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Judge in Ghislaine Maxwell Case Fears One Thing That Might Derail Trial

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By Daily Caller. The judge for the Ghislaine Maxwell trial informed the jury Monday that deliberations would be extended to 6 p.m., an hour longer than normal, due to concerns about the surge in the Omicron variant in New York City.

“We are seeing an astronomical spike in the number of COVID-positive cases in New York City,” Judge Alison Nathan said, according to ABC News.

“We are very simply at a different place regarding the pandemic than we were only one week ago and we now face a high and escalating risk that jurors and/or trial participants may need to quarantine,” she added, according to CNN. “Accordingly, extending deliberations by an hour gives the jury more time each day to continue to engage in its thoughtful deliberations.”

Nathan noted that she would also ask jurors to continue their deliberation through New Years without a break for the holiday, citing the risk that the trial could be disrupted by the rising coronavirus cases.

“In light of the variant, my concern about the interruption of the trial, given the increasing daily risk of exposure to either a juror or trial participant requiring quarantine — it is time to think about having the jury make plans to deliberate until a verdict is reached,” she said, according to ABC News. (Read more from “Judge in Ghislaine Maxwell Case Fears One Thing That Might Derail Trial” HERE)

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Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Judge May Have Jurors Deliberate Every Day This Week Until They Reach a Verdict

By New York Post. The jury weighing Ghislaine Maxwell’s fate revealed late Tuesday afternoon that it is “making progress” after its fourth full day of deliberations – and the judge said she may ask the panel to huddle every day this week till it reaches a verdict.

The jurors sent a note to Judge Alison Nathan about 4:45 p.m., writing they were making headway in reaching a verdict.

“Our deliberations are moving along, and we are making progress. We are at a good point,” they wrote.

They then asked to be dismissed at 5 p.m. and return Wednesday at 9 a.m.

Nathan agreed to the request — but also warned the panelists that they should be prepared to deliberate every day this week, including Friday, New Year’s Eve, until they reach a verdict. (Read more from “Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Judge May Have Jurors Deliberate Every Day This Week Until They Reach a Verdict” HERE)

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Cellmate Dishes on the Pedophile’s Final Days

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With Ghislaine Maxwell’s current trial, I’m printing what I don’t think may have been already reported. Right after Jeffrey Epstein’s death, his cellmate Bill Mersey sent me this. I’ve held it all this time and have condensed Mersey’s voluminous pages:

“If you didn’t want to kill yourself before, you would after a few days at MCC. Minus trained psychologists, it was inmates who, with a whole three hours’ training, had to watch four Suicide cells on the second floor.

“Inmates were stowed away in 50 square feet with a cellmate and nothing to do but kill themselves. No commissary or phone access. ‘Training’ was mostly ogling the female psychologist teaching it. The pay, 12 cents, up to 40 cents, an hour. . .

“Epstein was soft as a pillow and not prepared to handle this. He requested protective custody. He was scared and he did not get over it. Handling prison constantly occupied his mind. To sleep he’d place an orange prison sock over his eyes. . .

“The prison was abuzz with our new felon. He talked finance, saying, ‘Stocks are like women. You have to study to see what makes them happy. Observe their reaction to international news. Then you can predict their movements and that’s how you win.’ ” (Read more from “Jeffrey Epstein’s Cellmate Dishes on the Pedophile’s Final Days” HERE)

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Obama LGBTQ Connection: Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘Little Black Book’ to Remain Secret

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By Bevan Hurley. Ghislaine Maxwell’s “little black book” containing the names and addresses of nearly 2,000 world leaders, celebrities and alleged victims will remain secret. . .

Judge Alison Nathan had previously said she wanted to avoid “needless” namedropping during the trial.

The book was filled with contact details of Ms Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein’s famous friends, including Prince Andrew, and former US presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, and had been mentioned sporadically during her sex-trafficking trial.

Prince Andrew, Mr Clinton and others mentioned in the directory have denied all accusations they were involved in any alleged sexual abuse.

