May dook in the Ghislaine Maxwell file

Yesterday, the trial against Ghislaine Maxwell began, the woman suspected of recruiting underage girls to have sex with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful associates. Yesterday, we saw the first courtroom sketches in which an intensely emaciated Maxwell clung to her lawyer Bobbi Sternheim. I was fascinated that her sisters were present in the New York courtroom, so I delved into the case and made many rather bizarre discoveries. I'll just list them.

1. The trial will last only six weeks. So just after Christmas, we will have the verdict.

2. It took so long for the case to come to court because the jury was assembled with great care. Because it is such a well-known case, it is difficult to find people who are somewhat objective.

3. By the way, Ghislaine's birthday is December 25. That won't be her most enjoyable birthday, stuck among the rats in the Brooklyn prison.

4. Her entire family supports her. Her wealthy twin sisters Christine and Isabel (both internet entrepreneurs, by the way), her brother Ian; they all have a task and a role and they started the website realghislaine.com to try to prove their sister's innocence. Quite peculiar, as the siblings did not know, for example, that Ghislaine was married (they suddenly heard the word ‘spouse’). They also did not know in the past that she had a relationship with Epstein; they describe Ghislaine as someone who always kept her life very ‘private’ and shared little. But in the meantime, they are sure that she is innocent.

5. Her husband is Scott Borgerson, also extremely wealthy, who amassed his hundred million in the tech industry (he analyzes data for large shipping companies). They secretly married in 2016, and Ghislaine even proposed to divorce because she did not want to put him through this. She is also a stepmother to his children (a daughter and a son aged 11 and 14), for whom she filled lunch boxes and took to school on the days they were with their father. Fourteen, that is the age of some girls she is said to have recruited.

6. Her husband is also said to have wanted to pay 19 million of the proposed 28 million bail. That request was denied because Maxwell is considered a flight risk due to her many connections and the interests of many powerful men who benefit if she does not reveal what she has done for Epstein.

7. By the way, her husband is 14 years younger. Not that it matters, but you might want to know.

8. If she is found guilty of everything she is suspected of, the prison sentence could be 80 years.

9. The black book is one of the key points in this case. It allegedly contains all the names of friends for whom girls were recruited.

10. The sad story behind Maxwell is that her brother died two days after her birth. He had been in a coma for eight years and died on December 27. The story goes that she was only seen by her parents when she was about five years old, due to the great sorrow.

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