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Alison J. Nathan

American judge

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Nov 17, 2025
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What are the timeline and dates of investigations, indictments, and legal actions involving Ghislaine Maxwell in relation to Epstein?

Ghislaine Maxwell was first publicly tied to Jeffrey Epstein investigations in the 1990s and formally charged in 2020; she was convicted in 2021 and sentenced to 20 years (240 months) in June 2022 . H...

Nov 18, 2025
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What were the major legal appeals, post-conviction motions, and custody or sentencing dates in Maxwell’s case through 2025?

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 and sentenced to 20 years in prison (plus five years supervised release and a $750,000 fine) in June 2022; her appeals to the Second Circuit and then t...

Nov 19, 2025
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Which victims and witness testimonies from Epstein's cases were used in the Maxwell trial, and when were those statements given or disclosed?

Courtroom testimony and witness accounts used to convict Ghislaine Maxwell in 2021 came primarily from victims who testified publicly at her federal trial and from corroborating household and law-enfo...

Nov 10, 2025

When and where was Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to prison?

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in 2021 and later in a New York federal court; she has since been transferred to a minimum‑security federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas. Reporting and analyses differ o...

Jan 16, 2026

What charges led to Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction and sentencing?

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 on five federal sex‑trafficking–related counts for her role in recruiting, grooming and facilitating the sexual abuse of underage girls in connection w...

Dec 5, 2025

What charges was Ghislaine Maxwell convicted of and what evidence led to conviction?

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 on five of six federal counts tied to recruiting, transporting and sex‑trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein; she was sentenced to 20 years in...

Nov 15, 2025

What defenses did Maxwell present and why did they fail in the 2021 trial?

Ghislaine Maxwell’s 2021 defense chiefly argued that she was being scapegoated for Jeffrey Epstein’s conduct, attacked the credibility of key witnesses, presented limited affirmative testimony through...

Feb 3, 2026

What prior high-profile cases did this judge handle that inform their approach to sexual abuse and trafficking cases?

Several now steering sexual abuse and trafficking dockets came to those benches after presiding over—or publicly commenting on—well-known prosecutions that shape their courtroom priorities: federal ju...

Nov 9, 2025

What role did Ghislaine Maxwell's legal team play in the decision to move her to a low security federal prison?

Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers engaged with senior Justice Department officials shortly before her transfer to a low-security federal prison, but the exact causal role of her legal team in that relocatio...