US prosecutors file new charges in sex crimes case against Ghislaine Maxwell
- Maxwell, 59, is now accused of offences between 1994 and 2004 after initially being charged with alleged sex crimes committed between 1994 and 1997
- The daughter of late newspaper baron Robert Maxwell denies that she recruited girls for Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced US financier who killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial
US prosecutors filed two new charges in their sex crimes case against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell Monday, adding a new victim and extending the time frame of her alleged offences.
Federal lawyers filed a superseding indictment in a New York court adding counts of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor, bringing the number of charges Maxwell faces to eight.
The indictment includes a new accuser, referred to as “Minor Victim-4,” and expands by seven years the period of time that Maxwell is accused of aiding the sexual abuse of underage girls by her former partner Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell, 59, is now accused of offences between 1994 and 2004 after initially being charged with alleged sex crimes committed between 1994 and 1997.
The counts are stronger than the earlier charges which refer to “enticement” and “transportation” of minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts.
Maxwell also faces two counts of perjury relating to testimony she gave in 2016 in a defamation case filed against her by long-time Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre.
The daughter of late newspaper baron Robert Maxwell denies that she recruited girls for Epstein, the disgraced US financier who killed himself in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial.