Ghislaine Maxwell appeals sex trafficking conviction

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Socialite-turned-sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell — sentenced to 20 years in prison last week — is now appealing her conviction.

The 60-year-old was convicted of a slew of sex trafficking offences on Dec. 29, 2021, in conjunction with her one-time paramour, protector and deep-pocketed benefactor Jeffrey Epstein.

Between the socialite and the billionaire pedophile, they hatched a scheme that moved young women and underage girls around the world for sex with Epstein and his high-priced pals.

On Thursday, Maxwell’s lawyer, Bobbi Sternheim, filed a notice of appeal in federal court in Manhattan.

According to wire services, Maxwell’s legal eagles have not submitted a brief outlining her appellate arguments.

Earlier beefs from the to-the-manor-born “pimp” argued that some of her victims were of legal age and in the locations where the sexual encounters occurred.

In addition, Maxwell also sought to have her conviction overturned because one of the jurors did not disclose he was a victim of sexual abuse.

Those earlier legal gambits were torpedoed by Judge Alison Nathan. Maxwell also moaned that she was a proxy for the vile Epstein, who was found dead in his New York jail cell in August 2019.

Meanwhile, a new documentary entitled Ghislaine Maxwell: The Making of a Monster, exposes an incident where women were asked to take off their tops and bras and present their breasts to men.

Guest Nicola Glucksmann said of the 1980s Oxford party that she felt betrayed. She described the publishing heiress as a woman who was “very beautiful, charming, entertaining, but slightly manic.”

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“She was scanning the room throughout dinner as if she was looking for something. Suddenly, she announced that it was time for games, and left the room, appearing again in a moment holding several scarves,” Glucksmann says in the documentary.

“[Maxwell] explained that she was going to give each of the men a blindfold and they were to blindfold themselves. Then the women were to take off their tops and bras and present their breasts to the men, and then the men would feel the breasts and make an attempt to match the breast by weight and cup size to the woman who was attached to the breasts.”

Glucksmann added that Maxwell was unperturbed about the whole affair.

“If a man suggested it, I don’t think the women would have done it, she said, explaining the experience left her wondering “what was going on with Maxwell. It seemed to betray a very odd attitude to herself as a woman and to the men around her.”

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