In a new indictment on Monday, federal prosecutors added to the list of accusations against alleged Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell was charged in July with recruiting underage girls for Epstein’s abuse, as well as with perjury. The expanded indictment now includes charges of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor.
The new charges bring the number of alleged victims included in Maxwell’s case to four, extending the timeline of the accusations up until 2004. (The allegations in the indictment previously went up until 1997.) The indictment filed on Monday claims that Maxwell “facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s access to minor victims by, among other things, inducing and enticing, and aiding and abetting the inducement and enticement of, multiple minor victims.”
“The victims were as young as 14 years old when they were groomed and abused by Maxwell and Epstein,” prosecutors continued, “both of whom knew that certain victims were in fact under the age of 18.”
Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to all charges from the first indictment. Her lawyers didn’t immediately return a request for comment on the new charges. She is currently being held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, and her trial is scheduled for July. In recent months her lawyers have repeatedly sparred with the Bureau of Prisons over the conditions she faces.
At the same time the broader Epstein case continues to unfold in the various corridors that the late financier operated in. The New York Times reported on Friday that Leon Black, until recently the CEO of the private-equity firm Apollo Global Management, told the executive committee of the Museum of Modern Art’s board that he would not run for reelection as chairman in June. Following Apollo’s admission that Black paid Epstein more than $150 million for financial advice, Black and MoMA came under significant pressure from artists and art workers over his role at the museum.
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