Ghislaine Maxwell’s sentence was announced on Tuesday. Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. She spoke out in court for the first time, addressing the victims directly.
During the entire process at the end of last year, Ghislaine Maxwell kept a low profile and only let her legal team speak for her. It was different on Tuesday when she was sentenced. For the first time, Maxwell himself spoke.
Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in prison
But before that, the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were allowed to appeal to Judge Alison J. Nathan one last time. They recounted horrific details of their time with the offenders. “For a long time I wanted to erase the crimes committed against me by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell… but I had to face the lasting effects. One of the most painful and enduring effects of Maxwell’s and Epstein’s abuse was loss of trusting myself,” said Annie Farmer, who was invited to Epstein’s ranch when she was 16 and testified that she was molested there by the pedophile and Maxwell.
A victim named Kate testified that Maxwell ruined numerous girls’ and women’s lives and said, “She doesn’t think what she did was wrong. She’s not sorry. She would do it again.” Probably the best-known victim, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, had her lawyer read a statement. “22 years ago, in the summer of 2000, you spotted me at the Mar-a-Lago Hotel in Florida and made a decision: you followed me and referred me to Jeffrey Epstein,” the statement said. “Just a few hours later, you and [Epstein] abusing me together for the first time.” “As a woman, I think you understood the harm you were doing – you should have seen the rape, the molestation, the sickening manipulation you witnessed and even participated in, put an end to it,” said Roberts Giuffre.
Victims have their say
Sarah Ransome testified that she was abused by Epstein when she was 22. “On one visit to his island, the sexual demands, humiliation and humiliation became so appalling that I tried to escape by jumping off a cliff into shark-infested waters,” she explained.
Elizabeth Stein met Epstein and Maxwell while attending a New York fashion school. Maxwell was a customer at a fashion store where she worked. “I called their office for delivery instructions and was told to take them to a hotel near the store,” Stein said in the courtroom. “When I arrived the hotel concierge told me that Ms Maxwell was in the bar and wanted to meet someone.” She met Jeffrey Epstein there. “That night in the hotel was the first of many times they sexually abused me. (…) I was trapped. I was abused, raped and loaned to men countless times in New York and Florida,” Stein explained .
After many horror details and tears from the victims, Ghislaine Maxwell spoke out. And she showed little remorse about it. “I recognize your suffering, I have empathy, I deeply regret the pain you have suffered,” said the convicted British woman, before making it clear in which role she sees herself: that of Jeffrey Epstein’s victim. “I regret the day I met him.”
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