Ghislaine Maxwell is transferred from New Hampshire to a Brooklyn jail to await her first NYC court appearance this Friday on child sex trafficking charges
Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred from a county jail in New Hampshire to a New York City jail to await her first court appearance on child sex trafficking charges.
The 58-year-old was arrested on Thursday at a home she recently purchased in rural New Hampshire.
She is now in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. She is accused of procuring young girls for Jeffrey Epstein, the late pedophile financier, and also with having sex with them herself.
Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred from a county jail in New Hampshire to a New York City jail. She is shown in 2016
She is not due to go before a judge until Friday.
Maxwell faces 35 years behind bars if convicted of the six counts she is facing.
They relate to her alleged grooming of three underage girls between 1994 and 1997. The girls say she procured them for Epstein then befriended them to make them feel comfortable around her, before subjecting them to sexual servitude.
On occasions, Maxwell is accused of sexually abusing the children herself by taking part in group sex with Epstein and the girls.
She is also facing two counts of perjury for allegedly lying in a 2016 deposition while being sued by a different woman who claims to have been abused.
Maxwell has not yet been seen since she was taken into custody. She has been a ghost since Epstein’s suicide last year.
The FBI had been watching her in New Hampshire, where she had been for several months, they said.
She is yet to enter a plea to the charges or make any form of public comment.
In civil court, she has denied allegations by other women that she abused them or facilitated Epstein’s abuse of them.
Maxwell’s network of well-heeled friends includes Prince Andrew.
Maxwell was arrested on Thursday at this property in Bradford, New Hampshire, where she’d been laying low for months