Paper jail duds for Ghislaine
Precautions amid suicide watch
She’s gone from high-class designer duds to pure pulp.
Accused Jeffrey Epstein madam Ghislaine Maxwell has been forced to wear paper clothes and sleep on a bare mattress in her jail cell so she can’t hang herself with clothes or bedsheets like Epstein, according to a report.
Authorities at the federal Bureau of Prisons have been assigned to ensure that Maxwell does not kill herself and is not harmed by other inmates while she is jailed at BOP’s Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a source told The Associated Press.
In addition to her paper clothes, Maxwell will also be confined to a cell with a roommate during her time at the facility and will be constantly monitored by prison officials, AP reported.
The safety protocols are far more stringent than those applied after her arrest in New Hampshire last week.
The new protocols were put in place after Epstein, a multimillionaire pedophile arrested for underage sextrafficking, hanged himself in August using a bedsheet at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan.
Federal authorities investigating the disgraced British socialite’s ties to Epstein arrested her in a sprawling New Hampshire mansion.
She was slapped with a six-count indictment for allegedly procuring underage girls for Epstein to abuse in the United States and in London.
She’s also accused of perjury for lying in a deposition about her alleged involvement in the underage-sextrafficking scheme.
Maxwell is awaiting arraignment at the Brooklyn facility, which has a past of power outages and a current coronavirus outbreak.
A former warden at the lockup told The Post this week that Maxwell should be put on suicide watch during her stay there.
Prosecutors in her case have asked that she remain remanded while awaiting trial, calling her an “extreme” flight risk, in a 10page detention memo filed after her arrest.
They added that she has about $20 million in several bank accounts in which she shuffled large sums of money last July, when Epstein was arrested.
Prosecutors added she had gone to great lengths to conceal her whereabouts after Epstein’s arrest.
A bail hearing is scheduled for Tuesday and her lawyers have been ordered to respond to the detention memo by 1 p.m. Friday.