COURTROOM SKETCH TRIAL TRIAL
Best of all, perhaps, for Maxwell was that she was spared the ray gun stares of at least two of Epstein’s accusers who – not involved in the trial – also weren’t able to get into the courtroom and had to make do watching it on monitors in an overflow room.
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There was only room for a handful of the journalists who had been queuing – 50-strong – from before dawn for a place in court. In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell sits at the defense table during final stages of jury selection on Monday If the reputedly haughty daughter of the even haughtier Robert Maxwell has indeed – as the evidence strongly suggests – been trying to put off the day she finally had to face her accusers, she can thank the coronavirus that her humiliation wasn’t sharper.Īlthough Courtroom 318 was chosen primarily because it is one of the bigger courtrooms – the Maxwell trial has attracted vast attention – social distancing measures have drastically reduced the number of people it can fit. As her defence laid out yesterday, she in turn claims she is a scapegoat for the sins of her former lover and close friend Jeffrey Epstein – an innocent woman caught up in the embarrassment of a government that failed to prevent the paedophile financier from committing suicide behind bars before he could be put on trial. Her thick black hair, shiny and recently trimmed just above the shoulder, showed not a trace of the grey streaks that were all too evident in the days when she was trying to win bail.Īccording to prosecutors, Maxwell has done her level best to put off this day, avoiding justice for years – her family insist she was only fleeing the media – with tactics that even extended to covering her mobile phone with tin foil to stop it being electronically tracked.
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After 17 months in a detention centre where she was living in virtual solitary confinement in a tiny cell, it appeared Maxwell was relishing the liberty that a trial expected to last several months will afford her.