Two legal professionals from the agency, Jeffrey Pagliuca and Laura Menninger, had been lead attorneys on Maxwell’s protection crew throughout her trial final 12 months that resulted in a conviction for her function in facilitating Epstein’s abuse of minor ladies.
The lawsuit, filed on Monday by the regulation agency Haddon, Morgan and Foreman in county courtroom in Denver, Colorado, additionally names her brother Kevin Maxwell and her estranged husband Scott Borgerson as defendants.
In keeping with the go well with, Ghislaine Maxwell instructed her attorneys after she was incarcerated in 2020 that her brother Kevin would coordinate the monetary facets of her protection. The agency has regularly threatened to cease representing Maxwell starting in 2020 after authorized charges continued to go unpaid, the lawsuit says.
Within the days and weeks main as much as the beginning of Ghislaine Maxwell’s felony trial, her legal professionals had been threatening to withdraw illustration as her brother reassured them repeatedly that he’d get them the cash, the lawsuit says. He additionally instructed them to not fear Ghislaine with the matter as a result of she “lacked the power to influence funding,” the lawsuit says.
Kevin Maxwell has made “a handful of sporadic funds” through the years, the final one in January for greater than $141,000, however the regulation agency says the account was by no means paid present and that is a “small fraction” of what is owed for Ghislaine Maxwell’s protection.
Kevin Maxwell didn’t reply to CNN’s request for remark.
Borgerson managed Ghislaine Maxwell’s cash as the wedding dissolved and has partially been answerable for delaying funds to the agency, the lawsuit says. CNN reached out to Borgerson for remark.
The lawsuit additionally alleges that earlier than the couple broke up Maxwell and her then-husband tried to protect her belongings in actual property in restricted legal responsibility corporations to guard her belongings from collectors just like the regulation agency.
Haddon, Morgan and Foreman has represented Maxwell since 2015, starting with a lawsuit filed by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre and different civil issues associated to Epstein’s abuse.
Maxwell was convicted on 5 counts, together with intercourse trafficking a minor, final December and was sentenced to twenty years in federal jail.
Attorneys for Haddon, Morgan and Foreman didn’t reply to CNN’s request for remark.
It’s unclear whether or not the regulation agency will withdraw illustration in her ongoing litigation, however no official paperwork seem to have been filed on the general public docket but.
