U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan will sentence the disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to a prison term on Tuesday, doling out the most concrete punishment yet over the sex-trafficking ring that Maxwell helped financier Jeffrey Epstein run for a decade, exploiting girls as young as 14.
Several of those girls, now adults, testified during the trial, bravely pulling the curtain back on years of abuse they suffered after Maxwell and Epstein tugged them into their orbit using the allure of wealth and their connections to powerful people such as Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.
