Accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell denied bail again—US media

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NEW YORK — Accused sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has been denied bail again by a New York court, US media reported.

The British socialite has repeatedly denied that she recruited underage girls for her former partner, the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in prison last year.

Manhattan federal court judge Alison J. Nathan on Monday noted that Maxwell, who has been detained since her arrest on July 2, remains an extreme flight risk.

The socialite’s lawyers had attempted to secure her release under a$28.5 million bail package, which would have seen her confined to her home under an electronic monitoring system, arguing that Maxwell had close ties to t…

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