Will Ghislaine Maxwell be free by Christmas? Tech CEO 'husband' Scott Borgerson to pay $25M bail before 2021 trial
Ghislaine Maxwell will probably be out of jail by Christmas as she and her "new husband" will reportedly pay a huge amount of $30 million as bail. Reports have also claimed that the 58-year-old’s lawyers will go to court "within days" to try to get her free before her 2021 trial. As per a report by The Sun, Maxwell’s "husband" Scott Borgerson – a tech entrepreneur by profession – is planning to pay a bail bond of nearly $25 million as security. While the British socialite's brothers Kevin and Ian are reportedly paying an additional five million dollars in guarantees.
This is the first time that Borgerson is being widely referred to in the media as "the husband of Maxwell". The 44-year-old has always denied being her husband, lover or romantic partner, and he has claimed that they are just "friends".
It has been said that Maxwell’s condition to be out of jail is under a form of house arrest and she will reportedly have to wear an electronic tag all the time. Her bail amount is reportedly one of the biggest in recent times, surpassing the amount that disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein paid for his bail, which was $1 million. The latest news came soon after Maxwell’s lawyer, Bobbi Sternheim, said her client was losing a lot of her hair and weight due to “extraordinarily onerous conditions” at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. She wrote a letter to US District Judge Alison Nathan, which stated: “While her weight may currently be fairly consistent, she had lost over 15 pounds, and she is sustaining hair loss.”
“It is obvious that Ms. Maxwell is bearing the brunt of BOP (Bureau of Prisons) incompetence,” Sternheim mentioned in the letter, before adding that the prison has “imposed extraordinarily onerous conditions of constraint on Ms. Maxwell to avoid the catastrophic consequences of negligence occurring at the MCC that resulted in the death of Jeffrey Epstein.” She has earlier also claimed that Epstein’s “madam” disturbed every fifteen minutes by a flashlight to check if she was alive. “Despite non-stop in-cell camera surveillance, Ms. Maxwell’s sleep is disrupted every 15-minutes when she is awakened by a flashlight to ascertain whether she is breathing,” the attorney said in late November. Sternheim continued that Maxwell “is overmanaged under conditions more restrictive than inmates housed in 10South, the most restrictive unit in the MCC; or individuals convicted of terrorism and capital murder and incarcerated at FCI Florence ADMAX, the most restrictive facility operated by the BOP.”
Before Sternheim’s claims, a close friend of Maxwell also alleged that she has to face a strip search every three hours as authorities fear she might die by suicide like Epstein, who killed himself August 10, 2019, at Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York. “She is on her own floor and has a very small cell but doesn’t have a table to put her computer on. I’m told by the family that she has a camera in the ceiling and another camera that is 4 feet away from her and they adjust it when she moves about. They were waking her up every three hours to search her and the noise outside her cell with the guards laughing and joking and yelling to each other is very disturbing, so she hasn’t got much sleep. It’s bizarre,” Brian Basham said.
Maxwell was arrested in July for allegedly recruiting girls as young as 14 for the shamed financier to abuse in the mid-1990s. She has been slapped with numerous charges related to sex trafficking and is now awaiting trial.