NEW YORK —Federal prosecutors filed sex-trafficking charges Monday against Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, expanding their criminal case ahead of her anticipated trial this summer.
The superseding indictment from the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office cites a new unidentified victim who was 14 years old when Maxwell brought her into Epstein’s circle around 2001, prosecutors say, bringing the number of victims in the case to four. Continue reading “Ghislaine Maxwell charged with sex trafficking in new federal indictment”