Ghislaine Maxwell is a convicted intercourse offender and disgraced British socialite —- however she’s no rat, her brother tells The Sunday Instances of London.
“Prosecution confirmed no plea discount affords have been made or obtained” earlier than the trial, Ian Maxwell stated. “I count on that place to be maintained.”
Maxwell, in different phrases, won't commerce names for the prospect of a lighter sentence.
Her refusal to cooperate with prosecutors might come as a reduction to alleged co-conspirators, together with 4 ladies employed by Maxwell and accomplice in crime Jeffery Epstein, and to others linked to the tawdry couple, corresponding to Prince Andrew, Invoice Clinton, Invoice Gates and Donald Trump, the report states.
Maxwell, 60, was “understandably subdued” by her conviction however “robust in spirit,” the brother stated.
She faces as much as 65 years in jail after being convicted this week of trafficking underaged ladies as younger as 14. Maxwell was described by prosecutors as a “subtle predator” who dedicated “one of many worst crimes possible.”
Epstein, 66, died in jail in 2019, a sufferer of suicide authorities say, whereas awaiting trial for little one intercourse fees.
Ghislaine “shouldn't be now, nor has ever been, a suicide threat,” her brother stated. “She is aware of there are a lot of folks, together with her household after all, who love and help her and who consider in her innocence.”
Maxwell’s authorized ordeal is much from over.
“She can be interesting her conviction. She is a fighter and a survivor,” Ian Maxwell sister.
The convicted madam additionally faces perjury fees following proof she gave within the 2016 civil lawsuit filed by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has claimed she was trafficked to Prince Andrew by Epstein and Maxwell.
Maxwell spent greater than 500 days in a Brooklyn detention heart, a lot of it in solitary confinement, and will stay there one other six months awaiting a sentencing listening to, the report states.
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