Ghislaine Maxwell has allegedly proposed calling on a psychologist who has testified at big-name sexual assault cases, including the likes of Harvey Weinstein.
Maxwell, 59, who is Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend, has allegedly proposed calling in psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, 77, as a witness at her upcoming trial.
Loftus - a psychology professor and writer who charges $500 an hour for her work, according to the Los Angeles Times - has testified at more than 300 trials, including Weinstein, serial killer Ted Bundy and acquitted murderer OJ Simpson.
She failed to convince the jury that Annabella Sciorra's memory was defective at Weinstein's trial. Sciorra accused him of rape in the early 1990s.
Loftus has spent years researching the malleability of human memory and often claims in court that memories are wrong or distorted.
'The world is full of people who support accusers,' Loftus said in a 2020 interview with the Los Angeles Times. 'I think people who are accused deserve some modicum of support as well.'
Elizabeth Loftus, 77, has appeared in more than 300 trials has done extensive studies into the unreliability of memory
Ghislaine Maxwell, 59, is reported proposed calling Loftus as a witness at her upcoming trial
Maxwell was arrested and charged with sexual assault for allegedly grooming teenagers for her then-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein.
She has also allegedly called on Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist who has worked on the Jeffrey Dahmer trial.
Loftus has studied the supposed unreliability of witness accounts and memory repression and has used it against sexual assault survivors to support the alleged rapist discontinue the victim's testimony.
Bundy used Loftus' study on inconsistent memories to point out that Carol DaRonch - whom Bundy attacked in her Volkswagen Beetle and got away - had inconsistencies in her initial description of the serial killer and what she later recollected.
Bundy had dressed as a fake police officer when he attacked DaRonch and witness accounts from her showed that she added more color in her description of the police badge he wore after authorities showed her a picture, and that his car went from white or light blue to the actual color beige.
'When people are afraid their memories slip and slide, neglecting details, rearranging facts,' Loftus said at the time.
Maxwell, who dated Jeffery Epstein, has been charged and arrested for sexual assault for allegedly grooming
