Ghislaine Maxwell. Photo: Paul Zimmerman/WireImage Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of the billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, will remain in jail until her trial, tentatively set for July 2021, a federal judge ruled today. Maxwell has been accused of soliciting and grooming girls for predation by Epstein, her former boyfriend and longtime employer, and of lying about it under oath.
That interest — rabid, tabloid, understandable — came up again and again in Tuesday’s arraignment and bail hearing, as the defense counsel, Mark Cohen, hammered at the idea that Maxwell had been hiding, if she had been hiding at all, not from prosecutors but from the hungry press. The hearing hinged on the question of whether Maxwell was a flight risk; the government did not contend that she represented a present danger to the community.
In the arguments for detention, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alison Moe described Maxwell as a woman of mysterious but seemingly inexhaustible means, international connections, multiple foreign bank accounts, and three passports . Her risk of flight, the government argued, is extreme.
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