Ghislaine Maxwell Jury Confronts Rare Case Alleging Female Sexual Predator
- She’s expected to portray herself as a scapegoat for Epstein
- Women may be ‘particularly offended’ by her, one expert says
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Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial is set to kick off as one of the biggest of the #MeToo era. But the jury selected Monday may have to grapple with a unique question: is Maxwell herself a victim?
“Most criminal defendants are men in these these sorts of sexual predator cases,” said Moira Penza, a former federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, New York. “This case is unusual because we have a female defendant.”