Defense Rests in Ghislaine Maxwell Trial After Just 2 Days of Witness Testimony

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NEW YORKโ€”After only two days of witness testimonyโ€”and two short days at thatโ€”Ghislaine Maxwellโ€™s defense team rested its case in her sex-trafficking trial in federal court on Dec. 17.

Just prior to the announcement, Judge Alison Nathan instructed Maxwell regarding her right to testify in her own defenseโ€”or not testifyโ€”and how the jury cannot use her decision not to against her.

Maxwell spoke in court for the first time during the trial, saying, โ€œThe government has not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt, and so thereโ€™s no need for me to testify.โ€

Previously, the defense called the last of its witnesses, many of whom faced a savage cross-examination from the prosecution.

The defense called two FBI agents who reviewed FD-302s, which are summaries of interviews conducted by agents. Agents Jason Richards and Amanda Young had signed off on the ones they wrote and both testified they made them as accurate as possible.

They had interviewed alleged victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a close associate of Maxwell who died in a New York prison cell in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges.

Under cross-examination by prosecuting attorney Maurene Comey, both witnesses testified that recording devices were not used in any of the interviews, the alleged victims never attested to the accuracy of the summaries before they testified, and that specifically, โ€œJaneโ€ was not given hers to review before she appeared as a witness for the prosecution.

Another witness for the defense was Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin, a former girlfriend of Epstein. They dated from 1983 to around 1991. She and Epstein remained friends, even after she started a family with her husband, Glenn Dubin.

Andersson-Dubin testified she never saw any inappropriate behavior by Epstein with teenage girls.

Under direct examination, defense attorney Jeffrey Pagliuca asked her if she ever participated in group, sexual acts with Epstein, to which she replied, โ€œAbsolutely not.โ€

He then asked the same thing, but with Jane involved, to which she replied, โ€œI have not.โ€

Then came the cross examination.

After a few questions from prosecuting attorney Alison Moe, she ended with, โ€œAre you having issues with your memory?โ€

She replied, โ€œItโ€™s very hard to remember anything far back and sometimes I canโ€™t even remember days from last month. My family notices it, I notice it, and itโ€™s an issue.โ€

Byย Dave Paone

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