NEW YORK, 17 July. - (ANA) - Ghislaine Maxwell has secretly married but refused to disclose her husband’s identity to FBI investigators, it was claimed in court.

 

Federal prosecutors told a judge hearing Maxwell’s application for bail that she had a spouse although his name has been withheld. 

 

The existence of a husband might explain why Maxwell chose to remain in the US while being hunted down by the FBI over child sex trafficking allegations rather than fleeing abroad. 

 

She was last year romantically linked to Scott Borgerson, the wealthy chief executive of a tech company based in Boston, but there is no suggestion or evidence the couple ever married. Mr Borgerson has insisted the pair were only friends. 

 

Maxwell used the alias ‘Jen Marshall’ when inspecting the house she bought while in hiding from the FBI and was accompanied by a man she identified as her husband and using the name ‘Scott Marshall’. But while ‘Scott Marshall’ spoke with a British accent, Scott Borgerson was born in the US and speaks with an American accent.

 

Assistant US attorney Alison Moe revealed the British socialite’s marital status during a bail hearing at which the alleged former madame to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was described as a “flight risk” and sentenced to remain in custody.

 

The existence of her mystery spouse came to light while Alison Moe “was trying to prove to the judge that Maxwell had not been honest about her finances”.

 

The disclosure that Maxwell is married appears to have been made deliberately by prosecutors to bolster its legal argument that she has held back information about both her social circumstances and her finances. 

 

Maxwell’s bail application was rejected and she now faces the prospect of 12 months in prison while awaiting trial in July next year into charges of child sex trafficking and grooming for Jeffrey Epstein, her former boyfriend who killed himself.   - (ANA) -

 

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