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Today, what one journalist learnt from Geoffrey Epstein's Crimes?

On the 29th November 2021, Lucia Osborne Crawley got up in the depths of the night and made her way to an imposing slate grey courthouse in Manhattan.

I got there at two, three in the morning on that first day. You have to be there first if you want to get in the courtroom, and there were only

four spots.

I was trying to keep myself warm.

It was freezing.

We were there for hours in the dark.

That first morning, there was a bit of snow.

In later weeks, there was a lot of snow.

Lucia is a legal journalist, and for six weeks she followed this same routine, determined

to be inside that courthouse for every moment of the trial of Galais Maxwell.

There's a big set of stairs. We had to line up down at the bottom.

I remember once just getting hailed on.

And I walked up to the top just to get some shelter.

And this security guard screamed at me, like really, really yelled at me.

And I said, oh, look, you know, I've got an autoimmune condition.

Can I just have some shelter for a few minutes?

And he just said, absolutely not, and chased me down the stairs.

Opening statements at V the trial of socialite, Gilairene Maxwell.

The British socialite is on trial, accused of helping her former boyfriend, Jeffrey Epstein, recruit and groom underage girls for sex.

There had already been a lot of coverage of Jeffrey Epstein and Glein Maxwell's crimes.

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