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Meanwhile, Nathan said she expects to rule on evidence to exclude from trial at another hearing scheduled for Tuesday.Īs The Daily Beast reported, Maxwell’s legal team has asked the court to prohibit testimony from one of four minor victims in the indictment, as well as evidence including the box for a sex toy and Epstein’s infamous rolodex of high-society contacts. Others said they heard of Epstein, his private island and jailhouse suicide but didn’t know much about Maxwell herself.

Still, while Maxwell has reportedly told friends she believed the bad press about her and Epstein would taint the jury pool, various people said that they’d never heard of the former couple. I think it’s an issue that women and men are passionate about, so-but I don’t see how that would interfere with me looking at evidence.” “Is there anything about your daughter’s involvement on that issue that would interfere with your ability to be fair to both sides here?” Nathan asked the woman, who replied, “No. Soon after the woman said this, Isabel Maxwell passed a note to Maxwell’s lawyers, who later asked for a sidebar with the judge that appears to have resulted in the woman’s disqualification. “I am not a conspiracy theorist and don’t buy into that, but I heard on the news that perhaps-I do think it’s odd that somebody of that high caliber was able to do that without anybody noticing,” the woman said of Epstein’s death.Ī second woman was excluded after disclosing that a family member had been molested as a child, and that her daughter was involved with the anti-sexual violence group RAINN. (The woman did not accuse Trump of any misconduct.) Many people said they recognized former President Trump’s stomping ground Mar-a-Lago, where one accuser, Virginia Giuffre, claims Maxwell recruited her in the late 1990s and where another victim said Epstein brought her to meet Trump. Prospective jurors reviewed a register of names, addresses, and entities that Nathan said could be mentioned at trial. The woman was excluded not long after mentioning Epstein’s suicide and saying she recognized a few names on a list of potential witnesses. On Wednesday, one woman said she heard allegations in the news about Epstein and Britain’s Prince Andrew but “didn’t know a lot about” Maxwell aside from that she was arrested in a rural location. The woman also said, “I believe the defendant shouldn’t be judged based on Mr. The man, who works as an arbitrator in financial matters, said news stories about Epstein’s crimes caught his eye in particular because he’d met the late sex offender.Īnother prospective juror was given the boot after saying she wasn’t sure whether she could be completely impartial given what she’s heard about the case.

The man told the court that, years ago, “someone who worked for me put together an investment vehicle. Nathan excluded one middle-aged man on Thursday because he once met Epstein in person.

“‘I do think it’s odd that somebody of that high caliber was able to do that without anybody noticing,’ one prospective juror said of Epstein’s death.” 1, when she was escorted into the Manhattan federal courtroom in shackles and a navy jumpsuit, reportedly after having to climb into a prison van on her hands and knees. It was a far cry from Maxwell’s demeanor at a pretrial hearing on Nov. (According to one Daily Mail report, Saffian staged the photo of Maxwell at an In-N-Out Burger in Los Angeles when the press began searching for her in earnest after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide in August 2019.) Leah Saffian, a California attorney and friend of Maxwell, was also in the front row this week. Maxwell shared laughs, hugs and close conversations with her attorneys, and turned in her seat on Thursday to blow a flurry of kisses to her sister Isabel, who sat in the gallery. The 59-year-old socialite sported a black turtleneck sweater and gray slacks, since the law prohibits jurors from seeing criminal defendants in chains or prison garb. Ghislaine Maxwell appeared to be in noticeably high spirits this week when she returned to court for jury selection for her sex-trafficking trial.

Chuckles the cheat