When Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team appealed her December 2021 conviction for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, her new lead attorney largely reiterated complaints she had long made about the high-criminal proceedings.
The attorney, Arthur Aidala, said Maxwell was a “proxy” for Epstein who was prosecuted “to satisfy public outrage over an unpopular non-prosecution agreement and the death of the person responsible for the crimes”. Epstein, who was arrested in July 2019 for sex-trafficking teenage girls, died in jail a month later in August, pending trial. Maxwell was arrested in July 2020.
