Posted on 06/18/2022 11:27:51 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Brooklyn, NY – The attorneys representing Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, have alleged one of her cellmates cooked up a plan to murder her after allegedly being offered a large sum of money to carry out the hit.
Maxwell, 60, was convicted on Dec. 29, 2021, on five of six counts tied to her conspiring with and aiding Epstein in his recruitment, enticement, and trafficking of underage girls between 1994 and 2004, according to ABC News.
Her sentencing is scheduled for June 28, FOX News reported.
Maxwell’s attorneys, who are trying to secure a light sentence for their client, leveled allegations about the murder-for-hire plot in documents filed with the court on Wednesday.
“One of the female inmates in Ms Maxwell’s housing unit told at least three other inmates that she had been offered money to murder Ms Maxwell and that she planned to strangle her in her sleep,” the document read, according to FOX News.
The sum of money Maxwell’s cellmate was allegedly offered was not disclosed, but the attorneys claimed it was worth “an additional 20 years’ incarceration,” TND reported.
“This incident reflects the brutal reality that there are numerous prison inmates who would not hesitate to kill Ms Maxwell — whether for money, fame, or simple ‘street cred,'” Maxwell’s lawyers lamented in the filing, according to FOX News.
Maxwell’s cellmate has since been moved to a different area of the prison, FOX News reported.
Charging documents accused Maxwell of having played a “key role” in helping Epstein manage his multi-state sex trafficking scheme.
Prosecutors said Maxwell “befriended” and then “enticed and groomed multiple minor girls to engage in sex acts with Epstein,” ABC News reported.
The complaint also alleged that Maxwell was “present for and involved” in some of the abuse of the girls.
“Maxwell was among Epstein’s closest associates, and helped him exploit girls who were as young as 14 years old,” Audrey Strauss, then the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, told reporters when she announced Maxwell’s arrest in July of 2020.
Maxwell pleaded not guilty to enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, and three counts of conspiracy, CNN reported.
After a monthlong trial and five days of deliberation, the jury convicted her of everything but enticing a minor to travel to engage in sexual acts.
She faces up to 20 years in prison, but her attorneys claim she deserves far less, WPBF reported.
“Ghislaine Maxwell is not an heiress, villain, or vapid socialite. She has worked hard her entire life. She has energy, drive, commitment, a strong work ethic, and desire to do good in the world,” they wrote in the court filing, according to FOX News.
They further argued that Maxwell had a “difficult, traumatic childhood with an overbearing, narcissistic, and demanding father.”
“Ms. Maxwell cannot and should not bear all the punishment for which Epstein should have been held responsible,” the attorneys wrote, according to WPBF.
Who offered the money?
Jeffrey Epstein did not commit suicide!
“difficult, traumatic childhood with an overbearing, narcissistic, and demanding father.”
Who is not on trial, or able to speak in his own defense as he is conveniently dead.
Lawyers, blaming everyone and anyone but the already CONVICTED client.
Bill Barr on behalf of the Clintons.
Guessing it rhymes with Hinton.
Exactly. Name, kkthx?
Otherwise, it smells.
Same people that paid the Epstein guards to take a walk and turn off the cameras.
With these folks it’s take the silver or get the lead.
Guessing you are correct. 😀
Bobby Vinton?
Or maybe she was offered money (by Maxwell), to say that she had been offered money to kill Miss Maxwell. Or maybe given sex, to make that claim.
It is Maxwell’s team putting this forward, trying to get har sentence reduced.
That bastard!
You are a great man of science!
😁
I’ll bet she weighs more than e duck 🦆.
How GM is still alive I’ll never know.
You just know that she knows too much.
She’d have to have 100 deadman switches.
You are a great man of science!
😁
I’ll bet she weighs more than a duck 🦆.
Why not move Ghislaine to her own cell where she can write that tell-all book? A sure bestseller if she names names.
Of course she does. I don’t remember for sure, but didn’t she publicly say, she would not commit suicide?
Not sure about her statements.
I do know that I said JE knew too much. Perhaps enough to take down several in the West and I predicted there was no way they were going to allow him to live and talk about it.
And what do you know; just a few weeks later, a series of unfortunate accidents and oversights.
Now that doesn’t mean approval of him at all. Simply that he knew root much and maybe it was a huge honeypot operation for manipulation.
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