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Disgraced socialite and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is so broke she’s representing herself in a Quixotic quest to get her hands on ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein’s millions.
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According to the Daily Mail, the 62-year-old jailbird even has to file her legal briefs from a prison typewriter.
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Maxwell’s once formidable fortune has been decimated after years of staggering legal bills, lawsuits from victims and a divorce.
The British newspaper reported that the arch-predator has filed a lawsuit in her former stomping grounds of the U.S. Virgin Islands against the billionaire pedophile’s estate in a desperate gambit to recoup legal fees from her criminal trial.
Her filings are submitted via snail mail because she is not allowed to file them electronically from her Florida prison home, which Maxwell slams as a “technological black hole.” She was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2021 for sex trafficking.
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As per the Mail, the former it-girl has become something of a jailhouse lawyer but it’s all a far cry from her halcyon days in the 1990s when she was the toast of the town in New York, London and Palm Beach as Epstein’s madam and muse.
But then came the Oxford University grad’s legal woes, forcing her to sell her $16-million Big Apple townhouse and $2.2-million London home.
Maxwell first tried to tap into Epstein’s fortune just months after the fiendish financier died in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019. The publishing heiress said she incurred big expenses while working for the hedge fund manager.
She claimed that Epstein and his longtime lawyer promised to cover her legal fees.
In her Oct. 3 filing, she noted her “communication challenges.” She asked for more time to find a lawyer.
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She wrote: “All incarcerated people have communication challenges, as plaintiff does. Her situation is not unique but for the court’s consideration, it bears noting that plaintiff has no ability to write snail mail, email or call any potential new attorney with client-attorney privilege.”
During her tenure at the federal prison in Tallahassee, Maxwell has moaned about the food, the tech, and that her clothes don’t fit.
She complained in her filing that in the Netflix documentary on Epstein, Filthy Rich, her portrayal was “really unfair” and that she “plays no role and was never ever a part of this stuff.”
The executors of Epstein’s will have complained that the onetime belle of the ball is guilty of “perpetual delay.”
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They wrote: “Her incarceration is the result of her crimes, and it does not excuse her from diligently prosecuting her claims in accordance with the Virgin Islands Rules of Civil Procedure.”
Her lawyer in the USVI called it quits in December. Finding new mouthpieces might be tough: Her longtime legal reps, Haddon, Morgan & Foreman, sued her in 2022 for $878,000 in legal fees. The case was eventually settled.
For her part, Maxwell insists that her longtime perverted paramour repeatedly promised in writing and in conversation he would support her.
A source claimed last summer that there was “not a penny left” of her former fortune.
She is currently appealing her sex-trafficking conviction.
Maxwell’s latest scheme comes hot on the heels of the document dump from Epstein sex slave Virginia Giuffre’s 2015 defamation suit against her. One victim said that Maxwell was the “boss” of the Epstein sex-trafficking ring.
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