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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 737 Filed 07/22/22 Page 82 of 101 82 M6s2Max2 1 The sentencing submissions, which I know the Court has 2 read—and I know the Court reads everything very critically and 3 carefully—outlines and details our position, and I am not 4 going to take the time to repeat those things unless the Court 5 requests me to answer certain questions. 6 But in fashioning the appropriate sentence for this 7 case and this defendant, the Court needs to take into 8 consideration the various 3553(a) factors that the Court must 9 take into consideration in every case regardless of what the 10 crime of conviction is. 11 I know that what we heard today does not beg sympathy 12 for Ms. Maxwell, but there are circumstances in her life that 13 bear attention by the Court in imposing a reasonable sentence 14 in this case. She has lived th ntirety of her life under 15 giant clouds that have cast very dark shadows. The tragic 16 accident of her eldest brother within 72 hours of her birth on 17 Christmas Day left him in a coma for seven years, until he 18 died, an event that impacted her family to this day and 19 overshadowed infant Ghislaine's entry into the world and her 20 early childhood. Her narcissistic, brutish, and punitive 21 father overwhelmed her adolescence and early adulthood. And 22 the controlling, demanding, manipulative Jeffrey Epstein cast a 23 deceptive shadow over Ghislaine's adulthood, the repercussions 24 of which will plague her until her last breath. And like the 25 past two years of intense presentence incarceration, which was SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.-» (212) 805-0300 DOJ-OGR-00011601