{"id":58104,"date":"2020-09-16T15:25:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T22:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theaegisalliance.com\/?p=58104"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:25:37","slug":"epstein-accuser-sues-ghislaine-maxwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/2020\/09\/16\/jeffrey-epstein-acusador-sues-ghislaine-maxwell-sobre-acusaciones-de-trafico\/","title":{"rendered":"Epstein Accuser Jennifer Araoz Sued Ghislaine Maxwell; Maxwell Is Serving 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK \u2014<\/strong> Jennifer Araoz sued Ghislaine Maxwell under New York&#8217;s Child Victims Act. She said an Epstein associate recruited her outside Talent Unlimited High School at 14, groomed her for more than a year, and that Epstein raped her in the Manhattan mansion when she was 15. The complaint accused Maxwell of \u00abpreying on their personal, psychological, financial, and related vulnerabilities\u00bb and of providing \u00aborganizational support to Epstein&#8217;s sex trafficking ring.\u00bb An amended filing named estate entities, Lesley Groff, and Cimberly Espinosa.<\/p>\n<p>It was among the first post-death filings against the estate and one of the first under the one-year lookback that let adult survivors sue no matter how old the abuse. Araoz had already sued the estate in July 2019; that case was tossed after Epstein was found dead. After Maxwell was denied 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<p>Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 on five of six counts and sentenced on June 28, 2022 to 20 years. The Second Circuit affirmed in 2024. The Supreme Court refused her case on October 6, 2025. Shortly after Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche interviewed her in July 2025, the Bureau of Prisons moved her from FCI Tallahassee to a minimum-security camp in Bryan, Texas \u2014 a transfer victims&#8217; lawyers called a gift. In February 2026 she appeared by video before the House Oversight Committee and took the Fifth. On August 25, 2026 Judge Paul Engelmayer rejected her habeas bid as meritless and frivolous. She remains eligible in 2037. The Justice Department&#8217;s Epstein dump of more than 3.5 million pages in January 2026 did not erase what Araoz put in a New York complaint: Maxwell was not a bystander.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_22273\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AqcUn48TiMM?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Supreme Court rejects appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell  | LiveNOW from FOX\"  src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/AqcUn48TiMM\/maxresdefault.jpg\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Related from The AEGIS Alliance: Maxwell&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2020\/07\/02\/jeffrey-epstein-associate-ghislaine-maxwell-arrested\/\">arrest<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2021\/07\/17\/maxwell-docs-released\/\">Maxwell documents<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2020\/08\/05\/prince-andrew-accused-having-orgy-underage-girls\/\">Andrew filings<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2021\/02\/04\/epstein-victims-fund\/\">victims&#8217; fund<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/2020\/07\/14\/motherload-of-all-jeffrey-epstein-documents-we-obtained\/\">document motherlode<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Araoz sued Ghislaine Maxwell under New York&#8217;s Child Victims Act, alleging Maxwell recruited her at 14 for Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell was later convicted and is serving 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,196370,24],"tags":[195845,197013,197677,204290,190546,191620,193545,193557],"class_list":["post-58104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-crime-news","category-us-news","tag-crime-news","tag-crimes-against-children","tag-epstein","tag-ghislaine-maxwell","tag-maxwell","tag-new-york","tag-pedogate","tag-pedogatenews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Araoz-and-Maxwell.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58104"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198694,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58104\/revisions\/1198694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaegisalliance.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}