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- Ghislaine Maxwell is again complaining about the conditions inside a New York jail.
- Vermin poop is raining down on her and raw sewage is flowing through her cell, she claimed in court papers.
- Maxwell is being held without bail as she awaits trial on accusations she helped Jeffrey Epstein abuse underage girls.
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Ghislaine Maxwell is once again complaining about conditions inside a New York jail as she awaits trial over accusations that she recruited underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse.
Maxwell's attorney claims in new court papers filed Tuesday that vermin droppings fell from air vents above and "raw sewage permeated" Maxwell's isolation cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn last week, prompting her to be moved to another cell.
In the letter to US District Judge Alison J. Nathan, Maxwell's lawyer, Bobbi Sternheim, says that Maxwell is under "hyper-surveillance" from jail staffers during legal visits and that it's "highly inappropriate and invasive."
"Numerous complaints have been brought to the Court's attention regarding recurring problematic conditions at the MDC and over-management of Ms. Maxwell," Sternheim wrote in the letter.
"Little if anything has been done to improve Ms. Maxwell's conditions," the lawyer added. "And the government's updates to the Court embolden the MDC to maintain the status quo."
Sternheim continued, "At a minimum, this should not be sanctioned by the Court."
Maxwell - a former British socialite and longtime confidant of Epstein, who killed himself in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in 2019 - has been ordered held without bail pending her own trial on sex trafficking charges.
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