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Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime Jeffrey Epstein confidant accused of helping him sexually abuse underage girls, tried to hide from federal agents during her July arrest-and even wrapped her cell phone in tin foil in “a misguided effort to evade detection,” prosecutors said Monday.Federal prosecutors made the shocking disclosure about Maxwell’s July 2 arrest at her ultra-secluded New Hampshire mansion in court documents arguing against her release from federal prison on a $5 million bond. Maxwell, 58, is in custody at a federal detention facility in New York after being charged with allegedly enticing minors, some as young as 14, to engage in illegal sex acts with Epstein in the mid-1990s.On Friday, Maxwell’s lawyer argued that the 58-year-old has not been hiding from authorities since the pedophile billionaire’s jailhouse suicide in August-but from an “unrelenting and intrusive media.” Ghislaine Maxwell’s Lawyers Claim She Was Never in Hiding, Hadn’t Seen Epstein for a DecadeProsecutors hit back on Monday, stating that the socialite does not deserve any “special treatment” and that her actions over the last year prove she is an “extraordinary” flight risk. The memo also pointed to the millions Maxwell has in various bank accounts overseas.“To the extent the defendant now refuses to account for her ownership of or access to vast wealth, it is not because it does not exist-it is because she is attempting to hide it,” prosecutors wrote, noting that “there should be no question that the defendant is skilled at living in hiding.” After Epstein’s jailhouse suicide last summer, the hunt was on for the dead financier’s longtime consort, whom he once described as his “best friend” and who was complicit in the sexual trafficking of underage girls, according to his victims.Prosecutors said Monday that the morning of July 2, FBI agents arrived at her remote, 156-acre property in New Hampshire, broke her blocked gate, and announced themselves at the door. Through the window, prosecutors state, agents saw the 58-year-old socialite “ignore the direction to open the door” and instead try “to flee to another room in the house, quickly shutting the door behind her.” As a result, the agents had to forcibly enter her home, where they arrested her in an “interior room in the house.” “Moreover, as the agents conducted a security sweep of the house, they also noticed a cell phone wrapped in tin foil on top of a desk, a seemingly misguided effort to evade detection, not by the press or public, which of course would have no ability to trace her phone or intercept her communications, but by law enforcement,” prosecutors wrote. Epstein Used Database to Track ‘Numerous’ Underage Girls ‘Held Captive’ at His Virgins Islands Hideaway: SuitThe court filing states that when agents questioned a security guard on the property, they discovered that Maxwell’s brother had also hired a security company staffed with former members of the British military to guard her in “rotations.”“The guard informed the FBI that the defendant had not left the property during his time working there and that instead, the guard was sent to make purchases for the property using the credit card,” prosecutors stated in the court filing.In the six-count indictment against Maxwell, prosecutors allege that she took part “in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein.” From 1994 to at least 1997, “Maxwell assisted, facilitated, and contributed to Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minor girls by, among other things, helping Epstein to recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse victims known to Maxwell and Epstein to be under the age of 18,” it says. Some of the alleged victims were as young as 14.In the Friday memo, her lawyers state Maxwell “vigorously denies the charges, intends to fight them, and is entitled to the presumption of innocence.” They also argue she should be granted bail because of the COVID-19 threat in jail. “Ever since Epstein’s arrest, Ms. Maxwell has been at the center of a crushing onslaught of press articles, television specials, and social media posts painting her in the most damning light possible and prejudging her guilt,” the defense lawyer stated in the Friday memo. Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Madam’ Ghislaine Maxwell Is Behind Bars. Who's Next?Stressing that “Ghislaine Maxwell is not Jeffrey Epstein,” her lawyers argued she should be released from federal prison on a $5 million bond with travel restrictions, home confinement, and GPS monitoring. In the memo, her lawyers also stressed that Maxwell is not a flight risk and that she is as much of a victim of Epstein, with whom she had not had contact for more than a decade. But prosecutors said Monday Maxwell played an “essential role” in Epstein’s scheme, and stated that additional witnesses have come forward who are willing to provide “detailed, credible” evidence “which has the potential to make the Government’s case even stronger.” At least “one or more victims” will testify at Maxwell’s detention hearing on Tuesday in New York, the memo added.“At the heart of this case are brave women who are victims of serious crimes that demand justice,” prosecutors said in the Monday court filing. “The defendant’s motion wholly fails to appreciate the driving force behind this case: The defendant’s victims were sexually abused as minors as a direct result of Ghislaine Maxwell’s actions, and they have carried the trauma from these events for their entire adult lives.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? 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Dancing With the Stars is parting ways with longtime host Tom Bergeron, who says he will not return to the ABC competition series for Season 29. "Just informed @DancingABC will be continuing without me," Bergeron announced on Twitter late Monday afternoon. "It's been an incredible 15 year run and the most unexpected gift of my […]

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Movie star Johnny Depp concluded five days of testimony in his libel case against Britain's Sun newspaper on Monday, saying his ex-wife Amber Heard had thrown a "haymaker" punch at him on the night he found out he had lost $650 million. The court has heard evidence from the paper's lawyer that Depp violently attacked his former wife on at least 14 occasions over three years from 2013, when enraged by jealously and having consumed large amounts of alcohol or drugs. The actor would become, according to Heard, 34, and by his own account, "the monster", the Sun's lawyer Sasha Wass has told the court.

