Jurors who sent Ghislaine Maxwell to trial were 'too white'

Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a US judge to dismiss the case accusing her of recruiting teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse - because her initial jury was "too white".

She claims they were not enough black and Hispanic jurors on the panel that decided she should stand trial.

And she goes on to accuse prosecutors of using both the COVID-19 pandemic and the high-profile publicity surrounding the trial as excuses for moving it from Manhattan - where she believes it should be heard - to White Plains, New York, where blacks and Hispanics were "significantly underrepresented".

Maxwell is not black or Hispanic, but she says she is being deprived of her constitutional right to be indicted by grand jurors drawn from a "fair cross section" of her community.

She further claims the indictment against her is "too vague" and should be thrown out.

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