offender who is now dead partners in crime or was she a scapegoat for his crimes? that letter plaintiff certainly what the defence had focused their strategy on. they had said ghislaine maxwell was an innocent woman and that after epstein had killed himself injail two years ago whilst awaiting his own sex trafficking trial, the government had gone after her because they couldn t go after him. they said that she was being used as some sort of proxy through which the accusers of epstein could have their day in court. now, for the prosecution, it was a very different case they presented to the jury. they said regardless of what happened to epstein two years ago, ghislaine maxwell was independently guilty and culpable and therefore worthy of being prosecuted and convicted for her crimes. they say she was not an innocent woman, an innocent bystander as the defence had maintained, that someone who has an employee in and out of his life,