Attorneys Spar in Court as Ghislaine Maxwell Sentencing Date Nears

Defense calls for leniency amid death threats, says she should not bear all the punishment for Epstein as well

Ghislaine Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein associate accused of sex trafficking, stands before U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan with her defense team of Bobbi Sternheim, Christian Everdell, Laura Menninger, Jeffrey Pagliuca during a pre-trial hearing ahead of jury selection, in a courtroom sketch in New York City, on Nov. 15, 2021. Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

NEW YORK—For the past week-and-a-half, attorneys for both sides in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial have been giving their final legal efforts via court documents, each hoping for a victory of sorts when she’s sentenced on June 28.

Maxwell was found guilty of five of six counts of sex trafficking on Dec. 29, after a month-long trial in federal court in New York.