New York | Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and long-time companion of Jeffrey Epstein who is charged with contributing to his abuse of teenage girls more than two decades ago, was again denied bail by a federal judge on Monday.

The ruling came in response to a $28.5 million ($37.5 million) bail proposal that Maxwell offered this month. It would have released her from what her lawyers called the "intolerable" conditions in jail and into house arrest at a friend's New York City home.