Mega Edition: Ghislaine Maxwell's Team And The Attempt To Stifle Impact Statements (9/28/26)

The Epstein Chronicles · Sep 28, 2026 · 50m

Ahead of Ghislaine Maxwell’s June 2022 sentencing, her lawyers tried to prevent several Epstein accusers from delivering victim impact statements, arguing that not everyone who had submitted a statement qualified as a “crime victim” under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. The defense specifically objected to statements from four women and argued that sentencing should not become an unrestricted forum for people whose allegations were not tied closely enough to the conduct for which Maxwell had been convicted. Maxwell’s attorneys also argued that allowing those statements into the record would be…