Ghislaine Maxwell is appealing against a judge’s order that she remain jailed in New York while awaiting trial on charges she recruited girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse.
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Lawyers for the daughter of the British press baron Robert Maxwell notified a trial judge on Monday of plans to appeal against the decision two weeks ago to reject a $28.5m bail package. The notice of appeal was posted publicly on Tuesday in the Manhattan federal court record.
In late December, a federal judge in Manhattan said the bail package proposed by defense lawyers only strengthened her confidence that her decision over the summer to keep Maxwell incarcerated until the trial in July was correct.
The bail package included $22.5m lawyers said amounted to all of Maxwell and her husband’s assets. They also said she would be under 24-hour guard and restricted to a New York City apartment where she would wear an electronic bracelet.
Prosecutors opposed bail, saying Maxwell remained a threat to flee in part because she had access to considerable wealth and connections abroad. They also noted that she is a citizen of the US, the UK and France.
Maxwell, who is housed at a federal lockup in Brooklyn, pleaded not guilty after her July arrest to charges that in the 1990s she recruited and groomed girls for Epstein, including one who was 14 years old at the time.
Epstein, a financier and convicted sex offender who had connections to powerful figures including Prince Andrew, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, killed himself in a Manhattan federal jail in August 2019, as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges.
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