Judge brutally slaps down Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to free herself
Ghislaine Maxwell’s long-shot bid to overturn her sex crimes conviction was soundly rejected Tuesday — by a judge who ripped Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious madam for filing a “rambling” motion from prison.
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“Maxwell’s claims are all meritless and all or almost all are frivolous,” Manhattan Federal Judge Paul Engelmayer wrote in a scathing 67-page decision.
The jailed sex trafficker’s Hail Mary bid for release filed last December did not come close to backing up her claims that she was wrongly convicted on charges of luring girls into the dead financier’s orbit for more than a decade, the judge wrote.
“On the contrary, to the extent it is relevant, far from exculpating her, it incriminates her or reinforces the correctness of the legal rulings Maxwell challenges,” the judge found.
Maxwell, 64, is serving out a 20-year prison sentence after four women testified at the convicted sex fiend’s 2021 trial about Maxwell courting them and trafficking them to Epstein to be sexually abused.
Federal officials transferred the infamous predator from a Florida lockup to a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas — sparking outrage from her victims.
US Attorney Todd Blanche has defended the controversial move by citing unspecified security threats that he says Maxwell had been subject to at her more restrictive lockup.
