He was offered somewhere between $25 and $50 to officiate, but he declined the money, he said.įor the wedding ceremony, Edmond said Kelly and Haughton wore matching jogging suits, each with one pants leg rolled up to the knee.
Instead, he was asked to give “his word” that he would never speak about the ceremony, to which he agreed. “I looked at it, I read it, then I kind of chuckled… and said it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.” The only attendees were himself, Kelly, Haughton, Williams, and “about three other gentlemen” whom Edmond did not know.īefore conducting the ceremony, Edmond said he was asked to sign a confidentiality agreement, but he refused, saying it didn’t look legally sound. It was a quick ceremony, “about 10 minutes or less,” in a hotel in the Chicago suburbs, Edmond said. Kelly’s friend, Keith Williams, knew Edmond because they both worked in real estate, Edmond said. Kelly’s, who was also a friend and associate of mine, asked me to do him a favor,” Edmond recalled. Edmond was then called in to handle the ceremony.
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Kelly was previously charged with bribing an official in Illinois to get a fake ID for Haughton, and the marriage license falsely listed her age as 18. Prosecutors allege that Kelly married her because he believed she was pregnant, and that it could keep her from testifying against him. Ghislaine Maxwell holds U.S., British and French citizenships and was repeatedly denied bail in the run-up to her trial.According to the federal indictment against Kelly, he met Haughton when she was 12 years old and began a sexual relationship with her when she was still a young teen. Robert Maxwell, whose holdings at the time included the New York Daily News, was facing allegations that he had illegally looted his businesses’ pension funds. The wealthy, Oxford-educated Maxwell is the daughter of British newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell, who died in 1991 after falling off his yacht - named the Lady Ghislaine - near the Canary Islands. The 59-year-old British socialite, jailed in Brooklyn since her arrest, has called the claims against her “absolute rubbish.” Maxwell’s lawyers and family say she was Epstein’s pawn, now paying “a blood price” to satisfy public desire to see someone held accountable for his crimes. Maxwell has pleaded not guilty and vehemently denies wrongdoing.
Authorities charged Maxwell in July 2020, arresting her after tracking her to a $1 million New Hampshire estate where she had been holed up during the coronavirus pandemic. Prosecutors say there’s evidence Maxwell knew that the victims, including a 14-year-old, were below the age of consent and that she arranged travel for some between Epstein’s homes, including his estate in Palm Beach, Florida, his posh Manhattan townhouse and at other residences in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and London.Įpstein killed himself at a Manhattan federal lockup in August 2019, a month after his arrest on sex trafficking charges. The charges against her stem from the allegations of four women who say she and Epstein victimized them as teens from 1994 to 2004. Maxwell - who once dated the financier - is accused of acting as Epstein’s chief enabler, recruiting and grooming young girls for him to abuse. District Judge Alison Nathan sorted out potential scheduling conflicts involving two jurors. They were picked from a pool of 40 to 60 potential jurors who made it through initial questioning.
Twelve jurors and six alternates will hear Maxwell’s case, starting with opening statements expected later in the day. NEW YORK (AP) - Two years after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide behind bars, a jury was selected Monday in New York City to determine a central question in the long-running sex trafficking case: Was his longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s puppet or accomplice?
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