British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell told a federal judge on Friday she will not testify in her own defense at her sex trafficking trial.
“Your Honor, the government has not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt, and so there is no need for me to testify,” said Maxwell, 59.
The decision comes as Maxwell’s lawyers rested their case for the woman prosecutors claim helped recruit and groom underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein and his high-profile roster of friends to abuse sexually.
Earlier Friday, her defense attorneys sought to undercut the testimony of a key accuser who testified the couple pimped her out.
The woman, testifying for the prosecution under the pseudonym "Jane," told jurors earlier this month that she was just 14 when Epstein and Maxwell started forcing her to give nude massages and participate in orgies.
Jane is one of four accusers who testified under oath that Maxwell had taken part in the abuse.
Jane also said she had sexual encounters with women named Sophie, Eva, Emmy, Michelle, and Kelly, and that the women would back up her claims.
However, Epstein's former girlfriend Eva Andersson-Dubin testified for the defense on Friday that she had never taken part in any sexual massages and didn't even know Jane.
Andersson-Dubin, a former Miss Sweden who dated Epstein "off and on" from 1983 to the early 1990s, also said she felt comfortable having her own children, two daughters and a son, around the convicted pedophile and said they called him "Uncle F."
Andersson-Dubin, now 60, said she and Epstein remained friends after breaking up for good in 1994. She went on to marry billionaire hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, with whom she had children. She is a New York City physician and said her family often traveled on Epstein's private jet in the 1990s and vacationed with him.
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The two have denied knowing anything about Epstein's sexual misconduct but were publicly supportive of him when he was prosecuted and convicted on sex crimes in 2008.
Another Epstein accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, said she was trafficked to Dubin. He has strongly denied those claims.
Maxwell, the daughter of the late British media mogul Robert Maxwell, faces six counts of trafficking-related charges, including enticing minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts. She is also accused of conspiracy, including using one of Epstein's alleged victims to recruit other girls to participate in "paid sex acts with Epstein." She's also charged with perjury for allegedly lying under oath during depositions in a civil lawsuit against her.
Maxwell has denied the accusations. If convicted, she could spend seven decades behind bars.
She claims she was a victim and pawn in Epstein's seedy sexual exploits, but prosecutors say she was a willing participant who knew right from wrong.
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The defense also claims Maxwell is a scapegoat and that people are vilifying her because they want to see someone punished for Epstein's crimes. Her trial was supposed to last six weeks but has progressed a lot quicker than expected.