Ghislaine Maxwell will be sentenced at the end of June, after being convicted of recruiting teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to abuse.

US district judge Alison Nathan announced 28 June as the date of sentencing, even as she waits to resolve claims from Maxwell‘s defence team that a new trial should be ordered.

It comes after a juror – who has never been fully publicly identified – admitted he told other jurors he was sexually abused as a child and used his experiences to persuade others to convict Maxwell.

Her lawyers claim these revelations warrant a new trial.

Maxwell, 60, was convicted following the month-long trial, in which prosecutors maintained she recruited and groomed teenage girls for disgraced billionaire Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 2004.

She once had a romantic relationship with the paedophile – who took his own life in 2019 while in jail awaiting trial for sex trafficking – and later became his employee.

Maxwell’s defence argue she was made a scapegoat following his death.

Ghislaine Maxwell prosecutors will drop perjury charges if there’s no retrial in sex trafficking case

Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Defence calls for retrial after juror says he was a ‘victim of sexual abuse’

Ghislaine Maxwell juror reveals he was a sexual abuse victim

It comes as the woman who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault has said she will “continue to expose the truth” and thanked the judge who rejected the royal’s attempts to have her lawsuit thrown out.

Virginia Giuffre alleges she was trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell to have sex with Andrew when she was 17.

How Ghislaine Maxwell lured girls to be abused

The pictures of Maxwell and Epstein shown in court

Follow the Daily podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Spreaker

The Duke of York – who vehemently denies her claims – will face a civil sex case trial later this year.

However, he will do as a “private citizen” after he was formally stripped of his royal and military titles by the Queen.

Related posts:

Harry and Meghan donate to Texas women’s shelter damaged in storm Deaths are down and infection rates are falling, but US is far from out of the woods with COVID-19 Father-to-be killed by gender-reveal party device Voting firm sues Fox News for $1.6bn over bogus 2020 election claims Outrage over video showing US police officers scream at and handcuff five-year-old boy Biden scraps Trump-era drilling programme in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge Coachella festival to return after two years off due to pandemic Antivirus tycoon John McAfee ‘took his own life’, Spanish media reports Former US president Bill Clinton remains in hospital for second day but ‘doing well’ Oklahoma governor commutes Julius Jones’ death sentence hours before execution Big Bird and Sesame Street friends banned from largest Republican conference Jordan Turpin’s escape from ‘house of horrors’ shown in new bodycam footage