They explained Maxwell, 58, who has been charged by New York federal prosecutors for her alleged function in conspiring with Epstein to recruit, groom and sexually abuse underage women as youthful as 14 concerning 1994 and 1997, hasn’t been in get in touch with with Epstein for additional than a 10 years. Maxwell “vigorously denies the costs, her attorneys wrote Friday, including that, “sometimes the most straightforward level is the most vital one particular: Ghislaine Maxwell is not Jeffrey Epstein.”

A bail hearing in her scenario is scheduled for July 14.

Rather than being held in jail whilst she awaits trial, her legal professionals prompt she be unveiled on a bail package that would include things like a $5 million personalized recognizance bond, journey restrictions and home confinement with GPS monitoring at a home in the Southern District of New York. They didn’t specify the place she may reside.

Prosecutors have reported in courtroom filings that Maxwell need to be denied bail due to the fact she “poses an extraordinary danger of flight,” citing her wealth, overseas citizenship and that she has “efficiently been in hiding for about a 12 months,” since Epstein’s arrest in July 2019.

Attorneys for Maxwell disputed that characterization. “Considerably from ‘hiding,’ she has lived in the United States considering that 1991, has litigated civil scenarios arising from her intended ties to Epstein, and has not left the region even as soon as since Epstein’s arrest a 12 months in the past, even though she was knowledgeable of the pending, and remarkably publicized, legal investigation,” they wrote.

They also claimed that Maxwell, through her attorneys, has been in “standard get hold of” with federal prosecutors from the day pursuing Epstein’s arrest as a result of her personal arrest earlier this thirty day period. A spokesman for the Manhattan US Attorney’s place of work, Nicholas Biase, declined to remark on that assert.

In their short, Maxwell’s lawyers also preview authorized arguments they plan to make with regard to the indictment, which centre on a non-prosecution settlement Epstein signed with federal prosecutors in Miami in 2007 that appeared to immunize “any possible co-conspirators of Epstein.”

When Epstein himself was indicted, New York federal prosecutors reported they thought the Florida agreement didn’t prohibit their workplace from prosecuting him, but his attorneys argued normally. That dispute wasn’t resolved due to the fact Epstein died in jail though awaiting demo.