Ghislaine Maxwell Claims Inmate Paid To Strangle Her, Blames Abusive Dad Ahead of Sentence for Child Trafficking Convictions

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In the eastern Florida city of Tallahassee prison, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and double murderer Narcy Novack spoke for hours on end. Mark Mainz/Getty Images

According to the convicted sex offender's defense team, a prisoner in Ghislaine Maxwell's jail housing unit said she was offered money to assassinate the former socialite.

Maxwell's attorneys have reportedly claimed that her father smacked her with a hammer as they revealed aspects of her traumatic childhood. Following a month-long trial in New York, the 60-year-old was convicted of sexual offenses in December of last year.

Ghislaine Maxwell Sentencing

She was found guilty on five of six offenses, including sex trafficking of kids, which carries a maximum jail sentence of 40 years. Maxwell, who was involved with convicted child molester Jeffrey Epstein, will be sentenced on June 28.

Her attorneys have made a last-ditch plea for compassion, blaming her conduct on her parents' brutality and her friendship with Epstein. Maxwell was released from solitary prison last month following two years of what her family described as abuse.

Her defense team claims that after being sent to the general population at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center she became the victim of a serious death threat from another inmate, as per The Sun.

According to the New York Times, a prisoner in Maxwell's housing unit informed at least three other convicts that she was offered money to murder her. She stated her intention to strangle her in her sleep.

According to her legal team, this convict was eventually transferred to a separate unit, presumably to safeguard Ms. Maxwell. The event has not been independently verified, and the US Attorney's Office has declined to comment.

However, Maxwell's defense attorneys have maintained that this episode highlights the harsh truth that there are countless jail prisoners who would assassinate Ms. Maxwell for money, fame, or just street cred.

Maxwell's attorneys say in their sentencing brief that prosecutors only focused on her after the "strong media and public controversy" that followed Epstein's death in jail in August 2019, a month after his arrest for sexually exploiting and abusing kids and women. Maxwell is expected to request a transfer to a UK jail so that she may serve the majority of her sentence for child sex trafficking near to her family.

Ghislaine Maxwell Says Difficult Childhood Made Her Vulnerable to Jeffrey Epstein

Furthermore, Ghislaine Maxwell alleged childhood maltreatment at the hands of her father, Robert Maxwell, in a mercy petition filed days before her sentence for child sex trafficking charges.

Maxwell's counsel portrayed a childhood marked by neglect, beatings, and ritual humiliation in front of her father's influential friends, far from the glamorous lifestyle generally associated with her affluent background.

According to them, her childhood wounds rendered her open to Jeffrey Epstein, whom she encountered for the first time shortly after Maxwell's death in 1991. After a month-long trial, Maxwell was convicted on five charges of child sex trafficking on December 29. She is scheduled to be sentenced on June 28 and is requesting a considerably less sentence than the maximum of 65 years.

Robert Maxwell, a flamboyant Czechoslovakian-born World War II hero, amassed a sizable publishing empire in the United Kingdom while building a larger-than-life public persona, regularly breaking the rules and suing anybody who dared to question him.

His election as a Member of Parliament in 1964, when Ghislaine was just two years old, was regarded by her attorneys as a watershed moment in their relationship.

On Sundays, when authors and entrepreneurs gathered at the family's stately house in Oxfordshire, Maxwell senior would only see the children. According to the complaint, the children would be placed on trial, and the 'Maxwellian Drama' would commence.

During these weekly sessions, Rob Maxwell would choose one of the seven children, two of whom had died before, for extensive questioning in front of his visitors. Punishment would subsequently be administered, leaving the entire family in complete misery, Independent.

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