Ghislaine Maxwell Put On Suicide Watch, May Additionally Are Seeking For Sentencing Delay, Attorney Says

Ghislaine Maxwell has been placed on suicide watch at a Brooklyn jail, and may are seeking for to postpone her Tuesday sentencing for assisting Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of underage ladies, her lawyer said on Saturday night time.

In a letter to the choose overseeing Maxwell's case, Maxwell's attorney, Bobbi Sternheim, said her client is "not able to well prepare, for sentencing," after officials at the Metropolitan Detention Center on Friday declared the suicide watch and all at once moved Maxwell to solitary confinement.

Sternheim stated Maxwell became given a "suicide smock," and her clothing, toothpaste, cleaning soap and criminal papers had been taken away.

The lawyer also said Maxwell "is not suicidal," a conclusion she stated a psychologist who evaluated the 60-12 months-antique British socialite on Saturday morning also reached.

"If Ms. Maxwell stays on suicide watch, is unlawful from reviewing prison materials prior to sentencing, becomes sleep deprived, and is denied sufficient time to meet with and talk over with suggest, we can be officially transferring on Monday for an adjournment," Sternheim wrote.

A spokesman for US Attorney Damian Williams in Manhattan, whose workplace prosecuted Maxwell, declined to remark.

Epstein, 66, killed himself in August 2019 in a Manhattan prison cellular, where the financier changed into looking forward to trial for intercourse trafficking.

Maxwell changed into convicted on Dec. 29 on five criminal counts, together with sex trafficking, for recruiting and grooming four women for Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 2004.

Prosecutors have stated Maxwell need to spend at least 30 years in prison, bringing up her "utter loss of remorse." Maxwell wishes a time period shorter than 20 years.

The sentence might be imposed by using US Circuit Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan federal court docket.

Maxwell has been held inside the Brooklyn prison due to the fact that rapidly after her July 2020 arrest.

Her lawyers objected a couple of instances before trial approximately the confinement conditions there, consisting of remaining November while Sternheim likened them to Hannibal Lecter's from the 1991 Oscar-winning film "The Silence of the Lambs."