Ghislaine Maxwell offers to give up British, French citizenship in new bail attempt
LA TimesA photo of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell shown at a news conference in New York last year. Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite awaiting trial on charges that she recruited teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, says she’ll renounce her British and French citizenships if she can be freed on bail, according to a court filing Tuesday. Maxwell’s lawyers say the new proposed bail package would resolve some of the concerns that previously got proposals rejected, including a failure to show that Maxwell would not be able to access her assets to flee or rely on her citizenship of France, which would not extradite her to the U.S. Maxwell also holds U.S. and British citizenship. The lawyers also wrote that Maxwell had been the victim of “vicious slurs, persistent lies, and blatant inaccuracies” and “depicted as a cartoon-character villain in an attempt to turn her into a substitute replacement for Jeffrey Epstein.” They added: “Yet, Ms. Maxwell is determined — and welcomes the opportunity — to face her accusers at trial and clear her name.” Prosecutors declined to comment.