{"id":58104,"date":"2020-09-16T15:25:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T22:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theaegisalliance.com\/?p=58104"},"modified":"2026-10-06T06:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:56:32","slug":"epstein-accuser-sues-ghislaine-maxwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/2020\/09\/16\/epstein-accuser-sues-ghislaine-maxwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Araoz Sued Ghislaine Maxwell Under the Child Victims Act, and a Judge Has Called Maxwell’s Last Bid for Freedom Frivolous"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014<\/strong> Jennifer Araoz did not wait for a jury in the Southern District of New York to say Ghislaine Maxwell’s name in a charging document. On September 14, 2020, she sued Maxwell in New York state court under the Child Victims Act and accused her of supplying the machinery of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. Araoz said a recruiter approached her outside Talent Unlimited High School when she was 14, that the grooming ran for more than a year, and that Epstein raped her inside the Manhattan mansion when she was 15. The complaint said Maxwell had been \u00abpreying on their personal, psychological, financial, and related vulnerabilities\u00bb and had given \u00aborganizational support to Epstein’s sex trafficking ring.\u00bb An amended filing also named estate entities, longtime assistant Lesley Groff, and Cimberly Espinosa.<\/p>\n

The suit landed in a narrow legal season. New York had opened a one-year lookback so adult survivors could sue no matter how old the abuse was. Epstein had been found dead in a federal jail cell on August 10, 2019, and a medical examiner called it suicide. Araoz had already sued the estate in the summer of 2019. That case was thrown out after his death. The September 2020 complaint against Maxwell was among the first post-death filings and one of the first to use the lookback against a living defendant who was already in federal custody. Maxwell had been arrested on July 2, 2020. When a judge denied her bail, Araoz said, \u00abKnowing that she is incarcerated for the foreseeable future allows me, and my fellow survivors, to have faith that we are on the right path.\u00bb<\/p>\n

That sentence aged into a docket. On December 29, 2021, a jury convicted Maxwell on five of six counts arising from a decade of abuse with Epstein. The panel acquitted her only on a substantive enticement count. On June 28, 2022, U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan, who had presided at trial, sentenced her to 20 years. The Second Circuit affirmed the conviction and the sentence. On October 6, 2025, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The ordinary appeal was over. What remained was a habeas petition, a clemency pitch, and a prison camp that survivors’ lawyers called a gift.<\/p>\n

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