Ghislaine Maxwell listens as defense attorney Bobbi Sternheim gives her opening statement at the start of Maxwell’s trial on charges of sex trafficking, in a courtroom sketch in New York City. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
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NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal sex-abuse trial entered its second day on Tuesday, with prosecutors resuming their questioning of a longtime pilot of the deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell is accused of recruiting and grooming underage girls to give Epstein erotic massages a prosecutor described in her opening statement on Monday as a “ruse” for sex abuse.
A lawyer for Maxwell has said that the British socialite was being scapegoated for crimes Epstein committed. Epstein died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex-abuse charges.
