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Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein confidante, hit with 20 years for sex-trafficking teen girls
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Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced Tuesday in Manhattan federal court for recruiting and grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused by late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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Before the sentence was handed down, Maxwell addressed the court. "I believe that Jeffrey Epstein was a manipulative, cunning and controlling man who lived a profoundly compartmentalized life and filled all of those in his orbit," said Maxwell, 60, who wore blue prison scrubs.
Epstein, a convicted pedophile, killed himself at 66 in his jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on a sex trafficking indictment.
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