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Ghislaine Maxwell, the Jeffrey Epstein associate accused of sex trafficking, wearing a borrowed oversize coat sits in front of her brother Kevin Maxwell and sister Isabel Maxwell during a charging conference in a courtroom sketch in New York City, U.S., December 18, 2021. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for helping the sex offender and globetrotting financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, in what a judge called a "horrific scheme" that inflicted "incalculable" harm on victims.
The British socialite, 60, was convicted in December of five charges, including sex trafficking a minor, for recruiting and grooming four girls to have sexual encounters with Epstein, then her boyfriend, between 1994 and 2004.
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