Ghislaine Maxwell subjected to physical abuse while in prison, lawyer claims

Ghislaine Maxwell, who is facing a trial in July after being accused of facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual exploitation of underage girls (Chris Ison/PA)

Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer has claimed the British socialite was physically abused at a federal prison on Brooklyn and punished for making a complaint.

Bobbi Sternheim wrote in a letter to a Manhattan federal judge that the abuse occurred recently at the Metropolitan Detention Centre as Maxwell was undergoing a pat down search in her isolation cell.