Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is being sued by a law firm which alleges it was never paid for hundreds of thousands of dollars of work.
The disgraced British socialite was found guilty of helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls and sentenced to 20 years in prison in June.
Maxwell, 60, recruited young girls for her former boyfriend Epstein during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Now US law firm Haddon, Morgan and Foreman alleges that it was never paid for more than $878,000 (£744,000) of its work.
It alleged in a lawsuit filed on Monday that Maxwell put her brother Kevin Maxwell in charge of paying her legal fees after she was arrested in 2020, but that he only paid a fraction of what they had charged leading up to and during her trial.
Kevin Maxwell urged the firm to keep working on appeal issues after she was convicted despite the unpaid bills and had blamed Maxwell’s husband, Scott Borgerson, for getting in the way of making payments, according to the lawsuit filed in Denver.
The lawsuit alleges that Mr Borgerson formed an LLC to buy real estate to shield his wife’s assets from creditors.
Two lawyers at the law firm – Laura Menninger and Jeffrey Pagliuca – were part of Maxwell’s legal team during her trial in New York.
