A legislation agency that helped defend Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite convicted of serving to the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage ladies, is suing her, her brother and husband, saying it was by no means paid for greater than $878,000 for its work.
Denver-based Haddon, Morgan and Foreman alleged in a lawsuit filed Monday that Maxwell put her brother Kevin Maxwell answerable for paying her authorized charges after she was arrested in 2020 — however that he solely paid a fraction of what that they had charged main as much as and through her trial. Kevin Maxwell urged the agency to maintain engaged on attraction points after she was convicted regardless of the unpaid payments and had blamed Maxwell's husband, Scott Borgerson, for getting in the best way of constructing funds, based on the lawsuit filed in Denver.
The lawsuit alleges that Borgerson shaped an LLC to purchase actual property to protect his spouse's belongings from collectors.
Two legal professionals on the legislation agency — Laura Menninger and Jeffrey Pagliuca — had been a part of Maxwell's authorized staff throughout her trial in New York.
Maxwell was discovered responsible in December of intercourse trafficking, transporting a minor to take part in unlawful intercourse acts and two conspiracy fees. She was sentenced in June to twenty years in jail and is serving time at FCI Tallahassee, a low-security federal jail in Florida's capital.
Emails and phone messages left for 2 of Maxwell's protection attorneys, Christian Everdell and Bobbi Sternheim, weren't returned. Calls to phone numbers listed for Borgeson weren't returned. Kevin Maxwell couldn't be instantly situated for remark. In an e mail, his brother, Ian Maxwell, mentioned no person within the household, together with Ghislaine Maxwell, would touch upon the litigation.
Based on the lawsuit, Haddon, Morgan and Foreman — a agency based by former public defenders that has represented different high-profile shoppers like basketball star Kobe Bryant and John Ramsey, the daddy of JonBenet Ramsey, first started representing Maxwell in a 2015 lawsuit introduced by Virginia Guiffre.
In lawsuits, Giuffre claimed that beginning when she was 17, Epstein and Maxwell arrange sexual encounters with royalty, politicians, businessmen and different wealthy and highly effective males, together with Britain's Prince Andrew. Andrew strenuously denied the allegations and agreed to settle the lawsuit in opposition to him earlier this yr.