, she deserved a new trial or a re-sentencing.

“The government prosecuted Ms Maxwell as a proxy for Jeffrey Epstein” to satisfy “public outrage” over the case and worked with his accusers “to develop new allegations out of faded, distorted, and motivated memories”, Maxwell lawyer Arthur Aidala said in a statement obtained by Reuters.

Maxwell, 61, is serving a 20-year prison sentence after a Manhattan jury convicted her in December 2021 on five charges for recruiting and grooming four girls for abuse by Epstein between 1994 and 2004. – Source

Ghislaine Maxwell to say she was held ‘under inhumane conditions’ in appeal

Ghislaine Maxwell will file papers Tuesday appealing her conviction in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal — and we’re told her lawyer will argue that she was held in solitary confinement in the Brooklyn Detention Center “under inhumane conditions” during her trial.

The court papers are expected to argue that Maxwell was subjected to “sleep deprivation,” we hear, and could not get proper access to her legal counsel to prep for her blockbuster trial.

Maxwell’s team will also argue that she was subject to “malnourishment” and “living with vermin in her cell,” along with “overall deplorable conditions.”

Page Six exclusively reported last month that Aidala told us Maxwell “was so mistreated during her period of incarceration that it violated so many of her constitutional rights to defend herself.”

“She was malnourished. And yet she’s supposed to sit for a trial [with her] life on the line … In the United States of America, anyone who’s accused of any crime should not be abused by the US government the way she was abused,” Aidala explained. – Source

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