No bail for Maxwell, faces stay in fed jail till trial — in July ’21

Ghislaine Maxwell’s lifestyle as an international woman of mystery was her undoing Tuesday when a judge ruled her foreign ties and opaque finances raised the risk she’d flee prosecution on charges she lured underage girls into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse scheme.

Manhattan Federal Judge Alison Nathan denied Maxwell bail, saying federal prosecutors’ case against her “appears strong.”

Nathanfelteven imposing strict conditions on bail would not have kept Maxwell, 58, from fleeing.

“The court concludes even the most restrictive conditions of release would be insufficient,” the judge said.

“Maxwell has failed to submit a full accounting, or even close to a full accounting, of her financial situation. It is practically impossible to set financial bail conditions to ensure her appearance.

“The risks are simply too great,” Nathan added.

Maxwell (inset), wearing a brown jail uniform and appearing via video from a federal jail on the Brooklyn waterfront, showed no reaction. Earlier in the proceeding, she appeared anxious, nervously looking around and rubbing her eyebrows.

“Not guilty, Your Honor,” she said in a thick British accent before learning she would remain at the Metropolitan Detention Center until her trial, which is now scheduled for July 12, 2021.

Two alleged victims urged Nathan to keep Maxwell behind bars during the hearing conducted remotely due to coronavirus.

“The sociopathic manner in which she nurtured our relationship and abused my trust … she would have done anything to satisfy Mr. Epstein,” one alleged victim, using the pseudonym Jane Doe, said in a statement read by a prosecutor.

Annie Farmer, another alleged victim of Epstein and Maxwell, called her “a sexual predator.”

The British socialite was arrested July 2 at a gated $1 million estate in the tiny town of Bradford, N.H. Authorities say she ignored an order to open the door to her timber frame mansion and fled to another room before being arrested.

Investigators said they found a cell phone wrapped in tin foil at the property, an apparent attempt by Maxwell to prevent law enforcement from tracking her.

But Mark Cohen, Maxwell’s attorney, said the phone had been hacked after her email was mistakenly made public through a civil lawsuit brought by an Epstein accuser. She couldn’t trash the phone because of ongoing lawsuits, so she wrapped it in tin foil, believing that could prevent it from being hacked again, he said.

She went into hiding after Epstein’s arrest due to “very real” threats, Cohen said. Yet she’d remained in the U.S. and never gave any hint she intended to flee, he argued.

Prosecutors listed other examples of Maxwell’s behavior that suggested she sought to hide her presence in New Hampshire.

A real estate agent gave Maxwell and a man a tour of the New Hampshire property before it was purchased in December by a limited liability company, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Alison Moe.

The man identified himself as “Scott Marshall,” a retired member of the British military working on a book, Moe said. Maxwell said she was a journalist and gave her name as “Jen Marshall,” according to the prosecutor.

Maxwell, a citizen of the United Kingdom, France and the U.S., told the feds after her arrest that a corporation bought the property and that she merely had permission to stay there, Moe said.

Maxwell claimed she couldn’t remember the corporation’s name, Moe added.

The feds have put Maxwell’s worth at more than $20 million. Yet Moe said Maxwell claimed after her arrest to have zero monthly income.”