Infamous socialite and criminal Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly been fired by her own lawyers for failing to pay them.
Court documents filed in the US Virgin Islands show that the lawyers representing the convicted sex-trafficker in her bid to sue Jeffrey Epstein’s estate have stopped representing her.
She was being represented by law firm Quintairos, Prieto, Wood, & Boyer until the reported failure to pay them “despite repeated requests”.
Then the law group cut ties with the convict who is serving 20 years in a low security prison in Tallahassee, Florida - Maxwell has appealed her conviction.
She is also being sued by her criminal defence team after she failed to pay them legal fees of over $850,000 (£767,962).
The 60-year-old ex-lover of Epstein filed a suit against his estate in the Virgin Islands in March 2020, seven months after he committed suicide in his cell in New York.
The disgraced financier maintained a home on the Caribbean territories’ Little St James island as well as owning Great St James.
In her suit, revealed by the Mail Online, Maxwell claimed Epstein had promised “indemnification for and advancement of attorneys fees, security costs, costs to find safe accommodation and all other expenses [she] has reasonably incurred and will incur by reason of her prior employment relationship with Jeffrey E. Epstein.”
The costs were “in connection” with any legal action related to Epstein and his victims.
Maxwell claimed during her relationship with Epstein he repeatedly promised he would support her financially both in writing and conversation.
Since Epstein’s conviction in 2008 for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute Maxwell has claimed she has incurred legal fees and expenses in connection with various suits including cases brought forward by Epstein’s victims.
The reported suit claims: “Consistent with his repeated promises. Epstein indemnified Maxwell and advanced legal fees and settlement costs' incurred in relation to a civil suit brought by victim Sarah Ransome in 2017 and a 2009 suit brought by Virginia Roberts (now Giuffre).”
But then it alleged when Maxwell submitted a claim to the estate in November 2019 it did not honour that or even formally respond.
She filed her case the following March.
But now she has 60 days to find new attorneys and judging by the lawsuit against her by her criminal defence team it isn’t clear if she has the funds to pay them.
That suit was filed by Denver based law firm Haddon, Morgan and Foreman (HMF) and involves both her, her estranged husband Scott Borgeson, and her brother Kevin Maxwell.
According to HMF the two were secretly wed in 2015.
