Ghislaine Maxwell refusing to reveal identity of secret husband, court hears

Ghislaine Maxwell has secretly married but refused to disclose her husband’s identity to FBI investigators, it was claimed in court.Ghislaine Maxwell has secretly married but refused to disclose her husband’s identity to FBI investigators, it was claimed in court.

Federal prosecutors told a judge hearing Maxwell’s application for bail that she had a spouse although his name has been withheld. The disclosure appears to have been made deliberately by prosecutors to bolster its legal argument that Maxwell has not been forthcoming about her circumstances and finances.

Ghislaine Maxwell sketched during her video-link arraignment on Monday - Reuters© Reuters Ghislaine Maxwell sketched during her video-link arraignment on Monday -

Her bail application was rejected and she now faces 12 months in prison before a trial due to take place in July next year into charges of child sex trafficking and grooming for Jeffrey Epstein, her former boyfriend who killed himself.

Maxwell, a close friend of Prince Andrew, has denied all charges. Prosecutor Alison Moe told the judge during bail arguments in a New York courthouse late on Tuesday: "In addition to failing to describe in any way the assets of the proposed co-signer of a bond, the defendant [Maxwell] also makes no mention whatsoever about the financial circumstances or assets of her spouse, whose identity she declined to provide to pretrial services.

"There’s no information about who will be co-signing this bond or their assets, and no details whatsoever." Seculation will now be rife as to the identity of her spouse. There have been no previous suggestions that Maxwell was married.

According to the court hearing, Maxwell used the alias "Jen Marshall" and posed as a journalist when viewing a hideaway in Bradford, New Hampshire, which she bought through a company for £800,000 in November last year. She was arrested at the house earlier this month in an early morning raid by FBI agents and police.

FILE - This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested by the FBI on Thursday, July 2, 2020, on charges she helped procure underage sex partners for the financier.

New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)© ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE - This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. 

socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested by the FBI on Thursday, July 2, 2020, on charges she helped procure underage sex partners for the financier. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)Estate agents said she was accompanied by a man with a British accent who used the pseudonym ‘Scott Marshall’.

Scott Marshall claimed he was a writer looking for privacy. Ms Moe in her statement to court referred to Maxwell’s alias as both ‘Jen’ and ‘Janet’ adding further confusion.

OnTuesday, New York district judge Alison Nathan deemed Maxwell, 58, a flight risk and ordered that she be held without bail and set a trial date of July 12 2021.
Prosecutors have said they want to interview Prince Andrew as a witness over his relationship with both Maxwell and Epstein, who killed himself in a cell while awaiting trial last year.

Reference: The Telegraph: Robert Mendick, Josie Ensor 9 hrs ago 15thJuly 2020