A former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein's testified at Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial on Friday that she never saw any inappropriate conduct between the late financier and teenage girls.
billionaire former hedge fund managerMaxwell, 59, is accused of recruiting and grooming teenage girls to have sexual encounters with Epstein between 1994 and 2004. She has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of sex trafficking and other crimes.Four women who testified for the prosecution said Maxwell set them up for abuse by Epstein when they were teenagers.
Maxwell's attorneys argue that prosecutors are treating her as a stand-in Epstein, who died by suicide at 66 years old in jail in 2019 while awaiting his own trial on sex abuse charges. Earlier on Friday, Maxwell's lawyers sought to undercut the account of Jane, a pseudonym for a woman who testified during the trial's first week that she was first abused by Epstein in 1994 when she was 14 and that Maxwell participated in some of their sexual encounters.
One Maxwell attorney, Laura Menninger, asked FBI agent Amanda Young about a February 2020 interview in which Jane told law enforcement officials that she was not sure if she was ever alone in a room with Epstein and Maxwell. Jane testified that her memory was not "linear" and that she was not comfortable revealing all the details of her experiences during her initial conversations with the FBI.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comReporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Noeleen Walder, Howard Goller and Mark PorterSubscribe for our daily curated newsletter to receive the latest Reuters legal news and headlines delivered to your inbox.
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