From The Daily Mail
Ghislaine Maxwell finally turned on Jeffrey Epstein and apologized to her victims as she spoke out minutes before being sentenced to 20 years in prison.
'Your honor, it is hard for me to address the court after listening to the pain and anguish expressed today,' Maxwell said in a blue prison uniform with her ankles shackled.
'The terrible impact on the lives of so many women is difficult to hear and even more difficult to absorb in its scale and extent. I want to acknowledge their suffering. I empathize deeply with all of the victims in this case.
'I acknowledge with that I have been a victim of helping Jeffrey Epstein commit these crimes.'
'I realize I have been convicted of assisting Jeffrey Epstein to commit these crimes. My association with Epstein will permanently stain me. It is the biggest regret of my life that I ever met him.'
She added that Epstein 'fooled all of those in his orbit.'
'His victims considered him a mentor, friend, lover. Jeffrey Epstein should have stood before you. In 2005. In 2009. And again in 2019. But today it is for me to be sentenced.