Several entries were mentioned during the prosecution case and released as an exhibit under seal, meaning only jurors and attorneys could view them. (Read more from “Ghislaine Maxwell’s ‘Little Black Book’ to Remain Secret” HERE)

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Obama’s LGBTQ Judge Headed for Federal Court of Appeals?

By Ashley Collman, Jacob Shamsian. As [US District Court Judge Alison] Nathan presides over the [Ghislaine Maxwell] trial, she is also preparing for a confirmation vote. President Joe Biden recently selected her for a promotion to the US Court Appeals for the Second Circuit — just one step away from the Supreme Court.

If confirmed, Nathan would be the second openly LGBTQ woman to serve on any federal circuit court, after Second Circuit Judge Beth Robinson, who was also nominated by Biden and confirmed to her position in November. Nathan and her partner, law professor Meg Satterthwaite, have twin sons, according to [the homosexual publication,] The Advocate.


(Credit: US District Court, Southern District of New York Handout)

Nathan first became a judge in 2011, when then-President Barack Obama nominated her to serve in the Southern District of New York. At the time of her nomination, Nathan was working as special counsel to the solicitor general of New York, a job she was appointed to by then-New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

. . . Concerned Women for America’s Legislative Action Committee also sent a letter to senators, saying Nathan’s “political activism” called into question “her impartiality and judicial temperament.” They took issue with Nathan’s serving on an LGBTQ issues policy committee on the Obama campaign, and for working pro bono for clients who tried to challenge the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy for gay servicemembers. (Read more about the judge who prohibited publication of Epstein’s black book HERE)

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GHISLAINE MAXWELL TRIAL: Final Accuser Takes Stand; Table of Torture: Maxwell Accuser Felt ‘Frozen’ During Nude Massage on Epstein’s Ranch When She Was 16; Does This Photograph Signal Fresh Legal Danger for Prince Andrew?

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By Fox News. A fourth victim took the stand Friday at Ghislaine Maxwell’s Manhattan federal sex-trafficking trial and testified that the British socialite gave her an unsolicited massage and touched her breasts.

Annie Farmer, who has been outspoken about the alleged abuse, used her true identity on the stand. The three prior victims who testified used pseudonyms or first names to protect their privacy.

Farmer said she was 16 when she visited the late financier and Maxwell, now 59, at his sprawling New Mexico ranch in 1996. Her older sister, Maria, worked for Epstein at the time in New York. . .

A month later, Epstein and Maxwell allegedly sexually assaulted her older sister, Maria, at the Ohio compound of Les Wexner, former Victoria’s Secret CEO, according to civil filings. (Read more from “GHISLAINE MAXWELL TRIAL: Final Accuser Takes Stand” HERE)

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Does Ghislaine and Epstein Photograph Signal Fresh Legal Danger for Prince Andrew?

By The Daily Beast. Among the photographs published this week as part of prosecution evidence in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, one image will have sent icy tentacles of dread shooting around the hearts of senior courtiers at Buckingham Palace.

It is a picture of Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein cuddling up to each other outside a wooden structure that Queen Elizabeth’s loyal staff at her Scottish home of Balmoral Castle will have instantly recognized as being her beloved “lunch hut” on the nearby grouse and deer-stalking moor, Glen Beg. (Read more from “Does Ghislaine and Epstein Photograph Signal Fresh Legal Danger for Prince Andrew?” HERE)

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Table of Torture: Maxwell Accuser Felt ‘Frozen’ During Nude Massage on Epstein’s Ranch When She Was 16

By New York Post. The fourth and final accuser in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-abuse trial took the stand Friday, telling jurors how the alleged madam gave her a nude massage and groped her as a teen at Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch.

Annie Farmer — the only accuser to testify using her full name — said she was lured to the ranch after meeting Epstein through her sister months earlier because she thought the duo viewed her as a “student they may want to help.”

Farmer said she was comfortable going to the ranch in part because Maxwell was there and she understood her to be Epstein’s girlfriend.

