Thursday 22 September 2022 07:29 PM Ghislaine Maxwell is FIRED by her lawyers after failing to pay her bills trends now

Ghislaine Maxwell has been fired by her lawyers for failing to pay her bills.

Court documents filed in the US Virgin Islands, and obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, show that lawyers representing the convicted sex-trafficker in her bid to squeeze money out of Jeffrey Epstein's estate have withdrawn their counsel.

The firm Quintairos, Prieto, Wood, & Boyer, claimed in the documents that 'despite repeated requests,' Maxwell has failed to pay them. 

It is the second blow to the fallen socialite's ailing fortunes in recent weeks. 

Currently serving out a 20-year sentence in a low security prison in Tallahassee, Florida, Maxwell is also being sued by her criminal defense team for failing to pay legal fees of more than $850,000.

Maxwell, 60, filed a suit against Epstein's estate in the Virgin Islands in March 2020, seven months after her former lover and 'employer' committed suicide in his cell in the Metropolitan Corrections Center, New York. 

The disgraced financier maintained a home on the Caribbean territories' Little St. James Island – a place that became notorious as 'pedophile island' because of his criminal activities there – as well as owning Great St. James 

In her suit Maxwell claimed that Epstein, 66, had promised 'indemnification for and advancement of attorneys' fees, security costs, costs to find safe accommodation and all other expenses [she] has reasonably incurred and will incur by reason of her prior employment relationship with Jeffrey E. Epstein.' 

The costs that she envisioned were, 'in connection with any threatened, pending or completed suit [in] relation to Epstein…and his alleged victims.'

Maxwell argued that during her relationship with Epstein he 'promised that he would support her financially.' Her suit states that he 'made these promises…repeatedly, both in writing and conversation.'

In 2008 Epstein was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute in Palm Beach, Florida, where he had a home.

Since then, according to Maxwell's case, she, 'incurred legal fees and expenses in connection with various suits,' including civil cases brought by Epstein's victims.

'Consistent with his repeated promises,' the suit states, 'Epstein indemnified Maxwell and advanced legal fees and settlement costs' incurred in relation to a civil suit brought by victim Sarah Ransome in 2017 and a 2009 suit brought by Virginia Roberts (now Giuffre).'

But when Maxwell submitted a claim to the estate on November 22, 2019, it did not 'honor or even formally respond.'

Maxwell, who was by then under criminal investigation, filed her case the following March.

She now has sixty days to find new attorneys but, judging from the lawsuit being brought against her by her criminal defense team, it is unclear where she will find the funds to pay them.

According to that suit, filed on August 22, by Denver based law firm, Haddon, Morgan and Foreman (HMF), Maxwell is effectively 'insolvent' following a series of 'suspiciously timed [property] transfers' by estranged husband Scott Borgerson.

HMF have brought their suit against Borgerson, Maxwell and her older brother Kevin Maxwell, 63, who attended his sister's Manhattan trial every day and took the lead among her eight siblings in liaising with her defense.

But it is Borgerson who is singled out for blame when it comes to their frustrated efforts to recoup a bill that stood at $878, 302.66 as of June 27, not including interest.

According to HMF, 'Mr. Maxwell and the family lawyer repeatedly told HMF that Mr. Borgerson controlled Ms. Maxwell's money and was responsible for delaying payments to the firm.'

Borgerson, a former US Coast Guard lieutenant-commander, is believed to have met Maxwell nine years ago through speaking engagements connected to ocean preservation, a subject on which they shared a passion.

They were pictured together at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland, in October 2013.

At the time, Borgerson was married to Rebecca, the mother of his two children, a 14-year-old boy and 11-year-old girl.

Rebecca discovered the affair when Borgerson told her he was going to give a speech in London but was instead rumbled to be with Maxwell in Miami.

DailyMail.com has been unable to find evidence

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