At a Wall Street event in New York in March 2005, Gislain and Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in prison in 2019. (Photo: Gallo Images/Getty Images)
Ghislaine Maxwell plans to challenge the prosecutor’s allegations in her criminal trial that she “trained” the late financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse an underage girl and provided testimony that her accuser may have Wrong memory.
According to a letter from Maxwell’s lawyers published on Monday, a former president of the American Psychiatry and Law Society will testify that Maxwell’s alleged efforts to win the trust of the plaintiffs did not automatically reflect their intention to be abused.
The letter stated that former President Park Dietz will testify that Maxwell’s proposal of recruiting underage girls to provide Epstein with a “agent beauty” has not received support in the scientific community. .
It also said that Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist who specializes in memory problems, will testify about “false memories” of sexual abuse, which people can describe in the witness stand with “confidence, details and emotions”. And will not deliberately lie.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney Damian Williams in Manhattan declined to comment, and his office is suing Maxwell.
A letter from Maxwell’s lawyer Jeffrey Pagliuca outlines possible defenses against the British socialite who helped recruit and train four underage girls between 1994 and 2004. Perstein abused and participated in the sex trade with the fourth girl.
The 59-year-old Maxwell pleaded not guilty. The hearing of expert testimony is scheduled for Wednesday. The trial began on November 29 and may last six weeks.
Epstein is a convicted sex offender who committed suicide in a Manhattan jail in August 2019 at the age of 66 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges. A forensic doctor called it suicide.