When she was at the sprawling estate, Epstein and Maxwell took her shopping, bought her a pricey pair of cowboy boots and took her to see the movie “Primal Fear.”

While they were waiting to go into the movie, Epstein and Maxwell “were being very playful with each other, kind of grabbing each other,” Farmer told Assistant US Attorney Lara Pomerantz. (Read more from “Table of Torture: Maxwell Accuser Felt ‘Frozen’ During Nude Massage on Epstein’s Ranch When She Was 16” HERE)

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s Mysterious Hubby, Once Seduced by Her Power, Now MIA

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s future husband became intoxicated by the limelight the beautiful heiress shined on his life.

Now Scott Borgerson, who secretly married Maxwell in 2016, has left her to face the glare of international incrimination alone — while he jaunts around his exclusive coastal New England town in sports cars, often in the company of an attractive new female friend.

Galpal Kris McGinn is a local writer, mother of two high school children and yoga enthusiast who “has an ass that could crack open a walnut” according to one local admirer in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.

Borgerson, 46, Maxwell’s much younger and enigmatic husband, apparently broke up his first marriage to be with the British jetsetter, captivated by the circles of power she made available to him, friends say.

But as lurid details unfold in a Manhattan courtroom of the international sex ring Maxwell, 59, ran with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Borgerson remains 200 miles away at the secluded $3.9 million waterfront estate he once shared with the disgraced madam. (Read more from “Ghislaine Maxwell’s Mysterious Hubby, Once Seduced by Her Power, Now MIA” HERE)

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Accuser Says She Saw Ghislaine Maxwell “Nude and Pregnant”; So Where’s the Baby?

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By New York Post. One of Ghislaine Maxwell’s accusers claimed she once saw a photo of the British socialite “nude and pregnant” inside of Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida mansion.

The woman, who testified using only her first name, Carolyn, was asked by defense attorneys at Maxwell’s federal sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan about statements she’d previously made to prosecutors.

“One of your memories about Ms. Maxwell is you claim that you saw a photograph of her in Epstein’s house, pregnant. Correct?” lawyer Jeffrey Pagliuca asked Tuesday, referring to Epstein’s Palm Beach estate.

“Nude and pregnant laying on the –” Carolyn began to respond — at which point Pagliuca interjected, “And pregnant.”

“Yes. There was multiple pictures, nude photos,” the witness replied after a pause. (Read more from “Accuser Says She Saw Ghislaine Maxwell “Nude and Pregnant”; So Where’s the Baby?” HERE)

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s Defense Is to Blame the Victims

By CNN. Ghislaine Maxwell is not ready to face the music. Maxwell, the longtime friend and companion of mysterious millionaire and alleged sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, is on trial for what prosecutors say was her role in a sex-trafficking operation, recruiting underage girls for exploitation by Epstein. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty. Epstein killed himself in jail in 2019, before he could be tried. . .

The women who have accused Epstein of sex crimes made clear that he was not acting alone; they say Maxwell had a clear hand in the operation, and that both Maxwell and Epstein made their wealth, power and connections clear — perhaps a suggestion that the girls brought to Epstein should feel special, and a reminder that Maxwell and Epstein were untouchable.

The good news is that in seeking to hold Maxwell accountable, prosecutors appear to be assessing the whole structure of abuse beyond just the alleged abuser. The bad news is that Maxwell seems to have little remorse or interest in even being honest about what happened. . .

The Maxwell defense thus far has amounted to “memory, manipulation and money,” as Maxwell’s lawyer Bobbi Sternheim put it during her opening statement. In other words: The women testifying can’t accurately remember 20-year-old events; they are manipulating the system by only coming forward recently; and they are chasing a payday, not justice. (Read more from “Ghislaine Maxwell’s Defense Is to Blame the Victims” HERE)

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Weird Feetish? Raunchy Photos Show Ghislaine Maxwell Getting Handsy With Epstein

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Raunchy photos show Ghislaine Maxwell giving disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a foot massage as prosecutors unearth dozens of never-before-seen photos depicting their creepy relationship.

