Ghislaine Maxwell Is Still Battling Jeffrey Epstein’s Estate for Money

Jane Rosenberg/ReutersAs British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell fights for a new criminal trial in New York, she’s also battling the estate of Jeffrey Epstein to pay her legal bills.Maxwell filed a lawsuit seeking money from Epstein’s estate for attorneys’ fees and security costs in March 2020, months before the FBI arrested her for grooming and abusing underage girls for the financier’s teenage sex ring. The 60-year-old socialite, who was convicted of sex-trafficking last December and is thus far the only Epstein associate to face charges, has maintained her innocence.On March 9, attorneys for Maxwell and the estate joined a court conference in the U.S. Virgin Islands to discuss next steps for the civil case—which estate lawyers argue should be dismissed because, among other things, Maxwell cannot be indemnified for “intentional wrongdoing, including criminal conduct” as a matter of public policy.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here