Lawyer: Ghislaine Maxwell has lost hair and weight due to prison conditions

Lawyers for the Metropolitan Detention Centre warden in Brooklyn defended conditions at the facility where Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of Robert Maxwell, is being held (Jim James/PA)

A lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell, the one-time girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, has said her client has lost weight and hair as she suffers under onerous prison conditions imposed in part because Epstein killed himself last year in a federal lock-up.

Bobbi Sternheim made the claims on Maxwell’s behalf after lawyers for the Metropolitan Detention Centre warden in Brooklyn defended conditions at the facility in a letter that was publicly filed on Monday.