New York Daily News

Fam tweets Max ‘facts’ in hopes of bail-bid win

- BY STEPHEN REX BROWN

Ghislaine Maxwell’s family launched a “GMaxFacts” Twitter account Wednesday as the fight over her third bid for bail heats up.

“We know Ghislaine better than anyone, we are her family. It is our mission to shine light on the real Ghislaine, not the figure of fiction caricature­d by the media. #GMaxFACTS #FactsMATTE­R” the family said in its first tweet.

The rare public statement from the British socialite’s associates came shortly after Manhattan federal prosecutor­s urged Judge Alison Nathan to reject Maxwell’s third request for release from Brooklyn’s Metropolit­an Detention Center into home confinemen­t. Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey wrote that Maxwell’s offer to renounce her British and French citizenshi­p did not address concerns she could flee the country.

“The defendant is wrong. That she is ‘willing’ to renounce her foreign citizenshi­p would do nothing to prevent the defendant from fleeing and then fighting extraditio­n once abroad, and it does nothing to diminish the risk that the defendant could choose to flee to another jurisdicti­on altogether, including one with which the United States does not have an extraditio­n treaty and from which extraditio­n is impossible,” Comey wrote.

Maxwell, 59, is scheduled to face trial in July for grooming underage victims of Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-1990s. She allegedly served as Epstein’s chief recruiter of sex traffickin­g victims and at times joined in the sex offender’s serial abuse.

The Maxwell family’s new Twitter account hints at a change in public relations strategy. Previously, her legal team and family have spoken only through court filings while arguing she’s been smeared so badly in the press that she has no hope of a fair trial.

The GMaxFacts account retweeted an op-ed in the Daily News by a family spokesman likening the conditions of her confinemen­t at the Brooklyn lockup to torture.

“No objective person could honestly defend the conditions of her confinemen­t,” family spokesman David Oscar Marcus wrote.

Maxwell (inset) has said correction officers shine a light into her cell every 15 minutes overnight, preventing her from getting a good night’s sleep. Last month, her attorneys wrote that she was “physically abused” during a routine patdown — a claim that has not been addressed in public filings by prosecutor­s or the judge.

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