Former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and her husband are worth $22.5 million, according to a recent bail proposal.
Attorneys for Maxwell made a third bail package proposal Tuesday in an attempt to get her out of jail before her trial slated for July, according to the Associated Press. The 59-year-old British socialite was arrested in July on charges alleging that she recruited three girls for Epstein to abuse in the mid-1990s. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty.
Her lawyers wrote in their proposal that they would place a large chunk of the $22.5 million estate belonging to Maxwell and her unidentified husband into a special account to be overseen by an “asset manager” in an attempt to help her achieve bail.
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The asset manager would be a former federal judge and U.S. attorney from Georgia, setting aside nearly $500,000 for living expenses and $7 million for legal fees.
When arrested in July, Maxwell claimed that she was worth $3.5 million, though she did not include assets sent to a trust or funds in possession by her alleged tech CEO husband Scott Borgerson, Fox News reported.
In December, Maxwell revealed that she was married when her attorneys filed a previously unsuccessful bail package.
Her financial disclosures from the end of 2020 showed her and Borgerson’s net worth to be $22.5 million, matching the amount cited in her legal team’s latest bail proposal.
Part of Maxwell’s latest bail proposal includes her offer to forfeit her British and French citizenship as a way to gain trust that she is not a flight risk.
Lawyers for Maxwell said they hope the latest bail offer will resolve some issues that caused the previous two proposals to be rejected, the AP reported.
Last year, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alison Moe said the former girlfriend of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein was a serious flight risk, adding, “She has three passports, large sums of money, extensive international connections.”
Maxwell attempted to post a $28.5 million bail in December with the assistance of “a handful of close family and friends” but was subsequently rejected by the Manhattan Federal Court. She was also denied a separate bail attempt when she was initially arrested.
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Epstein, Maxwell’s one-time boyfriend, died in the Metropolitan Correction Center in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. His death was later ruled a suicide.
