The jury in Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse trial began deliberations on Monday after hearing closing arguments over whether the British socialite set up teenage girls to have sexual encounters with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Maxwell, 59, is accused of recruiting and grooming four teenage girls for Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 2004. On trial for three weeks in federal court in Manhattan, she has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking and other crimes.Epstein killed himself in a jail cell in 2019 at the age of 66 while awaiting trial on sex abuse charges.Earlier on Monday, prosecutor Alison Moe said in her closing argument that Maxwell was Epstein's "partner in crime."Jurors previously heard from four women who said
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