Ghislaine Maxwell ‘vigorously denies’ charges and requests bail

Published July 10, 2020 7:10pm ET



Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, said she should be granted bail while awaiting trial.

The 58-year-old British socialite filed a request for bail of $5 million in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Friday, a week after she was arrested by the FBI in New Hampshire, saying she “vigorously denies the charges, intends to fight them, and is entitled to the presumption of innocence.”

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