Ghislaine Maxwell's victims can testify anonymously at upcoming sex-trafficking trial: judge
Fox News
Jeffrey Epstein cohort Ghislaine Maxwell appears in Manhattan federal court in a final hearing before her sex-trafficking trial begins later this month.
The judge cited the sex-trafficking cases of Nxivm leader Keith Raniere and R&B singer R. Kelly in which victims were permitted to testify anonymously at their federal trials. Nathan also shot down the defense's request to bar prosecutors from using the word "victim" in front of the jury.
Maxwell, 59, appeared in person in the courtroom Monday wearing a white T-shirt, blue prison scrubs and a white mask. Before the proceeding began, the beleaguered defendant, her hair messily hanging to her shoulders, briefly looked over at her sister, Isabel Maxwell, who was seated in the gallery.
The British socialite has been behind bars since her July 2020 arrest on charges she recruited and groomed teen girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein and her to sexually abuse in the 1990s and early 2000s.