Maxwell Prosecutors Point to Money as Motive for Sex Trafficking

  • Witness said she ‘downsized’ after tycoon father’s 1991 death
  • She was soon living in her own five-story Manhattan townhouse

In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell, center, confers with her defense attorney before testimony begins in her trial, in New York, on Dec. 8.

Source: Elizabeth Williams/AP
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Jurors in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial heard about a possible motive for her to procure young girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein: money.

David Rodgers, a former pilot for Epstein, testified on Wednesday that Maxwell “downsized” to a Manhattan studio apartment after the 1991 death of her financially distressed father, British publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell. In less than a decade though, she was living in her own five-story Upper East Side townhouse that was “maybe 7,000 square feet.”