Ghislaine Maxwell

Ghislaine Maxwell remains a convicted sex trafficker after a court hearing in which she sought to overturn her verdict. But U.S. District Judge Alison J.

Maxwell, 60, was convicted of recruiting teenage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse from 1994 to 2004. Rather, it underscores that the jury unanimously found — three times over — that the Defendant is guilty of conspiring with Epstein to entice, transport, and traffic underage girls for sexual abuse," Nathan wrote. But U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan did agree that three conspiracy counts addresssed the same crime and will only receive a single sentence when she goes down for good this summer.

A federal judge has declined to overturn the conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell for her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme.

Nathan upheld the conviction on three of the five counts, one of which was for violations of the Mann Act and another for violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. "Rather, it underscores that the jury unanimously found-three times over-that the [Maxwell] is guilty of conspiring with Epstein to entice, transport, and traffic underage girls for sexual abuse." Maxwell, 60, was convicted by a jury in December on five of six counts after she was accused of procuring young girls to be sexually abused by Epstein.

A judge concluded Friday that there was enough evidence to convict British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking girls for financier Jeffrey ...

Maxwell, arrested in July 2020, has remained incarcerated. "This legal conclusion in no way calls into question the factual findings made by the jury. The reduction of counts from five to three was not expected to have much effect on the sentencing, when Maxwell could face a sentence ranging from several years to decades in prison. Earlier this month, the judge refused to toss out Maxwell's conviction after a juror disclosed to other jurors during jury deliberations that he had been sexually abused as a child even though he had not revealed that fact in response to questions about prior sex abuse posed in a written questionnaire. Nathan said that she'll only sentence Maxwell in late June on three of the five counts she was convicted on after concluding that two conspiracy counts were duplicates of the third. A judge concluded Friday that there was enough evidence to convict British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell of sex trafficking girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, but she also gave Maxwell a legal victory by concluding that three conspiracy counts charged the same crime and she can only be sentenced for one.

Epstein was awaiting trial on similar charges when he killed himself in his jail cell in 2019. In an appeal hearing Friday, U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan ...

But she also ruled that three of the five charges were redundant, and struck two of them. Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime madam, was convicted last year of five federal charges, including sex trafficking of a minor and transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. A federal judge has upheld Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking conviction, ruling that there was enough evidence to convict the 60-year-old of procuring girls for pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein to abuse.