Ghislaine Maxwell‘s family are planning to be at her arraignment later this month meaning that she could see her husband in person from across the courtroom.
The alleged ‘madam’ for Jeffrey Epstein has requested a week’s delay to April 23rd to formally plead to two additional charges at federal court in New York
A document filed by her lawyers states that this is to enable her ‘family members to adjust their schedules and make travel arrangements to attend the court proceedings’.

Maxwell, pictured with former lover Jeffrey Epstein, is on suicide watch at a detention centre

From L to R: Anne 73, Kevin 62, Twins: Isabel & Christine 70, Philip 71, Ian 64 and in front Ghislaine, 59, taken in London in June 2019. A month after it was taken, Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and Ghislaine went into hiding with her husband, Scott Borgerson

Husband Scott Borgerson could travel 250 miles from his home outside Boston to his wife’s arraignment. He is pictures here last July at his house in Manchester By the Sea
The letter does not say who is planning to come and lawyers for Maxwell did not immediately return requests for comment.
But it opens up the possibility that Scott Borgerson, Maxwell’s husband, will travel 250 miles from his home just outside Boston to show his support.
Maxwell’s twin sisters Isabel and Christine Maxwell could come as well as they are US citizens.
The British socialite’s brother Ian and Kevin would have to get special dispensation to enter the country as they are British.
Appearing in person would be the boldest move yet by the Maxwell family who have been engaged in a public PR campaign to have her freed from custody after a federal judge denied her bail three times.

Ian Maxwell, pictured, has said his sister Ghislaine is a victim of hate and that she is being treated far worse than convicted male sex offenders such as Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein

Little has been seen of Borgerson, right, since Maxwell’s arrest and the 44-year-old has stepped down from his tech company CargoMetrics to avoid being a ‘distraction’
Due to the coronavirus most hearings in the Southern District of New York are taking place via Zoom or through a dial-in phone line.
But Maxwell’s lawyers have previously called a hearing in a previous case that was handled in such a way a ‘debacle’ because hundreds of QAnon followers filled up all the lines.
By demanding an in-person hearing they are turning something that is normally a formality into an event which they can use to argue their case in the court of public opinion.
The letter from Maxwell’s lawyer Laura Menninger states that the ‘tentative’ April 16 date for Maxwell to plead to the new charges of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor is a week too soon.
The letter states: ‘Counsel appreciates that an in-person arraignment requires some logistical arrangements which may be accommodated by the requested date.

A court sketch of Ghislaine Maxwell after she appeared via video link during her arraignment last July where she was denied bail for her alleged role in aiding Jeffrey Epstein to recruit and eventually abuse of minor girls


Ghislaine Maxwell faces new charges during a time when Prince Andrew became friends with Epstein and allegedly had sex three times with one of his victims, Virginia Roberts, allegations the Duke denies. Andrew is pictured with Virginia Roberts, aged 17, and Maxwell in 2001
‘Further, the extra time will permit Ms. Maxwell’s family members to adjust their schedules and make travel arrangements to attend the court proceedings’.
Little has been seen of Borgerson since Maxwell’s arrest and the 44-year-old has stepped down from his tech company CargoMetrics to avoid being a ‘distraction’.
It is unclear if he has visited Maxwell in the grim Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where she is being held.
There is a higher chance they have had a video call which Maxwell is being allowed while in custody.

Elisabeth and Robert Maxwell with their children Kevin, Philip, Ian, Anne, Christine, Isabel and Ghislaine Maxwell (to the left of Robert Maxwell). The picture was taken during the early 1980s
The most fulsome public comment from Borgerson was a letter which was part of Maxwell’s second bail application in which the couple put up all $22.5m assets as collateral to get her out.
Borgerson’s letter stated: ‘The person described in the criminal charges is not the person we know. I have never witnessed anything close to inappropriate with Ghislaine. Quite to the contrary, the Ghislaine I know is a wonderful and loving person’.
In the three-page letter, Borgerson wrote that ‘ferocious media aggression’ prevented him from coming forward as a co-signer of his wife’s first bail application.
He said that Twitter comments have been ‘particularly galling’ and ‘disgusting’ and that he feared somebody may attack him.
Borgerson wrote: ‘Her arrest came as a shock…..I believe that Ghislaine had nothing to do with Epstein’s crimes’.

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, and musician Michael Bolton pose for a portrait during a party at the Mar-a-Lago club, in Palm Beach, Florida, February 2000

Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers have repeatedly and vocally complained about her treatment in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn (pictured) where she is being held awaiting trial
Maxwell’s brother Ian has given numerous media interviews in which he has claimed Maxwell is losing weight, her hair and is being woken up every night with a flashlight every 15 minutes.
However he may have trouble getting into the US as the border remains closed to non-citizens or permanent residents without approval from the authorities.
Maxwell’s last court appearance was in July last year and was held via Zoom from a room in the prison where she is being held.
She appeared well and alert but wiped a tear from her eye when Judge Alison Nathan remanded her in custody.
Maxwell, 59, now faces eight counts and has pleaded not guilty to the six previous ones which related to enticing children to Epstein to abuse and perjury.