The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite accused of grooming underage girls for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, is set to begin in a Manhattan federal court.Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to all six charges against her, which include sex trafficking of a minor. If convicted in the trial, which starts on Monday and is expected to stretch into January, the 59-year-old daughter of a newspaper baron could face up to 80 years in prison.Maxwell was arrested in July 2020, after the 66-year-old Epstein was found dead in a federal jail in Manhattan, where he was awaiting trial on child sex-trafficking charges. Officials have said the death was a suicide.
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