Ghislaine Maxwell A law firm that helped defend Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite convicted of helping stockbroker Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, is suing her, her brother and husband, saying she was never paid more than $878,000 for the work her. Denver-based Haddon, Morgan and Foreman alleged in a lawsuit filed Monday that Maxwell made her brother Kevin Maxwell responsible for paying her legal fees after her 2020 arrest, but that he paid only a fraction of what they had accuse up to and during her trial. Kevin Maxwell urged the company to continue working on appeals after being sentenced despite unpaid bills and had accused Maxwell’s husband, Scott Borgerson, of obstructing payments, according to the lawsuit filed in Denver. The suit alleges Borgerson created an LLC to buy real estate to protect his wife’s assets from creditors. Two lawyers at the law firm — Laura Menninger and Jeffrey Pagliuca — were part of Maxwell’s legal team during her trial in New York. Maxwell pleaded guilty in December to sex trafficking, transporting a minor to engage in unlawful sexual acts and two counts of conspiracy. He was sentenced in June to 20 years in prison and is serving time at FCI Tallahassee, a low-security federal prison in Florida’s capital. Emails and phone messages left for two of Maxwell’s defense attorneys, Christian Everdell and Bobbi Sternheim, were not returned. Calls to phone numbers listed for Borgeson were not returned. Kevin Maxwell could not immediately be reached for comment. In an email, his brother, Ian Maxwell, said no one in the family, including Ghislaine Maxwell, would comment on the trial. According to the lawsuit, Haddon, Morgan and Foreman — a firm founded by former public defenders that has represented other high-profile clients including basketball star Kobe Bryant and John Ramsey, the father of Jon Bennett Ramsey — first started time to represent Maxwell in a lawsuit in 2015. by Virginia Guiffre. In lawsuits, Giuffre alleged that starting when she was 17, Epstein and Maxwell engaged in sexual relations with members of the royal family, politicians, businessmen and other rich and powerful men, including Britain’s Prince Andrew. Andrew strongly denied the allegations and agreed to settle the lawsuit against him earlier this year.
