Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers ask for a retrial

The retrial request comes after a juror in the case told media that he spoke to the other jurors of his experience of being sexually abused.

Ghislaine Maxwell. File Picture: PA

Lawyers for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell have asked for a retrial after her conviction for sex trafficking.

Maxwell, 60, who was labelled “dangerous” by the prosecution during her three-week trial in New York, was found guilty of enticing vulnerable teenagers to financier Jeffrey Epstein’s various properties for him to sexually abuse between 1994 and 2004.