Piers Morgan has said many rich and powerful men could be ‘sweating’ tonight following the news that Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted for grooming girls for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to molest.
Maxwell, who was labelled ‘dangerous’ by the prosecution during her three-week trial, helped entice vulnerable teenagers to Epstein’s various properties for him to sexually abuse between 1994 and 2004.
Tweeting after the trial, Piers questioned whether the defendant will list the names of other high-profile attackers who were also involved.
‘Will vile sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell now sing like a canary to avoid spending the rest of her life in prison?’ he penned.
‘If she does, there could be a lot of rich, powerful & famous people sweating tonight… and not sweating.’
Piers’ reference to sweating comes after Prince Andrew famously claimed in his interview with Newsnight in 2019 that he was ‘unable to sweat’ when asked about a description of him dancing in a nightclub prior to an alleged encounter with his accuser.
The Duke of York was facing a lawsuit in New York which claimed he sexually assaulted Virgina Guiffre while she was under the age of 18 and the victim of a trafficking ring.
He has denied all the allegations and the Met police confirmed in October it had dropped an investigation into him.
Maxwell’s New York trial heard how she summoned a 14-year-old girl to an orgy and groped another victim.
The defendant also asked one of her accusers to undress for a massage and left her ‘frozen’ after rubbing her breasts.
The court also heard Maxwell imposed a ‘culture of silence… by design’ at Epstein’s properties, where staff were told to ‘see nothing, hear nothing and say nothing’.
The full indictment against Maxwell listed six charges, including conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, enticement of a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts and conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
Maxwell was also accused of transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, sex trafficking conspiracy, sex trafficking of a minor and lying under oath by hiding her participation in Epstein’s offences during a separate civil case.
On Wednesday, she was convicted on five of the six counts.
Maxwell was found not guilty of enticing a minor to engage in illegal sex acts – which alleged the defendant coerced one of the accusers, who testified under the pseudonym ‘Jane’, to travel from Florida to Manhattan so that Epstein could have sex with her.
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