New York — Ghislaine Maxwell is being monitored for suicide in a Brooklyn prison on Tuesday for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse a minor girl. May try to postpone the decision. The lawyer said on Saturday night.
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.
Attorneys 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.
"Maxwell continues to monitor suicide If you are banned, you will be officially moved for postponement on Monday because you have reviewed legal material before the judgment, have become sleep deprived, and have been denied enough time to meet and discuss with a lawyer. "Sternheim writes.
A spokesman for US lawyer Damian Williams 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 sexual trafficking trial.
Maxwell recruited four girls abused by Epstein between 1994 and 2004 and allegedly groomed them for 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 a Brooklyn prison shortly 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.