Maxwell is seen aboard a plane with Epstein holding his barefoot in her lap as she massages it, with Epstein appearing to be pleased. . .

In one photo, Maxwell appears to be showing Epstein and an unidentified individual her cleavage while taking a break from giving a foot massage.

The images were found during a 2019 raid at Epstein’s home on the Upper East Side, FBI analyst Kimberly Meder testified, according to the New York Post. (Read more from “Weird Feetish? Raunchy Photos Show Ghislaine Maxwell Getting Handsy With Epstein” HERE)

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WATCH: File on Epstein Hard Drive Details His Close Relationship With Ghislaine Maxwell; A ‘Chilling Factor’ for Victims: Maxwell Lawyer Drops Anonymous Accusers’ Real Names in Court

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By New York Post. A document found on a hard drive in Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse detailed his intimate relationship with alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell — including how the two were “rarely apart.”

The fawning file was created on a desktop by someone logged in as the user “GMax” on Oct. 14, 2002, and discovered by the feds after they raided the sex offender’s Upper East Side lair in 2019, an FBI analyst, Stephen Flatley, testified in Manhattan federal court Tuesday.

“Jeffrey and Ghislaine have been together as a couple for the last 11 years,” the note started. “They are, contrary to what people think, rarely apart, I almost always see them together.” . . .

“Jeffrey and Ghislaine share many mutual interests and they have a lot of fun together,” it continued.

The duo was described as thick as thieves, with the file noting, “they compliment each other really well.” (Read more from “‘Rarely Apart’: File on Epstein Hard Drive Details His Close Relationship With Ghislaine Maxwell” HERE)

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Accuser Says Ghislaine Maxwell Assessed Her Body for Epstein When She Was 14

By NBC News. One of the women who says she was a minor when she started having sex with Jeffrey Epstein testified Tuesday that Ghislaine Maxwell personally inspected her body.

“She came in and felt my boobs and my hips and my buttocks and said I had a great body for Mr. Epstein and his friends,” the woman, who is being identified as “Carolyn,” said at Maxwell’s child sex trafficking trial in New York City.

Carolyn initially said she was 14 and later said she was 13 when she was introduced to Maxwell and Epstein by Virginia Roberts Giuffre — another woman who says the couple sexually abused and trafficked her. (Read more from “Accuser Says Ghislaine Maxwell Assessed Her Body for Epstein When She Was 14” HERE)

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A ‘Chilling Factor’ for Victims: Ghislaine Maxwell Lawyer Drops Anonymous Accusers’ Real Names in Court

By Rolling Stone. Last week in the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, defense attorney Jeff Pagliuca made a show of remembering to respect an alleged victim’s request for anonymity. He had just begun discussing the first accuser, known only by the pseudonym “Jane” while cross-examining Jeffrey Epstein’s former estate staff member Juan Alessi. Judge Alison Nathan broke in with a reminder to not say Jane’s real name out loud. Pagliuca told the judge not to worry. “I have it blacked out on all my copies,” he said, referring to the documents in front of him. Nathan replied that she was also providing the reminder for the benefit of Alessi, who was less familiar with the process. Then Pagliuca read from the document in front of him and promptly spoke Jane’s real first name out loud.

Today, he did it again. In open court, he uttered the real last name of Carolyn, the third of four accusers to testify for the state, who tearfully recounted testimony of being abused by Epstein and Maxwell starting when she was 14, and whom counsel had agreed to refer to by her first name only. Prosecutors immediately complained to the judge.

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Witness Reportedly Calls Ghislaine Maxwell’s Defense Attorney a C**t

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The first accuser who testified at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial on Tuesday allegedly called the defendant’s defense attorney a “c**t.”

