Ghislaine Maxwell runs the Florida prison half marathon

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by Ian Mole

Ghislaine Maxwell was recently photographed jogging behind a bar in Florida.

We heard that the British socialite-turned-prisoner had actually run in the prison's official half marathon.

The race at the barbed wire-enclosed Tallahassee Federal Correctional Facility involved 19 inmates running 52 laps around the prison track, covering 13.1 miles.

No word on Maxwell's time or whether he finished on the podium.

Her appellate attorney, Arthur Aidala, said the facility organized the event because “part of the warden's job is to make it a nice place to live.”

In addition to long-distance running, Maxwell is also doing “yoga and Pilates” in prison in preparation for her March 12 appeal, he said.

An influential defense attorney summarized the case as follows. Typically, my clients who are incarcerated for long periods of time gain a lot of weight… Their diet in prison is primarily carbohydrates. ”

Maxwell, 62, was photographed in a truck covered in gray sweats at a federal detention center where she is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking.

On top of all the training, prison life in a low-security correctional facility is anything but comfortable for Maxwell.

“Even as a visitor, going to prison is scary,” said Aidala, who recently met with Maxwell for six hours to discuss the allegations.

He said of the Florida facility, “It's very different from going to Rikers Island or a detention center in Brooklyn. It's isolated, there's barbed wire everywhere. It's very quiet, so you know you're not leaving here.”

But Maxwell, who was infamously convicted in 2021 for recruiting and grooming young women to be sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein, actually wants to retire.

She arrived at the meeting with Aidala carrying “a pile of documents over 2.5 feet long,” he said.

“She knows her case inside and out… She knows all the records, the allegations… She has a laser focus on the appeal.”

Maxwell will not appear at the March hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

The trial lasted just 30 minutes, with three judges hearing Maxwell's defense team argue that she did not receive a fair trial and why they believe her case should be thrown out. listen.

Meanwhile, the Oxford-educated daughter of the late news magnate Robert Maxwell is also supporting disadvantaged women in prison, her lawyer said.

“She speaks four or five languages,” Aidala pointed out.

“Many women [the prison] Maxwell has become “an interpreter in terms of helping them read court documents,” he said.

Privately, “she's obviously very popular and obviously very kind,” he said.

“She is adapting and making the best of a scary situation.”

Sources said she also reportedly wrote a revealing letter while incarcerated, believing it would clear her name.

Epstein committed suicide in a lower Manhattan prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Maxwell returned to the headlines in early January when a slew of documents were republished unredacted in a settled defamation lawsuit brought by Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre. .

Court documents reveal the identities of a number of people who had ties to Epstein but whose names had previously been withheld in the case.

Aidala previously reportedly said her client felt it was unfair that of all those involved in Epstein's illegal dealings, she was the only woman facing any consequences.

Aidala also said Maxwell was subjected to inhumane conditions while being held in New York City before being convicted and sent to a Florida prison.