Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal court for a lighter sentence for their client, blaming childhood trauma and abuse from her billionaire father for her involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.
Ghislaine is sitting in the courtroom during her trial.
In the 77-page document filed in Federal District Court, Maxwell's lawyers asked that she be given a sentence "well below" the 20 years recommended by the court in her sex-trafficking case.
Maxwell was found guilty last December on five charges, including the sex-trafficking of minor, and her lawyers claimed that she suffered from an eating disorder.
Robert Maxwell, the disgraced media tycoon who fell to his death from his yacht amid mounting financial troubles, was accused by his daughter of abusing her.
The court was urged not to sentence her as if she were a proxy for Epstein, who was found dead in his cell in August, ruled a suicide by a medical examiner.
Lawyers claimed that another female prisoner in her unit had threatened to kill her if she didn't pay her rent.
She had a difficult childhood with her domineering father. She met Epstein after her father died. Her lawyers claimed in the memo that it was the biggest mistake she had ever made.
An assistant U.S. attorney said in a closing argument that Maxwell was a predator. She harmed young girls and manipulated them. She needs to be held accountable.
There are allegations that she aided and abetted the abuse of young girls. The woman who pleaded not guilty has argued that she is serving as a scapegoat for the man who killed himself. The FBI launched a months-long investigation after Epstein's arrest in New Hampshire. Several women testified that she helped groom them as teenagers so they could have sex with him. Headington Hill Hall is a mansion in Oxford in the United Kingdom where her family hosted parties for politicians and celebrities. After fleeing Nazi Germany, her father bought a small publishing company that he used to own a number of British newspapers. Robert Maxwell died mysteriously in a fall from his yacht in 1991, just days before public knowledge of his 50 million pound loan default.
On June 28, he's going to be sentenced. She could be sentenced to 55 years in prison.
The New York Times has a story about a child being mistreated in a bid for a lighter sentence.
Ghislaine's Mogul Father died mysteriously before she disappeared.
There are prosecution claims in closing arguments that Ghislaine Maxwell is a predatory predator and partners in crime.
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