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The Latest Breaking News from Robert Maxwell

Ghislaine Maxwell: Everything you need to know as socialite facing sentencing over sex trafficking conviction

Prosecutors asking for up to 55 years for child sex-trafficking convictions

The Independent UK

Prosecutors seek at least 30 years in jail for Ghislaine Maxwell

New York (AFP) - US prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to at least 30 years in prison for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls.

AFP

Feds call for Ghislaine Maxwell to be sentenced to 30 to 55 years for ‘monstrous crimes’

Federal prosecutors recommended that Ghislaine Maxwell be sentenced to 30 to 55 years in prison, which would effectively be a life sentence for the 60-year-old former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein.

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Ghislaine Maxwell: US prosecutors urge 30-year minimum prison sentence

Prosecutors make recommendation in court filing a week before Maxwell’s sentencing for sex-trafficking conviction

The Guardian - US

Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers spin her childhood as a tale of neglect and abuse

The socialite’s defense team seek a reduced sentence by depicting a woman made vulnerable to Epstein by a domineering father

The Guardian - US

Ghislaine Maxwell argues daddy issues drove her to Jeffrey Epstein

NEW YORK — Victim-shaming failed, so now Ghislaine Maxwell is trying the daddy issues defense.

Tribune News Service

Ghislaine Maxwell blames ‘overbearing, narcissistic, and demanding father’ for why she fell under Epstein’s spell

An infant-age Ghislaine Maxwell would frequently be ‘reduced to a pulp’ by her father and was vulnerable to manipulative men, her lawyers claim

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When is Ghislaine Maxwell’s sentencing?

Lawyers argue it would be a ‘travesty of justice for socialite to face a sentence that would have been appropriate for Epstein’ ahead of 28 June sentencing

The Independent UK

Ghislaine Maxwell pleas for mercy ahead of sex trafficking sentencing

New York (AFP) - Ghislaine Maxwell cited a traumatic childhood and vulnerability to Jeffrey Epstein in a plea for leniency two weeks before her scheduled court sentencing for child sex trafficking.

AFP

Ghislaine Maxwell seeks sentence well below 20-year recommendation by probation department

Arguing that Ghislaine Maxwell should not be punished for the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell’s legal team requested a far more lenient prison sentence than the 20 years recommended by the probation department, arguing that she should be sentenced to no more than five years and three months.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Ghislaine Maxwell complains R Kelly is treated better and cellmate threatened to kill her for cash

Court filing from Maxwell’s lawyers claims an unnamed inmate planned to strangle her in her sleep

The Independent UK

Ghislaine Maxwell: Disgraced ex-socialite’s lawyers say she should receive ‘four or five year’ jail sentence in leniency plea

The US probation department has recommended a sentence of 20 years, but Maxwell’s lawyers say her perillous position in prison means leniency is warranted

Evening Standard

Inmate planned to strangle Ghislaine Maxwell in her sleep at Brooklyn jail, lawyer says

NEW YORK — One of Ghislaine Maxwell’s fellow detainees at the Brooklyn federal lockup plotted to murder her, a defense lawyer said in a court filing Wednesday aimed at lightening Maxwell’s sentence on sex trafficking charges for procuring young women for Jeffrey Epstein.

Tribune News Service

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers urge leniency ahead of sex trafficking sentencing

Ghislaine Maxwell should spend fewer, and perhaps far fewer, than 20 years in prison for helping deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, her lawyers said on Wednesday, arguing that Epstein was the "mastermind" behind the abuse.

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The Guardian - US

Ghislaine Maxwell asks court for sex trafficking sentence of ‘well below’ 20 years

The disgraced British socialite’s lawyers argued that she was threatened in jail and cannot be made proxy for Jeffrey Epstein

The Guardian - UK

Malcolm Evans obituary

Other lives: Journalist who moved into the world of business startups

The Independent UK

The eight key bombshell claims in The Palace Papers

Author Tina Brown recounts scandals, love affairs and betrayals that have plagued royal family over past three decades in new book The Palace Papers

Tribune News Service

Explosive new book claims 10-year-old Ghislaine Maxwell told house guests of father’s ‘sadistic’ physical abuse

NEW YORK — A 10-year-old Ghislaine Maxwell told house guests her father beat her with objects of her choosing — and Jeffrey Epstein referred to Prince Andrew as his useful “idiot,” according to an explosive upcoming book about the British royal family.

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The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Split; Art That Made Us; House of Maxwell

Abi Morgan’s sharp legal family drama returns; a journey around Britain’s creative history inspires; and the Maxwell saga is raked over again

The Independent UK

Robert and Ghislaine Maxwell would talk by ‘meowing’ at each other over the phone

Bizarre insight into disgraced media mogul’s relationship with favourite daughter revealed in new BBC documentary series

The Guardian - UK

House of Maxwell review – there is only one moment where Robert resembles a human being

This confidently told documentary on Robert and Ghislaine Maxwell’s relationship feels like HBO drama Succession at times – but far, far grislier

The Independent UK

House of Maxwell review: BBC true crime docuseries is shocking if only occasionally revelatory

Three-parter explores the tangled web of the paranoid Robert Maxwell, his daughter Ghislaine, and later the horrors of Jeffrey Epstein

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: exposing the scandals that felled Robert Maxwell and his daughter Ghislaine

A new three-part documentary tells the story of the notorious family. Plus, Joe Lycett samples the delights of the Basque country. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

From The Bad Guys to Let’s Eat Grandma: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s an animated heist caper you’re after, or a dose of swirling art-pop, our critics have your plans for the next seven days covered

AFP

US judge denies Ghislaine Maxwell request for new trial

New York (AFP) - A request for a new trial by Ghislaine Maxwell, the former Jeffrey Epstein associate who was convicted of child sex trafficking late last year, was denied Friday by a federal judge in New York.

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