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  • GULLANE Maxwell, the British socialite accused of procuring young girls for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse, has pledged a Bell package worth nearly $30 million in a bid to get herself out over 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 19 nineties.

  • She also maintains that she did not lie under oath.

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

  • In court filings released on Monday, she maintained her innocence and deny that she was a flight risk.

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  • Miss Maxwell wants to stay in New York and have her day in court so that she can clear her name and returned to her family.

  • They also disclosed 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 Bale.

  • 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 being 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 to respond to Maxwell's bear request.

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