Maxwell, 60, was convicted in December of s.e.x trafficking and is serving a 20-year prison sentence over her role in recruiting and grooming girls for Epstein, a financier and registered s.e.x offender who had been known for socializing with elite US politicians and businessmen.
Ghislaine Maxwell has failed to pay some $878,000 in fees to two lawyers who defended the now-convicted British socialite against criminal charges she helped Jeffrey Epstein abuse teenage girls, the lawyers’ firm said in a new lawsuit.
Maxwell, 60, was convicted in December of s.e.x trafficking and is serving a 20-year prison sentence over her role in recruiting and grooming girls for Epstein, a financier and registered sex offender who had been known for socializing with elite US politicians and businessmen.
In a lawsuit filed on Monday in a Colorado state court in Denver, the law firm Haddon, Morgan and Foreman said Maxwell’s brother Kevin promised before trial to pay a $1 million retainer but paid just $143,500, “a small fraction of the amount owed.”
Two of the firm’s lawyers, Laura Menninger and Jeffrey Pagliuca, represented Ghislaine Maxwell throughout the case. Other defendants include Kevin Maxwell and Scott Borgerson, described in the lawsuit as Ghislaine Maxwell’s husband.
The lawsuit said Kevin Maxwell told the Haddon firm that Borgerson controlled Maxwell’s money. Neither Menninger nor Pagliuca immediately responded to requests for comment. Two of Maxwell’s other lawyers, Bobbi Sternheim and Christian Everdell, also did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Kevin Maxwell and Borgerson could not immediately be reached for comment.
Another brother, Ian Maxwell, told the Associated Press that the Maxwell family would not comment. Ghislaine Maxwell and her husband have separated, Maxwell’s lawyers wrote in a sentencing submission earlier this year.
Maxwell, the daughter of late British press baron Robert Maxwell, is serving her sentence in a Tallahassee, Florida, prison, and is appealing her conviction. Epstein killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 at age 66 while awaiting trial on his own s.e.x trafficking charges.
Source: Reuters
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