Ghislaine Maxwell
British sex trafficker and former socialite
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| September 17 2024 | Three judges at Manhattan's Second US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Ghislaine Maxwell's five convictions and sentence, and her lawyer announced intentions to appeal to the US Supreme Court. |
| January 4 2024 | Further documents relating to Virginia Giuffre's civil case against Ghislaine Maxwell were released. |
| January 3 2024 | Over 900 pages of previously sealed documents relating to Virginia Giuffre's civil case against Ghislaine Maxwell were made public following litigation by the Miami Herald. |
| July 25 2022 | Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred from Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, to a low security federal prison for female inmates at FCI Tallahassee. |
| July 7 2022 | Maxwell appealed her conviction. |
| June 28 2022 | Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison after prosecutors sought a sentence of at least 30 years. |
| June 24 2022 | Maxwell was placed on suicide watch prior to her sentencing. |
| April 1 2022 | The judge dismissed Ghislaine Maxwell's request for a retrial, stating that a juror's failure to disclose his childhood sexual abuse did not warrant a new trial. |
| February 4 2022 | Prosecutors informed the judge that Ghislaine Maxwell's arguments for a retrial must be publicly docketed, indicating that her petition for a new trial, which was submitted under seal, needed to have its reasons made public. |
| December 29 2021 | Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty by a jury on five sex trafficking-related counts, which could result in a maximum custodial sentence of 65 years. |
| December 28 2021 | Judge Nathan extended the jury's sitting times during Ghislaine Maxwell's trial due to rising COVID-19 infections in the city. |
| November 29 2021 | The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell commenced with opening statements in front of twelve jurors and six alternates. |
| November 15 2021 | Ghislaine Maxwell appeared in court as part of her trial proceedings. |
| July 2021 | A trial date was set for Ghislaine Maxwell to begin on July 12, 2021. |
| June 2021 | Maxwell was sentenced in federal court in New York City to twenty years' imprisonment after being convicted of child sex trafficking and other offenses. |
| April 2021 | US District Judge Alison Nathan ruled that Ghislaine Maxwell would face two separate trials for sex trafficking charges and perjury. |
| March 2021 | Ghislaine Maxwell was named in a civil suit filed against Jeffrey Epstein's estate by a Broward County woman who accused both of trafficking her after repeatedly raping her in Florida in 2008. |
| March 29 2021 | US prosecutors added new charges against Maxwell for sex trafficking a minor and conspiracy, alleging she groomed a fourth girl, aged 14, for Epstein. |
| January 26 2021 | Maxwell's attorneys filed a motion challenging her grand jury indictment, arguing it lacked ethnic diversity. |
| January 19 2021 | A court hearing for Maxwell was disrupted by QAnon believers, who illegally livestreamed the proceedings on YouTube. |
| December 2020 | It was revealed that Maxwell married Scott G. Borgerson in 2016. |
| July 2020 | Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested by federal authorities. |
| July 2020 | Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested and charged by the federal government of the United States with the crimes of enticement of minors and sex trafficking of underage girls. |
| July 30 2020 | Additional documents from the Giuffre v Maxwell defamation suit were released, which included a deposition from Virginia Giuffre and recent email exchanges between Maxwell and Epstein. |
| July 14 2020 | Maxwell appeared by video link in a court in Manhattan and pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against her. |
| July 10 2020 | A court filing from the USVI Department of Justice stated that Maxwell was under investigation for her alleged participation in Epstein's sex trafficking operation, and that authorities had been unsuccessful in locating her for three and a half months to serve a subpoena. |
| July 2 2020 | Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested by the FBI in Bradford, New Hampshire, using an IMSI-catcher tracking device to locate her after she contacted her lawyer. |
| March 12 2020 | Ghislaine Maxwell filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in the US Virgin Islands against Epstein's estate seeking compensation for her legal costs. She claimed to have been a longtime employee of Epstein from 1998 to 2006 and asserted that Epstein had promised to cover her legal fees while denying any knowledge or involvement in his criminal activities. |
| January 2020 | It was reported that Maxwell refused to allow her lawyers to be served with several lawsuits in which she was directly named, including one by Farmer and Araoz. |
| January 2020 | A lawsuit was filed against Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, alleging that they recruited a 13-year-old music student at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in the summer of 1994 and subjected her to sexual abuse. |
| 2019 | Maxwell moved to a remote property in Bradford, New Hampshire, using former British military personnel as personal security until her arrest. |
| December 2019 | Ghislaine Maxwell and her lawyers continued to argue against the further release of court documents. |
| December 27 2019 | Reuters confirmed that Ghislaine Maxwell was under investigation by the FBI for facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's criminal activities. |
| December 3 2019 | Terramar (UK) was officially dissolved. |
| November 2019 | Annie Farmer filed a lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein's estate in Federal District Court in Manhattan, accusing them of rape, battery, and false imprisonment, and seeking unspecified damages. |
| November 2019 | Maria Farmer was interviewed for CBS This Morning, where she detailed the 1996 assault and alleged that Ghislaine Maxwell had threatened both her career and her life after the incident. |
| October 8 2019 | Jennifer Araoz amended her lawsuit to include the names of previously unidentified women enablers, specifically Lesley Groff, Cimberly Espinosa, and the late Rosalyn Fontanilla, alongside Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein's estate. |
| September 17 2019 | The first notice for the closure of Terramar (UK) was published in The London Gazette. |
| September 4 2019 | An application was made to close the UK-based company Terramar (UK), which listed Maxwell as a director. |
| August 20 2019 | Ghislaine Maxwell was named in one of three lawsuits filed in New York against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, involving a woman identified as 'Priscilla Doe' who claimed she was recruited in 2006 and trained by Maxwell on how to provide sexual services for Epstein. |
| August 15 2019 | The New York Post published photographs of Maxwell at a fast-food restaurant in Los Angeles, claiming to have found her 'hiding in plain sight.' |
| August 15 2019 | Reports surfaced that Maxwell had been living in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, in the home of Scott G. Borgerson since 2007, amid claims of a romantic relationship between them. |
| August 14 2019 | Jennifer Araoz filed a lawsuit in New York County Supreme Court against Epstein's estate, Ghislaine Maxwell, and three unnamed members of his staff. This lawsuit was enabled by New York state's new Child Victims Act, which took effect on the same date. |
| August 10 2019 | Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan prison cell after reportedly hanging himself. |
| August 9 2019 | The first batch of documents from the earlier defamation suit by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell was unsealed and released. |
| July 17 2019 | Ghislaine Maxwell requested a rehearing in a federal appeals court to keep documents sealed that were part of a suit by Virginia Giuffre. |
| July 12 2019 | The TerraMar Project announced its closure, just days after charges of sex trafficking against Jeffrey Epstein became public. |
| July 6 2019 | Jeffrey Epstein was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and charged with sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy. |
| July 2 2019 | The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ordered the unsealing of documents from the earlier civil suit against Ghislaine Maxwell by Virginia Giuffre. |
| April 16 2019 | Maria Farmer filed a sworn affidavit in federal court in New York, alleging that she and her 15-year-old sister, Annie, had been sexually assaulted by Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein in 1996. |
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