Ghislaine Maxwell hauled into court in shackles in dramatic sketch as she’s confronted by her victims at her sentencing
SHAMED socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was hauled into court wearing a blue prison uniform and shackles for her sentencing today as her victims watched on.
The 60-year-old is set to be jailed for years after grooming dozens of girls for twisted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Dramatic court sketches show Maxwell looking at the ground as she was brought into the court room wearing a white mask.
Throughout the morning session of her sentencing hearing, she frequently played with her hair and adjusted her mask.
Epstein victims Sarah Ransome, Elizabeth Stein, Annie Farmer and the accuser known as "Kate" are all present in the courtroom, as well as controversial juror Scotty David.
Judge Alison Nathan told the court the British socialite "regularly engaged in a pattern of prohibited sexual activity".
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She said Maxwell's prison sentence would be enhanced due to her "supervisory role in extensive criminal activity".
After considering a number of aggravating factors in the case, Judge Nathan said the guidelines would put the case between 15.6 years to 19.5 years imprisonment.
Judge Nathan said she still intended to impose a fine on the defendant after the court heard that Epstein left her a £10million bequest.
Before the hearing, Maxwell entered the room with shackles around her ankles which rattled as she made her way to her seat.
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Wearing a prison-issued uniform, Maxwell apologised to her victims, saying she hopes her sentencing will allow them "peace and finality".
She told the court meeting Epstein was her "greatest regret".
Maxwell said: "I believe that Jeffrey Epstein was a manipulative, cunning and controlling man who lived a profoundly compartmentalised life and fooled all of those in his orbit."
Looking at her victims, she added: "I am sorry for the pain that you experienced."
Speaking at the hearing, one victim known only as "Kate" said Maxwell was "not sorry and would do it again".
She added: "Ghislaine's lack of remorse and blatant refusal to take responsibility for her crimes towards us is her final insult.
"Someone who even had a difficult or abusive father does not excuse sex trafficking of minors.
"A lack of remorse or responsibility from Ghislaine is exactly how we can tell that she doesn't think what she did was wrong."
Maxwell lured vulnerable teenagers for vile multi-millionaire Epstein to abuse at his various luxurious properties - with the pair described as "partners in crime".
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In what was described as the "trial of the century", the jury heard how Maxwell snared and "served up" girls as young as 14 for Epstein - and even joined in the abuse herself.
The prosecutor said Maxwell was a “sophisticated predator who knew exactly what she was doing” who “ran the same playbook again and again and again”.
She was convicted of five out of six counts of sex trafficking by a jury in December.
Maxwell was a fixture in high society on both sides of the Atlantic - spending decades attending lavish parties in both New York and London.
She would hide in plain sight amongst the rich and powerful - all the while grooming girls for her on-and-off boyfriend Epstein.
The daughter of disgraced newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell, Maxwell was born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
She became increasingly close with Epstein after her dad died - with two at one point being lovers after they are believed to have met in New York.
And then throughout the 90s and 00s she would facilitate and allegedly participate in the financier's perverted sex scheme.
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Victims described how she would ensnare them in an "upside-down, twisted world of rape, rape and more rape" - saying it was a "dungeon of sexual hell".
And they claimed Maxwell would attempt to intimidate them - even threatening to have them killed - once they escaped from the sex trafficking scheme.
