Her crimes included engaging in “group sexual encounters” with Epstein and an underage girl - identified in court documents as “Minor Victim-1” - from 1994 to 1997, prosecutors charge in the indictment against her.

Maxwell faces six counts for allegedly recruiting, grooming and abusing four minor girls with Epstein at multiple locations in the US and the UK from 1994 through 2004. If convicted on all counts, Maxwell faces a maximum sentence of 70 years in prison - effectively a life sentence for the 59-year-old, who has been jailed in a Brooklyn lockup since her arrest. Maxwell, who has been in custody since her arrest last year, was hauled into court in a white sweater. Alleged Epstein victim Sarah Ransome, attorney Lisa Bloom and Maxwell’s sister Isabel were also spotted arriving. The start of Maxwell’s long-awaited trial drew a mass of media to the Lower Manhattan courthouse. The first order of business was to finalize jury selection - picking the 12 jurors and six alternates who will hear the sensational case - with opening statements expected to follow later in the day. One of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims and Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister arrived at a Manhattan courthouse Monday as the disgraced socialite’s highly anticipated sex-trafficking trial got underway.

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