The Latest Breaking News from Robert Maxwell

Prosecutors asking for up to 55 years for child sex-trafficking convictions

New York (AFP) - US prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to at least 30 years in prison for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls.

An infant-age Ghislaine Maxwell would frequently be ‘reduced to a pulp’ by her father and was vulnerable to manipulative men, her lawyers claim

Lawyers argue it would be a ‘travesty of justice for socialite to face a sentence that would have been appropriate for Epstein’ ahead of 28 June sentencing

New York (AFP) - Ghislaine Maxwell cited a traumatic childhood and vulnerability to Jeffrey Epstein in a plea for leniency two weeks before her scheduled court sentencing for child sex trafficking.

Arguing that Ghislaine Maxwell should not be punished for the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell’s legal team requested a far more lenient prison sentence than the 20 years recommended by the probation department, arguing that she should be sentenced to no more than five years and three months.

Court filing from Maxwell’s lawyers claims an unnamed inmate planned to strangle her in her sleep

The US probation department has recommended a sentence of 20 years, but Maxwell’s lawyers say her perillous position in prison means leniency is warranted

NEW YORK — One of Ghislaine Maxwell’s fellow detainees at the Brooklyn federal lockup plotted to murder her, a defense lawyer said in a court filing Wednesday aimed at lightening Maxwell’s sentence on sex trafficking charges for procuring young women for Jeffrey Epstein.