Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged former madam of the late billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is speaking out once again this week to complain through her lawyers about what she claims are the horrific prison conditions that she is being held in. In a new court filing, her attorneys are claiming that the 58 year-old British socialite is losing her hair and dropping weight like crazy because of the “onerous” conditions behind bars.

“While her weight may currently be fairly consistent, she had lost over 15 pounds, and she is sustaining hair loss,” Maxwell’s attorney Bobbi Sternheim wrote in the letter to US District Judge Alison Nathan, according to The New York Post.

Sternheim wrote this letter in response to a filing by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which we covered yesterday. In this filing, prison officials claimed that Maxwell is being well taken care of and that she has maintained a healthy 134-pound weight while at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

Sternheim wrote in her letter that though Maxwell’s meal plan is in compliance with BOP policy now, it was not for the first six weeks that she was in prison. The lawyer went on to allege that Maxwell has been kept in isolation and has not been given access to education and leisure programs, movies, religious services, among other opportunities.

“It is obvious that Ms. Maxwell is bearing the brunt of BOP incompetence,” Sternheim wrote, adding that the MDC has “imposed extraordinarily onerous conditions of constraint on Ms. Maxwell to avoid the catastrophic consequences of negligence occurring at the MCC that resulted in the death of Jeffrey Epstein.”

Sternheim was referring to the fact that Epstein committed suicide in prison last year while awaiting trial on sex crime charges of his own. Sternheim concluded by calling for the warden of the prison to be brought before the court to debrief the judge directly on the conditions Maxwell is being kept in.

Maxwell was arrested back in July on charges related to her allegedly grooming young girls for sex with Epstein, and sometimes participating in the abuse herself. She was then remanded to prison after a judge deemed her to pose a significant flight risk given her vast amount of wealth and her International connections. Maxwell is set to remain behind bars until the start of her trial, which is scheduled for July of 2021.

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