Maxwell went on trial in late 2021 for several sex trafficking acts she is accused of committing between 1994 and 2004 at Jeffrey Epstein’s houses in Florida, New York, and New Mexico.
She was charged with assisting him in obtaining young women who were sexually abused, including a 14-year-old.
When Maxwell’s trial started in November 2021, there was still some hope for Epstein’s victims even though he committed suicide in his New York jail cell in August 2019 before justice could be delivered.
After 40 hours of jury deliberation, she was convicted in December 2021 of soliciting and preparing adolescent girls for sex with Epstein.
In June 2022, she received a 20-year prison sentence after her appeal for a new trial was granted in April 2022.
Maxwell maintained her innocence throughout the entire trial. Maxwell identified with Epstein’s victims, the young girls who were subjected to his abuse, in her sentencing remarks just as much as they did. She expressed regret for the “suffering” they had gone through.
Dorothy Byrne, the executive producer of Who Is Ghislaine Maxwell? on Starz, discussed Maxwell’s sentence in an interview with Newsweek.
Byrne, who spent two years working on the documentary, claimed that Maxwell was fully aware of what she was doing and that it was “offensive” for her to now play the victim.
She uttered, “She attempted to portray herself as the victim, and I find that quite offensive considering that there are hundreds of victims in the Ghislaine Maxwell story, but none of them go by the name Ghislaine Maxwell. She made other women her victims. The woman is not a victim.”
Byrne carried on, “Her father was a despot. Many women have abusive fathers. Her family lost every penny.
There are many people whose families have lost everything. They stayed away from criminality. She was fully conscious of what she was doing. She cherished it. She took pleasure in it and committed massive crimes.
“I think it’s great that she served such a lengthy prison sentence since it serves as a deterrent to other criminals.
You cannot abuse kids and young women in this way, but we now need the males to be prosecuted.
Only once the men are prosecuted will the United States truly send a message to sex offenders that they will not get away with their crimes.”
Maxime Ghislaine
Ghislaine Maxwell, shown above, knew exactly what she was doing and it was “offensive” for her to now play the victim, according to executive producer Dorothy Byrne, who worked on “Who Is Ghislaine Maxwell?” for two years. A Justice Department photo of Maxwell is shown above.
Justice Department
The conviction and 20-year sentence were officially appealed by Maxwell on July 7.
According to court records, Maxwell paid $505 to challenge her conviction and punishment, according to The Guardian. Now, her petition has been forwarded to the American court of appeals.
Prosecutors wrote the following in court documents before Maxwell’s June sentencing: “As part of a disturbing agreement with Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell identified, groomed, and abused multiple victims while she lived a life of extraordinary luxury and privilege, according to new court documents, which were reported by Sky News.
“Maxwell left a trail of emotional and psychological harm and permanent scars behind her. That harm cannot be repaired, but it can be taken into consideration while determining the appropriate punishment for Maxwell’s actions.”
“She decided to use countless minors for sexual exploitation. She made the decision to work as an accomplice in crime with Epstein for many years, harming helpless people horribly.”
Epstein, Jeffrey Maxime Ghislaine
From left, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, businessman (and eventually convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, former model Melania Knauss, and American real estate tycoon Donald Trump pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on February 12, 2000.
Maxwell’s defence had earlier claimed that she shouldn’t be imprisoned for longer than four to five years, calling it a “travesty of justice” for her to receive a term that would have been suitable for Epstein.
They kept going: “Epstein was the brains behind the crimes, the main abuser, and the one who arranged them for his own satisfaction.
Ghislaine Maxwell wouldn’t be here, in fact, if she had never met Jeffrey Epstein more than 30 years ago, a profoundly unfortunate circumstance.
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Maxwell had mentioned something, and Byrne thought about it: “I really believe that she should spend 20 years and not be freed early. She preyed on a large number of girls and young women—hundreds of them—and gave them to Jeffrey Epstein to be assaulted and mistreated, including sexually.
Those teenage girls and women claim they were handed off to various men. Many young ladies have stated that they will never be the same persons again and that the experience has harmed, wrecked, and destroyed their lives. Their vulnerability caused them to be seduced into a horrible life of abuse.
“She most certainly merited 20 years. She almost probably would have passed away in prison if the sentence had been 30 years.
Most people, I believe, would agree that she should endure enormous suffering, but dying in prison is such a terrible fate that you wouldn’t want it to happen to anyone unless they posed a continuous threat to the public.”
In addition, Maxwell will be the subject of a second criminal prosecution for two counts of perjury related to Epstein’s abuse of young girls in a civil lawsuit. The maximum punishment for each of the two offences is five years.