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A handful of photos on social media plus praise from his teammates suggest Toronto Raptors big man Marc Gasol will restart the NBA season in much better shape than he was in four months ago.The Spaniard hasn't talked to reporters since COVID-19 shut down the season on March 11, but Raptors coach Nick Nurse picked Gasol's brain recently about his physical transformation."I did ask him about what was the key, 'What'd you do?' and he just said 'Man, it was consistency,'" Nurse said after Sunday's practice at Walt Disney World in the Orlando area"It was just with the situation we've all been in in the last four months, you take out the games and all the long road trips and the late night flights, and all the things that factor in making fitness and nutrition a little harder, take all those out and he just said it was a consistent rhythm, eating at the same time every day, and eating very healthy obviously."Gasol, who helped Spain win the FIBA World Cup in September, has missed 28 games this season with a hamstring injury, but Nurse said he's fully healed."His skills look fantastic as well. He looks like he's in good shape. I don't see any issues," Nurse said.The 35-year-old was originally scheduled to speak to reporters Sunday, but Nurse has asked his players to carefully monitor how they feel in practice and to pull themselves out when feeling fatigued. And so, Gasol left practice early on Sunday, hopping on the early bus back to the hotel rather than staying for the daily Zoom video interviews with media.The Raptors face their first competition in more than four months when they play the Houston Rockets in a scrimmage on July 24. They open the eight-game seeding round Aug. 1 versus the Los Angeles Lakers.A healthy Gasol should make a big difference to Toronto, which had a revolving door of a roster before the shutdown due to injuries, missing 219 man games total - fifth worst in the NBA."I love it, he's in playoff mode right now," rookie Terence Davis said of Gasol. "He'll probably tell you that himself . . . He looks really, really good, he's moving really well. He looks like prime Marc to me ... it's scary."Sunday was the Raptors' second practice at Disney World, which is hosting 22 teams in the NBA's restart despite Florida being a global hot spot for the coronavirus. On Sunday, the state reported 15,299 positive tests, the largest single-day increase in positive COVID-19 cases in any state. Florida now has nearly 270,000 cases.Another appearance in the Finals would see the defending NBA champions stay at Disney World until early October. Since families can't join players on the NBA campus until the second round of the playoffs, the Raptors tried to create a feeling of home for the players. They arrived in their hotel rooms to framed family photos.Waiting in Davis's room was a photo of him and his son Hasaan, who recently turned one, and another of his family at a college game."(The photos) meant a lot, man. It felt like they really care," Davis said. "Obviously I miss my son every day, just being without him, but one day he'll understand what daddy does for a living."While there's videos of players fishing and playing cornhole at Disney World on social media, the Raptors have apparently stuck close to their hotel so far."Getting out on campus, it's not really ideal right now. I'm just trying to get the hang of things and how things are going, like breakfast is sometimes in my room and sometimes it's in the meal room," Davis said. "Maybe I'll venture out but right now it's really about business."Nurse concurred. The farthest he's ventured beyond the hotel and the court was taking an alternate outdoor path to the meal room."I'm not planning on doing much looking around, to be honest with you," he said. "I'm good with working and getting back to the room."There've been complaints about the food in the Disney bubble, but Nurse would only say "it has been a great help for me trying to cut a few (pounds), it's been fitting right in with that plan, so all good, all good."The Raptors' days are scheduled around a hodge-podge of practice times scheduled within a three-hour block.Nurse said being ready to go at a different time each day is part of the new normal."You can't expect there to be all the structure you may want. You kinda accept that, I think all of us for four months have lost the rhythm of our lives, the ways we probably want them to set up," Nurse said. "You've just kind of gotta be open-minded and adaptable and just kind of take it."This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 12, 2020.Lori Ewing, The Canadian Press