Ghislaine Maxwell proposes $28.5M bail package

Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite accused of procuring young girls for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, has pledged a bail package worth nearly $30 million in a bid to get herself out of a New York jail.

Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to helping Epstein recruit and groom underage girls as young as 14 to engage in illegal sexual acts in the mid 1990s.

She also maintains that she did not lie under oath.

Maxwell is sceduled to stand trial from July next year, and if found guilty, faces up to 35 years in prison.

In court filings released on Monday (December 14), she maintained her innocence and denied that she was a flight risk.

The filing reads that quote, "Ms Maxwell wants to stay in New York and have her day in court so that she can clear her name and return to her family."

They also disclose that Maxwell has been married since 2016, and that she and her husband would post a $22.5 million bond, secured by all their assets, towards bail.

Most of the remaining bail money would come from her friends and family.

Maxwell was arrested in July at her New Hampshire home, which prosecutors said she used as a hideout, and that she concealed her identity to buy it.

She's since been kept at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after being denied a previous request for bail in July.

Jeffrey Epstein killed himself back in August 2019 at another New York jail, while awaiting his own trial on sex trafficking charges.

Prosecutors have until Wednesday (December 16) to respond to Maxwell's bail request.