Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney says she 'definitely has a take' on Epstein suicide conspiracies but won't say what it is - and claims she didn't testify at her trial because she was 'hungry and sleep-deprived'

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Ghislaine Maxwell's attorney says his client 'definitely has a take' on the conspiracies around Jeffrey Epstein's suicide but has refused to say what it is.

Arthur Aidala revealed he has discussed the disgraced financier's death with his client at length but will not disclose it as it would be a distraction from Maxwell's appeal hearing next month.

Aidala insisted on his client's innocence and claimed she did not testify at her trial because she was 'hungry and sleep-deprived' after being woken up and strip searched by prison staff 'eight times a day'.

Maxwell is currently serving 20 years in jail after being found guilty of trafficking young girls for Epstein to sexually abuse. She is planning to appeal the sentence on March 12.

Aidala claimed that while awaiting trial, his client was treated worse than Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who recently died in prison under grueling conditions.

'The way she was treated pending trial as an innocent civilian of the American justice system should make every American watching this disgusted because she was treated worse than the guy who just died in Russia was,' Aidala told NewsNation's Chris Cuomo.

'She had her own pet rat in her jail cell. She went days without eating. I asked her, "Ghislaine if you're innocent why didn't you testify?"

'She said, "Arthur the way they treated me, I didn't know my own name. They would take her back from eight or nine o'clock.

'They said, "Judge she hasn't eaten can we give her a protein bar, granola bar?" Just says no.'

'So she didn't testify because she was hungry?' Cuomo asked.

'And sleep deprived, it's in the CIA torture handbook,' Aidala replied. 'Every 15 minutes they pushed her awake, she was strip searched eight times a day.'

Asked if his client has a view on the suspicions around Epstein's death, Aidala said: 'She definitely has a take, we spoke about it for a while. Maybe you'll invite me back on the show after March 12.

'I don't want anything to distract from the March 12.'