Ghislaine Maxwell claims jail guards seized her confidential documents

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers claim jail guards of improperly confiscating and reviewing her legal documents, according to a letter to the judge overseeing Maxwell's case.

Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell are accusing guards at a federal detention center of improperly confiscating and reviewing her legal documents after she met with her lawyers at the facility over the weekend, according to a letter Monday to the federal judge overseeing Maxwell's criminal case. "Ms. Maxwell observed three guards going through the [folder], reading papers and pages of the notebook, dividing papers into two stacks, and leaving the room with the papers," wrote Bobbi C. Sternheim, one of Maxwell's criminal lawyers, in the letter to U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan. Maxwell's lawyers said guards then "intimidated Ms. Maxwell" by standing "knee to knee" over her as she used the bathroom, and threatening her with a disciplinary infraction, the letter states. The latest dispute over the conditions of Maxwell's confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn began on Saturday, one day after she pleaded not guilty to an eight-count superseding indictment alleging she aided and conspired with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in the sexual abuse of four minors between 1994 and 2004.