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GHISLAINE’S JAIL NIGHTMARE

IT’S hard to believe the woman peering out of the photo was once a glossy social butterfly, equally at home among the billionaires, politicians and celebrities who frequented London and New York high society.

This woman is pinched and wrinkled, her hair grey and a nasty bruise smudged beneath one eye – a million miles from the flawless, designer-clad personality the world is used to seeing.

The snapshot, released by her lawyer, Bobbi Sternheim, is the first glimpse the public has had of Ghislaine Maxwell (59) since her arrest in July last year on charges of sex-trafficking underage girls for her late billionaire ex-boyfriend, Jeffrey Epstein (YOU, 16 July 2020).

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