Who is Ghislaine Maxwell’s husband? Scott Borgerson calls her ‘wonderful and loving’
Just days before the high-profile sex trafficking trial of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell in a Manhattan federal court, her husband, Scott Borgerson, was spotted in the Massachusetts town of Manchester-by-the-Sea. This is the tech CEO's first appearance in almost a year.
While the current status of their marriage — which was first disclosed in last year's filing with the US District Court in Manhattan — is not known, a Daily Mail report claims Borgerson is possibly dating a new woman in town.
It's also unclear if Borgerson will travel to New York to attend the trial in support of his Maxwell whose six-week trial is scheduled to begin on November 29. She is charged with six counts for allegedly procuring and grooming underage girls for now-deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse from 1994 through 2004.
In December 2020, Maxwell's husband Borgerson said that his wife is a “wonderful and loving person” as he laid out a $28.5 million bail package that included $8 million in property, and $500,000 in cash.
Borgerson, who reportedly married Maxwell in 2016, offered a $22.5 million personal recognizance bond secured by about $8 million in property and $500,000 in cash, according to Reuters. The court filing revealed that the rest amount of the bail would be guaranteed by friends and family. It also stated that Maxwell “vehemently maintains her innocence”. Prosecutors have the time till mid-December to announce their decision.
Pleading for his spouse's release, Borgerson in a letter to the court said that the woman "described in the criminal charges is not the person we know". He added: “I have never witnessed anything inappropriate with Ghislaine; quite the contrary, the Ghislaine I know is a wonderful and loving person. The reporting of Ghislaine over the past year has exploded exponentially. From the time of Epstein's arrest and death in custody in the summer of 2019 until Ghislaine's own arrest in July of this year. There are many examples of violence whose seeds were born in conspiracy theories and the experiences of QAnon, Pizzagate, and the recent Judge Salas attacks are terrifying."
Reports also said that in the new documents, Maxwell — who is accused of hiring girls as young as 14 for Epstein to abuse -- has again insisted that she is innocent. She claimed that she is not a flight risk and alleged that the media have “ruthlessly vilified her and prejudged her guilt” more than Bill Cosby and disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein. In the filing, Maxwell gave up her right to extradition, which means she cannot go to the UK or France. She has citizenship of both countries.
Earlier, it was reported that Epstein’s “madam” was losing a lot of her hair and weight due to “extraordinarily onerous conditions” at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Her lawyer, Bobbi Sternheim, mentioned in a letter to US District Judge Alison Nathan, that “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 said as she added that the jail facility 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.” While in late November the lawyer stated that her client “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.”