Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of five sex-trafficking charges, and is facing decades in prison. What does this mean for Jeffrey Epstein’s other associates?
Prince Andrew’s defense team has been aggressively trying to get the Southern District Court of New York to drop Giuffre’s civil case against him. In documents filed yesterday, Prince Andrew’s attorney Andrew B. Brettler argued that the case should be dismissed because the court did not have jurisdiction, as Giuffre has spent the majority of the past 20 years in Australia rather than America.
The defense team has also tried to block the release of court documents related to Epstein’s 2009 settlement with Giuffre, which bears directly on Andrew’s case. Yet that argument did not succeed: On Wednesday, U.S.
Attorney Sigrid McCawley, Boies’ partner on the case, credits the accusers who bravely came forward. “Today’s verdict is a towering victory, not just for the brave women who testified in this trial, but for the women around the world whose young and tender lives were diminished and damaged by the abhorrent actions of Ghislaine Maxwell,” he said in a statement. “I am in awe of their sacrifice, their courage and the strength they have shown in pursuit of justice.
Despite the open questions as to what this verdict may mean for Prince Andrew’s case, Maxwell’s victims, as well as their advocates, are satisfied with the result of the trial. “My [soul] yearned for justice for years and today the jury gave me just that,” Guiffre said in a statement. “I will remember this day always. Having lived with the horrors of Maxwell’s abuse, my heart goes out to the many other girls and young women who suffered at her hands and whose lives she destroyed.
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