Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison: Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in a US prison for helping former US financier Jeffrey Epstein abuse young girls.
Maxwell, 60, was convicted last December of recruiting and trafficking four teenage girls for sexual abuse by Epstein, her then-boyfriend.
Before the sentence was known, one of the accusers said outside court said that Maxwell should remain in prison for the rest of his life.
Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting his own trial for sex trafficking.
The Ghislaine Maxwell crimes occurred over a decade, between 1994 and 2004.
Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison
Ghislaine Maxwell, the right-hand man of sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for providing minors to the financier, who committed suicide at age 66 in prison in 2019 before facing justice.
A popular jury found Maxwell, 60, guilty in December of five crimes of sex trafficking-related to the recruitment and training of adolescents to sexually satisfy Epstein, his partner, in a plot of abuse between 1994 and 2004. Maxwell, who said he recognized the pain caused but did not apologize, has also been sentenced to pay a fine of 750,000 dollars.
The prosecution had requested between 30 and 55 years in prison for Maxwell, while the final recommendation proposed a range of 24 to 30 years, and as the most plausible option, as was ultimately shown, no more than 20.
The defense, at least, A small victory can be scored, the fact that Judge Nathan had opted for the most favorable application of the law, according to the scale of federal penalties in force when the crimes were committed, for which the sentence did not reach the maximum requested by the prosecution.
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