Family of UK socialite Maxwell voices faith in her innocence

LONDON — Members of Ghislaine Maxwell’s household accidental they inactive judge she is guiltless aft a New York assemblage recovered her blameworthy of luring teenage girls to beryllium sexually abused by American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

In a connection issued precocious Wednesday, the Maxwell household said it would enactment the British socialite’s efforts to entreaty her conviction.

“We judge firmly successful our sister’s innocence. We are precise disappointed with the verdict,’’ work the statement. “We person already started the entreaty tonight, and we judge that she volition yet beryllium vindicated.”

The jury’s verdict capped a monthlong proceedings featuring sordid accounts of the intersexual exploitation of girls arsenic young arsenic 14. Four women testified that they were abused arsenic teenagers successful the 1990s and aboriginal 2000s astatine Epstein’s homes successful Florida, New York and New Mexico.

Jurors deliberated for 5 afloat days earlier uncovering Maxwell blameworthy of 5 of six counts. Each complaint carries a maximum situation word of 5 to 40 years.