Kosher food and religious time off: Ghislaine Maxwell adopts Judaism in prison
Maxwell has registered Judaism as her religion and therefore receives kosher food, access to a rabbi, and time off work on the Shabbat.
Ghislaine Maxwell, currently serving serving 20 years in a Florida jail for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual assaults on teenage girls, has had her prison conditions improved after adopting Judaism.
Maxwell, whose father Robert came from an Orthodox Jewish family in Czechoslovakia, has listed Judaism as her religion and will therefore receive kosher food, access to a rabbi, time off work on Shabbat and breaks from prison duties on Jewish holidays.
The details were revealed by investigative reporter Silja J.A. Talvi, according to The Sun.
Maxwell, 61, had been approached by “Reaching Out”, an American civil rights prisoner organisation which helps Jewish prisoners.
The British socialite was sentenced to 20 years in jail in 2021 for recruiting and grooming four girls for her husband, Jeffrey Epstein, who abused them between 1994 and 2004.
Epstein killed himself in his prison cell in a Manhattan jail in 2019 where he was awaiting his trial.
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