Satire really has left the building when we’re asked to be kind to Ghislaine Maxwell | Catherine Bennett
by Catherine Bennett from on (#5RKVF)
The socialite as innocent martyr? Try telling that to one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims
In the long run-up to Ghislaine Maxwell's now imminent trial on charges of procuring teenage girls for her late friend, Jeffrey Epstein, her lawyer has repeatedly objected to the accused's living conditions.
Last week, Bobbi C Sternheim returned, again, to similarities between the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and conditions invented by Thomas Harris for his imaginary psychopath. The surveillance," she wrote, in another bid for bail, rivals scenes of Dr Hannibal Lecter's incarceration as portrayed in the movie, Silence of the Lambs, despite the absence of the cage and the plastic face guard."
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