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In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell center, confers with her defence lawyer Jeffrey Pagliuca, right, earlier grounds begins successful her sex-abuse trial, successful New York, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. Testimony continues successful the proceedings of Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite accused of helping the millionaire Jeffrey Epstein sexually maltreatment underage girls. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)

NEW YORK – The sex-abuse proceedings of Ghislaine Maxwell was paused Thursday aft it was announced an lawyer connected the lawsuit had gotten sick.

U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan told the successful national tribunal successful Manhattan that an lawyer was “ill and has to get care.” She did not place the attorney, but said determination was nary crushed to judge the unwellness was related to the coronavirus.

The justice sent jurors location for the day, telling them to expect to instrumentality Friday to resume proceeding grounds in the trial's 2nd week.

Maxwell, 59, has denied charges she groomed teenagers to springiness financier Jeffrey Epstein intersexual messages astatine the billionaire’s residences successful Florida, New York, New Mexico and elsewhere. Her lawyers person accused authoritative of making her a scapegoat for enactment crimes committed by Epstein, who killed himself successful jailhouse successful 2019.

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The authorities had been expected to extremity its lawsuit by the extremity of the week.

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