Ghislaine Maxwell trial shines light on America’s class divide
Witnesses recount how a tall British woman with a “proper English” accent lured them when they were young and poor into a world beyond their imagination.
On the eighth day of the government’s sex trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, a prosecutor asked a witness, known as Shawn, what the difference was between Palm Beach and West Palm Beach, two Florida towns separated by a drawbridge.
“Money’s no object over there,” said Shawn, a West Palm Beach native, sounding as though the nearby island were a different planet. Growing up, he told the jury, he had “very rarely” even ventured into Palm Beach because “I didn’t have enough money to buy anything in the gas station.”
