MANHATTAN (CN) — A New York jury returned a guilty verdict Wednesday in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, convicting the British heiress of recruiting vulnerable teenage girls for predatory sexual abuse by the late millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
She was convicted on five of six counts, offering what attorneys for dozens of women have framed as a measure of justice robbed from them when Epstein was found dead in August 2019 — ruled to have hanged himself in his jail cell while awaiting federal charges that came over a decade after the cushy plea deal in Florida that massively limited his initial criminal exposure.
Ghislaine Maxwell, 60, is found GUILTY of five of the six charges in sex trafficking trial: Jury convicts Jeffrey Epstein’s madam and she now faces up to 65 years in prison
She still faces trial on two perjury charges.
