Ghislaine Maxwell sued by her lawyers over US$878,000 in unpaid fees
- The legal firm had helped defend the UK socialite, who was convicted of helping US financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls
- The lawsuit alleges that Maxwell’s husband formed a limited liability company to buy real estate to shield his wife’s assets from creditors
A law firm that helped defend Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite convicted of helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, is suing her, her brother and husband, saying it had not been paid over US$878,000 for its work.
Denver-based Haddon, Morgan and Foreman alleged in a lawsuit filed on Monday that Maxwell put her brother Kevin Maxwell in charge of paying her legal fees after she was arrested in 2020 but that he only paid a fraction of what they had charged leading up to and during her trial.
Kevin Maxwell urged the firm to keep working on appeal issues after she was convicted despite the unpaid bills and had blamed Maxwell’s husband, Scott Borgerson, for getting in the way of making payments, according to the lawsuit filed in Denver.
The lawsuit alleges that Borgerson formed a limited liability company to buy real estate to shield his wife’s assets from creditors.
Two lawyers at the law firm – Laura Menninger and Jeffrey Pagliuca – were part of Maxwell’s legal team during her trial in New York.