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Ghislaine Maxwell is interviewed in prison on Jeremy Kyle Live, which was broadcast on TalkTV in Britain on Monday. Jan. 23, 2023.Photo by Jeremy Kyle Live / screengrab /Twitter
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Disgraced socialite and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was hit with a 48-hour jolt in solitary confinement after federal prison brass accused her of profiting from a media interview.
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Maxwell has never quite accepted her circumstances and moaned throughout the interviews. She also blamed the dodgy dead financier for her current circumstances.
The one-time society belle was convicted of sex trafficking in December 2021 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. Her new home is the Federal Correctional Institute Tallahassee.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s new home: FCI Tallahassee. HANDOUT/ US BOP
But Maxwell — entitled as ever — is only allowed “video visits” from a short list of friends, family and her legal team.
According to the Daily Mail, Bureau of Prisons staff determined Maxwell had breached the terms of her sentence by selling her tale of woe to the media. She was sent to the harsh Special Housing Unit (SHU).
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“About two weeks after the show was on TV, Max was just minding her own business when they came in, turned her around and handcuffed her,” a prison source told the Mail.
“She got really upset, she was crying, she was yelling that she hadn’t received any money, but nobody saw her again for three days. The SHU is not a nice place. You go in there if you’re suicidal, if you fail a drug test or you get in a fight.”
The source added: “It’s like a little box and you’re only allowed out to shower once a day. There’s no contact from anyone, no privileges, they slide your meals through a slot.
“Normally people stay there for at least two weeks but she was out in about 48 hours because there was no evidence she was guilty.”
Meanwhile, the socialite is reportedly busy trying to overturn her convictions. Maxwell lured and groomed underage girls for sex with Epstein and his coterie of twisted pals.
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She will be nearly 80 when she is eventually released.
In the interview with Jeremy Kyle, Maxwell moaned about the early wake-up calls and her tofu and beans diet.
An undated handout photo taken at an undisclosed location and released on Aug. 9, 2021 by the United States District Couty for the Southern District of New York shows (left to right) Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell posing for a photo.Photo by HANDOUT/U.S. District Court - Southern District /AFP via Getty Images
In addition to her complaints about prison conditions, the sex trafficker also claimed that the smoking gun photo of herself, Prince Andrew and victim Virginia Giuffre was bogus.
Kyle has said Maxwell wasn’t paid “a damn penny” for the interview. And Maxwell insisted interviewer Daphne Barak was a long-time friend.
Jailbird pals are suggesting that Maxwell is being singled out for special treatment. Despite passing a literacy test with flying colours, her gambit for a job at a government call centre was torpedoed.
“What upset Max most was that they threw her in the SHU before they knew the facts,” the prison source told the Mail. “She hasn’t been the same since then, it’s made her very down and depressed. She thinks they are being intentionally cruel and mean to her.”
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