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The jury in British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial is scheduled to resume deliberations on Monday, after breaking for a long weekend.
Ms Maxwell (60), is accused of recruiting and grooming four teenage girls for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein between 1994 and 2004. She has pleaded not guilty to six counts of sex trafficking and other crimes. Epstein killed himself in 2019 in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on sex abuse charges.
US District Judge Alison Nathan dismissed jurors on Wednesday for the Christmas holiday weekend, urging them to “stay safe” amid the surge in the Omicron variant.
Along with the cases of movie producer Harvey Weinstein and singer R Kelly, Ms Maxwell’s case is among the highest-profile trials to take place in the wake of the #MeToo movement, which encouraged women to speak out about sexual abuse by famous and powerful people.
Ms Maxwell is detained at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center , where she has said her cell has been plagued by vermin and the odour of raw sewage.
Deliberations began late on Monday, December 20th, afternoon following a three-week trial.
The Manhattan federal court jury last week requested transcripts of the testimony of four women who said Ms Maxwell played a crucial role in their abuse by Epstein. Ms Maxwell’s lawyers focused their defence on challenging the accusers’ credibility.
On Tuesday, jurors asked to review the testimony of three of the women: Jane, Carolyn, and Annie Farmer. Ms Maxwell’s lawyers had questioned the women aggressively about why their stories appeared to shift over the years.
On Wednesday, the jury asked to read transcripts of the accounts of the fourth accuser, a woman testifying under the pseudonym Kate, and Juan Alessi, the former house manager at Epstein’s Palm Beach, Florida, estate who said he saw Jane at the property. – Reuters