Ghislaine Maxwell asks court for sex trafficking sentence of ‘well below’ 20 years

The disgraced British socialite's lawyers argued that she was threatened in jail and cannot be made proxy for Jeffrey Epstein

Ghislaine Maxwell's attorneys argued on Wednesday that the disgraced British socialite should be sentenced to well below" the 20 years imprisonment that probation authorities have recommended in her New York federal sex-trafficking case.

In a pre-sentencing report, Maxwell's attorneys provided detailed descriptions of her allegedly perilous conditions in jail, and described an emotionally distressing upbringing, as part of their argument for leniency.