Ghislaine Maxwell quarantined in jail
Ghislaine Maxwell has been quarantined after staff tested positive for coronavirus at the jail where she's awaiting trial.
The former socialite is currently awaiting trial on charges she aided the late Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of girls.
U.S. prosecutors said in a letter on Monday (November 23) that the staff tested positive last week and Maxwell was checked for the virus on November 18 using a rapid test which was negative.
Maxwell has been placed in quarantine at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn for 14 days and has not shown any symptoms of COVID-19.
She'll be tested again at the end of her two-week isolation.
The 58-year-old 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,
and not guilty to perjury for having denied involvement in such a scheme when she gave her deposition under oath.
Her trial is scheduled for July next year.
