Maxwell will return to Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), where she has been held in isolation since July 2020. "We have already started working on the appeal, and we are confident that she will be vindicated," Sternheim said outside of the courthouse. Maxwell's lawyer, Bobbi Sternheim, told reporters the defense was disappointed with the verdict. An expressionless Maxwell looked briefly at two of her siblings seated in the front row as she left the courtroom.Īnnie Farmer, one of the women who testified against Maxwell, said: "I am so relieved and grateful that the jury recognized the pattern of predatory behavior that Maxwell engaged in for years and found her guilty of these crimes." Defense attorney Jeffrey Pagliuca patted her upper back.
The jury deliberated for five full days before reaching the verdict.Īfter the verdict was read, Maxwell, wearing a burgundy turtleneck, poured herself a glass of water. Epstein would masturbate during the encounters in his Palm Beach, Florida estate, Carolyn testified.
"Money will not ever fix what that woman has done to me," testified one woman, known by her first name Carolyn, who said Maxwell once touched her bare breasts and buttocks as she prepared to massage Epstein when she was 14 in 2002.Ĭarolyn's case was at the heart of the sex trafficking charge because she said Maxwell would sometimes hand her hundreds of dollars in cash after she gave Epstein erotic massages. Maxwell's attorneys sought to undermine the women's credibility, arguing that they were motivated by money to implicate Maxwell since all four had received million-dollar awards from a compensation fund for Epstein's victims.īut the women disputed those characterizations, saying they decided to testify out of a desire for justice, not money. Three of the four said Maxwell herself touched their bare breasts or took part in the encounters, which often began as massages.
Maxwell's trial was widely seen as the reckoning Epstein never had and one of the highest-profile cases in the wake of the #MeToo movement, which encouraged women to speak out about sexual abuse by famous and powerful people.ĭuring the month-long trial, jurors heard emotional and explicit testimony from four women who portrayed Maxwell as central to their abuse by Epstein.
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