==Everything You Need to Know About Ghislaine Maxwell Where was she? Who’s her husband? How do you say her name? Will we ever know the truth?=
Ghislaine Maxwell is about to go on trial in New York City. People are hungry for answers about her and her baffling life with Jeffrey Epstein. We’ll warn you now that this trial may not deliver those answers, and may muddy our understanding even further. Still, here’s everything we do know.
What’s the deal with this trial?
The trial — you can call it by its government name, U.S.A. v. Ghislaine Maxwell, if you want to be dramatic — starts Monday, November 29. Jury selection got started on the 16th. It’s expected to last about six weeks, everyone agrees, unless something odd and conspiracy-theory inducing happens.
It will take place in the glamorous Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in downtown Manhattan, which was the home of two historic trials: that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1951 and that of Martha Stewart in 2004.
This case truly got going in July 2020, when Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire. Since she has been in custody, both the government and her lawyers have filed an amazing, seemingly endless stream of legal documents.
What is Ghislaine Maxwell charged with?
The government says it will prove that she helped Jeffrey Epstein sexually exploit and abuse girls — helping him “to recruit, groom and ultimately abuse” victims as young as 14 — and that she physically brought people to him for this purpose. Specifically, Maxwell has been charged with enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts; transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity; conspiracy charges related to both of those; sex trafficking of a minor; and sex trafficking conspiracy. (The latter two charges were added earlier this year.)
How many planes did Jeffrey Epstein have?
This is a very good question! From records, we can count at least six:
A now-deregistered Boeing 727 that seats nearly 200. The initials “GM” show up on the flight manifests for lots and lots of flights between 1999 to 2002. Maxwell flew multiple times a month with and without Epstein.
A Gulfstream IV
A Cessna 421
A 20-seat 2007 Gulfstream G550
A 10-seat 2001 Bell helicopter
A 14-seat 2008 Sikorsky (Keystone) S-76 helicopter. They like to call this one “Air Ghislaine.”
The helicopters were needed because Little St. James, the 75-or-so-acre private island owned by Epstein in the U.S. Virgin Islands, was only equipped with a helipad. (Epstein eventually bought the island next door as well, to create more of a barrier to the outside world.) Air-traffic controllers at the St. Thomas public airport would see Epstein arriving with girls, children, and young women to be transferred to his island “dozens of times over two decades,” according to a lawsuit filed against his estate.
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