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 An amended indictment against
Maxwell now covers alleged crimes stretching
from 1994 to 2004 in New York and Florida,
including accusations that she paid the girl,
known as Minor Victim-4, hundreds of dollars for
each sexual act with Epstein.
The girl was 14 when the grooming began, the
indictment said.
Maxwell, who was Epstein's longtime associate
and former girlfriend, faces new charges of sex
trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a
minor in the eight-count indictment, as well as
earlier charges that include perjury.
She had previously pleaded not guilty to helping
Epstein recruit and groom three teenage girls
for sex between 1994 and 1997 in New York.
Maxwell, 59, has been held in a jail in Brooklyn
since her arrest last July.
Lawyers for Maxwell did not immediately respond
to requests for comment.
It is unclear whether the new charges could lead
to a postponement of Maxwell's scheduled July 12
trial before U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan
in Manhattan, though prosecutors said Maxwell
should have "ample time" to prepare.
In a letter to the judge, prosecutors said they
have given Maxwell's lawyers the month and year
when the fourth victim was born and key evidence
about her.
They also said they plan to turn over large
amounts of other evidence, including statements
from more than 250 witnesses related to their
investigation of Epstein and his associates.
Epstein killed himself at age 66 in a Manhattan
jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trail on
sex trafficking charges.
His estate was used to create a fund expected to
provide hundreds of millions of dollars in
restitution to victims of his sexual abuses. The
fund has received more than 175 claims.
LINGERIE
According to the amended indictment, Maxwell and
Epstein recruited the fourth victim to engage in
sex acts with Epstein at his home in Palm Beach,
Florida, and successfully encouraged her to
recruit other girls to do the same.
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 The indictment said Epstein's
employees, including Maxwell, also sent gifts
such as lingerie to the girl's Florida home from
New York, where Epstein had a townhouse on
Manhattan's Upper East Side. That townhouse was
sold this month for $51 million.
In late January and early February, Maxwell
filed 12 motions seeking to dismiss all or part
of the government case, or at least make it more
difficult to win a conviction.
Maxwell has said the government targeted her
only because Epstein killed himself and
prosecutors wanted someone else to blame, and
that she was covered by Epstein's own
non-prosecution agreement with federal
prosecutors in Florida.
She has also said the perjury charges, based on
depositions from 2016 in a civil lawsuit, should
be tossed because her answers were true, and the
grand jury in suburban White Plains, New York,
that indicted her had too few nonwhite jurors.
Last week, another federal judge in Manhattan
refused to dismiss espionage charges against a
former CIA employee indicted in White Plains
early in the COVID-19 pandemic, rejecting the
defendant's argument that the jury was not
diverse enough.
That ruling may foreshadow the outcome of
Maxwell's dismissal request.
On March 22, Judge Nathan rejected Maxwell's
third request for bail, saying Maxwell remained
a significant flight risk.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York;
Editing by Leslie Adler, Jonathan Oatis and
Sonya Hepinstall)
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