Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell have asked that her trial be delayed from July until early next year to give them time to investigate sex-trafficking charges that were added to the case against her last month.
Maxwell, 59, was arrested last summer and charged with grooming minors for Jeffrey Epstein between 1994 and 1997 and with perjury for denying any knowledge of such a scheme in a deposition.
Last month prosecutors added two more charges relating to a fourth alleged victim who was said to have been recruited by Maxwell and paid to give Epstein sexualised messages between 2001 and 2004 and to recruit others to do the same.
In a letter to Judge Alison Nathan, prosecutors said the victim had been interviewed once before in
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