Ghislaine Maxwell, the former collaborator of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, arrested last Thursday in the United States for trafficking minors, will appear on July 14 before a New York federal judge.
The lawyers for the two parties had initially proposed the date of July 10 for this first New York hearing. But after Monday the transfer of this figure of the jet set in the federal prison of Brooklyn - from New Hampshire where she had been arrested - the judge Alison Nathan finally retained the date of the 14, according to a document recorded in court Tuesday. The judge specified, after agreement of Ghislaine Maxwell, that the hearing would take place by teleconference, because of pandemic.
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The arrest of the daughter of former British media mogul Robert Maxwell on a luxurious New Hampshire property was a dramatic twist in the Epstein affair. Ghislaine Maxwell, 58, had disappeared from traffic since the arrest in July 2019 of the New York millionaire, accused of multiple assaults on minors. This man, who included among his powerful friends Prince Andrew - son of Queen Elizabeth II whom prosecutors would like to question - or former President Bill Clinton, was found dead in his New York cell on August 10, 2019. One death in troubled conditions, officially qualified as suicide.
Close collaborator and ex-girlfriend of Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell is accused by New York prosecutors of having " helped, facilitated and contributed to the assaults on minors of Jeffrey Epstein" , from 1994 to 1997. She recruited for him young teenage girls destitute aged 14 and over, and sometimes participated directly in the attacks, according to prosecutors. She is also accused of "repeatedly lying" when testifying under oath in a civil trial in 2016.
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At the July 14 hearing, prosecutors should insist that she be kept in detention without the possibility of bail. This woman, born in France, educated in Great Britain then naturalized American in 2002, holder of three passports and fifteen bank accounts in the United States and abroad, has "absolutely no reason to stay in United States " where she faces 35 years in prison, they wrote in a court document last week.
