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Robert Maxwell, whose holdings at the time included the New York Daily News, was facing allegations that he had illegally looted his businesses’ pension funds.
The wealthy, Oxford-educated Maxwell is the daughter of British newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell, who died in 1991 after falling off his yacht - named the Lady Ghislaine - near the Canary Islands. She has been jailed in Brooklyn since her arrest, calling the claims against her “absolute rubbish.” Maxwell’s lawyers and family say she was Epstein’s pawn, now paying “a blood price” to satisfy public desire to see someone held accountable for his crimes. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty and vehemently denies wrongdoing. He was to return to the stand Tuesday.Īuthorities charged Maxwell in July 2020, arresting her after tracking her to a $1 million New Hampshire estate where she had been holed up during the coronavirus pandemic. The government’s first witness was Lawrence Paul Visoski Jr., who worked for Epstein starting in the 1990s as a pilot on the private jets that shuttled Epstein, Maxwell and others between his various homes.Ī prosecutor had Visoski start by describing the layout of the New York residence that he regularly visited to pick up luggage and do other chores. Pomerantz said the abuse occurred at Epstein’s homes, including his estate in Palm Beach, Florida his posh Manhattan townhouse a Santa Fe, New Mexico, ranch a Paris apartment and a luxury estate in the Virgin Islands. The charges against her stem from the allegations of four women who say she and Epstein victimized them as teens from 1994 to 2004. Maxwell - who once dated the financier - is accused of acting as Epstein’s chief enabler, recruiting and grooming young girls for him to abuse.
The openings set the scene for a six-week trial that Maxwell settled into with frequent gazes at her sister in the front row of a spectator section diminished in space by coronavirus restrictions. The lawyer said “accusers have shaken the money tree, and millions of dollars have fallen their way.” Sternheim said the four women who would testify that Maxwell recruited them to be sexually abused were suffering from quarter-century-old memories and the influence of lawyers who guided them to get money from a fund set up by Epstein’s estate after his August 2019 suicide in a Manhattan federal jail as he awaited his own sex trafficking trial. “He is not visible, but he is consuming this entire courtroom and overflow courtrooms where other members of the public are viewing,” she said. She called Epstein “the proverbial elephant in the room.”
She’s not like Jeffrey Epstein” or any of the powerful men, moguls and media giants who abuse women, Sternheim said. When she finished, attorney Bobbi Sternheim said her client was a “scapegoat for a man who behaved badly,” just like so many women all the way back to Adam and Eve. The prosecutor spoke from an enclosed plastic see-through box that allowed her to take off her mask as Maxwell, in a cream-colored sweater and black pants, at times wrote and passed notes to her lawyers.