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Ghislaine Maxwell ‘dropped by lawyers after not paying bills’

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers have dropped the jailed socialite as a client after alleging she failed to pay her bills, it was reported last night.

Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Florida after being convicted of child on behalf of her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein.

She had employed the law firm Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer in the US Virgin Islands, where she had sued the Epstein estate — alleging the disgraced financier had promised to pay her legal fees before his 2019 suicide.

Maxwell is said to have failed to pay her lawyers' bills
Maxwell is said to have failed to pay her lawyers' bills REUTERS


In a legal filing obtained by the
Daily Mail, the lawyers said Maxwell had failed to pay their fees despite “repeated requests”, resulting in an “unreasonable financial burden”.


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