Ghislaine Maxwell has traded jailhouse garb for a organization everyday getup.
Maxwell appeared in court Monday morning ahead of jury range in her upcoming sexual intercourse-trafficking demo — and sported civilian outfits for the 1st time in community given that her 2020 arrest.
The accused Jeffrey Epstein madam wore gray slacks, a black turtleneck, black studying eyeglasses and black boots as her attorneys hammered out the logistics of how some 230 potential jurors will be posed queries by Manhattan federal Choose Alison Nathan starting up Tuesday morning.
Maxwell was escorted by US Marshals into the courtroom, but was not shackled or handcuffed, as she experienced been during her earlier appearances.
She spoke with her lawful staff and shared a laugh with them soon after the transient hearing concluded. A single of her lawyers, Jeffrey Pagliuca, also stroked her hair and wiped it out of her facial area as they exchanged terms.
On Tuesday morning, possible jurors will be posed thoughts to identify their capacity to be impartial if chosen to sit on the panel.
The queries will consist of a query on sights of folks who are “wealthy or have lavish lifestyles,” according to courtroom files.
The potential panelists will also view a prerecorded message from Nathan, who will say Maxwell is accused of enticing “minor women to travel to have interaction in legal intercourse activity, to transportation minors to engage in felony sexual exercise, and to engage in sex trafficking of a slight.”
The judge will observe Maxwell has pleaded not responsible and the indictment versus her does not prove her guilt and is not proof in the circumstance.
Roughly 600 opportunity jurors filled out questionnaires about their ability to serve on the panel, which will finally be whittled down to 12 persons and six alternates who will make up the jury.
Opening statements in the demo are scheduled to start out on Nov. 29.
Maxwell is accused of grooming and enticing girls to journey to have interaction in intercourse functions with Epstein, a multimillionaire financier, from 1994 to 2004.
She has been locked up in what she has explained as horrid problems in a Brooklyn federal facility because her arrest.
Epstein killed himself in a Lower Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 whilst awaiting demo on intercourse-trafficking prices.
