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New York — Ghislaine Max. Maxwell has been under suicide surveillance in a Brooklyn prison and her lawyer said Saturday night that she may try to postpone Tuesday's sentence for supporting Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of a minor girl. Said to.
In a letter to the judge overseeing Maxwell's case, Maxwell's lawyer, Bobby Sternheim, told her client on Friday after Metropolitan Detention Center officials declared suicide surveillance. "We cannot properly prepare for the decision," he said. She suddenly moved Maxwell to her cell.
Sternheim said Maxwell was given a "suicide smock" and her clothes, toothpaste, soap and statutory documents were taken away.
The lawyer also said Maxwell was "not suicide," and she said she had reached a psychologist who valued a 60-year-old British social celebrity on Saturday morning.
"Mr. Maxwell continued to monitor suicide, was forbidden to check legal documents before the judgment, became sleep deprived, and refused enough time to meet and discuss with a lawyer. If so, we will officially move on Monday for a postponement, "Sternheim wrote.
A spokesman for Damian Williams, a US lawyer in Manhattan, has charged Maxwell, but declined to comment.
Epstein, 66, committed suicide in her cell in Manhattan in August 2019. There, a financier was waiting for a sex trafficking trial.
Maxwell recruited and groomed four girls abused by Epstein between 1994 and 2004, and five crimes, including sexual trafficking. Was convicted on December 29th.
Prosecutor Maxwell said she should spend at least 30 years in prison because of her "lack of complete abuse." She wants Maxwell to be less than 20 years old.
The decision is imposed by US Circuit Judge Alison Nathan of the Federal Court of Justice in Manhattan.
Maxwell has been detained in Brooklyn prison immediately after her arrest in July 2020.
Her lawyer repeatedly objected to her imprisonment there before her trial. This includes when Sternheim compared it to Hannibal Lecter in the 1991 Academy Award-winning movie The Silence of the Lambs last November. (Report by Jonathan Stempel, edited by Sandra Maler)
