Ghislaine Maxwell calls on judge to improve prison conditions

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell says Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide last year is to blame for the conditions she faces in jail while awaiting trial.

Through her lawyers, the 58-year-old asked a judge to help improve her treatment in a Brooklyn federal lock-up, saying “uniquely onerous conditions” limit her computer access and frustrate her ability to provide for a trial scheduled for next July.

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