This text accommodates references to sexual assault, little one abuse and suicide.
Ghislaine Maxwell has did not pay some US$878,000 ($1.27 million) in charges to 2 attorneys who defended the towards prison fees she helped Jeffrey Epstein abuse teenage ladies, the attorneys’ agency mentioned in a brand new lawsuit.
Maxwell, 60, was convicted in December of intercourse trafficking and is serving a 20-year jail sentence over her function in recruiting and grooming ladies for Epstein, who had been recognized for socialising with elite United States politicians and businessmen.
In a lawsuit filed on Monday in a Colorado state courtroom in Denver, the regulation agency Haddon, Morgan and Foreman mentioned Maxwell’s brother Kevin promised earlier than trial to pay a US$1 million retainer ($1.4 million) however paid simply $143,500 ($207,300), “a small fraction of the quantity owed.”
Two of the agency’s attorneys, Laura Menninger and Jeffrey Pagliuca, represented Ghislaine Maxwell all through the case.
Different defendants embody Kevin Maxwell and Scott Borgerson, described within the lawsuit as Ghislaine Maxwell’s husband. The lawsuit mentioned Kevin Maxwell advised the Haddon agency that Borgerson managed Maxwell’s cash.
Neither Ms Menninger nor Mr Pagliuca instantly responded to requests for remark. Two of Maxwell’s different attorneys, Bobbi Sternheim and Christian Everdell, additionally didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Kevin Maxwell and Mr Borgerson couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
One other brother, Ian Maxwell, advised the Related Press that the Maxwell household wouldn’t remark.
Ghislaine Maxwell and her husband have separated, Maxwell’s attorneys wrote in a sentencing submission earlier this 12 months.
Maxwell, the daughter of late British press baron Robert Maxwell, is serving her sentence in a Tallahassee, Florida, jail, and is interesting her conviction. Epstein at age 66 whereas awaiting trial on his personal intercourse trafficking fees.
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