NEW YORK – DECEMBER 8: Socialite Ghislane Maxwell with an unidentified male companion attends the Opening of the Asprey Flagship Store on 5th Avenue December 8, 2003 in New York City. (Photo by Mark Mainz/Getty Images)
You can't make this stuff up. There is fear that Jeffrey Epstein's former confidant and girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell may take her own life in prison. Authorities have taken precautions like giving her paper clothes. At this point it is not clear if she's been placed on suicide watch.
Maxwell, 58, was charged by the Southern District of New York with conspiring to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, perjury and other offenses.
Attorney General William Barr told ABC News on Wednesday that he is keeping a close watch to make sure that Maxwell makes it to trial after Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial last year.
