![]() ![]() Maxwell’s lawyers have not said publicly who they will call to testify, but said they will put on a case that is expected to last no more than four days. Epstein, one of the most notorious sex offenders in recent American history. Maxwell will attempt to convince jurors that the woman in the pictures is little more than a scapegoat for Mr. ![]() ![]() Now, as the defense prepares to present its case when the trial resumes on Thursday, lawyers for Ms. Maxwell’s longstanding relationship with Mr. They were introduced by the government over defense objections, as prosecutors sought to document, through the images, Ms. Maxwell’s trial, showing the carefree surface of a relationship that, according to witness testimony, masked much darker depths. More than a dozen of the photographs were displayed last week during Ms. What sets them apart are the people they depict: Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who killed himself in a federal jail cell in 2019 while he was being held on sex-trafficking charges, and Ghislaine Maxwell, his onetime girlfriend, who is currently being tried on sex-trafficking and other charges in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The images could have come from the scrapbook of any relatively affluent couple: a graying man and slightly younger woman in casual, unrehearsed moments - standing on a wooden footbridge, astride a motorcycle, at a table with a drink. ![]()
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