Over four and a half weeks in late 2021, prosecutors presented evidence that Maxwell recruited and groomed girls for Epstein between 1994 and 2004 and sometimes took part in the abuse. Four women testified, three under first names or pseudonyms, and one, Annie Farmer, under her own name. The jury convicted her on five of six counts, including sex trafficking of a minor. [1][2]
The judge sentenced her to 20 years. The appeals court rejected her main arguments: that the 2007 Florida non-prosecution agreement protected her as a “potential co-conspirator,” and that a juror had failed to disclose his own history of abuse. [3][2]
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