Ghislaine Maxwell’s first accuser has testified at the sexual abuse trial Court News

Maxwell, a member of financier Jeffrey Epstein, is accused of sex trafficking and other crimes.

One of them Ghislaine Maxwellprosecutors have taken a stand for the second day in a trial against British socialist society in the US, accusing him of being involved in sexual abuse of minors with shameless financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Maxwell’s attorney began questioning Wednesday a woman known by the nickname Jane in Manhattan federal court.

Maxwell was the first of four women to testify that Epstein had “ainted” her for abuse as a teenager.

Jane testified that Epstein offered to help her advance her career as a performing artist, and then regularly abused her sexually in the 1990s, beginning when she was 14 years old.

Maxwell, 59 years old charged with eight counts of sex trafficking and other offenses, including two counts of perjury. He will face up to 80 years in prison if convicted.

Maxwell, the daughter of Robert Maxwell, a former British media mogul, has he pleaded not guilty and his lawyers have said prosecutors are going to goat-go Epstein’s alleged crimes.

Investment Advisor died In 2019, he committed suicide in a Manhattan prison cell at the age of 66 while awaiting trial for sexual abuse.

In an emotional testimony Tuesday, Jane said she had sex with Epstein in her Palm Beach, Florida, more than once a month when she was 14, 15 and 16 years old. her breasts.

In the first half hour on Tuesday, Maxwell’s lawyer asked Laura Menninger why Jane had not reported her meetings with Epstein and Maxwell to provincial officials until 2019, decades after they allegedly happened.

Jane, now 40, said she told a former romantic couple known by the nickname Matt about Epstein’s abuse in 2019 before meeting with the FBI. Matte is expected to testify when Jane is finished, the prosecutor said.

He testified in a silent but firm voice, even though he was drowned twice and slowed down with a handkerchief on his nose as he described the sexual company. Maxwell said how Epstein gave sexual massage and was sometimes physically involved.

Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial for sexual abuse in a Manhattan jail [File: John Minchillo/AP Photo]

Jane said she first met Epstein and Maxwell in 1994 while going to a music camp in search of a singing career. He said he was eating ice cream with friends when Maxwell approached him with a Yorkshire Terrier, which caught their attention. After his friend left, he spoke to Epstein, then arrived and introduced himself as a donor. They both discovered they lived in Palm Beach, he said.

The woman and her mother soon received an invitation to Epstein’s home and although her mother did not join in subsequent invitations, she was “very impressed and in love with the wealth, the prosperity,” and believed that Maxwell and Epstein must really think she was her special daughter. , the woman testified.

Soon after, Epstein and Maxwell were shopping for clothes, including Victoria’s Secret underwear, and were wondering about her life after her father’s sudden death in a way that didn’t happen at home, where soul-gathering conversations never happened. .

Menninger also wondered if it was true that he had previously talked to his siblings and others close to him about Epstein’s behavior, but Maxwell left it out of previous accounts.

“Have you ever mentioned Ghislaine Maxwell?” asked the lawyer. “I don’t know,” the witness replied, adding that he remembered being uncomfortable with going into all the details.

Earlier on Tuesday, a former Epstein pilot testified that he had never seen evidence of sexual activity on planes while his chief and others flew, including a prince and former president, for nearly three decades.

U.S. Assistant Prosecutor Maurene Comey was asked where Maxwell Epstein was in the world hierarchy when Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr. the pilot said Maxwell was “number 2.”