Ghislaine Maxwell is hoping a judge will drop the federal sex trafficking charges against her thanks to Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 plea deal, which was supposed to protect himself and his close contacts from sex-trafficking charges.
Maxwell is accused of procuring underage girls for Epstein between 1994 and 1997, as well as abusing some of the women herself. In 2007, Epstein took the plea deal “in exchange for pleading guilty in 2008 to state prostitution charges in Florida and registering as a sex offender,” the New York Post reported. That deal was also meant to protect the people around him, though as the Post noted it did not name Maxwell specifically. Still, Maxwell’s attorneys are trying to use that plea agreement to get the charges dropped against her.
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