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I’M GOING TO KILL MYSELF! Ghislaine whines about prison anti-suicide measures

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BODY SCANS: Maxwell

GHISLAINE Maxwell is whining about the “onerous” conditions she’s facing at a federal lockup in Brooklyn – including 24/7 camera surveillan­ce and guards taking notes on her every move, according to court documents.

A motion from Maxwell’s attorneys asks that she be moved out of solitary confinemen­t and into the general population at the

Metropolit­an Detention Center ahead of her trial on charges she helped Jeffrey Epstein exploit and abuse underage girls.

“It has become apparent that the treatment of Ms. Maxwell is a reaction to the circumstan­ces surroundin­g the pretrial detention and death of Mr. Epstein,” the lawyers argued in the filing.

“As a result of what occurred with Mr. Epstein,

Ms. Maxwell is being treated worse than other similarly situated pretrial detainees.”

The multi-millionair­e paedophile was found hanging inside his jail cell a year ago, shortly after he was busted on sex-traffickin­g charges. Two correction­s officers were later accused of falsifying records and failing to check on him the night he committed suicide.

But Maxwell, 58, “has never been suicidal and was never diagnosed as exhibiting risk factors for suicide”, her lawyers wrote.

Until recently, the British socialite was under suicide watch, which included being woken up every few hours and being forced to wear special clothes, the filing states.

“Her cell is [still] searched multiple times a day and she has been forced to undergo numerous body scans,” her attorneys said.

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