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#Ghislaine Maxwell was hiding from media, not prosecutors, lawyers claim

#Ghislaine Maxwell was hiding from media, not prosecutors, lawyers claim

July 10, 2020 | 1:38pm | Updated July 10, 2020 | 1:58pm

Ghislaine Maxwell wasn’t hiding from federal prosecutors when she disappeared for a year after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest — she was just dodging the media, a court filing claimed Friday.

Maxwell’s attorneys, arguing that she should be granted bond in her sex-trafficking case, painted the alleged madame as victim, scapegoated by aggressive tabloids who sought to accuse her of Epstein’s crimes.

“Ever since Epstein’s arrest, Ms. Maxwell has been at the center of a crushing onslaught of press articles, television specials, and social media posts painting her in the most damning light possible and prejudging her guilt,” her attorneys wrote in a response to federal prosecutors memo requesting that she be remanded before her trial.

They pointed to a specific article in the British newspaper The Sun, which pictured Maxwell on a wanted poster.

“She has seen helicopters flying over her home and reporters hiding in the bushes,” they added.

They argue that Maxwell dropped out of the public eye — and hid at a sprawling New Hampshire mansion — not to escape the law, but to hide from this “intrusive” media coverage.

“Ms. Maxwell did not take these steps to hide from law enforcement or evade prosecution,” they wrote. “Instead, they were necessary measures that Ms. Maxwell was forced to take to protect herself, her family members, her friends and colleagues, and their children, from unrelenting and intrusive media coverage, threats, and irreparable reputational harm.”

Her lawyers are requesting she be released on $5 million bond and that she turn over her travel documents as part of the deal.

In a detention memo filed last week, prosecutors ask that she be remanded, arguing she’s an “extreme” flight risk who’s has more than $20 million in the bank and three passports.

Maxwell’s attorneys also noted that the Brooklyn federal jail that she’s locked up in has a current coronavirus outbreak — and she’s at risk of contracting the virus.

Maxwell was arrested last week on a six-count indictment that accuses her of trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse and then lying about it under oath.

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