The accuser, “Jane,” testified that convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein had sexual contact with her 14-year-old self during a late November testimony. She told the court that she met Epstein and Maxwell at the Interlochan Arts Camp where they claimed to be benefactors of the camp and awarded scholarships to students.

Prosecutor Alison Moe said Jane reportedly spoke to another witness—her brother Brian— on the phone where she told him she was shown a camp application during her testimony, according to the New York Post. She then reportedly called defense attorney Laura Menninger a “c**t,” a derogatory term for female genitalia.

Menninger raised the issue before the court, where prosecutors informed the courtroom of the alleged exchange between the two witnesses, the outlet reported. She argued that the prosecution is not fully aware of everything discussed in Jane and Brian’s discussion.

“Part of my concern is that those are the two things that Brian volunteered to them,” Menninger said. “They don’t know exactly what happened in this conversation.” (Read more from “Witness Reportedly Calls Ghislaine Maxwell’s Defense Attorney a C**t” HERE)

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PLAYING THE VICTIM: Ghislaine Maxwell’s Defense Keeps ‘Spotlight’ on Epstein, Other Powerful Men; Odd: Maxwell Makes Her Own Drawings of the Court Sketch Artists During Trial; Victim Calls Maxwell ‘Engineer of Epstein’s Abuse’

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By NBC News. The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is the one accused of sex trafficking, but during the first five days of testimony in a New York City courtroom her lawyers have put her deceased boss, Jeffrey Epstein, and his famous friends on trial, legal experts say.

That strategy quickly became evident on the first day of the long-awaited trial when attorney Bobbi Sternheim, in her opening statement, dipped into the book of Genesis to defend Maxwell. . .

In fact, Maxwell’s defense team is subtly trying to portray her as Epstein’s first victim, the experts said. . .

“The defense has signaled its intention to make Epstein central to this trial,” Tuerkheimer said. “By portraying him as charismatic, well-connected, almost larger than life, her team may well be hoping to make Maxwell disappear into the background. Epstein’s star-studded life of fame and riches can grab the jury’s attention and focus, increasing the odds that Maxwell appears as a merely peripheral figure in the story.” (Read more from “PLAYING THE VICTIM: Ghislaine Maxwell’s Defense Keeps ‘Spotlight’ on Epstein, Other Powerful Men” HERE)

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Odd: Maxwell Makes Her Own Drawings of the Court Sketch Artists During Trial

By New York Post. Turns out Ghislaine Maxwell really is a sketch artist.

New York-based Illustrator Elizabeth Williams has 40 years of experience drawing people in court but says it was a first when Maxwell, on trial for sex-trafficking, started sketching her.

Williams was at Maxwell’s November pre-trial hearing when she said the British heiress, seated between her two lawyers, looked back at her and began staring while apparently drawing her, the Sun reported Friday. She did it a second time during jury selection.

Fellow illustrator Jane Rosenberg, who’s also at the Maxwell trial and was also drawn by Maxwell, created a picture of the weird encounter that went viral.

“It was like she didn’t think anyone would notice,” Williams said of the initial staring and drawing encounters. “She stared right at us, and it was definitely an odd moment. (Read more from “Odd: Maxwell Makes Her Own Drawings of the Court Sketch Artists During Trial” HERE)

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Victim Calls Maxwell ‘Engineer of Epstein’s Abuse’ as Trial Resumes Today

By The Independent UK. The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and former partner of Jeffrey Epstein, is set to resume today.

Ms Maxwell, 59, is accused of grooming teenage girls for abuse by the late convicted sex-offender and financier. She has pleaded not guilty to all charges against her. . .

One of the sexual abuse survivors, Sarah Ransome — who says she was repeatedly raped by Epstein over a nine-month period — described Ms Maxwell as a “very sick woman” who took pleasure in “humiliating” her victims. . .

Ms Ransome said: “Ghislaine enjoyed humiliating us. You could see the enjoyment in her face.” (Read more from “Victim Calls Maxwell ‘Engineer of Epstein’s Abuse’ as Trial Resumes Today” HERE)

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