Ghislaine Maxwell convicted of sex trafficking victims for Jeffrey Epstein!

NEW YORK (PNN) - December 29, 2021 - Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of five of the six charges against her at her sex-trafficking trial Wednesday evening - capping a stunning fall for the disgraced British socialite, who groomed underage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to abuse while mingling with the rich and famous.

Maxwell’s lawyers argued in closing statements in Manhattan federal court that she was an innocent scapegoat in the Epstein saga - while prosecutors labeled her a “sophisticated predator” who exploited young, vulnerable girls.

Since the start of Maxwell’s trial November 29, prosecutors sought to portray her to jurors as inexorably linked to Epstein, including in his pursuit of underage girls to sexually abuse.

“Maxwell was Jeffrey Epstein’s right hand,” Assistant Fascist Police States of Amerika Attorney Alison Moe said in her closing statement.

“Maxwell and Epstein were partners. They were partners in crime who sexually exploited young girls together,” Moe said.

Over the course of three weeks, prosecutors called two dozen witnesses, including four accusers who detailed how Maxwell groomed them for abuse by Epstein - and how she at times participated in the sexual contact.

The first accuser to take the stand, who testified under the pseudonym “Jane,” told the jury that she met Maxwell and Epstein when the pair approached her at a Michigan arts camp in the early 1990s when she was 14 years old.

From there, the teen was groomed for abuse at Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion by Maxwell, who exposed her to nudity and sexualized conversations in an attempt to normalize the behavior, prosecutors alleged.

“She would ask me what I was up to, if I had a boyfriend,” Jane testified, adding that Maxwell claimed to her about dating, “Once you f–k them, you can always f–k them again because they’re grandfathered in.”

At Epstein’s mansion, Maxwell and the twisted millionaire money man abused the teen together and in group sex sessions with other women, Jane testified.

In 1994, Jane said, the financier and Maxwell led her upstairs to his bedroom, moved her over to the bed and “took their clothes off”.

“They started to sort of like fondle each other,” she said, adding that they were “casually giggling” as she stood there.

“He asked me to take my top off,” she said of Epstein.

“Then there were hands everywhere, and Jeffrey proceeded to masturbate again; and Ghislaine was like rubbing on him, kissing on him.”

Maxwell and Epstein repeated this “playbook” to lure in other underage girls for him to abuse, including the three other victims who testified at trial, prosecutors said.

In most cases, the pair preyed on vulnerable girls from single-parent homes, prosecutors said.

“Selecting these girls was predatory behavior. Maxwell and Epstein picked vulnerable girls,” Moe said in her closing statement.