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In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell, far right, appears in Manhattan Federal court seated next to her attorney Bobbi C. Sternheim, second from left, along with her sister Isabel Maxwell, far left, during her arraignment on a superseding indictment last week.
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Maxwell’s attorney, David Markus, told Fox News he was “heartbroken” about the decision.
“If our system tolerates detaining a 59-year old woman with no criminal history and subjecting her to tortuous conditions, simply because of her old connection to Jeffrey Epstein, we should all be deeply troubled,” he said.
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