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After 12 days of testimony, Ms. Maxwell’s closely watched sex-trafficking trial is nearing its end.

As testimony in Ms. Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial nears its end, she faces a choice that legal experts said carries enormous risk.

President Biden has nominated Judge Alison J. Nathan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and on Wednesday, she faced a Senate confirmation hearing.

Three of Ms. Maxwell’s accusers testified anonymously. Now her lawyers are asking that three defense witnesses also be able to conceal their identities.

Annie Farmer has called Ghislaine Maxwell “a sexual predator who groomed and abused” countless women. The judge allowed one of Jeffrey Epstein’s books of contacts to be introduced as evidence.

A woman identified only as “Carolyn” said she was underage when Ms. Maxwell began booking her to give sexual massages to Jeffrey Epstein.

Juan Alessi painted a lurid picture of life inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach estate, but as Ms. Maxwell’s trial resumed, her lawyers suggested he had not told the whole truth about stealing from the disgraced financier.

The first of four accusers took the stand to describe years of sexual abuse at the hands of Ms. Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.

The woman, identified only as “Jane” in court, described how Ms. Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein brought her into their lives, and how their promise of mentorship soon evolved into sexual abuse.

She is accused of recruiting and trafficking young girls for the disgraced financier.