Victim of privilege: How Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers tried to make her seem likeable 

Ghislaine Maxwell with Jeffrey Epstein in a photo that has been shown to the court during the sex trafficking trial of Maxwell in the Southern District of New York. The British socialite is accused of preying on vulnerable young girls and luring them to massage rooms to be molested by Epstein between 1994 and 2004. I

When Ghislaine Maxwell’s defence case started last Thursday, her team tried pulling off a near-impossible task – making the British socialite accused of sex trafficking seem likeable.

Indeed, the first defence witness in Maxwell’s Manhattan federal court sex-trafficking trial, former assistant Cimberly Espinosa, described her ex-boss in glowing terms.