Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking crimes
by Victoria Bekiempis in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#60VT5)
Maxwell's attorneys had pushed for leniency after 60-year-old was convicted in US in December of five of the six charges she faced
Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced on Tuesday to 20 years in prison in her New York sex-trafficking case for procuring teen girls for Jeffrey Epstein for him to abuse. Maxwell, 60, has maintained her innocence.
Epstein, a convicted sex offender and financier whose elite associates once included Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton, was captured by federal authorities in July 2019, on sex-trafficking counts. He killed himself in a New York City federal jail just over one month after his arrest.
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