Ghislaine Maxwell Has Been Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison

Get the Full StoryThe final chapter in Ghislaine Maxwell s story as one of the grosses main characters in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking saga has finally come to a close today possible title of that book: Is There A Place Hotter Than Hell For These Two? . Nearly six months after Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of five charges, including sex trafficking a minor, it was time to return to court and discuss sentencing. Lo and behold, Ghislaine will be locked away for 20 years.

Last week it was reported that 60-year-old Ghislaine and her legal team had filed documents claiming that it was unfair for Ghislaine to serve a sentence that should have been reserved for Jeffrey Epstein you know, had he not been found unalive in his jail cell back in 2019 . They requested between 51 and 63 months, or less than six years. Ghislaine s pathetic B b but I was just following orders! shtick wasn t being felt by prosecutors, who were angling for a sentence between 30 and 55 years behind bars, plus a fine of 750,000. Maybe Ghislaine should have wished on a brighter star from the bar-covered window of her prison bunk because she didn t get that itty bitty five-and-a-bit years she was angling for. She was sentenced to a full 20 years today. She released the following statement, through her lawyers, in response to the sentencing. via People :

To you, all the victims I am sorry for the pain that you experienced. It is my sincerest wish to all those in this courtroom and to all those outside this courtroom that this day brings a terrible chapter to the end, to an end. And to those of you who spoke here today and those of you who did not, may this day help you travel from darkness into the light.

Those victims might have been one of the big reasons why Ghislaine got 20 years in the big house. People notes that one victim impact statement accused Ghislaine of being the ringleader of the operation who truly pulled all the strings on the sex trafficker express. Another accused Ghislaine of lacking any remorse for her crimes. But, there might also be a valid reason for why Ghislaine didn t get up to 55 years, like what the prosecution was hoping for. Essentially, it might have been a legal technicality. via Bloomberg:

U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan rules in the sentencing hearing that Ghislaine must apply the sentencing guidelines in place at the time the offense was committed. The judge says that applying the current guidelines would result in a significantly longer sentence than she would get under the ones that were in place when the crime happened.

One specific piece of testimony from one victim alleges that they were sex trafficked by Ghislaine between the years of 2001 and 2004, so the judge might have taken that 18-year time jump between 2004 and present-day into account. But 20 years is 20 years, and Ghislaine will be 80 when she s allowed out.

And really, I guess if there s any justice here, it s that Ghislaine got more than the 51 months she was hoping for. But there s also one small silver lining for Ghislaine. Now that she s about to become an official long-term prison inmate, she no longer has to answer the same question over and over again from correctional officers. And no, I m not talking about her constantly being questioned about why she s in prison and not Hell. I m referring to her name! It s taken me years to figure out how to spell and pronounce it, so I fully believe every correctional officer is like: Uh so G-H-I geeze lanai shoot, help me out here, how do you pronounce that? . Now she can just go by her official DOJ inmate number and save everyone the headache and triggered gag reflex of having to say her actual name.

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