How long will Ghislaine Maxwell go to prison for?
FORMER British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison on June 28, 2022.
She was convicted on five charges of sex trafficking for the scandal involving Jeffrey Epstein.
What were the charges against Ghislaine Maxwell?
Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty on five of the six charges against her in December 2021.
She was accused of being an accomplice to Jeffrey Epstein who was charged with sex trafficking in 2008.
Epstein killed himself in prison in 2019 while awaiting his own sex trafficking trial.
Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 of sex trafficking and transporting an individual under the age of 17 with the intent to engage in sexual activity.
How did she respond to her sentence?
After receiving her sentence, Maxwell apologized to the victims, saying she empathized with them, adding, that meeting Epstein was the "biggest regret" of her life.
"My association with Epstein will permanently stain me," she said and added that she hoped victims would find "peace and finality" from her prison sentence.
