Ghislaine Maxwell Convicted in Epstein Sex Abuse Case
Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty of five of six counts.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein. The verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14, told by four women who described being abused as teens in the 1990s and early 2000s at Epstein’s palatial homes in Florida, New York and New Mexico. Jurors deliberated for five…