Criminal Law
A Former Assistant and a Memory Expert Testified in Ghislaine Maxwell’s Trial
A former assistant and an expert on false memories testified for Ghislaine Maxwell’s defense on Thursday as her legal team got its first opportunity to call witnesses to the stand.
The former assistant, Cimberly Espinosa, testified for just under two hours about the roughly six years she spent working for Maxwell at Jeffrey Epstein’s company in New York from 1996 to 2002. Her testimony mainly focused on her memories of “Jane,” one of the four women who testified Maxwell groomed her for sexual abuse when she was underage.
Jane appeared to be “probably 18” when she met her, Espinosa said, and Jane’s mother told employees that Jane was Epstein’s goddaughter. Espinosa testified that Epstein treated Jane nicely, as far as she could see.
