Ghislaine Maxwell, 59, has been jailed in a Brooklyn prison and appears for the first time in court after being in jail for nine months.
After the trial, she leaves in a padlocked car, sources speculate that it will redirect to the Brooklyn prison.
Maxwell’s sister was there for support, but her husband, Scott Borgerson, fails to show up and give her support.
Since her arrest last year, she has pleaded not guilty even though there were new sex trafficking charges added to her case. All she said in court were “Yes, your honor” and “I have, your honor,” before being driven back in the padlocked car.
Maxwell is the alleged madam of Jeffrey Epstein, and after the case, an Epstein victim comes up to her for confrontation. During the trial, Maxwell was unable to see her sister even though she was in court, for she was in a disguise in order not to attract attention.
Maxwell was seen wearing a white mask, her feet were shackled and two US Marshals were behind her for security measures. Sources say that when being questioned by the judge, her answers were “impassive.”
The blonde woman who came up to Maxwell is identified as Danielle Bensky, telling her that she was “too afraid to come to the Epstein trial so this is a new feeling for me to sit there and accept a lot (of things.) It’s good too, it’s healing. After not having a trial for Epstein this will provide closure for the victims.”
David Boies, another accuser that is against Maxwell, comments on the situation and says that there is no “credible basis whatsoever to assert Ms. Maxwell is the victim. The media blitz the defendant is putting out, I don’t believe it’s fair to the real victims.”
Maxwell’s alleged victims tell the court to not delay her trial regardless of her plea to be innocent, since victims are suffering from an “enormous amount of stress.”
They tell sources, “The longer this case remains pending, the longer the victims suffer the anxiety of anticipating their trial testimony and the uncertainty of awaiting a resolution.”
There are new charges that involve the sex trafficking of a minor, saying that the woman was sexually abused multiple times by Epstein at the age of 14 and on. Lawyers of Maxwell say that she is becoming a “shell of her former self,” being woken up every 15 minutes.
Her trial is set for July 12 on the alleged charges of recruiting and grooming of teenage girls from the time frame of 1994 to 2004 to give “sexual massages” to her boyfriend at the time.