Commentary
Ghislaine Maxwell stood up to address the court. The former cosmopolitan socialite was sentenced on June 28 to 20 years in prison for trafficking young women.
For years, Maxwell had delivered up victims for sexual assault and childhood grooming to her billionaire boyfriend—the proven pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The two had been documented as flying countless underage girls to Epstein’s privately owned island, where they were sexually abused.
Even more alarming is the number of high-profile guests that accompanied the couple to what has come to be known as “Epstein Island”: Hollywood celebrities, U.S. politicians, and even a member of the British royal family all appeared in the flight logs of the aptly (and grossly) named “Lolita Express.”…