British socialite now faces eight counts after federal prosecutors expanded their case

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell will appear in Manhattan federal court this afternoon in her first in-person courtroom appearance since her arrest last July for alleged involvement in disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of girls.

Maxwell, daughter of the late publishing baron Robert Maxwell, faces a total of eight counts. She is appearing several weeks after federal prosecutors expanded their case against her.

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Source: The Guardian